HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

srott

126 karma · joined October 6, 2014

submissionscomments
srott··on Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
On the other side the SSD is very fast (rumors say 2.2GB/s, that is not so far from DDR2) so at least swapping will be seamless...
srott··on Don't like Brexit? We have a plan
The nature is really nice and food is great. But I've been robbed there... And the way how they achieve the fastest internet connection is really ugly -- cables are hanging from everywhere, historical building or not, it's really touch to take a photo without cables.

Just google for Cluj cables

srott··on UK votes to leave EU
I wish they would revert to Imperial units.
srott··on In Sharp Reversal, California Suspends Water Restrictions
From my point of view, the only problem is that water is cheap.

Why don't they just rise the prices?

srott··on Dolphin Smalltalk Goes Open-Source
Back in 2007, they refused to open the source, I think the authors just hated(!) the open source movement. Why so sudden change?
srott··on A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp
I just wanted to point out that it's more comparison of imperative vs functional languages than Lisp and Haskell.

Shen is a Lisp with "Haskell philosophy".

srott··on A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp
Or you could use Shen and spend less time philosophizing

http://www.shenlanguage.org/

srott··on Linux has matured into a robust desktop operating system
Every touchpad I had worked with was much better on Linux, touchpads on Windows were too laggy to even work with (if you are used to OSX) Fonts... I still haven't figured out how set up Windows fonts on 14" full HD to be readable -- small are small , large fonts are blurred.
srott··on Not Your Father’s FORTRAN
I've liked more this article https://bitbucket.org/eric_t/modern-fortran/wiki/Home
srott··on Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler
you mean half of code compiled with __cdecl, other half __stdcall, some calls as pascal... oh, that's cute..

and 32/64bit..

srott··on Linux kernel compilation
666 lines, is this the definitive guide?
srott··on How Doom got ported to NeXTSTEP (2013)
I thought Doom was developed on NextSTEP, at least wikipedia says so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom

"We wrote all of DOOM and Quake's code on NeXTSTEP"

http://web.archive.org/web/20140310124554/http://rome.ro/200...

srott··on The Microsoft Provocateur (1997)
And the mosquito laser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

srott··on Russian way with the mathematical travelling salesman (1979)
In Soviet Russia there are no travelling salesmen!
srott··on Emacs Is My New Window Manager
No bad for a first try, but my goal is

cat /proc/cmdline initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet init=/usr/bin/emacs

← PreviousPage 3 of 3