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by stmw 2mo ago
As the OC, I think my view is somewhere in the middle - I am neither as optimistic about it being "great now" nor do I think that "rewrite in C++" 10 years ago was easier. My reason for disagreeing with the former view i
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by stmw 2mo ago
It depends a lot on the scale of the system, which often means that those fewer users are actually doing things that are more complex and more valuable - either at the lower end or at the high end.
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by stmw 2mo ago
GC's haven't freed us from manual memory management, you just do all that manual work with environment variables, or making sure to "pick the right collector for the job", or debugging performance or heap size issues, or
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by stmw 2mo ago
Interesting how much NPR articles changed in 20 years
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River AI Raises $1.1B Led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC to Build Open AI Stack(morningstar.com)
3 points by stmw 2mo ago|0 comments
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A (Not So) Brief but (Very) Accurate History of Oracle PL/SQL (2020)(oracle-internals.com)
2 points by stmw 2mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 2mo ago
That's nice. (Not uncommon in early RISC, (e.g. PowerPC had some similar limitations for 64 bit ints), and various assembly fun ensued).
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by stmw 2mo ago
Fun fact - Linus first trip to the United States was related to Linux-on-Alpha port and sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation.
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by stmw 2mo ago
One thing I wonder about is how these high-profile startups handle their engineering hiring - in this case, it's just a link to an Ashby form. They probably already got 10,000 resumes in the past 24 hours, wonder what they do and how e
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by stmw 2mo ago
Good product management is mostly about saying No.
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by stmw 2mo ago
One of the interesting things they have is an in-browser visual simulation of the 6502 die - http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html - "In the summer of 2009, working from a single 6502, we exposed the silicon
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List of 6502 based computers and 6502 history(machineideas.com)
13 points by stmw 2mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 3mo ago
Previously posted by me here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182669 - but didn't get any interest, not complaiing, good that it got noticed this time.
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AMD's Jerry Sanders, Silicon Valley's tough guy (2001)(sfgate.com)
3 points by stmw 3mo ago|0 comments
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A resource about cybernetics and the work of the father of the information age(norbertwiener.org)
2 points by stmw 3mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 3mo ago
Indeed, it is often amazing to me to see what catches on and what doesn't. However, the concept of cooperative, event-based processing coupled with an existing and popular language is probably what was decisive wrt Node.js.
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by stmw 3mo ago
Sorry, that's annoying indeed - not my site..
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How Did Node.js Come About?(blog.rheinwerk-computing.com)
3 points by stmw 3mo ago|5 comments
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Liviu Librescu(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by stmw 3mo ago|1 comments
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Evelyn Berezin: instamatic for UAL, then first word processor(invent.org)
3 points by stmw 3mo ago|0 comments
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General Radio Company(mitmuseum.mit.edu)
1 points by stmw 3mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 3mo ago
"General Radio was founded in Cambridge in 1915 by Melville Eastham and four other investors to manufacture radio measuring instruments and parts. Initially, the company focused on transmitting and receiving components and precision me
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by stmw 3mo ago
Am I the only one who read this to mean a Urinary Tract Infection has afflicted the latest versions of MacOS and iOS, perhaps some special case of markdown ens--ttification? But apparently no, it's good news.
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GAN Lateral Superjunction Schottky Diode(powerelectronicsnews.com)
2 points by stmw 3mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 3mo ago
"The superjunction (SJ) charge balancing concept has been successfully implemented in silicon (Si) MOSFET power devices. Greater focus is now being placed on improving the performance metrics of wide bandgap (WBG) power devices with th
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Inventor, Mother, Creator: Grace Hopper (2025)(planetmainframe.com)
31 points by stmw 3mo ago|0 comments
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The Preemptive Draw and Preemptive Grip in the Cash-in-Transit Sector(gutsgatesguards.wordpress.com)
18 points by stmw 3mo ago|5 comments
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by stmw 3mo ago
There are few in the same category, perhaps Widlar or Gilbert for pure analog circuit design, or Bill Atkinson in later Mac software? It's a very short list.
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by stmw 3mo ago
Indeed. I have often wondered why university courses tend to use their own made-up machines to teach this stuff, as opposed to using the Apple II (or some of its near-contemporaries).
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by stmw 3mo ago
Agree, that's why I think it is so interesting - but it's also a rule that works in both directions (hardware->software and software->hardware). The copy-protection stuff was completely puzzling back when it mattered, but of

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