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Thanks, Ben. I admit I mostly think tracing is just a mind-expanding concept to learn about, even if history has proven it’s not very practical as an organizing principle. But as y…

I had an identical experience with the REALbasic Cafe as a kid, down to eventually selling a couple of shareware projects. I wonder if we were there at the same time.

I think it would be more like RPN if it used a stack, and operands were specified as relative offsets (i.e., stack offsets). In the version I wrote, operands are still represented …

FWIW I did acknowledge this in the article: > A sufficiently smart memory allocator might achieve the same thing, especially if you allocate the whole AST up front and never add to…

Indeed; I previously had these papers on the list but had to take them out for time this semester: - Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers. Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen, Eric Eid…

Hi! This course is about the "middle end," FWIW. We do not do parsing or codegen in 6120, and there is no goal (as there is in many undergrad-level compilers courses) of making a c…

To slightly refine this, Intel didn't have many "foundry customers" before Altera. Via Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Opening_up_the_foundries... ), the need to fi…

From the first sentence of the article: > for free for all developers.

> The diagram shows each core has icache and dcache; what they've ditched is cache coherency. This is not quite true: the local data memories are not caches, i.e., they do not impl…

Security bugs in HotSpot happen can and do happen. Check out the CVE list for the JRE: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...

> However, where it starts to get more interesting is the work done by W. Bastiaan Kleijn from Cornell University Library. The authors are not from Cornell. I think the author made…

Mine's called Hooknook. It takes care of updating the GitHub repository for you on push and then invokes a command inside the repository. https://github.com/sampsyo/hooknook

import pdb ; pdb.set_trace()

As it stands, I'd agree with that---but the characterization definitely depends on who you talk to. I might be in the minority among "PP people," since the hype is still going stro…

(I'm the author of the lecture notes.) I totally agree, and this is an underappreciated view in the PP community. The hype says "you just write your model; you'll get inference for…

Needless to say, I disagree. It can be straight-up misleading to report means without including a more nuanced view of the distribution. You don't need to use a bunch of fancy stat…

Yep! This suggestion comes up shockingly often, and I got tired of re-explaining my reasoning every time.

Thanks; I've added a phrase to the intro section to mention that beets is a desktop app.

TypeScript 1.8 already has unions and custom type guards! You can use them today. Woohoo! (Looking forward to those non-nullable types, though.)