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The funny part, and perhaps the part that really damns the critics, is that (IF..GOTO,) GOTOs and line numbers are useful baseline concepts because they have a direct correspondenc…

My first exposure to the innards, from a software perspective, of a computer was a 6809 based system. The first assembly language I learned and the first “real” operating system wi…

It feels like WWCYO is still a good question, abstractly, to ask though even in cases where you don't think there's a good contrary argument, or don't have the knowledge, or it fee…

I didn't want to put down the effort of the OP, because even they admit it's an interesting experiment, not something they recommend that anyone use, and I do think it's an interes…

Most of the article is devoted to complications related to handling arrays that are inline at the tail of existing structs that usually are layout and size sensitive. Hence the rel…

This is, of course, an argument against a strawman. I wish the author had not mentioned certain folks by name, because the analysis is interesting on its own, and makes some good p…

Yea, I think a lot of programmers confuse the map for the territory. It's not only the data, but the program itself. Almost no one actually cares how a particular program was writt…

The elephant in the room is that Apple must already know this is happening. It's not like they need a viral blog article or a user flag uprising to tell them this -- It's been obvi…

That is not a new "Amiga", that's just a nostalgic upgrade to an old Amiga computer. A new "Amiga" would be something completely different than the old Amiga (which has long been s…

"Watson" was a Jeopardy playing bot. The main trick behind Watson is to take the various systems (parsers, search, et al.) and hacks (constraints imposed by the rules of jeopardy) …

I get what you are saying, but my impression was that she wasn't dismissing unknown knowledge as intrinsically trivia, just the use of it in a certain context. When you use knowled…

See: Agile

I don't think this is correct. I'm not sure there are many people that would argue that C++11 doesn't have lexical closures just because its closures need to take into account the …

My stock response to libertarians: "I'm glad that things have worked out great for you". Before you propose dismantling an existing arrangement that seems to be working just fine, …

If you have an IQ of 89 or below in a first world country, you might be able to barely complete high school, but are not going to become a math professor. IQ (g) is normally distri…

Uh, why would residents report dissatisfaction when it would hurt their opportunities down the road? Would you have? I don't think so. I don't think you are being skeptical enough …

Honestly, as weird as cygwin can be, I question the judgement of relying on Linux's chief competitor to keep a mock linux kernel interface as well supported as the OS they really c…

The key to rational thought is not just logic and reasoning, because both rely on axioms and information. You need to make sure you're getting the correct data and proceeding from …

> it was hard to map the Rust concepts with what actually runs when it is compiled. This. The primary reason to choose rust is performance -- that is, you want more advanced abstra…

As someone who is unfamiliar with clojure -- is there any particular reason a function which doesn't actually work with sets allows non-sets to be passed to it in the first place? …

Speaking of the truth: Sterling lost his basketball team because of private recordings of him being a racist, not hearsay. Then he proceeded to dig a deeper hole publicly. That is:…

"subsubsubsublemma" kind of cracked me up. He seems very dedicated to not numbering the nested schema in this proof. :-)