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by limmeau 17y ago
"Strings and other types" is up. I can't wait for 3 to 6.
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by limmeau 17y ago
If your tysk is still fresh, try Keller&Paul[1]. It was the text for my second-semester hardware course, in which we "built" a real processor from 74somethings. "built" because we didn't really touch hardware, we just looked at schemati
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by limmeau 17y ago
The author says (and I agree) that the process of judging cannot be easily performed completely by a computer, and goes on arguing for better retrieval systems for legal texts -- so Gödel would probably just shrug. Actually, I think laws (a
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by limmeau 17y ago
However, the relation between how much is there to know (increasing) and how much fits in a head (constant) is growing, which is sad, and whether it has ever been 1 seems rather unimportant to me.
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by limmeau 17y ago
I believe the complexity comes inevitably with code reuse and abstraction. Once you've got your ethernet driver working, you discover that your routable point-to-point packet exchange is useful in many places, so you extract an IP component
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by limmeau 17y ago
And they defer solving some problems to when HTTP 2 comes. I wonder if there's an ETA for it.
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by limmeau 17y ago
The difference between Intel/MASM syntax and AT&T/GNU syntax is rather superficial[1], so with a little squinting you can use a MASM book with the GNU assembler. Newer versions of the GNU assembler also come with a directive .intel_synt
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by limmeau 17y ago
When I'm within reach of my Emacs, I use org-remember to create an idea entry. Otherwise, I usually carry enough calendar sheets on whose backsides I can keep ideas fresh until I can enter them into a computer.
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by limmeau 17y ago
In a small company I worked for, we decided to put most of the internal writing into our MediaWiki. Project plans, memos, design whitepapers, meeting minutes, vacation plan, internal encyclopedia, FAQs for locally installed tools etc. Earli
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by limmeau 17y ago
org-mode in Emacs is nice for outline-oriented note-taking, and it can export to LaTeX.
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by limmeau 17y ago
Steve Yegge wrote about it back in April[1]. He compared legalization of cannabis to software requirements which look easy until you really try to work out the details. [1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
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by limmeau 17y ago
And I thought he would at some point finally talk about new features of the 1.1 release. Well, thinking time's over for today.
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by limmeau 17y ago
and http://pylonsbook.com/ (just got a dead tree of it yesterday, BTW)
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by limmeau 17y ago
You could use XUL for the GUI. The German car rental company Sixt did that in 2005 for their corporate apps. I don't know what became of it, though.
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by limmeau 17y ago
The Maude project [1] (and its documentation) may be of interest; they use term rewriting in a formal modeling and model-checking tool. There's an introductory course at [2]. 1. http://maude.cs.uiuc.edu/ 2. http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~peter
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by limmeau 17y ago
And I thought it was about Fast Search and Transfer AS from Norway. Apparently they were bought by Microsoft in 2008 to become their Enterprise Search department.
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by limmeau 17y ago
The article links to http://www.digi.no/504306/her-kjores-egentlig-opera-mini&#38... for pictures of the blade server. But that page also reports that they're driving Opera Mini with... Pike! I thought I'd never hear of Pike again. (inser
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by limmeau 17y ago
I don't think it will happen, though; the ratio of people who care about the elegance of their processor's assembly language to people who buy computers is just too low. Not in form of a clean cut, at least: x86-64 brought us eight addition
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by limmeau 17y ago
What's the difference between "re-doing x86 as a three-operand architecture" and switching to a different 64-bit RISC architecture?
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by limmeau 17y ago
Faster strlen(), strcmp() etc. are not so exotic things to wish for.
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by limmeau 17y ago
I'd also love to see a comment section and/or links to boardgamegeek so that I can quickly get the opinion of people who have played it.
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by limmeau 17y ago
There is also the WML (Website Meta Language) at http://www.thewml.org/ -- I used it for a few static websites in the early 2000s, but it isn't maintained any more. It combines an HTML macro package, embedded perl, m4 and a few other tool
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by limmeau 17y ago
I'm curious. Are you GEMA members? Do you have to pay them to give away your tracks?
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by limmeau 17y ago
A work-around at most, not a solution. First, TOR can be outlawed just like hacking tools and copy-protection circumvention programs. Secondly, it's not about technologically educated people not being able to communicate any more. It's abou
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by limmeau 17y ago
No, but game theory is. Splitting the bill without tediously adding up everybody's items and without everybody paying for the single gourmet's dessert is a mechanism design problem.
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by limmeau 17y ago
That's why "being sufficiently microcontroller-competent to build an IR-to-BT bridge" is on the list... (no, it isn't, but I'd have made a point if it were)
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by limmeau 17y ago
... and porting or rewriting the device drivers.
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by limmeau 17y ago
The two extremes are: 1) everyone upvotes to agree (and only to agree), and downvotes to disagree (and only to disagree). Then the score on a contribution measures its proximity to the average opinion. 2) everyone upvotes signal and downvot
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by limmeau 17y ago
Libcoro's FreeBSD ports page claims to support i386 only, while Libtask supports i386, PowerPC, Sparc and ARM.
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by limmeau 17y ago
You can also boot from CD-ROM. That very page says: If you have an older machine or you just want things to immediately work without fussing with the BIOS, you can burn a "Boot Helper" CD using the .iso below. This will start the boot from

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