ricksnyke

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   The Real History of Programming Languages(medium.com)

   7 points by ricksnyke 8y ago|2 comments
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   Go gets preliminary WebAssembly support(go-review.googlesource.com)

   217 points by ricksnyke 8y ago|96 comments
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   Ask HN: Has Open Source ever saved a company?

   1 points by ricksnyke 8y ago|1 comments
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   by ricksnyke 8y ago

   If you ask me it should be the other way around, do we need web apps at all? 1. Most web "apps" actually only work on Chrome, so there's that. So much for the open, standardized web. 2. Most web apps track the heck out of eve
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   by ricksnyke 8y ago

   IANAL but the appeal isn't going to fly. In the states this guy would probably be homeless by now tho :o
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   by ricksnyke 8y ago

   One word, Blender.
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   by ricksnyke 8y ago

   Functional in JavaScript never made sense to me, we don't have immutability in the language. While V8 has made optimisations for short lived objects this doesn't hold true across the board so perf can be quite terrible with "
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   by ricksnyke 8y ago

   Fascinating that these scenes are still thriving, just recently saw "8-Bit Guy"'s postmortem video on writing and shipping a game for C64.