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What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?(dave.cheney.net)
149 points by davecheney 9y ago|55 comments
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The ‘here is’ key(dave.cheney.net)
241 points by davecheney 9y ago|54 comments
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Towards Go 2(youtube.com)
3 points by davecheney 9y ago|0 comments
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How to write a successful conference proposal(dave.cheney.net)
1 points by davecheney 10y ago|0 comments
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by davecheney 10y ago
What a load of scaremongering bollocks.
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Iot p0wnership(dave.cheney.net)
4 points by davecheney 10y ago|0 comments
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SOLID Go Design(dave.cheney.net)
161 points by davecheney 10y ago|76 comments
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by davecheney 10y ago
Urgh, paywall. Far too many of these in HN recently, one could be forgiven for thinking they were spam to sell subscriptions.
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Gophers, please tag your releases(dave.cheney.net)
2 points by davecheney 10y ago|0 comments
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by davecheney 11y ago
Yes.
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by davecheney 11y ago
> Also, since Go is self-compiled, does that mean we'll have to wait until 1.7.1 for the speed improvements to hit the compiler? :-P No. The compiler compiles itself during the bootstrap phase.
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by davecheney 11y ago
The compiler always compiles itself as part of the bootstrap process. The final compiler is built with itself and thus uses its own SSA code generation.
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by davecheney 11y ago
The inner loop went from 15 instructions to 16 because the register optimiser is not finished yet.
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by davecheney 11y ago
Do you think Apple will still be making MacBook Pros in 2025, and if they do, will they still have a power hungry (but fast) Intel processor?
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by davecheney 11y ago
> The success of Go depends on a healthy community. I am quite happy to lose some talented people if they can't play well with others. Hear! Hear!
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by davecheney 11y ago
Java is the obvious example that springs to mind. Because of the requirement to be backwards compatible with Java 1.4, all the type information is erased during compilation. The call for reified types in Java has been heard for over a decad
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by davecheney 11y ago
> You have an advantage to learn on others mistakes (e.g. made by those Java guys) and practice. And the lesson learnt from studying other languages is "Don't add generics unless it's right for the language, even if that m
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by davecheney 11y ago
Wow. You have to use a whole web browser just to view slides ?
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by davecheney 11y ago
Nope, this is composition, not inheritance.
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by davecheney 11y ago
> Is this clear? not really
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by davecheney 11y ago
The important message on that slide is not the picture, but the words below it.
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by davecheney 11y ago
Can you explain your idea in more detail ?
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by davecheney 11y ago
Nope, this is about the source that goes into the compiler.
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by davecheney 11y ago
Maybe, but it's not something I'm focusing on.
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by davecheney 11y ago
I think the compilers that produce elf output are almost deterministic, at least when producing a fully static binary (no CGO). I don't think that holds for mach-o or PE binaries, but I'm really speaking off the cuff here, as
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by davecheney 11y ago
There are others working on that problem. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it; if I hadn't, you wouldn't have thought about it, and then nobody would have had their hopes dashed.
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by davecheney 11y ago
Honest question: Why does vendoring not solve the problem ?
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by davecheney 11y ago
> And really, was github the best target to go to for availability when it came to developer downtime on the edited XKCD? Github's downtime is pretty near 0. I think I remember roughly an hour of downtime in 2014 in the super early
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by davecheney 11y ago
gb doesn't mandate any particular DVCS or DVCS strategy -- I understand it's a deeply personal issue for most. People are smart, if they like the tool, they'll figure out how to integrate it into whatever DVCS they use.
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by davecheney 11y ago
Hi HN, There was a video recorded at this meetup, but I'm not in control of that. In the mean time, the getting started document [1] is the contents of the "demo time" slide. 1. https://github.com/constabulary

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