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by whobre 2y ago
I don’t quite get the cult status of SICP. I read it and it’s a fine beginner programming book, but nothing more.
212.
by whobre 2y ago
His biggest success was the failure to acquire Yahoo for 44 bn in 2008
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by whobre 2y ago
TIL that existed.
214.
by whobre 2y ago
I’m pretty sure Zx80 didn’t have the ULA. Speccy definitely did, not sure about ZX81, though.
215.
by whobre 2y ago
Didn’t Sinclair ZX80 also use the CPU instead of a video chip?
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by whobre 2y ago
It’s pretty bad, actually. Especially the Smalltalk/Objective-C flavor with its late binding and messages
217.
by whobre 2y ago
I bet something like Forth would work better on such a microcontroller. It is known to produce very high code density and embedding assembly is usually very straightforward.
218.
by whobre 2y ago
That time was the 1980s. After 1995 or so, Forth sadly started to disappear.
219.
by whobre 2y ago
Reading Petzold’s “Code” comes pretty close to, though and is easier.
220.
by whobre 2y ago
I’ll never understand why people care about such things.
221.
by whobre 2y ago
Not that I disagree but ClickHouse code base is especially bad when it comes to readability.
222.
by whobre 2y ago
The world is collapsing Around our ears I turned up the radio But I can't hear it
223.
by whobre 2y ago
Ottomans never considered themselves Roman. They did consider themselves the rulers of the Romans, i.e the Greek speaking Christians.
224.
by whobre 2y ago
Even the author of the article says he uses Scala professionally.
225.
by whobre 3y ago
I also focused on the technicals, am an individual contributor and wouldn’t change a thing. I don’t want a budget and people to manage; just do my job and go home.
226.
by whobre 3y ago
For all who are interested in this period in history, I highly recommend the book “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” by Eric H. Cline
227.
by whobre 3y ago
Not that you are wrong, but Moscow was irrelevant at the time of the Mongol invasion.
228.
by whobre 3y ago
Brightest black hole?
229.
by whobre 3y ago
A bad title. I am mortgage-free because I rent and I don’t belong there. Should be: “The Share of American Homeowners…”
230.
by whobre 3y ago
Son can you play me a memory I’m not really sure how it goes But it’s sad and it’s sweet And I knew it complete When I wore a younger man’s clothes”
231.
by whobre 3y ago
My elected representatives are too busy enriching themselves to do their jobs.
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by whobre 3y ago
There’s Motor, but I don’t know if the project is still being maintained. https://github.com/rofl0r/motor
233.
by whobre 3y ago
This is a joke. You don’t “level up beyond ETL” by speeding up SQL queries. In fact, there’s pretty much nothing about ETL in that article.
234.
by whobre 3y ago
It’s used a lot in the localization industry.
235.
by whobre 3y ago
Perhaps I read it when I was too old, but I didn’t find it particularly insightful. Just a good beginner’s programming book…
236.
by whobre 3y ago
Deja vu from the late 1990s
237.
by whobre 3y ago
I must be the only one who doesn’t understand anything in that article
238.
by whobre 3y ago
It’s not. There are quite a few people who wish they could use it at work (me included) but very few actually do.
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by whobre 3y ago
Yep
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by whobre 3y ago
That’s the narrative that real estate agents have been selling for decades. In reality, it depends on the location: in some places it makes sense to buy; in others, it turns out that the total cost of owning a home is so much higher than re

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