johnwbyrd | 7 years ago | on: The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
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johnwbyrd | 10 years ago | on: Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 4
Do we just not teach lex and yacc anymore? Or any other LALR type parser generation system?
johnwbyrd | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do you guys work so much?
I've heard it said, "We work eighty hours a week so we don't have to work forty hours a week." Me, I do it because I have a particular vision, and I think that the world would be better off if that vision actually existed. Can't do that while working for a bank.
johnwbyrd | 11 years ago | on: Facebook's std::vector optimization
Show me a programmer who is trying to reoptimize the STL, and I'll show you a programmer who is about to be laid off.
The guy who tried this at EA didn't last long there.
johnwbyrd | 11 years ago | on: Facebook's std::vector optimization
If you're spending a lot of time changing the size of a std::vector array, then maybe std::vector isn't the right type of structure to begin with...
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I wrote the quoted article about Stuxnet. And I've helped write multiple operating systems.
Your argument not an argument. It's just a random assertion with no technical knowledge of either Stuxnet or how to write an operating system.
Stuxnet specifically took advantage of Windows's lack of sophistication in order to replicate.