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In what way is RISC (a horizontal encoding designed to be efficient to decode) different from a 118-bit uop (a horizontal encoding of microarchitectural to-dos in subsequent pipeli…

I'd like to try my hand at building my own iCE40-based motherboard for the Kestrel some day, but something like that would be at least two to three years into the future minimum, e…

No, it went out of stock after I'd put the site up. I'll remove the link (or find an alternative to something that describes what the Nexys-2 is) when I go to update docs. I have n…

I tried to port Oberon, but was not yet successful in getting the compiler fully debugged. I also need to finish the system image linker so I can generate bootable images. For this…

Kestrel-3 is software emulation only at this point. However, after making some last minute touches to the system firmware (a dialect of eForth for both simplicity and hackability),…

That's the plan.

I'm planning on using a soft-core processor because FPGA dev boards are plentiful and relatively inexpensive. My plans are to await silicon from LowRISC project before considering …

Yes, Kestrel-4 (at least as documented on that page) is an April Fools joke. :)

Oh, I'm thick! I see what's happening now! The problem is it doesn't produce any gain in clarity for the purposes I'm using it for. I think for the acceptance tests, it's use is fi…

Goodness, I'm confused. I'm going to need a lot of time to digest this. That said, much discussion about ideal way of writing Gophercloud happened on the #go-nuts IRC channel, and …

Both Erlang and Go's concurrency models are strongly influenced by Hoare's work in Communicating Sequential Processes. That certainly qualifies. You appear to be interpreting "some…

I'd also like to point out that having a base-line level of functionality often allows for domain-specific extensions to be written, either as adjunct libraries (c.f., libcloud and…

I reached out to the gcloud team by opening a Github issue making them aware of Gophercloud's URL. I'd love to see more contributors to Gophercloud. So far, though, haven't heard a…

That's a positive for Ruby only when you're not running on a cloud server, or when you are cost-conscious about the amount of electricity you're sucking in a data center somewhere.…

If I may ask, how long ago was this? Thanks.

I have to go through several levels to do that, but I'll try. :) Just a head's up though -- I'm considering migrating the repository to the github.com/rackerlabs organization withi…

While Gorax isn't on the "official" list of bindings supported, I'm taking it upon myself, as a Racker and Go enthusiast, to maintain the Gorax project. Please see the project page…

Hello; Sam Falvo here, a Rackspace quality engineer. I'm working on the Gorax project to offer Go bindings to Rackspace's APIs. I encourage you to watch the github.com/racker/gorax…

Ahh, remember back in the good old days when programs had .PRG extensions or file-types? Nobody cared what language a program was written in back then either, as long as it just wo…

Correct definition of 'cat' -- a tool to concatenate one or more files sequentially into a single output stream. E.g., cat file1 file2 file3 >output-file what is wrong with... -- "…

It's Google's service, it's Google's web-spiders, and it's Google's attempt to deliver useful content to their own customers. How is it NOT in Google's interest to police the links…

That's more of a standard tool, not a standard library. Rather, a library is a collection of reusable components. A Standard Library, then, are pre-equipped collections of reusable…

To prove a point.

I don't believe this effect is restricted to the computer-related industries. I distinctly remember there being some rather vicious altercations between artists, particularly durin…

What are the stakes, why are they low, and what can be done to elevate them?