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by linguae 1y ago
1. Cosmoe is a native C++ library, which may be of interest for C++ programmers. 2. Cosmoe is under the MIT license, which may be of interest for those wanting pure MIT/BSD-licensed solutions, as well as for those who want to use a C
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by linguae 1y ago
There is another factor at play: different users value different things. For example, there are some people who don't like systemd, not because they are enamored with classic startup scripts, but because they take issue with systemd&#
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by linguae 1y ago
I had no idea Steve Jobs felt that way about Larry Tesler. There were so many great UI experts at Apple, like Larry Tesler, Bruce Tognazzini, and Don Norman. While I love Mac OS X for its stability and its Unix support, I prefer the inter
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Apple WWDC 2005-The Intel Switch Revealed [video](youtube.com)
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by linguae 1y ago
From the article: “But universities cannot get around the fact that federal grants, by their nature, selectively fund certain ideas at the expense of others. The government picks intellectual winners and losers among private citizens, which
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by linguae 1y ago
I feel the exact same way about tech today as a 90s kid who embraced personal computing and who was inspired by the histories of Apple, Microsoft, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and other pioneering places. As late as 2014 I thought highly of FAAN
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by linguae 1y ago
I’ve read that the predecessor to the 9600, the 9500, wasn’t the easiest machine to work on. The 9600 had a more convenient pull-down case, which was continued in the designs of the beige G3 tower, the blue and white G3 tower, and the G4 t
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by linguae 1y ago
I don't think it would have, with the caveat that I'm only familiar with the BASICs of the 80s and 90s (my first language was QBASIC and I also learned Visual Basic 6); I wasn't around in the 70s and I know little about the B
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by linguae 1y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I wonder how many software products, particularly those from the early days of personal computing, have been lost to history due to nobody copying them before the media got deteriorated or destroyed
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by linguae 1y ago
You might be interested in this paper: "Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk" ( https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/research/papers/kell19unix-... ) Cuis Smalltalk and related implementations are rathe
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by linguae 1y ago
I used to be a grad student in a file systems lab at UC Santa Cruz over a decade ago. It was considered a dream to publish in OSDI or SOSP; our lab’s most successful paper was the OSDI 2006 paper on Ceph. We also thought very highly of VL
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by linguae 1y ago
Whenever I think about the decline of industrial research labs, not just the most famed like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, but also the labs at companies like Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Ora
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by linguae 1y ago
Interestingly enough, even non-monopoly large corporations once had labs where researchers had a good deal of freedom and where the projects were not required to be directly tied to business objectives. Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment C
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by linguae 1y ago
(2020) As a new computer science professor at a community college, this is a timely article for me that may end up influencing how I teach, especially my introductory programming course as well as my discrete mathematics course.
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by linguae 1y ago
Even in the 1990s my parents noticed this at fast food chains in the Sacramento area where I grew up. Locations with more engaged staff served better food, while locations with less engaged staff served worse food that was often sloppily p
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by linguae 1y ago
Inflation has turned me away from eating out; I can't keep up with the relentless and steep price increases while my income hasn't grown much at all in the same time period. Having to pay over $10 for a low-quality combo meal suc
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by linguae 1y ago
One of the biggest challenges with the libertarian movement is that it attracts people who like libertarianism not because of the non-aggression principle, but because it enables them to legally engage in certain activities. An example woul
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by linguae 1y ago
The behavior I’ve seen from so many libertarians from 2017 onward, especially during the pandemic, January 6th, and Trump’s reelection, has revealed so much to me and has made me rethink my libertarianism. So many libertarians, when presse
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by linguae 1y ago
I agree. Safari will be fine, and Microsoft has the resources to devote to browser development. I wonder, though, about Firefox and a post-divestiture Chrome. Browsers are labor-intensive to develop due to their complexity, and the Web ke
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by linguae 1y ago
Coincidentally, I just taught composition over inheritance this morning in my class on object-oriented programming in C++ at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA, and gave an example of why it is undesirable for a stack implementation to inherit a
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by linguae 2y ago
I’m not the OP, but static types, Hindley-Milner type inference, algebraic data types, and pattern matching can be quite ergonomic. I have also come to appreciate functional programming and how it makes reasoning about and testing code eas
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by linguae 2y ago
If you’re based in the United States, right now is a challenging time at many universities due to near- and long-term uncertainties regarding research funding given the actions taken by the current administration. Many universities have re
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by linguae 2y ago
While currently it’s open season on the golden goose in America, the golden goose has been under attack for decades. Academia has a strong publish-or-perish culture that I believe is stifling, and industry has become increasingly short-ter
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by linguae 2y ago
Admittedly my "trash can" Mac sees little use these days. I thought I'd miss macOS a lot when I switched to Windows in 2022, but it turns out that I could live without it, though I do have a work-issued MacBook Pro, and so i
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by linguae 2y ago
I have a slightly older Power Mac G4, a 350MHz "Yikes!" PCI Power Mac G4 from 1999 ( https://lowendmac.com/1999/power-mac-g4-yikes/ ) that I purchased in 2009 for $40 while I was a senior at Cal Poly. The
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Additionally, such jobs did not require a bachelor’s degree. Today it seems that affording a middle-class lifestyle (i.e., being able to afford to purchase or rent a home in a safe neighborhood with good public schools) often takes two inc
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by linguae 2y ago
This reckless way of negotiating has a cost: our trustworthiness. The more recklessness Trump does, the more other nations will strongly consider naming some other currency the global reserve currency, such as the euro, the yuan, or someth
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by linguae 2y ago
Exactly. The damage has been done; the fact that economic policy could dramatically change day-by-day makes investing and planning very difficult. In addition, the tariffs on China are insane. One of my biggest concerns is the value of th
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by linguae 2y ago
Programming language adoption is more than just about syntax and semantics; there are other factors. For example, JavaScript is often criticized for its design, yet this hasn’t stopped tens of millions of developers from learning the langu
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by linguae 2y ago
I remember reading back in 2007-2008 that Apple was interested in bringing ZFS support to Mac OS X, but discussions ended once Oracle purchased Sun. This was a bummer; I would’ve loved ZFS on a Mac. After a cursory Google search, I found t

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