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751.
by mepian 7y ago
The designer of this language, David Moon, was also one of the designers of Dylan and Common Lisp.
752.
by mepian 7y ago
There is a newer version here: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT3/
753.
by mepian 7y ago
If you check the actual content, you'll see that it includes both the 2003 and the 2007 leaks: https://archive.org/download/HalfLife22007Source/HL2%20Sourc...
754.
by mepian 7y ago
It's not mislabeled, there was a later leak of the 2007 version, which happened in 2012: http://www.valvetime.net/threads/source-engine-code-leak-ver...
755.
by mepian 7y ago
The performance gap between C++ and GC languages like Ocaml and Common Lisp is much smaller than 10x. Here's one example where Common Lisp yielded literally the same performance as C++: https://m00natic.github.io/lisp&#
756.
by mepian 7y ago
Python already existed at that time for 4 years, at least.
757.
by mepian 7y ago
SBCL is open source, so you are free to improve the support for Solaris.
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Gradual Typing from Theory to Practice(blog.sigplan.org)
3 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
759.
by mepian 7y ago
This paper is a great starting point: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf "The compiler we construct accepts a large subset of the Scheme programming language and produces assembly code for the Intel x86 a
760.
by mepian 7y ago
Because it's not a video card yet, it's a circuit that syncs the monitor.
761.
by mepian 7y ago
I browsed the SHAKTI repository briefly and found only the E and C cores, are the rest of the cores not open source? Did I miss them?
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Yesterday's NeWS (Network extensible Window System)(medium.com)
3 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
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Digital FOSSils: A History of Free and Open Source Silicon(abopen.com)
2 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
764.
Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War(bunniestudios.com)
10 points by mepian 7y ago|1 comments
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Exploring the Meaning of Tron Legacy (2011)(tekkie.wordpress.com)
1 points by mepian 7y ago|0 comments
766.
by mepian 7y ago
How annoying were the branch delay slots?
767.
by mepian 7y ago
Don't forget about Symbolics stuff: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/
768.
by mepian 7y ago
QuickDraw, the 2D graphics library, is probably the biggest part of the Lisa that lived on in the Mac.
769.
by mepian 7y ago
The latter is a hell of of a task, given the complexity of the current web standards. I'm not sure if it's possible to do this decently without some kind of serious financial backing.
770.
by mepian 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Facebook told him to drop Racket and use JavaScript instead.
771.
Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches(extremetech.com)
319 points by mepian 7y ago|107 comments
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Microsoft Dev Implores Mozilla to Surrender and Bring Firefox to Chromium(hothardware.com)
24 points by mepian 8y ago|28 comments
773.
by mepian 8y ago
Indeed. The first single VLSI chip implementation of a Lisp machine, the MegaChip, was done by Texas Instruments in 1987 for its Explorer II workstations. This chip contained 553000 transistors and was afaik very similar to the CADR archite
774.
by mepian 8y ago
I presume the parent generalized their experience with the BOOM and Rocket implementations of RISC-V, which do use Chisel, to the entire architecture.
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Documentary – The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and Timex Sinclair 1000(youtube.com)
2 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
776.
by mepian 8y ago
Executor was released under an open source license in 2008. I wonder if any of its code was used in Advanced Mac Substitute.
777.
by mepian 8y ago
There is a great paper by Abdulaziz Ghuloum, An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction, that is pretty much the cookbook you want: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf "We show that building a compil
778.
by mepian 8y ago
It would be nice if the RISC-V community adopted the lessons from CHERI while the install base is small enough to allow substantial changes to the architecture standard.
779.
by mepian 8y ago
What start? I've been reading these crazy stories about EVE Online since at least 2006. And before that there was interesting stuff happening in Ultima Online, e.g. the assassination of Lord British.
780.
by mepian 8y ago
Does it have enough error-corrected qubits to actually do something useful, or is it a high-tech piece of luxury furniture?

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