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by lukego 7y ago
Mitch Bradley. He wrote the firmware for Sun machines, made an IEEE standard of it, open sourced it for OLPC. Highly productive guy. Interview with him seems to have disappeared from the web? http://mitchbradley.blogspot.com&#x2F
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by lukego 7y ago
That's really cool! I recently stumbled on that installations Halley's Comet here in Skövde :)
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by lukego 7y ago
I have started using IRC again since I bought a subscription to irccloud.com. Before that I had stopped because I found the clients too annoying, especially lacking support for using multiple devices concurrently and buffering up messages w
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by lukego 7y ago
This sounds superficially like a company called Nebula from the OpenStack days. https://slashdot.org/story/13/04/03/034217/nebula-debuts-clo...
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by lukego 7y ago
> the biggest limiting factor is not really skill, but cost Can we put a number on the cost? Seems to me like if you want a "serious amateur" electronics lab for doing things like prototyping boards with BGA components then you
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by lukego 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm planning to start work on my first ever PCB tomorrow and I'll try learning this instead of KiCAD and see if I need to switch or not.
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by lukego 7y ago
Sad to hear that! Related viewpoint from a contemporary: Greenspun's "Reinventing professionalism for software engineers" https://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/professionalism...
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by lukego 7y ago
Autoweapons too: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~shivers/autoweapons.html . "He just couldn't get it through his head that I didn't want to hear about Interlisp, and I damn sure didn't want to hear about 9-f
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by lukego 7y ago
"Losing $35" by the same author: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/rants/msoft.html
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by lukego 7y ago
Sorry, hadn't read TFA, was thinking of the "sk" ("skönt") sound rather than "sj" ("sjuk.") EDIT: Clear as mud now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x7C6qeh-SQ .
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by lukego 7y ago
This is the same sound as in "cool whip" a la Family Guy, right? Like the way a southern gentleman would pronounce "wh." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmqJQ-nc_s
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by lukego 7y ago
TIL!
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by lukego 7y ago
Dave is a hero for the work that he is doing here. I'm really pleased to see that his Patreon is growing and reaching a non-trivial ("rent") level of monthly funding. Great job everybody who is supporting him!
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by lukego 7y ago
That's correct.
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by lukego 7y ago
RaptorJIT is working well for Snabb but it's not clear what other projects can benefit from it. We're using Lua to compete with C while most other projects seem to be using it to compete with Go/Python/node. So for the m
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by lukego 7y ago
Is attempting a re-invention an efficient use of capital? Maybe those companies that went gracefully into the night were able to pay out dividends for their owners to reinvest in Google, Facebook, etc and nobody lost much of anything from t
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by lukego 7y ago
This joke is only funny for people who haven't read The Millionaire Next Door :)
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by lukego 7y ago
I'm an "autodidact" programmer so I feel like I should discount myself as an outlier in this discussion, but I'm amazed to see my kids just spending time on their computers at age 4-5. They are learning really complex pr
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by lukego 7y ago
I loved my XO. I used it for writing Forth code to relive the BASIC hacking of my youth. Great in that niche :-) I don't think I ever had fun with it after booting Linux though...
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by lukego 7y ago
I don't see it as a witch hunt so much as an intervention. He has done great things in the free software movement, history will thank him for it, but he shouldn't be working as a front-man while launching foot-seeking missiles. I
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by lukego 7y ago
Swiss Alps too and people trampling pastures for selfies. Local farmers have started putting up fake graves and memorials like scarecrows.
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by lukego 7y ago
Yes. I see this as interesting if you want to generate human readable idiomatic C code as the backend of a transpiler for a DSL. That's different to most of the other links being posted on this thread.
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by lukego 7y ago
I see it as more similar to cl-cpp-generator ( https://github.com/plops/cl-cpp-generator ). It's not a new programming language: it's a Lisp surface syntax for C that inherits Lisp metaprogramming capabilities.
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C-mera – Lisp syntax with C semantics(github.com)
59 points by lukego 7y ago|10 comments
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by lukego 7y ago
Sure. But if your plan is to do all the work by yourself, for the benefit of companies who aren't contributing much beyond occasional bug fixes, then you will eventually burn out like Mike Pall did. There won't necessarily be anot
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by lukego 7y ago
Switching to RaptorJIT would get you a community that's more open to contribution, tracing and profiling with zero overhead that can be left enabled in production, and - on the downside - fewer supported platforms/architectures in
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by lukego 7y ago
For the LuaJIT family to die all that's necessary is for people to stop selecting it for new projects. Time takes care of the rest.
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by lukego 7y ago
> the tooling is unlikely to be used for anything else than RaptorJIT Here we are talking at cross-purposes. I view the tooling as an extensible framework like Emacs or Eclipse. I am talking about my intentions for extending the diagnost
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by lukego 7y ago
That's a fair point. I'm viewing the tooling as a separate project. RaptorJIT is one application that it supports and Pharo is one UI. Codegen is appealing for being able to use the same data for more things e.g. also generate gdb
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by lukego 7y ago
Author here with a little update from experience. Generally I am quite happy with this approach, but I am not wild about the cost/benefit of writing tools in Smalltalk. I've spent a lot of energy on treading water and trying to ke

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