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by wingo 16y ago
They all seem like well-thought-out changes, and pleasantly schemey.
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Types and the Web(wingolog.org)
2 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
"Let's run an article through a computer translator and back and see what we get..."
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by wingo 16y ago
No, that means that only having 48 bits of physically addressable memory gives you the ability to have many times that amount of virtual memory -- and that virtual memory can be used to implement this fun page-faulting shenanigans without w
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by wingo 16y ago
Wwwwow. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC can't move objects because, you know, C is gnarly and you can't really trust anything to update pointers in-place. But what if you could? This work seems to indicate that you could have a compacting collec
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by wingo 16y ago
"... or write a faster compiler because everyone has a secret desire to write a compiler?" A compiler of course! :) [And then once you have your compiler, like Click did, GC becomes an obvious next hack!]
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"Who should I thank?"(scsh.net)
2 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
Looks like fun. I would like to see a play button, like etherpad. Also live scrubbing would be nice: as the user scrubs the timeline it could show the pages, rate-limited to 10Hz or something.
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by wingo 16y ago
Leather pants turn a good story into a great story.
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11 Likely Problems In Your Multithreaded Code(zguide.zeromq.org)
2 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
The better comparison is to strace. LWN has good comments on the topic: http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/#Comments .
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XML on the Web is Dead (2004)(xml.com)
1 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
Choose tools that are part of the world you want to be in. Choose culture, not tech. You will help change the world in that direction. http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/07/10/how-to-choose-betwee...
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by wingo 16y ago
Fun!
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by wingo 16y ago
Agreed regarding modulo, but `pow' returns a floating-point number.
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by wingo 16y ago
NumPy: -157,525 lines of code, mostly written in Modula-2. http://www.ohloh.net/p/numpy
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Emoji(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by wingo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
I'm really amused that you called them muggles, and that everyone knows what you mean :)
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by wingo 16y ago
Hum, they must have my bank details wrong.
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by wingo 16y ago
Fascinating article. I wonder how SSDs affect his conclusions, though. If you really care, don't you have an SSD? Especially for the recently mentioned 1:10 problem (10G of data, 1G of memory).
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What's wrong with 1975 programming?(varnish-cache.org)
41 points by wingo 16y ago|12 comments
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by wingo 16y ago
Boo. I liked Ohloh. OK, it was a proprietary web service, but it had neat things for people who write code. All the notes in the blackducksoftware.com/ohloh/ page talk about making it easier for corporate people to consume free software, no
143.
by wingo 16y ago
Relax :)
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by wingo 16y ago
Really great comment, thank you.
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by wingo 16y ago
I just came here to post in delight about his quote: > I’ve worked in the stuffy corporate world. It was an extremely valuable learning experience, but it was so — stuffy. It needs more monkey. But it was a fleeting moment of delight. D
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by wingo 16y ago
I don't think the author suggested that. I found the article highly amusing, with several lovely laugh-out-loud moments. You are taking the article too seriously.
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by wingo 16y ago
You know, the whole dynamic FFI world is very much seatbelts-off, which is initially quite disconcerting. Usually I rely on my distro to ensure compatibility, but once you start saying "this syscall gives me a pointer to memory which should
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by wingo 16y ago
I don't want to get too bogged down here, but sure: When you use autoconf, you typically run configure, then you're left with a config.h, which then parameterizes later builds. On the other hand, when you evaluate the the definition of dire
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by wingo 16y ago
I agree, that is a great paper. It's the one I linked to in my article :)
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by wingo 16y ago
Not sure what you mean here; the autoconf analogy came from the grandparent. If you are under the impression that an intermediate expanded file is produced, then you misunderstand how Lisp macros work.

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