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by tmccrmck 9y ago
It really was a fun read. Highly recommend to any programmer!
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you read HN ten years ago, you would hear about SICP and Lisp constantly. Makes sense when you consider who made this site.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
I tend to agree. Group loads and stores isn't very RISCy to me. But then again, you could make the case that any x86 machine is RISC under the covers.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
As someone who has spent time around Lajes Field, War Plan Gray is interesting seeing as how the U.S. de facto seized land on Terceira anyway. Much of my family came over around that time to make room for the military base. Ironically, the
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
This was the sentiment of everyone outside of SV when Altman was considering running for governor this year. I'm glad Sam actually cares about helping people, I really do, but it reminds me so much of Obama's quote about tech entr
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Can you guys not do this, please? HN isn't Reddit. We try to maintain some semblance of effort and thoughtfulness into posting here.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
You should read Turing's Cathedral if you are interested in Von Neumann's life.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
He's also one of the preeminent minds in quantum computing. When Scott speaks he's worth listening to regardless of his mannerisms.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Judging by his resume... yes.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
It's not the tone - it's the fact that one uses a natural disaster for self-promotion while the other does it to inform the populace about the extent of damage.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
I wouldn't start with Chisel as there's a lack of good documentation online. When I used it for a Berkeley class, sometimes you would feel like you hit a wall. Verilog or SystemVerilog will have much more in the way of stack overf
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Thanks. Sometimes I feel like the "just use X" folks don't really think about the problem at hand, not to mention how trivializing it can be. And this is coming from a Rust fan and someone who uses bindgen.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
They do. But I would like to see homeless populations as a percentage of the whole population before making a judgement. I would still expect the US to have a larger percentage but not that much higher. I was in Denmark/Germany/
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
My 1995 Jeep Cherokee is the reason why I'm weary of too much electronics in cars. And I'm a serial electronics tinkerer. Need a new engine? Do it yourself. Need a new alternator? No problem. Install larger tires? There's a m
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Please, please, please do this!
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Perhaps we should revisit the idea of a political detox? I for one have been noticing the signal-to-noise ratio on HN has been lowering over the past year. Discussions have become less about the content of the article and more about the tit
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Unfortunately, this is where we are in 2017. For many companies and people, contributing to open source has nothing to do with the Stallman concept of "freedom" - it has everything to do with PR.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Imagine? With wasm, I'm afraid you won't have to imagine in a few years...
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Yeah he's everywhere. I remember that NYT did a featurette on their top commenters and he's actually Chelsea Handler's brother.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Sent an email :)
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Note: Susskind has a follow up - Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum . https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210750-quantum-mechani...
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen and Chuang is the standard introduction to quantum computing. Besides that, you can find some old CS191 Vazirani lectures on the internet.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
We've rehashed the debate over the utility of the dragon book in the 21st century so many times on HN that I'm not going to comment on it's usefulness. (Search if interested) But, for those interested, I highly recommend Eng
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
You can see it in the Rust community. So much of the focus has been on http servers instead of codecs, operating systems, daemons, file systems, etc.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
I've always been confused as to why Chicago isn't more of a tech hub. Great city, great people, cheap housing, good transportation (by US standards), good schools, etc. Are the Google, Microsoft, and Amazon offices engineering o
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
The reference to Dieter Ram's Braun designs didn't tip you off? Jony Ive is well known to love that look: https://www.google.com/search?q=johnny+ive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8...
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
In what ways? Sorry Michael, but I reject the idea that you can be 'better' than another person.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
Spectrum's are legendary in the UK. I'm guessing that's the reason.
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
I deleted my FB nearly three years ago and it forces you to actually go to news sites. I'm much more informed this way. I get my local newspapers (the Chronicle and the East Bay Times) delivered and I go online throughout the day to re
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by tmccrmck 9y ago
> Later when I did read SICP, I didn't like it. Maybe that was like reading the book after seeing the movie. Dunno, but I didn't like it. Which introductory CS books did you enjoy? I still love my copy of Patterson and Henness

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