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   by pmarin 8y ago

   If you really want to know "How the computer works" read Computer Organization And Design by Patterson and Hennessy. It is a great example of how to use the C language as a teaching tool.
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   Light painting animations directly from Blender(hackaday.com)

   243 points by pmarin 8y ago|34 comments
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   The Universal 8-bit computer game(github.com)

   3 points by pmarin 8y ago|1 comments
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   Inside the Windows Console(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

   276 points by pmarin 8y ago|252 comments
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   Scalability but at what COST? [pdf](frankmcsherry.org)

   3 points by pmarin 8y ago|0 comments
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   by pmarin 8y ago

   In Spain the video game industry for microcomputers were doing really well with a very healthy internal market.
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   by pmarin 8y ago

   This is basically what Fossil call timeline or I'm missing something? https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline
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   Dangerous Optimizations and the Loss of Causality in C and C++ (2010) [pdf](pubweb.eng.utah.edu)

   68 points by pmarin 8y ago|98 comments
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   by pmarin 8y ago

   Hey, the number 3 has my first computer in the front page! the Yashica YC-64. I still have it in working condition.
10. 250.▲
    by pmarin 8y ago

    >The need for nested functions bugged me as well. That seems like an odd deal-breaker and hints at code smell Nested functions were a very common pattern on languages like Pascal, Modula or oberon. They are equivalent to code blocks insi
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    >As a side note, I remember that framebuffer was very slow on a computer I had. Without proprietary video card driver both Windows and Linux had troubles even scrolling a window, it was very laggy. Why was unaccelerated VGA (or VESA?) mo
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    This book is part of the Oberon Os. You can read it in its hypertexted form inside Oberon. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NMJh0noDk&index=35&list=WL&t...
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    that’s causing companies trouble because it’s not entirely clear right now what information residents will request, what format that information needs to be in, how to locate it and package it, and whether new infrastructure needs to be cr
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    what I usually do is to wrap the awk script in to a sh function. I never do one-liners unless it is a well known idiom.
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    It's make me sad to read this kind of questions in "Hacker" News.
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    I found the video of the presentation that Dan Ingall did on smalltalk-78 https://youtu.be/pTh65b8qSY8
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    Reviving Smalltalk-78 (2014) [pdf](freudenbergs.de)

    155 points by pmarin 8y ago|21 comments
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    Racket was PLT Scheme. DRSheme was It's IDE now called DRRacket
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    dwm and demu from Suckless for over 12 years. When I start X11, dwm and a xterm my ram consumption is only 60MB. https://dwm.suckless.org/
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    I would like something like make for notebook cells inside a repl. I would write the notebook in my text editor (not in a web form) execute "reload" in the repl, execute the cells that have been changed and render the webpage. The
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/athena/contrib/potluck/src/xroach...
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    I mean flag arguments. sed {} file1 file2 > combined-file
23. 263.▲
    by pmarin 8y ago

    20 years using unix systems and never used cat with arguments. nl(1)
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    by pmarin 8y ago

    Is not suspicious that this Blog [1] has a new entry in the front page every single day for weeks or I am just paranoid? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rachelbythebay.com
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    Mathematics I Use (2012)(pub.gajendra.net)

    248 points by pmarin 9y ago|42 comments
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    The History of Processing(maxoffsky.com)

    69 points by pmarin 9y ago|10 comments
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    by pmarin 9y ago

    The most inspiring talk a I have ever seen: Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming. ABSTRACT This talk describes our unique approach to constructing large, atomically precise molecules (called "Molecular Le
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    Turbo Pascal navigational aids that saved my life in 1991(github.com)

    93 points by pmarin 9y ago|21 comments
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    Running into a wall with Fusion 360 while building a marble machine [video](youtube.com)

    22 points by pmarin 9y ago|1 comments
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    by pmarin 9y ago

    The original one in written in RATFOR with no structures/records or recursion which make some of the programs more complicated than they should. It easy to find the two versions on Internet. They describe the design and implementation