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The Death of the Von Neumann Architecture(codersnotes.com)
105 points by kayamon 11y ago|75 comments
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by kayamon 11y ago
Having had exposure to both C and Pascal at around the sane time, I vastly preferred working in C. I do think there's something intrinsically good about it compared to other contemporary systems languages - I don't think it's
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by kayamon 11y ago
I had the same thing with SpaceChem. Once I found myself trying to implement a mutex in it... I've just spent all day at work doing stuff like this, and then I come home from work and keep doing it there as well. Great game, but it&#x2
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by kayamon 11y ago
It's just... sigh... I dunno. It's like COBOL. Or COM. There's nothing in any way pleasant about it. It's undeniable that it works, and perhaps gets things done in a practical manner. But there's no love in it. Just
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by kayamon 11y ago
MS were very inspired, unfortunately by VMS.
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by kayamon 11y ago
It's not useless if you learn something from it. If you don't want to learn anything, that's fine. But I certainly learned a few new ideas from taking some time to judge it objectively. If tomorrow someone launched a new Linu
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by kayamon 11y ago
Presumably something more in the spirit of REBOL would be a good fit?
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A Constructive Look at TempleOS(codersnotes.com)
463 points by kayamon 11y ago|169 comments
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by kayamon 11y ago
It can be argued that shared memory should be explicit-when-needed rather than everywhere-by-default though.
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by kayamon 11y ago
Well, it's 1am here and I can't really be bothered to get into this too deeply, but here's one for you: How would you implement Netflix without using external plugins such as Silverlight?
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by kayamon 11y ago
You're absolutely right that it's a pretty good way to build text/image-based documents and show them on a page (well, ignoring CSS and it's many quirks). But a lot of people wanting to do web-things don't want to j
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by kayamon 11y ago
I sent an explanation with it, no idea if anyone read it or not.
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by kayamon 11y ago
I'll post up my complete entry in case anyone's interested to look through it: http://www.codersnotes.com/files/piupiu.zip See surveil.txt for notes first. Someone below asked what makes this different from t
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by kayamon 11y ago
I'm kinda annoyed that the judge completely misread my entry. I had it so that data was leaked out of a function that could not possibly leak data, via a malloc side-channel attack (ala HeartBleed). Instead it got judged as being a &#x
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SourceForge, or how to dismantle your userbase in 3 easy steps(codersnotes.com)
6 points by kayamon 11y ago|0 comments
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by kayamon 11y ago
If you want to do it in realtime, your best bet is to use Marching Cubes to tessellate the isosurface into a triangle mesh. You can either do that every frame, or cache the result and animate it via conventional means.
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by kayamon 12y ago
The best and simplest results can be obtained by using a Hammersley Point Set[1]. [1] https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/udpoint/udpoint.p...
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by kayamon 12y ago
If you can render it once, you can render it twice. So just render a shadow buffer pass, and now you have real-time shadows. This applies to any 3D engine.
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by kayamon 12y ago
I'd put money on there being a fax machine involved in this somewhere.
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by kayamon 12y ago
But surely this is "Hacker News" - the whole point of news is that it has to be new to _everyone_. Otherwise it's just facts, not news.
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by kayamon 12y ago
Z80 is just a CPU, it doesn't have a sound chip.
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by kayamon 12y ago
Right, but there's a difference between things that the OS is expected to provide (OpenSSL, GTK, etc) which the app should not bundle, and things like libpng which the app basically should bundle. e.g. Windows supplies KERNEL/USER
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by kayamon 12y ago
I always call mine "countof" to match the "sizeof" naming convention.
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by kayamon 12y ago
You mean their MSVC from 2012. They only just added support for C99 with the latest release.
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by kayamon 12y ago
Well excuuuuussseeee me, Princess!
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by kayamon 12y ago
Every time he posts someone replies to say he doesn't know what he's talking about. (possibly not realizing who they're replying to)
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by kayamon 12y ago
If they opened their platform up properly, then Chrome could simply use the advanced javascript engine it already has.
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by kayamon 12y ago
Yep. If I wanted to know the latest JavaScript standards, or look up language details, I should be able to go to js.org to find it.
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by kayamon 12y ago
There was once a time, back in the mists of history, when we had to print our websites out and buy them from newsagents.
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by kayamon 12y ago
Darn hipsters.

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