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I agree with your posts. I've been battling RSI and stuff for the past two years and am starting to make progress although it's required me to get both of my wrists fixed and poten…

Thanks for answering, ggm. I agree with you completely and have passed your advice on to my friend. My view is that if it's something he's genuinely interested in, he should go for…

Hey all, I have an older friend that's considering getting into the computing field. In particular, he's interested in learning about and possibly pursuing a career in computer sec…

Hey al

You beat me to it! I'd recommend checking out Chicken Scheme. Not only is it a kick-butt implementation but its community, #chicken on Freenode, is truly fantastic. Give it a whirl…

Man, does this bring back memories :)

Me too!

How about this? It's even freely available nowadays: https://www.amazon.com/Common-LISP-Introduction-Computation-...

I've read many of the comments. Lots of talk about removing the parenthesis, using things like Tree-Notation and such. Really, all I can say is that you can pry the parens from my …

As someone who has a pretty serious visual impairment, I find the attitude of so many of these comments really... disappointing. You wouldn't believe how much effort people with po…

Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering about how assemblers handle this for a very long time :)

Drive-by poster here but I was wondering if you had spent any time looking into what IO scheduler you're using on Linux? Some time ago I encountered issues similar to what you ment…

You're assuming everyone is able to read text at the same font size as you. The font size will likely be increased during a code review, too, depending on how the code is presented…

Man, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for these visualizations. Extremely useful learning aids :) I remember back in the day when they were Java applets :)

A metric @!#$ton? :D

:) Care to elaborate? I mean, as far as I see it, the directory is still a file, of a specific format. How is that any different than an image file, say, of a particular format? Yo…

I don't see how providing specialized open/read/close calls for directories breaks the file abstraction. Imagine byte-level access to a directory. You'd have to have some library i…

That's not to say it's implemented as efficiently as it could be. See here: https://linux.die.net/man/7/aio AFAIK, system-specific APIs such as epoll or kqueue are the way to go if…

Hey Munificient, I just wanted to say that I'm a major fan of your book. I find your writing extremely clear :)

I'm working on a bunch of lexer and parser related tools for personal use. The reason they're cool is that it automates a lot of the tedious, error-prone stuff that I've been doing…

This, exactly. :)

Wouldn't sbrk kind of get in the way of ASLR?

Raize FTW :)

Thanks for the response. To clarify "module boundaries", I mean "separate shared objects." As for Linux, I'm not too concerned with creating a single binary that works for all dist…

Hey there Aidenn0, I'm no expert on C++ and I've been considering using it for several projects. An important thing for my needs is being able to define classes in one shared objec…