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by jgw 14y ago
For what it's worth, I do the same thing and have never run into trouble in years... ...until two or three days ago. GMail flat-out refused to let me log into two accounts (it would end up in endless redirect when I tried the second one - I
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by jgw 14y ago
There was also an early version of Windows Media Player for Linux - complete with a spiffy Motif interface! And there was a DEC Alpha port of Windows NT. [EDIT: I don't believe it was called "Windows Media Player" exactly, but it was a medi
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by jgw 14y ago
I wondered about this, too. I took a Meyers-Briggs test as a team-building exercise once, and in the I-E continuum, I fell very mildly on the Introvert side. But there are sub-categories in each of the fields, and I scored full marks for
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by jgw 14y ago
You maintained a vow of silence for 225 days, and then broke it to write... this? That's quite fascinating, actually.
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by jgw 14y ago
Cool! Can I ask you for your predictions for 2038, and what you're investing in today? ;)
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by jgw 14y ago
TechCrunch - what a classy outfit. Good grief.
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by jgw 14y ago
This is a dead thread, more or less, but I'm a bit embarrassed about this. For posterity: The footage I've seen was indeed from (and up to) the basecamp. I was quite shocked at what I saw, but I obviously misremembered exactly what it was
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by jgw 14y ago
That code fragment is really just the pin-out of a block - or to a software person, it's basically a functional interface. Naming aside, it could be the pinout of a number of number things - it could an and gate like this, or one of the si
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by jgw 14y ago
Seems to me that Recommendations are to LinkedIn as Farmville is to Facebook.
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by jgw 14y ago
As a hardware guy, I'm kind of fascinated by how many stories I've seen on HN recently on HDLs, and equally fascinated by how software people describe their mental model and thought processes when thinking about hardware design. It's neat t
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by jgw 14y ago
Not sure if you fully realize the scope with which it's turning into a sort of Disneyland - people are climbing it in an endless convoy. I find it quite shocking. If you do, then I guess we just fundamentally disagree.
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by jgw 14y ago
There are really an absurd number of people "climbing" it - literally, my sexagenarian neighbour told me that "some of the girls from my tennis club are doing it". It really nullifies the whole mystique of Everest of any meaning whatsoever
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by jgw 14y ago
Well, apparently I don't know what I'm talking about at all - it does work in the 3 major simulators. Typo in my code. Ooops. It appears to be valid, and does not require "assign". This is what I like about HN - smart people keeping me on
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by jgw 14y ago
I took a quick look at the IEEE 1800-2009 LRM (SystemVerilog, a proper superset of Verilog), and I can't see any BNF production that allows this. I think this is a case of iverilog being somewhat permissive. In looking it up, I did come ac
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by jgw 14y ago
That's not the point. The question is not "How can I put an unmatched curly bracket in my comment?" The question is "Why are the semantics of the language - including, but not limited to brace matching - so peculiar and unexpected?" Look at
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by jgw 14y ago
TCL is still used extensively in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation, i.e. hardware design) industry. As someone who works in the EDA industry, I can't say that our adoption of a given technology is exactly an endorsement!
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by jgw 14y ago
Actually, I think its syntax isn't just simple, it's simplistic. It's simple to implement, but it presents some rather unexpected behaviour to the user. To wit: proc hello {} { # I'd like to put an unmatched { in my comment pu
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by jgw 14y ago
Nice anecdote. I'm curious what your thoughts on Tcl the language are today, given your former position at Scriptics.
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by jgw 14y ago
I actually was forced to use Tcl recently on a project, and I came across this article at the time. It so happens that I was getting into Lisp at the same time, and the parallels between them are obvious. You effectively get macros, so it'
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by jgw 14y ago
I have a really, really hard time seeing Apple's map fiasco as a win for Apple.
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by jgw 14y ago
As a programmer of 29+ years, I'm not sure I agree! :)
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by jgw 14y ago
Steve Russell, as in "I actually made Lisp a programming language rather than just a mathematical notation" Steve Russell? Also, I absolutely love this demo. It's really a work of art. It really puts to shame my humble plan to finish my Os
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by jgw 14y ago
Indeed - he mentions in the article that he set himself a goal to convert 10 programmers into Lispers. Sounds like he probably has that many just in this thread! Kudos, sir!
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by jgw 14y ago
They must be disappointed that their patent just didn't stand up.
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by jgw 14y ago
Presumably because he uses the same PR firm as Osama bin Laden: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.asp
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by jgw 14y ago
Fun project! I balked, however, at "deciphering web pages to do simple things like displaying the time". All of the prompt escape codes are on the bash man page. That's not a criticism, mind you[1] - just a pointer at the fact that as you
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by jgw 14y ago
re: buggy vs horrible tools A matter of degrees, I guess. They're certainly improving, but we run into bugs and missing core language features in all three major vendors. I work for a consulting company, and we switch simulators and codin
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by jgw 14y ago
I'd heartily recommend to make the most of co-op opportunities if you can. I learned way more in co-op than I ever did in school. I suppose it's harder these days, as resources are stretched further so it's difficult for staff to allocate
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by jgw 14y ago
My biggest gripe would be with the abomination of a language we have for functional design and verification, SystemVerilog. - It has been developed without public discussion, now that the IEEE has shut down their mailing lists to non-paying
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by jgw 14y ago
There are a number of solutions that do that kind of thing to a degree - and they are improving. For certain types of designs, you can actually compile fairly unrestricted C and C++ into gates that are faster and lower gate-count than ha

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