retrocryptid

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ProtoThreads: Lightweight, Stackless Threads in C(dunkels.com)
157 points by retrocryptid 7y ago|44 comments
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Silicon Valley: How Stanford and the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today(vimeo.com)
13 points by retrocryptid 7y ago|0 comments
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by retrocryptid 7y ago
This is, of course, complete hearsay, but Tim Rowledge ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=timrowledge ) told me once that the Recursiv processor was used in a prototype british "smart torpedo." The official st
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by retrocryptid 7y ago
So I knew hacker news was a place to go for tech stuff. But... HN denizens, you have now officially impressed me with your interest in literary matters. (but don't get a big head, impressing me is sometimes not that hard.)
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by retrocryptid 7y ago
One more historical / nostalgic tid-bit: If you flip to page 156, you have Carl Helmers (or possibly Gary Kildall) trying to describe a spreadsheet to readers. In 1979, the concept of a spreadsheet was still new...
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by retrocryptid 7y ago
Oh! Don't feel too bad. While the late 70s and early 80s were a great time to be alive (and interested in small computers,) there was still that nagging feeling that if you could only get a system with just 64k more memory, you could
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by retrocryptid 9y ago
so sure. oculus is cool. i even know a few people working there; they're smart dudes. but. they're being managed by an organization whose ops group can't remember to renew certs and whose marketing group thinks it's cool
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by retrocryptid 9y ago
I just saw a reference to "How to Design Programs" by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt & Krishnamurthi go by and remembered this paper. It's by HtDP's authors and discusses some of the weaknesses they saw in SICP and why th
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The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum [pdf](www2.ccs.neu.edu)
4 points by retrocryptid 9y ago|1 comments