Re:I, Pencil (1958)
by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @10:36PM
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That's fair enough. It's kind of like where I am, but I suck more.
But
No matter how much you know, there's always going to be a part of the stack that you can't develop for: you can't know everything.
that was my point.
I don't think anyone disagrees with that, and nobody argued otherwise. I'm a bit baffled as to what you're trying to achieve here...
Re:I, Pencil (1958)
by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @03:02PM
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>I'm a bit baffled as to what you're trying to achieve here...
Funnily enough, so am I. So I can't really help you with that.
The understanding does not mean that they want to take the time investment of recreating all that work from scratch.
For instance,
I understand branch prediction, cache lines and inter-processor synchronization. But I'm no kernel developer.
I know what the assembler does, and its goals. But I haven't made one, and any I made would be sub-optimal
.. This proceeds through compilers, operating systems and up to the web stack.
I mean, writing a renderer that fully implements "HTML 5" along with ALL relevant standards - that's a massive software effort. I barely understand it, but I understand enough to get the job done.