jojohohanon

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by jojohohanon 5y ago
The mark sweep GC implementation is beautiful in its direct simplicity.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
There was a post on Metafilter highlighting a similar approach to graceful javascripting, back when javascript was a question, not an answer. Basically, serve a page with formatting done via table layout, and then rewrite it with javascript
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
Also: Steven saylor’s “Gordianus, the finder” series. Tho this is likely completely fictional except incidental details of the setting in Rome just pre AD.
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
SO the argument here is that it's the storage layer that slows things down? I deduce this since the linked article is about installing a new storage driver to sync to external volumes. What about server workloads where the storage is c
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by jojohohanon 5y ago
Incompetent vs malice... If they are close to the edge cases of the spec, just not testing on Firefox will break it. By negligence, rather than malice.
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by jojohohanon 6y ago
This ranks next to COMEFROM (which is observably superior to GOTO of the same era) as my favorite computer science jokes.
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by jojohohanon 6y ago
I’ve spent more time chasing an iPhone folder with an app I want to put into it than I care to admit. That websites and volunteer ui projects get it wrong is understandable- the problem domain is huge. But dragging an app onto a folder is
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by jojohohanon 6y ago
I have second hand memory of an SNL sketch from the 80s(?) about this phrasing, but for man, mugged, and five minutes. Second hand because it was told/ re-enacted to me in lieu of recorded on vhs or similar.
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by jojohohanon 6y ago
well, the same can be said of Swiss martial cutlery... To connect this a bit back to emacs, I think the big contribution VSC has made is to popularize the language-server concept, which decouples the UI from the automagical autocomplete and