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orangea··on 8cc: A Small C Compiler
This is an interesting design decision:

> No memory management is a memory management scheme in 8cc. Memory regions allocated using malloc are never freed until the process terminates. That has greatly simplified the code and the APIs because 1) you can write code as if garbage collector were present, and 2) that design decision has eliminated use-after-free bugs entirely.

orangea··on Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow
Why are there annual bumps in the graph?
orangea··on Notes on Quantum Mechanics
I look forward to reading this!

However, I am reading the first part of the first section (explaining the basis vectors of a linear space), and see this:

http://i.imgur.com/Qizuw0K.png

That makes no sense to me, shouldn't it be more like this?

http://i.imgur.com/iKpKgSa.png

Maybe I am just not familiar with the notation, though...

orangea··on Ask HN: Any alternative to JavaScript in sight?
http://altjs.org/
orangea··on Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
Now, they either start with Javascript or learn to program on their graphing calculators. They are usually interested in graphical apps, so Java/Objective-C sometimes too.
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