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I came all the back from my Thanksgiving slumber just to say; really? I love this library, and have made a C++ friendly version of the same. What you get for a few hundred lines of…

Just came here to say, good job. I was doing my own run-length encoding thing using the TGA format, but this is nicer. It's good enough that I am able to run a little screencast th…

Depends on the community of course. Sub-Saharan Africa leap-frogged copper and went to 4g/5G. Probably same for broader band. Not too long ago 10 mbits was ‘broadband’, so, maybe v…

And yet, without any analysis, anyone I've talked to was moved by the poem, and thought it was the best part of the inauguration. I think the moment, the black young girl standing …

I use it as a way to rapidly prototype stuff related to new C-APIs https://github.com/wiladams Currently using it to create a tiny Postscript interpreter: https://github.com/wilada…

ok, so it is exactly the move of someone trying to kill it all from the inside... But really, it's something easily judged over time. Everyone will be able to judge how our open so…

I've worked for MS for 20 years. I sat in one of those Steve Ballmer meetings where he decried OpenSource. But, more soberingly at the time was that he said "we won't sell on Linux…

There was quite a lot of openscad replacement going on in 2011. I even made a lua based alternative.

Ive worked for Kevin during his tenure at MS. Ads have not been the focus, so I'm not sure the innuendo means much.

I work for Microsoft, and the back of my employee badge says: Our Mission; Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. To me, this implies that our e…

I think it's more interesting than that. This is a mixture of C and Lua code! Looking at it, I can imagine redoing it as LuaJIT and using ljsyscall to deal with the system calls on…

...and, this guy being fired has nothing to do with political correctness or any of the other inane arguments people are rallying around. It's simple corporate calculation. He rele…

This whole episode leaves me a bit perplexed because in tech we keep missing the mark when it comes to diversity. I work at Microsoft. The back of my ID badge has our mission state…

"worse before better"... It's all a matter of perspective. For anyone who's been the "minority", things have always been 'worse'. Things can only get better. If you can truly embra…

"diversity" and "inclusion" often go hand in hand. Throw in some "unconscious bias" training, and you begin marching down a path. I think it's something only time and a diverse gen…

Here's the minority's perspective: 1) Why is it required that there can be no more than 20% women in a tech company? 2) Why is it required to have a minimally diverse company? If y…

When I read this manifesto, I thought "well, this is going to generate a lot of news". What I did when I read it was substitute "woman" for "black", rolled back the clock to Jim Cr…

I'm personally not into diversity for diversity's sake, because I'm not quite sure what that is. What I am for is equal opportunities. In some instances, giving that "equal" to one…

unconscious bias, conscious bias, outright discrimination. What a quagmire of human existence these topics drift into eh? No secret, I'm a 51 year old black man living in America. …

heh... I've written a bit about our favorite abandoned language ;-)

It really depends on your use case. I write all my tight loop code in LuaJIT itself, rather than calling out to C. Lots of people use LuaJIT as the glue to highly optimized long li…

I love commentary on LuaJIT, it's like a discussion of the subtleties of an acient game whose practitioners understand and enjoy, and everyone else ignores. My experience with LuaJ…

Well, I suppose this is fun at a certain level, because there are assumptions, and conclusions, built upon assumptions. I'll try to clarify my position. The back of my Microsoft ba…

Amen to that. It's a whole pipeline thing that begins before they even interview, and extends at least as far as their first few promotions. And you do it not just because you want…

The hilarity is in how this perpetuates the reasons for excluding a class of individuals from participating in the software creation process. Good in math probably won't give you t…