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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
There's a kid on youtube (username 'dodoid') who put together a series of videos on SGI. Neat to see someone young get super enthusiastic about computing history.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Sometimes you don’t realize things about yourself until someone else puts it into words. Thank you, internet stranger
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
As an only occasional windows user, I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing such a list, maybe in a GitHub gist if you find yourself bored one day :)
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I'll echo OP's frustration / lament. I have domain expertise in a specific platform, and it is pretty common that I'll see an answer which could use some clarification or additional detail about edge cases to consider.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
The real problem with having a sham mixed in with non-shams is that I've seen folks develop the attitude of "all recycling is a sham!". For those not aware, recycling aluminum is absolutely not a sham. It takes about 2x the
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Nice work! It captures the same fast, small-track feel of RC Pro-Am from back in the days of the NES.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
"...or as I've taken to calling it recently, SAT slash LAPACK slash MUSL slash GNU slash Linux"
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I'm much less concerned with this because github seems to have to lowest vendor lock-in of any platform. If you want to switch platforms, it should be as easy as changing your upstream and push. Switching from MySpace to Facebook nev
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Though I love Swift, the transition from ObjC has left some warts in parts of Foundation / UIKit, and regular expressions are a great example of that. In Python, I can use regex from memory. In Swift, I have to look up the docs every
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Very interesting to see a Racket/Swift hybrid! Though this seems more of a strict front-end / back-end division, I was reminded at least initially of Shrimp / Goby from Mike Fikes https://github.com/mfikes&#x
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
But we are comparing the pain of searching vs the pain of having to re-run the help command for each possible subcommand, and parsing through all of that. Much easier to just have one command invocation and search through it. There is a we
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I was about to say, it loaded pretty quickly and I found two interesting places right around the corner from where I live. If this is a "failure", I'd hate to hear how he classifies my personal projects...
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Whoa, what a treasure trove! https://bernsteinbear.com/pl-resources/
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Yeah, the problem / benefit is never the one framework you added / removed, it is the mindset of reaching for another dependency as a default which leads to a behemoth which no one enjoys working with.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Easier to write a rust compiler than a C compiler? I must be somehow misinterpreting this.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
As someone whose idea of fun is trying to compile open source software on OS X / PowerPC, portability has a special place in my heart. While I view open source software as a "gift to the world", C89 + MIT is at the far end o
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Think Different
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
"You should check out this thing" has a very different implied context than "You should check out this thing I made". The first sounds like a recommendation from an enthusiastic user, not from the the author. Because o
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Ah, yes, my favorite sort of HN reply. The author puts in a lot of effort to precisely articulate an issue which is difficult to articulate, and a commenter just dismisses the entire thing with a vague "You're holding it wrong&qu
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Yes, the "inverted pyramid" concept from journalism. Most important details up top, implementation details down below. In our (Swift) codebase, this typically translates into "publicly-consumable interface up top, private an
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I stopped using [ a few years ago because ‘test’ reinforces the idea that this is just a command like any other, not syntax. Also, “man test” is much more pleasant that sifting through “man bash”.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
One of the things which the racket fork added was resurrecting support for OS X on PowerPC. Very cool to be running the fastest scheme on my old iMac!
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
The question of "how long would a non-famous repository stay alive on github" is actually an interesting thought experiment.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
That’s surprising — the education market seems like an even better fit for sharding: students and teachers generally stay within the context of a single school.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I’ve heard of university courses which are taught from original sources, ie teaching calculus from principia mathematica. I’ve had a fantasy about the same approach for computer science: learn assembly on the Manchester baby, write a C comp
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Herb Sutter has a talk where he makes a pretty convincing argument that making a backwards incompatible change in your language costs you about 10 years in adoption
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Reimplementing classic games (Pong, Tetris, Snake) sits at a great spot along the effort-to-reward curve.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I cant even imagine trying to use the iOS SDK without autocomplete.
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
Indeed! I’ve also dabbled in this area http://leopard.sh/
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by cellularmitosis 3y ago
I find this hard to believe. Even a humble arduino can do 34,000 software float divides per second. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/506c878631f806cfe6f8...

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