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by le-mark 11mo ago
This was back in 80s when you were working on c compilers? That’s an interesting story (80s compiler scene and what you worked on) I’ve picked up bits and pieces over the years, have you written it up anywhere? Would be benefit for many I t
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by le-mark 11mo ago
I’d add this. Servers used to be viewed as pets; the system admins spent a lot time on snow flake configurations and managing each one. When we started standing up tens of servers to host the nodes of our app (early 2000s); the simple admin
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Have you written about your app and revenue anywhere we can read about it? Looks interesting.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
How long was this person working on it? Six months? Anything this big should’ve had some sort of design review. The worst is some junior going off and coding some garbage no one sees for a month.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
> I'm curious why Lisp didn't gain mass popularity despite its advantages. In my opinion Lisp is too flexible. I think the ideal use of Lisp is one or a few talented developers exploring the problem space and creating the MVP.
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by le-mark 11mo ago
Casual observers may not know that pundits have been calling for a catastrophic collapse in the markets for as long as I’ve been watching (early 80s). There have been a lot of dips and a few recessions in that time obviously, but beware the
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by le-mark 1y ago
Can anyone give an overview of what has happened in Venezuela since Maduro took over and what the beef is between him and Trump? Looks like US going to start exporting Freedom again..
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by le-mark 1y ago
> I had originally configured the server phoenix with only 12GB swap. I then had to restart ./build_all_fast_glibc.sh a few times because the Fil-C compilation ran out of memory. Switching to 36GB swap made everything work with no r
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by le-mark 1y ago
This article is less about assembly programming and more a tour de force on retro game development for the Atari ST. The author talks about using inline assembler to optimize gfx and game rendering inner loops. Oh and the author ported Doom
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by le-mark 1y ago
> jazelle That’s a blast from the past; native Java bytecode! Did anyone actually use that? Some J2ME phones maybe? Is there a more relevant example?
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by le-mark 1y ago
> When I was forced to use a Mac for work, I honestly considered looking for a different position because it was just that painful for me. I share this aversion. I have a Mac book work sent me, sitting next to me right now, that I never
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by le-mark 1y ago
Nice rant, I’m here for it. This is what I miss from the early internet, a good old fashioned rant. It may go off the rails from time to time, but consistent in its frustration. Note some companies give Mac books with admin, smaller compani
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by le-mark 1y ago
For me it was the keyboard shortcuts and mouse behavior differences. That plus the homebrew weirdness trying to emulate Linux package management. I decided to just use Linux. Ultimately, Linux is a development environment for Linux, and by
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by le-mark 1y ago
This is a great write up and thank you to the author! Just a note that graphviz dot is not purely Sugiyama’s, there is a paper on the site that details the actual implementation. Also judging from the final two images (dot vs iongraph for t
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by le-mark 1y ago
My son has been highly motivated to learn about hacking in his iPad to hack some of the games they play for school (blooket and prodigy). Those are web based games, true, but fiddling with the dev console, editing the dom, and finding and p
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by le-mark 1y ago
I spent a lot of time on systolic arrays to compute crypto currency POW (Blake 2 specifically). It’s an interesting problem and I learned a lot but made no progress. I’ve often wondered if anyone has done the same?
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by le-mark 1y ago
How is this cost effective though? There are a lot of low quality games, not by a big studio. These also get a dedicated docker container?
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by le-mark 1y ago
I’ve always been curious how Roblox games are deployed and managed. Is each instance of a game executed in a docker container, and the luau code isolated that way or is there some multi-tenant solution?
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by le-mark 1y ago
Fast food franchises aren’t generating $1M a year either. Ok a McDonald’s in a high traffic area can, but a sandwich shop anywhere? Nope.
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by le-mark 1y ago
She is thirsty my friends.
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by le-mark 1y ago
> stole the classified documents A nitpick of mine is how Trump having the documents wasn’t the case against him. The case against Trump was an obstruction case because he lied and concealed the documents from authorities, going so far a
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by le-mark 1y ago
Can anyone comment on what VEX robotics kits do with POE? Their controller box connects to motors via cat5 (they call them “smart cables”)which carry’s power, pwm, and encoder data. I don’t think it’s carrying ethernet but could be? Any sou
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by le-mark 1y ago
I think writing lexers and parsers is just fun, code generation I have not done; which is next level imo. I guess the next level after that is doing the lexing parsing and code generation on the chip. Then the need for multi pass compilatio
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by le-mark 1y ago
I once saw a layoff that was followed by a week long outage because no one remaining knew how to deploy to prod, and no one knew how to recover after the failed deployment. I felt bad for the people remaining who had to go through that,but
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by le-mark 1y ago
> to being surrounded by Dilbert characters. As a real life Wally I appreciate this comment.
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by le-mark 1y ago
I used octave in place of matlab in undergrad numerical analysis course 15 years ago. The language was completely compatible for what we did.
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by le-mark 1y ago
Piling on about chat. Slack threads are an abomination. They aren’t inline with the main channel so you can’t cut and paste an entire conversation with threads. And does exporting a channel include threads? Who knows because the admin would
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by le-mark 1y ago
You’re going to be waiting a long time, sorry to say. The question is; are you going to let these corporations rule your life in this way?
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by le-mark 1y ago
Or use hardware a year or two old. If your hardware is bleeding edge you’re going to have a hard time. Or if you depend on some peripheral that’s not “mainstream”. The thing windows always, always had going for it was driver support. Linux
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by le-mark 1y ago
JavaScript is a really flexible language and it’s easy to build “just enough” abstractions to get stuff done. It may be hard to believe now but at one point web frameworks were not a thing. People used plain old JavaScript and maybe jquery.

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