mkristiansen

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by mkristiansen 3y ago
I'm not sure the line count is a good measure of productivity. Is that true on the note of "optimizing for developer time"? Do people actually have an understanding of the tradeoff they are making? Do the teams building appli
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
I have started to think that much software development has turned into folklore that no one spends time questioning. Questions like: "Does using Typescript for your backend make you, the programmer, faster/more efficient?"
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Is All Programming a Scam?(blog.ajour.io)
5 points by mkristiansen 3y ago|16 comments
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
I wrote a VERY simple webserver in C. And thought about it. Why are all webservers not written in C!
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
This is what I get for experimenting with going back into 'non-dark' modes on my laptop ":) thank you for pointing this out.
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
I think this line explains what I was facinated by, "x * y is translated to CPU instructions (x >> 1) * (y - 1) + 1" namely that it now at least 3 extra highlevel operations to do simple multiplication.
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
And to be honest, this might be the sorta thing that is optimized away when doing inlining. but it does seem interesting that even when the type is species, and very narrow, the boxed types being onwrapped and rewrapped by the called functi
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Boxed types in OCaml, and other thoughts(blog.ajour.io)
58 points by mkristiansen 3y ago|25 comments
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
I came across an interesting fact about OCaml and wrote up my thoughts.
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
... Am I reading this right that Oracle has decided to support Ampere's Awesome Arm chips? In other news, did you notice that Ampere's CEO, Renee J James is on the board of Oracle?
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Making Actors in Rust(ajour.bearblog.dev)
3 points by mkristiansen 3y ago|1 comments
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by mkristiansen 3y ago
I wrote up how I created Actors in Rust