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by rsc 14y ago
At Bell Labs, Rob switched acme and sam from black and white to color in the development version of Plan 9, called Brazil, in the late fall of 1997. I used Brazil on my laptop as my day-to-day work environment, but I was not a developer. I
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by rsc 14y ago
> Can acme run without a graphics layer (e.g. X11) beyond VGA? It would not be hard to make the underlying graphics code work on top of linuxfb. I think a patch for that might be floating around. > Why does it need more than VGA tex
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by rsc 14y ago
I won't argue any of your points but one. You can use whatever system fonts you like on OS X. Here's some Comic Sans for you: http://swtch.com/~rsc/hackernews.png
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by rsc 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dopu3ZtdCsg is a good intro.
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by rsc 14y ago
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RabbitSequence.html
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by rsc 15y ago
There are a handful of people answering this question (unprompted) on this very page.
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by rsc 15y ago
It is amortized O(1). When the append needs to grow the slice, it does so by a multiplicative factor.
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by rsc 15y ago
In my experience Go is probably 5-10x faster than C or C++. I estimate that programs that take me half an hour to write in Go would take me about 2½ hours in C and 5 hours in C++. (If you meant CPU speed, http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/pr
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by rsc 15y ago
The go command will use the right version but only if the person writing the library has bothered to tag the version to use. Many people don't. Part of the point of Go 1 is to stabilize the language. We're committing to slowing down the
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by rsc 15y ago
[go programming] or [go language] works well.
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by rsc 15y ago
http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/building-stathat-with-go.html http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ https://tinkercad.com/home/ There are more that we know of, and as they say that publicly
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by rsc 15y ago
1024 meters is only a kibimeter if you're a pedant.
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by rsc 15y ago
Compare 256^2, 256^3, 256^4.
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by rsc 15y ago
In the long term, this will be search only over code.google.com projects, as mentioned in the 'discussion' link on codesearch.google.com.
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by rsc 15y ago
Wow, everyone's a cynic. Did you miss the part about the trigram index? It sounds like you are replying to regexp1.html, not regexp4.html.
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by rsc 15y ago
Your timeline here seems a bit off. Google Code Search didn't launch until mid-October 2006.
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by rsc 16y ago
Watch the video, especially the second half. There's a lot about the 6502 that wasn't apparent from the data sheet.
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by rsc 16y ago
As Doug McIlroy (inventor of pipes, diff) once said of punched cards, "It's the kind of thing you can be nostalgic about, but it wasn't actually fun." http://research.swtch.com/2008/04/computing-history-at-bell-...
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by rsc 16y ago
When work on Go started in late 2007, LLVM wasn't what it is today. I think that if we were doing Go again, starting today, it would make sense to use LLVM, but if you look at the kinds of things that were being done in LLVM in 2007 (llvm.
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by rsc 17y ago
It's easy enough to tweak the parser (re2/parse.cc) to add it. Please send me an email (rsc@swtch.com) if you do run the tests. I'd be interested to see the results. Thanks.
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by rsc 17y ago
Thanks for the comments. I can't tell from your user name who you are and what free software package you're referring to: can you post a link? I'm always interested to read a regular expression implementation. 1. Fair enough, changed line
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by rsc 17y ago
That's probably an even more appropriate term for modern regular expression syntax, but you're right, it isn't the sense I was going for. Fixed, thanks.
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by rsc 17y ago
Image links fixed.
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by rsc 17y ago
You still have to do something for the functions with many local variables. In those cases you have little choice but to allow all N variables into the set, even if comparatively few are in any particular set at one time. Sparse sets are a
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by rsc 17y ago
A much more interesting addition is the interface type and values.