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by whobre 1y ago
Kubernetes custom operators
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by whobre 1y ago
No one knows or even has the slightest idea. Predicting the future is a fool’s errand.
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by whobre 1y ago
“Journalism” in a nutshell
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by whobre 1y ago
When it comes to software industry, we’ve been in a recession for almost three years now.
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by whobre 1y ago
My art sucks because I am not talented. Nothing to do with AI
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by whobre 1y ago
And 75% of my code was “written” by copy/pasting…
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Birth of 86-DOS(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
5 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 2y ago
There are no such politicians, and even if they were your vote does not matter.
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Remembering MS-DOS 5.0(arstechnica.com)
14 points by whobre 2y ago|1 comments
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by whobre 2y ago
I don’t discuss politics with anyone anymore. Just wish I had made that decision 30 years ago…
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The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
3 points by whobre 2y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 2y ago
Meh - many simply use STL for the STandard Library. Few people even remember Stepanov’s Standard Template Library.
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by whobre 2y ago
For the love of everything that is good, please keep the politics out of this place! You can discuss it literally anywhere else, why polluting HN?
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Disassembly with GDB(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
7 points by whobre 2y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 2y ago
Which is what they said in 1990 as well.
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by whobre 2y ago
To be fair, C was never even considered to be a low level language in cs textbooks, although I see it mentioned at Wikipedia
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Could DOS Have Been a Scaled-Down Version of Xenix?(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
1 points by whobre 2y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 2y ago
A nice story! FWIIW, Atari eventually did get Unix: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030 By that time it was using 68030 which had proper MMU.
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I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
247 points by whobre 2y ago|289 comments
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by whobre 2y ago
| People who can choose what kind of computer they have will choose Apple over PC. No, we will not.
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by whobre 2y ago
Making tools for data engineering. Most of my previous career was text processing.
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by whobre 2y ago
The article is basically a short summary of this book: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/UK-Books/The%20Sinclair...
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by whobre 2y ago
I remember the time when Microsoft was rebranding everything as “.NET”. Lasted for a couple of years and then they moved on to a different hype.
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by whobre 2y ago
I don’t think many people considered Mac a “home computer” back then given its price tag.
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by whobre 2y ago
By your definition, CP/M and DOS are not operating systems either
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by whobre 2y ago
Latest release of zig is 0.13. I guess it’s fine for hobby projects and learning…
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by whobre 2y ago
Remember? Most of my coworkers still do that, including some young ones.
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by whobre 2y ago
Don’t forget Steven Vickers. The user manual he wrote for ZX Spectrum was my first programming book. It was really well written! Interestingly, Vickers co-created another interesting machine from the 80s - Jupiter Ace which used Forth inste
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by whobre 2y ago
Forth is very good for writing small software in tight memory constraints. Unfortunately it is pretty hard to read; for bigger software projects there are many better languages.
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by whobre 2y ago
Nice. There is another very interesting “bare metal” implementation of Zx Spectrum on Pi: https://zxmini.speccy.org/en/index.html

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