russtrotter

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by russtrotter 2y ago
That's certainly the pragmatic call, but while admittedly I'd never heard of Braid or his other games before he started showing up my YT feed, his takes on programming culture are very opinionated and compelling. He could have fo
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by russtrotter 2y ago
Sometime in '85, my mom is an administrative assistant at the local University. She's an absolute wiz on her office's newly modernized setup with these "PC" things running Wordperfect all creating beautiful docume
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by russtrotter 3y ago
I always feel like NASA has mastered the basic "under promise, over deliver" philosophy that keeps the lights on and the next missions funded. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at who they get to tap dance in front of the con
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by russtrotter 3y ago
i'm thinking two themes here: the X in xcurl and the famous MS-ism "embrace, extend, extinguish"
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by russtrotter 3y ago
I started uni in 1990 and went from a kid in his basement banging away on a PC clone with Turbo Pascal 5.x to a place with this thing called "usenet" on a "VAX" running "BSD" off of tapes and the map of the &qu
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by russtrotter 3y ago
Agreed with this general notion however, I'd argue that unlike a standards body, a big driver for JSON's ascent to defacto standard were the legions of javascript developers working at every layer of a tech stack using it as a low
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by russtrotter 4y ago
Absolutely agreed. I've watched lots of his long-form videos on all those topics and initially I was always scratching my head as to why he'd want to reinvent all these wheels from the molecules up, but as I watched more, I reali
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by russtrotter 4y ago
agreed, Carmack's work ethic, opinions on work and opinions of how those around him work are legendary!
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by russtrotter 4y ago
The first half of the article started to feel like the XKCD "15th standard" meme, but at the end, the more nuanced point was presented: If you're already using Rust, stick with Rust. Carbon is positioned as successor languag
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by russtrotter 4y ago
Technologies like WASI are coming on right now to do exactly this kind of access in the context of a sandbox. From what I can tell, they're going through a lot of the same progression of JVM and .NET IL back in the 90's and early
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by russtrotter 4y ago
Yours is a fair question. Theories: * Cheaper to invest in your tools than overhauling your people/codebases/etc * Sense of wanting to give back to your core tooling * The decision maker(s) for the investment just really love Rub
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by russtrotter 4y ago
The old C bum in me says this should really be a bitwise AND with 1 but I'm sure modern compilers and JS JIT/V8 runtimes optimize MOD 2 to the same.
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by russtrotter 4y ago
haha! glad somebody linked this! i love how the site presents itself just as any "framework" would :-) well-played vanilla-js
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by russtrotter 4y ago
I used to often reach for xfig for a quick tech diagram (boxes, circles, lines, etc). The "fig" file format, being text, is easy to drop into source control. It's fast and gets the job done. The feeling I get from peers, e
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by russtrotter 4y ago
I was one of those people downloading 386BSD to floppy disks in my university computer lab in '91 or so. The prospect of running a "real" Unix on my PC hardware was really a way out of the prospect of saving up all my pennie
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by russtrotter 4y ago
Reference to the movie quote in "Tropic Thunder" from Robert Downey Jr.s character.
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by russtrotter 5y ago
To continue the Java bytecode prior comment, at one point, java was in all browsers of the time (i.e. Applets). However, it lost, and seemingly removed with extreme prejudice with no nods to backwards compatibility. Java also enjoys multip
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by russtrotter 5y ago
The early Doom 1 and 2 being software renderers, used ray casting (386 protected mode FTW to boot!) The later versions though, were part of the first wave of games to leverage GPU cards. I don't know if those newer releases still kept
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by russtrotter 5y ago
In the context of the original article addressing Java 8, in the java.time.format package, there's a DateTimeFormatterBuilder that removes the sub-language element of the issue. With those builder methods, you can construct the fields
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by russtrotter 5y ago
Fair point, but the software that eventually ends up in flying space hardware has usually been put to a similar test.
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by russtrotter 5y ago
A few years back, I refactored a memory/time-intensive task of an application to leverage AWS lambdas. Once the code got into production, it ended up working out fine and we were able to side-step OOM issues that were plaguing the pri
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by russtrotter 5y ago
There's all kinds of non mission-critical software that gets made with little life/death consequence on how it gets made. There doesn't seem to be the same notion of the "bridge that barely stands" in software ei
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by russtrotter 5y ago
Where you say "just leave your house in the morning..." really drives home the significance of what Lachlan's Alt Tour particularly means for French people. Wanna ride the whole darn route just like your favorite pros? Get y
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by russtrotter 5y ago
Ha, your comment is ironic since I still remember from back in the 70's/80's that "nobody got fired for buying an IBM". The quote might even be older than that, but I had first heard that quote when Microsoft was s
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by russtrotter 5y ago
ha! glad i wasn't the only one who noticed the almost robot-like transcription: bites, NDN, PHAT, etc
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by russtrotter 6y ago
Some interesting reasons: the proverbial "2nd genesis", panspermia possibilities of our own planet, and answering lots of questions on formation of life on ours and any other planet we might encounter.
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by russtrotter 6y ago
I was thinking the same. I spent many of the formative years of my career (late-80's, most of the 90's) HATING microsoft but to see them now and all the relatively "open" stuff that they not only embrace but can't
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by russtrotter 6y ago
I got the 2-for-one variant of this with my 2016 MBP where I purchased a replacement battery assembly from iFixit to replace the swolen ones. In the kit, they include: the tools, a link to their iFixit video on the steps as well as some pr
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by russtrotter 6y ago
is it idiomatic in the JS world to always express dependencies in the "version X.Y or higher", vs "version X.Y"? Most of my experience is from the java/maven world where you're playing with fire if you don&#x27
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by russtrotter 6y ago
I love these kinds of projects! Any description of it that has me cackling by the 2nd sentence is gonna be a gem. Good thing i brought my FAT32 driver.

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