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by guidoism 7y ago
Oh, oh, oh. I can answer this — I’m a software engineer on sabbatical and I’m doing the same. First off, everyone says Hennessey & Patterson and Patterson & Hennessey and while I think those books are worth reading at some point, fo
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by guidoism 8y ago
The discussions from these two conferences are fascinating. Example discussion: Should software be priced separately from hardware?
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The 1968 and 1969 NATO Software Engineering Conferences(homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk)
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by guidoism 8y ago
Not the US, but in Bolivia in the late 90s cable was essentially ad free. My favorite channel was "The Sony Channel", they had stuff like Dawson's Creek (don't judge!) and Seinfeld ad free. Because those shows had spots
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by guidoism 8y ago
Ohm’s web playground is an awesome way to learn how to build up a language from scratch. I’m in the process of porting Postscript to it and it’s amazingly easy.
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by guidoism 8y ago
Yeah the word "work" can be confused. What I meant by work was work where you are paid to do something for someone else. Maybe "job" is a better word. I don't have a job and I don't get paid but I do indeed sti
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by guidoism 8y ago
I wonder what it would cost to hire a maid and butler for your home for a week. Hmmm. I might just need to try that on our next staycation
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by guidoism 8y ago
I’ve been thinking about what it is about vacations that’s so relaxing since it’s clearly not the lack of work. I quit my job a year ago but my day is still full of stuff to do. What’s nice about a vacation is the lack of physical possessio
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by guidoism 8y ago
It's an interesting way to think about programming. Curmudgeon is the word that comes to mind, but I'm sure that young programmers would think that I'm a curmudgeon too. His dislike for data structures in favor of parallel ar
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A Programmers Rant Against Fancy Data Structures (1990 and 2001) [pdf](the-adam.com)
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Some Thoughts on Machine Code Organization (2010)(fpgacpu.ca)
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Design of the Burroughs B1700 (1972) [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
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by guidoism 9y ago
Looking at the pics there looks like enough space to be able to experiment with other dev boards. I wonder if we can just think of it as a case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by guidoism 9y ago
It's depressing that this is such a common argument against moving away from the ASCII character set. We all use operating systems that allow us to define key sequences for these characters. And it's really easy to remember them a
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by guidoism 9y ago
> Intermediate results aren't granted names. I would argue that most programmers are fine with this. Unix pipes are a very similar point-free way to program that we're all comfortable with. If people came to APL thinking of it
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by guidoism 9y ago
Also I think they started off with an existing C++ microkernel if I'm not mistaken. Wasn't it something like LM?
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by guidoism 9y ago
"More efficient" in terms of running LINPACK, maybe not. But the raw throughput of highly numeric scientific calculations isn't the goal of all architectures, even though we pretend it is. It's possible to be more effici
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Why Are CPU-designers so obsessed (and proud) of their patents?
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What happened to “manifest” and “latent”? (2014)(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
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by guidoism 9y ago
That name is already taken by the San Carlos airport near Oracle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Carlos_Airport_(Californ...
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by guidoism 9y ago
I retroactively instituted a $100 cutoff too. :-)
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by guidoism 9y ago
I have a six-year-old and started giving him an allowance when he was five. The goals for the allowance are: 1. Teach him about saving and compound interest 2. Get him off my back for buying things Therefore, it's not tied to chores. G
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by guidoism 9y ago
A few weeks ago I would have made the same statement but I started reading the PDF implementation docs and now I really like the format. The main issue I think we all have with the format is that people make docs that are almost impossible