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> unless there's something urgent I'm so good at convincing myself whatever I'm doing right now is urgent.

C's corners aren't very dark. It's a small enough language that it's easy to explore them. Things can get ugly when programmers decide to abuse the preprocessor because the languag…

"write a memory recycler" sigh This is by far go's biggest wart IMO, and one that frequently sends me back to a pauseless (hah! at least less pausy:) systems language. I sure do li…

I've gone back and re-read your comments in this post and tried to find something concrete in them. You use strong, imperative language, yet I have no idea what you are recommendin…

I'm fond of not having the number of build systems I'm responsible for maintaining grow in step with the number of programming languages I use in a project.

gmsl is a wonderful, well considered library. I had to buy the book after finding it. Thanks!

"Which one is better depends on the platform you're on" That works against a portable build. That still matters to some of us.

> not worth the effort Until it is, of course. Growing up is hard.

Does he have an entry on how to become an insufferable blow-hard?

This story typically doesn't have a very nice ending. Maybe you're just having some fun, and will be able to shrug it off some day. I hope so. But if you find yourself trying to qu…

That is a comment on the style of C that Bourne used in his shell implementation. He used the pre-processor to e.g. name { BEGIN, } END and do other Algol-isms. Duff would apparent…

> I always thought that making an ASIC was prohibitively expensive except for the largest companies. How much does it really cost? Full custom is still quite expensive. But you can…

The barrier to entry is low, now, and getting lower. Prototyping your custom instruction sets on FPGAs and then commissioning a run to stamp them to ASICs isn't prohibitively expen…

Your cash is a valuable asset to your startup, too, but people don't store that in-house. Who do you trust more, github or Wall Street?

Is your whole comment just kidding, or are you just kidding about helping the next great generation of programmers? I'll take a programmer who with a deep understanding of Forth ov…