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I compute the resized windows and columns on mouseup to imitate how the Acme text editor does resizing, but the event handler which computes the resize could very well be called on…

Thanks. I'm not sure how many people have three mouse buttons but it wouldn't hurt to make the buttons respond to middle-clicks the same way they do to left-clicks.

Thanks. Which browser are you using? I noticed this issue in Firefox but thought I fixed it. I've tested it using the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox and it seemed to work.

Omnino does not implement the "right-click to load" functionality of Acme, as it's meant to be a general-purpose library. However, I have implemented this functionality on my perso…

Performing archaeology on 4-year-old code is vaguely like smelling your own farts. I have a certain reverence for Thompson, Pike, and the rest of the old Bell Labs team, but I've s…

I spent 5 years working with soft real-time embedded systems, where incremental builds took about 5-15 minutes on average. I thought that was bad, but six months ago I left to join…

what is with programmers and needing to defend a combination of syntax, semantics, and runtime? C++ is a programming language with advantages and disadvantages. end of story.

would you also criticize newton's principia mathematica because he expressed the concept of infinitesimals using geometry instead of using liebniz's or lagrange's arguably clearer …

hand-roll it. a 3-minute programming task doesn't warrant pulling in a graph of dependencies a la leftpad.

looks like the fox is guarding the hen-house.

i wonder if the size could be reduced by replacing the yacc code with a hand-written parser.

I used to think that being a software engineer meant you were intelligent, and worked hard to earn the title, but after working in the industry for 6 years, I decided that, large-s…

iirc dennis ritchie was an applied mathematician.

every framework we use -- library, language, runtime, operating system, hardware -- makes decisions that constrain what we can express. languages like haskell, lisp, or ruby may ma…

i feel like each "new" general-purpose language project is just nipping at the boot-heels of the much bigger problem of constructing large-scale systems that can be fully understoo…

I'm compiling a computing research publication/invention "greatest hits" to help myself and others learn what's already been done, and avoid, as Alan Kay would say, "reinventing th…