zmower

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Software wrestler. Likes Ada.

zmower··on Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64

Already done here https://github.com/simonjwright/building-gcc-macos-native Simon's the man when it comes to GNAT on macOS.

zmower··on One week of empathy training (2019)

Ah, cancelling Virgin Media. I've done this recently. I got upset. I shouted down the phone at them. I'm not surprised they're being invetigated by OFCOM https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/13/ofcom-investig...

zmower··on Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?

An ISO stick. Looks like a DVD player to the OS but loads ISO images off a micro SD card. So I have lots of images in a USB stick form factor that are read much faster than a real DVD drive does.

zmower··on Summary After Four Months with Ada

I'm confused when people don't use it for bigger systems. I like that the compiler detects most of my errors before I run the program.

zmower··on Summary After Four Months with Ada

Well, we do have a good set of generic containers now. Access types and Unchecked_Conversion have always been a code-smell IMO. And Ada is still foremost a realtime language so garbage collection just creates scheduling problems.

zmower··on Comparison of C++17, Go, and Java for a next-generation sequencing tool

"We have not performed a detailed comparison against the original version of elPrep implemented in Common Lisp, but based on previous performance benchmarks, the Go implementation seems to perform close to the Common Lisp implementation." LMFAO.

zmower··on Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting. Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a book. Up there with Mythical Man Month.