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I spent over a decade posting so much to comp.lang.c. I've run into a few regulars there in my work since then. I suppose it's still ticking along but I haven't visited in almost 2…

I use Emacs.

I decided to try using proportional fonts for coding starting a year or two back. It worked out well and I stuck with it, because proportional text is easier for me to read on the …

Bjarne Stroustrup wrote a paper about adding overloading for the "whitespace operator" in C++, but in his case it was a joke: https://stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf

> Main downside I found when testing Feldera is that their SQL dialect has a bunch of limitations inherited from Apache Calcite At Feldera, we're adding features to our SQL over ti…

I'm new to CI auto-fixes. My early experience with it is mixed. I find it annoying that it touches my code at all, but it does sometimes allow a PR to get further through the CI sy…

(Feldera co-founder here.) There are some cases where Feldera needs to index data indefinitely, yes. For those cases, Feldera can put those indexes on storage rather than keeping t…

These days, it is absolutely unheard of for someone to get a doctorate at age 21. I don't know whether it was unusual then.

I bet you could build something like this as a pair of earrings.

I wasn't sure anyone but the authors remembered C Unleashed! I wrote the chapter on binary search trees and balanced trees. Comp.lang.c was important to me for many years. I've met…

There's an indirect relationship between Rego and DDlog, at least people-wise. OPA comes from Styra, which was founded by Tim Hinrichs and Teemu Koponen. Teemu designed nlog, which…

I don't know anything about Souffle so I can't directly answer the question. But there is some related material. The DDlog repo includes a Souffle-to-DDlog converter: https://githu…

If you're talking about building the DDlog-to-Rust compiler, then it's not that hard. Really it's just a matter of installing Haskell then typing "stack build". But each release al…

Speaking with my VMware hat on, I don't know of use cases there.

Yes, and I'm really impressed with what we've been able to do with it in OVN lately. The patches aren't posted yet (probably Monday) but (with Leonid Ryzhyk's help) I managed to ta…

I just released what I think is a well crafted e-book for a favorite old science fiction book, with permission from the author: https://twirb.github.io

I like this naming philosophy too. I once named a feature "VLAN splinters" to discourage people from using it; after all, who likes splinters? Unfortunately, people did use it and …