jeberle

I think what's important is that the name matches on /ian/.

That is very cool. I had a similar boot disk w/ DOS 3.x and TurboPascal. It made any PC I could walk up to a complete developer box.

Just to be clear, when you say "without the need for the GUI", more accurately that's "without a GUI" (w/o Presentation Manager). So you're using OS/2 in an 80x25 console screen, what would appear to be a very good DOS box.

Despite it being everyone's favorite shame language, COBOL's DATA DIVISION makes it uniquely well-suited for long-term stability. Common practice is to avoid binary fields. This means what you see in your program is what you see on the wire or in a file.

My experience w/ WSL2 and Docker Desktop has been roughly equivalent: both a little fussy, but work just fine. What was it about either one that led you to such a strong preference?

Bill Hall "Ginger Bill", the creator Odin, is a speaker on day 1.

If BasicAppleGuy is taking requests, I'd love (OK, hate) to see the progression of the XCode hammer icon. It tells a story unto itself. Once a legit carpenter's hammer, now something out of a Fisher-Price toy box.

Likewise, similar dismay over the box of Crayolas in the Color Picker. How can someone do that to a UI!?

I'm surprised he didn't call out Picasso paintings as inspiration for the icon. You can look at the Finder smiley either as a face or as 90º profile, at least the right side. Given that dynamic, the new icon does look quite bad as the effect is lost or at least mangled.

Interesting. My experience w/ HP-UX was in the 90s, but this (Integrity Virtual Machines) was released in 2005. I might call out FreeBSD Jails (2000) or Solaris Zones (2005) as an earlier and a more significant case respectively. I appreciate the insight, though, never knew about HP-UX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrity_Virtual_Machines

Ubuntu's move to uutils suggests Rust is not going anywhere.

This argument is an example of the Perfect Solution fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...

I recently learned of a mechanical watch that tracks the current week number on one of its outer rings. It's expensive.

https://www.patek.com/en/collection/complications/5212A-001

Not sure if I'd call out Jekyll as a paragon of stability. The last time I touched it, I made sure to write up detailed notes. In fairness, it's the only time I interact w/ Ruby.

https://jeberle.github.io/jekyll-setup

Java strings are byte[]'s if their contents contain only Latin-1 values (the first 256 codepoints of Unicode). This shipped in Java 9.

JEP 254: Compact Strings

https://openjdk.org/jeps/254

CPU instruction sets do account for signed vs unsigned integers. SHR vs SAR for example. It's part of the ISAs. I'm calling this out as AFAIK, the JVM has no support for unsigned ints and so that in turn makes WASM a little more compelling.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/Shift_and_Rotate

Thx for this perspective and info. Regarding "signedness and floating point that closer matches hardware", I'm not seeing unsigned integers. Are they supported? I see only:

> Two’s complement signed integers in 32 bits and optionally 64 bits.

https://webassembly.org/docs/portability/#assumptions-for-ef...

And nothing suggesting unsigned ints here:

https://webassembly.org/features/

§3.1 Timely rejection is key. Ghosting a candidate as a sign of no-move-forward is beyond crass.

I'm happy to see Odin chose snake_case instead of camelCase. At one time Zig debated switching to snake case, but that ship has sailed [0], sadly.

It seems like a small bike-shed level comment, but when I consider the code I have left in me, I'd like it to look as nice as possible.

0 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1097

For some reason "Frasier Crane" preferred the 3B2, and had one in his sound booth for many years. This seems a rather contrarian choice given his locale.

https://goo.gl/images/niRdtU

It would be a nice surprise to come across an article on COBOL that has anything nice to say, much less informative, about the language. One could start with that it's one of a tiny minority of languages based on decimal arithmetic as opposed to binary. This is kind of handy when dealing with money.

Unicode was originally a 16-bit character set. The only myth is claiming otherwise. There was a 31-bit charset at the same time called ISO 10646. This was not Unicode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_10646#History_of_ISO_10...

This is something I like about Forth. It uses explicit dereferencing, so it's clear what address is being used. http://home.claranet.nl/users/mhx/sf8/sf8.html

I agree w/ you about 90% on this. However, you're painting w/ a broad brush including Awk and Sed. I imagine beyond 10 lines of Awk (gsub, anyone?) or about 1 line of Sed things get tenuous, and you would want to reach for Perl or Python. Sed & Awk are great for tiny stuff, but wear thin fast. The realm of text-only problems, about 15 to 40 lines of code is where I find Perl shines. Python is probably my favorite language, but it can be horribly clunky for these sorts of tasks.

Writing an application that can support 1,000s of concurrent users (some malicious) connecting from any operating system and client program, that provides a rich user experience, and one that is read/write and backed by a database is complicated.

If you want simple, shorten this list of requirements.

Jon Postel, a great man indeed. Perhaps I'm missing the significance, but is there _any_ reason to celebrate a 12 and a half year anniversary?

Why is it that "design" sites have the worst design? Yes, please be sure to destroy the page margins, and set a min width on the page so that I have to scroll horizontally to read the end of lines. Classic.

... and Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell)

False. Einstein was an agnostic. The quote is roughly accurate, but the god is an abstraction, the maker of physical constants & such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_religious_v...

I can only speak for myself. Give it a day or two, and it will quickly become as transparent as your editing sessions. Once you cut over, you can forget about chording and arrow keys. Just one key: <Esc>.

It's odd that his 2nd tip is "Learn Vim" and then goes on to describe all the bash/readline keystrokes in Emacs mode.

  $ set -o vi

Looks like a trainwreck w/ K-Meleon, plus it chews major CPU cycles. Ah, the web...