jonjacky

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   by jonjacky 9y ago

   I can't comment on the "never been infected" claim, but the AS/400 does have an unusual architecture based on something called "capabilities" that provide support for objects and protection in the hardware (act
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   This is called "oral history" - there is collection of transcripts from Ritchie and other Unix pioneers [1] and another large collection at the Computer History Museum [2] 1. https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mah
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   ACM Turing awards for Xerox PARC alumni: Chuck Thacker 2009, Alan Kay 2003, Butler Lampson 1992.
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   > I once found a blog post ... but I lost the link ... Maybe this one? Python: Writing a Compiler and Interpreter in 160 lines of code http://www.jroller.com/languages/entry/python_writing_a_comp...
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   No, the AG is supposed to warn when the president steps into legal trouble, whether he wants to hear it or not. The president of the US is not like the proprietor or CEO of a business. The people who work in the executive branch are obliga
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   Pertinent: MyHDL, hardware description and verification language in Python: http://www.myhdl.org/
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   You might have seen the Eames' exhibits on mathematics[1,2], computing[3], and other topics[4] at museums or worlds fairs, starting in the 1960s and continuing to today. [1] http://www.eamesoffice.com/exhibits/math
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   Thanks for posting this. I haven't seen it since my high school physics class fifty years ago, but as soon as I saw the title here in HN I recalled some memorable details that set it apart from other instructional films of the day --
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   by jonjacky 10y ago

   By the same author, lots of techical details about early Emacs, Multics, and the Arpanet: Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation by Bernard S. Greenberg 1979, 1996 http://multicians.org/mepap.html
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    How about this one: "RaspberryPi BASIC is an homage to the Commodore 64; a bare-metal operating system that boots directly to a BASIC prompt, similar to early computers." https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith&#x2
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    In their book The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike explain the really important stuff in about 30 pages, chapter 2 in the book. They cover four data structures: array, list, tree and hash table, and two kinds of algorithms: sorti
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    This "quote" is probably bogus. When I was at lunch with Knuth once (brag, brag), someone asked him where he said that. Knuth said he couldn't recall saying it and he doubted that he ever said it, because he would not atte
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    And closing the circle, it's been covered by many American bluegrass bands: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i%27ve+just+see...
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    “I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.” -- Nick Jenkins
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    Possibly pertinent: at OOPSLA 2000 there was a paper, "An Aristotlean understanding of object-oriented programming" http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354222.353194
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    BBN Lisp and its successor Interlisp, popular in the 1960s and 70s, had a persistent data store that was more closely integrated with the running Lisp image than typical general-purpose file systems (slide 41 in [1]) The proposed (but appar
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    This essay [1] includes Gian-Carlo Rota's recollections of Church as a teacher at Princeton. Rota writes, "It may be asked why anyone would bother to sit in a lecture which was the literal repetition of an available text. Such a
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    by jonjacky 10y ago

    Coincidentally, I am just now rereading Certain Trumpets, a collection of 16 brief case studies by Gary Wills. An interesting feature is that, for each leader he also discusses an antitype. So for electoral leader Franklin Roosevelt, the
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    There are emulations of the Plan 9 smart terminals that run under Unix-like operating systems. They are quite different from xterms - they have much simplified communication with the remote host but much richer local editing capabilities:
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Also pertinent: Terry Winograd's Thoughts On Military Funding (1984, with a postscript from 2002): http://cpsr.org/prevsite/publications/newsletters/issues/200...
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    There aren't many books about this. Instead there are papers that describe historic systems at particular points in time, or describe (part of) the history of a particular system. For programming languages, the canonical papers appear
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Ramsey Nasser's languages in Arabic: Scheme-like: https://github.com/nasser/--- Ruby-like: http://animalnewyork.com/2014/artists-notebook-ramsey-nasser...
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    "... in programming there is a widespread first order theory that one shouldn't build one's own tools, languages, and especially operating systems. This is true --- an incredible amount of time and energy has gone down these
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Hy is a Lisp that compiles to Python AST and then to Python bytecode: https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/docs/language/inter...
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    The Feynman Lectures on Computation. Discussed at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17274.Feynman_Lectures_On... , etc.
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    I have always suspected that the Flat Earth society was a put-on - a joke. There is a certain very British kind of humor where you assume some absurd position and stick to it with a straight face no matter what - you never crack a smile o
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Here is a short 6502 assembly language programming tutorial with emulator and development tools in the browser: http://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/ It's 6502 not x64 but simpler is better here. It is self-contai
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Ada's Technical Books in Seattle - mostly computing, although they also have books about other technical subjects.
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Emacs doesn't really fit with the Unix philosophy. Emacs came from the MIT AI Lab and ITS, not Bell Labs and Unix - it got included with most Unix distributions later. Editors that do fit with the Unix philosophy (they were written by
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    by jonjacky 11y ago

    Wirth explains in one of his articles that designing the compiler and the CPU together simplifies both.