lutus also created arachnophilia and sailed or is sailing around the world.
n coined the term careware. iirc.
first-hand info. i had downloaded n used arachnophilia.
he is on hn.
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n coined the term careware. iirc.
first-hand info. i had downloaded n used arachnophilia.
he is on hn.
you nailed it.
>then keep breaking the problem down into smaller functions until it is solved.
That technique definitely works. i have used it. so have tons of others.
it closely resembles the methods of structured programming and stepwise refinement.
Both those terms are probably there in Wikipedia, because they are notable, being well known. and check out niklaus wirth. ditto. turing prize winner or other major awardee. pascal. modula family languages. etc.
Literally some minutes later, i scrolled down below my above comment.
And saw this one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053201
Which doesn't validate mine, but agrees with what I said.
Except that it was posted about one hour before mine.
go figure.
This has been almost a meme on hacker news for some time. You can google it via hn dot algolia dot com by using the right keywords.
Of course, i exaggerated it a bit, just like a lot of startups and vcs pimp their stuff, just that they do it much more, and they do it for money, while my mine was for fun. ha ha ha.
They should have done that from the beginning - demanding proof of increased productivity - if that was their goal. otherwise they were not using their brains well enough.
And you doubly don't want to work with them, first because they confused output with productivity at first. and second, because they're parroting the productivity metric.
You only need one guess for whose pockets the productivity benefits go into.
10 . 9 . 8 . 7 . 6 ...
examples?
bobby tables, for another.
I'll byte the bullet.
Hang on a bit while I register that in my memory.
>generate x86 and ARM
So that hardly anyone can review the machine language output, I guess.
HN users' minds be like:
87.654321 %: JS? yeah. mainhipsterstream. gotta be a part. heart.
smaller %: Rust? wannabe. donno how, u c.
much smaller %: C? oh no ... numeric underflow.
Congrats on moving over to the light side.
>And look how poorly they did it until they invented writing.
Yeah, look how poorly they did it until they invented writing.
[peers into the dim ancient past]
Sorry, my time-machine spectacles are on leave or on strike today.
And congrats on being a multi-millen(ium)arian, and a mind reader, who could both 1) exist so far back in the past, and 2) be able to know the thoughts of people who didn't write them down, because they didn't know writing.
/s
aargh! haalp!
Which rock are you living under these days.
Nowadays everything is IR or MLIR ... or AIR ...
whoops, i may have skipped a few generations. hard to keep up with the dynamic pace these days. got a job to save. sorry suh.
mumble javascript mumble framework of the half-week ...
walks off muttering
Is there a way to encounter an unnoticeable bug?
>I do not doubt that there may exist some bugs or missing features, but it seems unlikely that they can be seen during typical workflows.
Boyoboyoboy. It seems that you have never heard of the concept of combinatorial explosion, which in software testing, means that due to the zillions of different execution paths, plenty of bugs, which are undetected, can still exist, and can very easily not be found by just one lone ranger using some software package, no matter how long they use it, at least within a few years.
>For decades, I have used a great number of video terminal emulators.
Were you using that great number of emulators serially, or parallely, in those decades?
If parallely, you must have spend less time on each, than "for decades" implies.
If serially, you must have spent a great number of decades to use a great number of emulators.
This seems like a hastily put together comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Sack
I read many of those sad sack comic strips, and many others, like dennis the menace, richie rich, archie (archie, betty, veronica, reggie, moose, midge and jughead), casper the friendly ghost, phantom, etc., in paper comic books, as a kid.
somewhat or quite entertaining, depending on which strip, i gotta say.
the image of sad sack sitting on a stool n peeling potatoes is imprinted in my memory, ha ha. hey sarge.
good times ...
I liked the way Andy talked throughout the video, and also thought the interviewer's questions were very good.
https://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~comp03a/misc/humour/shootfoot....
also:
https://github.com/BaseMax/AwesomeInterpreter
and probably there is one for compilers too.
yes, except it's more ... on the same lines, just to hammer the point home:
it's web 2, it's SaaS, it's the latest weekly, er, sorry, daily, hottest JS framework, its the latest rap / punk / hippie / dreadlock / crewcut / swami / grunge/ guru hairstyle, it's agile, it's functional programming, it's OOP, it's OOAD, it's UML, its the Unix philosophy, its Booch notation, it's CASE tools, ... going back even further, it's structured programming, it's high-level languages, it's assemblers, its veganism, it's the keto diet, it's the Atkins diet, it's the paleo diet, it's cholesterol is bad, no, it's good, etc etc etc.
pascal long letter quote
https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/blaise-pascal...