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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   A good example was Windows NT. Over its lifetime, NT has supported Intel i860, x86, x86-64, Itanium, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, ARM, and ARM64. But today it only supports x86, x86-64, ARM, and ARM64. Alpha even had a Rosetta-like JIT to run x86
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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   How do visual scripting systems like Unreal Blueprints handle version control and merging of changes from multiple people?
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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   For more on sunsetting or replacing legacy systems, check out Marianne Bellotti’s "Kill It With Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)". Here's a review of the book: https://www.usenix.o
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   Why does everything on Netflix look like that?(vice.com)

   163 points by cpeterso 4y ago|210 comments
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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   If you would like to write home about this Discord problem, please consider filing Bugzilla bug report with a memory log from Firefox’s about:memory page and a performance profile using the Firefox Profiler: https://profiler.fi
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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   When page layout is so broken, it’s often an ad blocker add-on issue. Maybe try testing your bank website with with add-ons disabled.
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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   Fixing bad code is easier than fixing bad architecture. And if your architecture is modular and cleanly decoupled, then the bad code’s impact can be contained.
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   by cpeterso 4y ago

   Or at least retcon “nm” to stand for something other than nanometers.
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   WeWork's former CEO has a new startup, reportedly valued at more than $1B(cnn.com)

   41 points by cpeterso 4y ago|81 comments
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    I suspect the same. People adopt Python because its clean syntax and REPL make the language approachable and easy to get started and then the huge library ecosystem helps you glue together (in a good way) powerful systems. But how many Pyth
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    The logo is (also) the letters E r g smooshed together
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    Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense(gamedeveloper.com)

    113 points by cpeterso 4y ago|122 comments
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    How to Fuzz an ADT Implementation(blog.regehr.org)

    1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    I've read that Godot doesn't support consoles (out of the box) because it can't integrate NDA'd console SDKs and tools. But why can't the Godot IDE use a plugin architecture that delegates to console SDKs and tools
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    IIRC, Apple periodically merges some kernel bits from FreeBSD and user space utilities from NetBSD. (Though I can’t find a source mentioning NetBSD, atm.) I don’t know why Apple would choose NetBSD utilities instead of FreeBSD if they are a
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Bisecting is also useful for end users. They might be able to reproduce bugs on their hardware or software configuration that the developers don’t have access to. Mozilla has a tool (command line or user-friendly-ish GUI front end) called “
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Don't forget Google Pay Send and the Tez mobile payments app in India.
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    This workflow reminds me of a generative art program from the early 1990s, but I just can't remember its name. It was a DOS or Windows program that had a very curvy, fluid GUI with different graphics sliders. It would show you some ran
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    Lego Island studio Mindscape fired staff to avoid paying bonuses(eurogamer.net)

    5 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=6+minute+timer
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    The first version of Reddit was written in Common Lisp, but less than a year later, they reluctantly migrated to Python because Python had a bigger library ecosystem: https://web.archive.org/web/20160803061607/http
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Why is a registry file called a "hive"? > Because one of the original developers of Windows NT hated bees. So the developer who was responsible for the registry snuck in as many bee references as he could. A registry file is
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    > one day Microsoft is going to wake up to find they're not needed anymore. In 1995, Marc Andreessen said [Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] "a poorly-debugged set of device drivers".
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    Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024(bloomberg.com)

    174 points by cpeterso 4y ago|241 comments
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Good point. I see his Twitter post has about 8000 replies and his Instagram post has over 24,000 replies.
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Here is Adam Mosseri, "Head of Instagram at Instagram", talking about why Instagram is leaning into Reels videos: https://twitter.com/mosseri/status/1551890839584088065 He says users are using Reels more
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    And BoundsChecker was also great! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoundsChecker
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    > Facebook/Meta: "We smear the leap second throughout 17 hours Why 17 hours instead of 12 or 24? Something to do with 17 being a prime number or some convenient divisor?
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    The military made a robot that can eat organisms for fuel(wearethemighty.com)

    22 points by cpeterso 4y ago|10 comments
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    by cpeterso 4y ago

    Another mid-2000s Lisp moment: Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp, but was soon rewritten in Python.