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by lukego 11y ago
Is Linus Torvalds a founder who was too nice by pg's critera? He created something that people want, made it grow, etc, but he let other people capture the value and did not focus on securing a superlinear financial return for himself.
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by lukego 11y ago
I enjoyed bicycle commuting in LA. I was based in Korea Town and alternatively biked to Glendale (via Griffith Park) or unicycled to Beverly Hills (via Hancock Park). Those were mostly lovely routes. Unicycle is ideal for Hancock Park becau
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by lukego 11y ago
Speaking of which: I am having trouble finding the link to opt-out of Apple Music before the paid period starts. Help?
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DynASM: Lua edition(github.com)
2 points by lukego 11y ago|0 comments
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by lukego 11y ago
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (3rd ed) http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspecti...
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by lukego 11y ago
In absolute terms I think there are more people than ever programming this way today. Just doesn't feel that way because there are even more people doing stuff differently.
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by lukego 11y ago
The biggest hack I did was to rewrite the builtin PONG game to try and be more in the spirit of Thinking Forth: http://lukego.livejournal.com/10847.html
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by lukego 11y ago
If you have an OLPC XO 1 then you can also download the specifications for the AMD CPU here: http://www.versalogic.com/support/Downloads/PDF/LXManualMay0... That tells you how to do graphics hacks and so on.
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by lukego 11y ago
Oh thanks for the kind words :-) Relevant blog entry: http://lukego.github.io/blog/2012/10/28/firmware-vs-software... I worked with Mitch on "bringup" of the OLPC 1.5 hardware and got to see hi
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by lukego 11y ago
Thank you for writing jonesforth!
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by lukego 11y ago
Open Firmware is an amazing piece of software. Mitch's Forth Lessons on the OLPC wiki are a great resource too, especially if you have an OLPC XO that you can boot to the firmware prompt. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/
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by lukego 11y ago
Is your goal to be paid to write your software? Have you considered looking for a job where you would be paid to develop this software by a company that needs it? How do you envision your open source lifestyle business once it is up and run
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by lukego 11y ago
Here is some practical advice on the "how" of putting money away for the future: http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investing_st...
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by lukego 11y ago
Agreed. That was classy. But that is also a sign of them having no interest in the modern Common Lisp community :).
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by lukego 11y ago
I really did not enjoy Lisp50. I was surprised to discover such a disconnect between the old-school and new-school Lispers. Guy Steele and co really didn't seem to have any interest at all in what people have done with Common Lisp thes
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by lukego 11y ago
Learning Forth from the OLPC XO boot prompt is one of the most fun things I have done with a computer. Great tutorial here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Forth_Lessons
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by lukego 11y ago
> For me, this would be the dream. I'd love to work half as much as I do but I can't because of
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by lukego 11y ago
We have three main use cases for pcap filters (based on pflua) in Snabb Switch: First is ad-hoc filtering in applications. "If this is an IPv6 control message for the address of interest then put the packet on this queue." The fil
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by lukego 11y ago
Next obvious step: Compile the kernel into BPF using LLVM and run it inside itself.
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by lukego 11y ago
I am impressed with Rust in many ways. I briefly considered Rust when shopping for the right language for Snabb Switch [1]. I decided against it in part because the community did a good job of setting my expectations. "They" told
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by lukego 11y ago
Tangent: I find it interesting that Erlang is an emerging technology that you are interested in learning at age 50, and yet it has been used in production with a steadily growing community since you were in your 20s. It has simply taken a f
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by lukego 11y ago
Recently I saw a conference presentation from an 80 year old who had just created a new CPU on an FPGA and ported a graphical operating system onto it :-) https://twitter.com/lukego/status/436558489910255616
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by lukego 11y ago
This would explain why the Linux Foundation are in the middle of things like OpenDaylight that seem to be designed to soak up resources from big companies.
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by lukego 12y ago
Immutability sure makes this stuff easy in Erlang. EriPascal, an ancestor of Erlang, used runtime ownership for passing mutable binaries around. Once you send the binary in a message it is a runtime error to use it again afterwards.
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Back to the Future: Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997)(ftp.squeak.org)
4 points by lukego 12y ago|0 comments
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Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation(multicians.org)
1 points by lukego 12y ago|0 comments
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by lukego 12y ago
Complementary idea: REMOTE ( http://37signals.com/remote/ )
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by lukego 12y ago
For what it is worth, I have a hard time accepting that Invoicing and Appointment Reminding aren't each about as exciting as the other, despite the many affirmations to the contrary.
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by lukego 12y ago
> We’re going to ignore the corporate market because price isn’t really a deciding point for them. They’re not trying to minimize cost, they’re trying to minimize risk. This seems like a legitimate point at which to stop and reflect on w
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by lukego 12y ago
These costs could still be modest in comparison to the salaries of 300 people.

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