TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github
This is all very well if you have a friendly, high level scripting language like Ruby, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write a C compiler where functions can take arbitrary blocks of code.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep
You really the NHS costs less per-capita in tax than US healthcare?
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Here is today
I think it's nice that it leaves you to draw your own conclusion, and doesn't preach or talk down to you, one way or the other.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Linux on an 8-bit micro
Well, getting Linux working on a laptop was more a case of exciting driver wrangling, rather than performance limiting.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: So you want to do a PhD (2012)
I'm really interested in computer architecture. I somehow doubt that there's a company that's going to sit me down and do that straight out of undergrad...
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: So you want to do a PhD (2012)
Ugh, what a small minded comment.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Announcing the New Feedly Mobile and Welcoming 3 Million Reader Refugees
I'm one of them. As I just read, Feedly in the only titles or whole document mode is almost no different from Google Reader.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: The Serenity of a 5pm Bedtime
Yeah, whilst he mentions work and school, there's nowhere to just be social with people in that schedule. What do you do if you want to go to the cinema or the theatre, or just the pub?
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Porting LLVM, clang et al. to GNU/Hurd
I was fairly sure that NT was originally going to be a microkernel, but it ended up being really slow, so they had to push everything into a more monolithic architecture.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Mac is Linux done right
I don't know if it's just me, but the use of passive voice really irritated me. Like the author was entirely correct, and there could be no debate.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: How do keys work? Explained in one Gif
It makes me wonder how strong the cylinders are. They look quite small, so it seems like with a tool shaped like a "T" with a wide top you'd be able to force a lock open.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Computers: It's time to start over.
I'm fairly sure that each processor designed solely for AI has been a failure. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computerBy the time you've finished designing your revolutionary new chip, Moore's law has caught up, and you might as well have just used standard hardware!
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Game AI vs Traditional AI
I've just had my first course in AI, and being interested in games, I was curious to see how the reasonably specific, theoretical techniques we were taught could fit into game design. This was a reasonably interesting example, but I think I'd be more interested in some specific applications, although I appreciate these might be jealously guarded secrets...
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Nokia Lumia 920 is more retina than the iPhone 4S
"More retina" is meaningless: the whole pointer is that it's indistinguishable from normal use distance.
You can say "higher resolution", or even "retina when held closer to the face", but "more retina" really is nonsense!
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Controversial programming opinions
It seems to me that most of these aren't controversial at all.
I disagree with one of the points supporting "Unit testing won’t help you write good code.", though, where he implies that writing the code reveals the edge cases. Surely the edge cases are something you should have carefully considered before starting to code? I've found that crystallising the edge cases as a test before writing the function can be really helpful.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak
To be fair to them, I think this is the first that claims to fix problems specifically to do with the extensions.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work
Am I the only one who thinks wanting your employees to work at your company "12-16 hours a day" is surely not a mark of a good company. If I worked 16 hours a day, I know I'd not be having enough sleep to do useful work. I think I'd rather work with well balanced human beings, rather than obsessive, robotic workaholics...
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: ASCII Google Streetview
It's interesting that to me, this looks more "3D" than normal street view. I would guess it's the thing about the human brain filling in the detail...
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Seven Days With a Nexus 7
Fair enough then, I've got the wrong end of the stick. I must admit, I didn't really think pure apple households were at all common.
TheBoff
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13 years ago
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on: Seven Days With a Nexus 7
I don't know why he mentions recommending to pure apple households. Surely if every computer (/phone/tablet) in your house is made by apple, you don't really care what anybody says about the competition.
