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by housel 6y ago
Opportunity lost or not, we're sticking with it, including preparing for a new release in the next few days (see our testing pre-release at https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/releases/tag/v2020.
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by housel 6y ago
I also used MH-E in the 80s. Around the turn of the century I switched to Wanderlust ( https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust ), since it could handle IMAP as well as interoperate with MH maildirs. It's not my pri
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by housel 7y ago
You might suggest specific GCD mechanisms that might be usefully adopted by tokio.
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by housel 8y ago
... and M68k Sun workstations, and the CCI Tahoe, which was a late-80s Vax clone with about 6x the speed. (I did the port to the Tahoe as an undergraduate.)
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by housel 8y ago
To be picky, the linker script lays out a sequence of calls to the global constructors so that the C runtime startup knows where to find and execute them.
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by housel 8y ago
The UDOO X86 https://www.udoo.org/udoo-x86/ is a single-board computer with an Atom/Celeron/Pentium and Arduino-compatible headers. (On the minus side, though, the Arduino-layout headers are connected to an I
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by housel 8y ago
The Spoofax Language Workbench http://www.metaborg.org/en/latest/ uses scannerless generalized LR parsing. When language processor development effort is more important than raw parsing speed (e.g. for external dom
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by housel 9y ago
One of my go-to interview questions is "Can you tell me about a time when you've used an explicitly-modeled state machine in your programming?" Our work, heavy in embedded devices, network protocols, and parsing, is so full o
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by housel 9y ago
Orbbec Astra ( https://orbbec3d.com/product-astra/ ) is still a viable option for applications (such as robotics) that need an RGBD camera. The body-tracking SDK is still in beta at the moment.
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by housel 9y ago
I was still using my Transmeta-based Sony Vaio Picturebook as a router running FreeBSD up through January 2016. Before that in the early 2000s it made a great, extremely portable hacking laptop. The attention Transmeta got on Slashdot was p
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by housel 9y ago
Indeed, one of my professors in grad school defined a research contribution as adding an edge in a metaphorical bipartite graph to link formerly disparate subfields.
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by housel 10y ago
John Day's Patterns in Network Architecture is a highly opinionated book (by someone who was around for the development of the Internet and OSI standards), and one that provided a radically new perspective on networking and network p
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by housel 10y ago
What do people think about writing explicit regression tests for bugs found through fuzz testing? I've tended to lean towards not writing them, depending on continuing fuzz testing to insure things stay clean. This may of course be som
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by housel 10y ago
Same here. UART isn't always the only option on my platforms, but if Ethernet, WiFi, or USB gadget is unavailable for whatever reason, sz/rz (from Linux) or loady (ymodem, from U-Boot) is usually the next best choice. Minicom make
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by housel 10y ago
For programming language research, 1) the RSS feed of http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ (Lambda the Ultimate), and 2) my old-school paper subscription to ACM SIGPLAN, which includes printed proceedings for most of the relevan
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by housel 10y ago
Interesting how little effect the introduction of OSHA seemed to have on the slope of the workplace fatalities trend graph. I would not have predicted that.
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by housel 11y ago
The copyright feuds belong to an earlier era, when the original Lojban founders forked the language. Things are a lot more open now, and there is a degree of cooperation between the two conlang projects. Loglan does make an attempt to be ea
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by housel 11y ago
Embedded programming is also harder to do remotely due to needing hands-on access to development hardware, frequent access to hardware engineers, expensive test equipment, and so forth.
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by housel 11y ago
Norman Ramsey and David R. Hanson implemented this sort of compiler-assisted debugging for C back in 1992, in a debugger called ldb: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/retargetable-abstract.html
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by housel 12y ago
I've just started reading The Three Body Problem (in a Traditional Chinese edition, since I'm more comfortable with that than Simplified). No spoilers please. From my perspective, what little I've read of Chinese speculative
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by housel 12y ago
In 1990-1991, in my first job, I insisted on using gcc on SunOS primarily because I wanted to use ANSI C89 features (primarily function prototypes). These were already available on the other two platforms we were targeting (the Microsoft C
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by housel 12y ago
To try the downloaded USB image in VirtualBox, first decompress the .xz file and then run vboxmanage convertfromraw ~/Downloads/gsd-usb-install-0.8.1.i686-linux gsd-install.vdi --format vdi The resulting VDI file can then
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by housel 12y ago
Knowing these is a must if you're doing embedded development. I have a printout of the table on this page posted on the wall of our validation lab.
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by housel 12y ago
My advice to anyone who wants to learn Mandarin, especially with respect the tonal aspect, should start as young as possible (i.e., don't make a deliberate decision to put off learning the language until later). I started at age 21, an
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by housel 13y ago
Sure, but the possibility of going off of unemployment for a week and then back on again might be somewhat painful (especially since the interruption while reopening an unemployment benefits claim might last longer than just a week).
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by housel 13y ago
I consulted for Bell Labs as my first job out of grad school, and spent a year (1990-1991) working in this building. I always loved the environment, especially the library and dining area in the atrium. Sad to see it all vacant.
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by housel 13y ago
I suspect you mean LD_PRELOAD=whatever.so
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by housel 13y ago
The point of the Sokal affair seems to lean more towards proving that postmodern cultural studies as a field is lacking in substance than to demonstrating the ineffectiveness of peer review in general.
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by housel 13y ago
/usr/games has been around since Unix v7, released in 1979. Before there were package managers, putting optional features in a designated place was the only way to conveniently control them. There were once systems that controlled
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by housel 13y ago
I'm 46, and it said 46. Uncanny.

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