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by gumby 2y ago
Thanks. I think I mainly developed more empathy. I married an artist. She knew no physics, no advanced mathematics, but plenty of philosphy and languages as well as the technology and philosophy of representational art. She was a lot sma
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by gumby 2y ago
Back in the early 90s my wife and I moved to SF because it had a thriving art and music scene and more interesting culture than the 'burbs of palo alto. But as you say, the long commute to SV was a killer and we moved back down. Back
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by gumby 2y ago
I have always had mixed feelings about silicon valley expanding into San Francisco -- I felt there was a strong negative impact, though to some degree SF acted as a honey pot for those just interested in money. I wonder if this will be a ha
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by gumby 2y ago
Cold calling is the hardest! It's probable my greatest weakness (of many!) as an entrepreneur. Not just cold sales calling but any equivalent. I don't like to get a random call so I feel I'm interrupting the person at the
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by gumby 2y ago
> Rust's standard library is not a spec, it's just code. I consider this profound weakness, not a strength. Don’t get me wrong: I recognize the benefits in the short term! But really long lived languages like FORTRAN, Lisp, C+
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by gumby 2y ago
> no std library code in portable code. FTFY. Just want to clarify what I think you meant: no std library code in portable binaries , something I agree with 100%. If you distribute in source, I believe almost always the opposite is true
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by gumby 2y ago
This was such important and transformational work and I remember at the time being quite dismissive of it. I knew Orr’s and Suchman’s work (they worked in a physically adjacent area, but completely different group, though we were all under
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by gumby 2y ago
> Just a simple Google search would reveal that you are wrong about this and what's worse is that you place the burden on me to have to disprove your wrong assertions as opposed to providing references that justify your position: Ho
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by gumby 2y ago
I am unable to do anything with Photoshop beyond starting it and exiting. I have no idea how or even what it does beyond somehow modifying photos. That’s not photoshop’s problem, it’s that I don’t know what I’m doing. So I just don’t u
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by gumby 2y ago
See my parallel reply: there are much more than just three, and all work with the three/four most dominant compilers these days as well as less dominant ones like EDG or Intel.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Unlike in C, in C++ it is not possible to use an independent implementation of the standard library. It sure is, and is pretty easy to do. I know companies using EASTL, libcu++, and HPX, as well as more who use Folly and Abseil which
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by gumby 2y ago
I consider the current tradeoff to be a feature. It permits implementations to take advantage of target-specific affordances (your thread case is an example) as well as taking different implementation strategies (e.g. the small string optim
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by gumby 2y ago
I thought of this but you need to be able to book flights in Europe from, say, Mozambique. Flights from Europe may overfly Kazakhstan ATC. And so on. It’s a system .
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by gumby 2y ago
I don’t know about the USA but there are likely millions of them deployed around the world, and working fine.
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by gumby 2y ago
A modern core has a bunch of resources (ALUs, register files and so on) to assign/draw upon as dynamically needed. Not every one is needed for every instruction of course. In the old days when there was a single ALU, and maybe a sing
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by gumby 2y ago
Enormous path dependance. There's a photo in that article that shows the problem: the flip-tab sign that has space for four numerical digits. I was thinking they could just switch from 0-9 to 0-9A-Z but that photo showed why that woul
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by gumby 2y ago
BTW file versioning in the filesystem predated the development of VMS by about 15 years, RCS by about 20.
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by gumby 2y ago
The case of the Mongols was the example I was actually thinking of. But there’s a long history of ideologically interpreted archeology in the west as well. I don’t understand why your comment was being voted down.
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by gumby 2y ago
Scouring trade route history is a two-edged sword: which way did influence run? I’m sure ideological archeology can solve that though. That path also has a lot of history.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Git[‘s] UI is atrocious. Well, that’s in the eye of the beholder. Yes, I hate the ‘program command’ syntax (“git add”, “git commit” etc) but I just call git-add etc and for me those commands are pretty clear. But I understand how git
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by gumby 2y ago
We had the right corporate culture to make this attitude successful. By the time we were a couple of hundred people, though, and had hired some MBAs, that culture was mostly gone. It requires a level of trust and a level of performance, th
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by gumby 2y ago
> Why is it astonishingly? Git is still a baby as these things go. Software version control systems go back to the early 1960s and descended from manual processes used to manage documents in large organizations, blueprints, and such fro
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by gumby 2y ago
If you were not aware of this then you might reflect on the part of my comment that he doesn’t bring up: how good/bad are use-case dependent. Every program optimizes for a use case, sometimes pessimizing for others (e.g. an n^2 algo t
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by gumby 2y ago
In fact if it boils it can help clean it!
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by gumby 2y ago
I like Bernstein but sometimes he flies off the handle in the wrong direction. This is a good example, which he even half-heartedly acknowledges at the end! A big chunk of the essay is about a side point — how good the gains of optimizatio
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by gumby 2y ago
Astonishingly, It took a long time for revision control to become widespread. Around 1991 when Cygnus had 6-7 employees and was based in the apartment complex where I lived, none of the GNU codebase was hosted in any sort of revision contro
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by gumby 2y ago
> Crafting a runtime that abstracts those calls and presents a new world to the programmer adds another layer of complexity and will probably worsen the performance. But that’s what the article is calling for — claiming (correctly IMHO)
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The actor Eric Roberts played a character believed to be a spy in “The Coca-Cola Kid.”
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by gumby 2y ago
Oh boo hoo. Yes, C really sucks, but it exports a crummy and limited abstract machine which is fundamentally a PDP-11. The author might just as well complain, in fact would better complain, that interfacing to machine code is painful. J
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> The abstract is a word salad. I strongly disagree with your statement. in fact the two sentences you quoted are quite clear. They aren’t written for a lay audience, true, but you don’t expect such in Cell . They don’t use any jargo

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