Daft! And very strangely true. I recognised several moments and events in the story
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people…
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the…
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which…
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task
Very interesting. Reading this made me think of occam on the transputer: concurrent lightweight processes, message passing, dedicated memory! I spent some happy years in that world. Perhaps I should look at BEAM and see…
Mobile Safari only does this for sites that implement dark themes (and when you have dark mode enabled in iOS). But many sites don’t have these themes. The Noir extension seems to fix the problem for now. There is a…
I added the “Noir” extension to mobile Safari, now I automatically get dark mode on all websites including Hacker News.
This is such a great article! I found myself thinking, “I wonder if some of this could be used to playback video on old 8-bit machines?” But they’re so underpowered…
In Eastern Europe in 1979, those were big sums of money. What an extraordinary story
I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with others who need food and a visit. You make…
I wrote sound-sampling software for Atari using Action! and Mac/65 by OSS, using my own DAC+ADC hardware (8-bit of course). They were fast tools, it was very productive.
Daft! And very strangely true. I recognised several moments and events in the story
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people…
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the…
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which…
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task
Very interesting. Reading this made me think of occam on the transputer: concurrent lightweight processes, message passing, dedicated memory! I spent some happy years in that world. Perhaps I should look at BEAM and see…
Mobile Safari only does this for sites that implement dark themes (and when you have dark mode enabled in iOS). But many sites don’t have these themes. The Noir extension seems to fix the problem for now. There is a…
I added the “Noir” extension to mobile Safari, now I automatically get dark mode on all websites including Hacker News.
This is such a great article! I found myself thinking, “I wonder if some of this could be used to playback video on old 8-bit machines?” But they’re so underpowered…
In Eastern Europe in 1979, those were big sums of money. What an extraordinary story
I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with others who need food and a visit. You make…
I wrote sound-sampling software for Atari using Action! and Mac/65 by OSS, using my own DAC+ADC hardware (8-bit of course). They were fast tools, it was very productive.