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Re:Linux from Scratch on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:26AM (#46718355)
Is there anything like a “Windows From Scratch”? like taking a full Windows installation and copying binaries and components to new machine one by one, mainly to understand how Windows is structured internally?
Re:Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021) on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:00PM (#33023634)
off the topic, how is the "Mentions" secion in that page implemented?
Re:Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? on Sunday August 14, 2022 @07:51PM (#32464306)
Re:It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal on Sunday June 05, 2022 @11:37AM (#31631941)
mobile games: gambling + porn, but legal
Re:Operating Systems: CPU Scheduling on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:12AM (#31058897)
how about a bookmark and yield mechanism(in PL level maybe), theb process can continue slow forward process when switched back
I'm afraid not. this is based on interpreter written in JavaScript so you need source code. i think you probably want something based on strace
Re:Tail recursion, but modulo cons on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:04PM (#30508342)
is it reasonable to have a keyword for tail-recusive return? basically it means I'm writing a tail recursive function and give me compile error if it occurs at non-tai-recursive positions
That's awesome!

I was thinking about a similar reverse-wordle clone, but focusing on mind-reading between friends. The core idea:

1. uploads your full wordle solution screenshot (with each guess) to the server. The server does an OCR and store it.

2. get shareable links from server, send to friends. Each friend gets a unique link

3. friends guess what you guessed.

4. you can see how well each friend guess

Re:Polaris Program on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:45AM (#30370519)
best landing page I've ever seen
Re:How to make Lisp go faster than C (2006) [pdf] on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:24AM (#30054831)
smalltalk
well done! i really wish more tasks can be done in browser.

did you compile some c++ library into wasm or js is enough to do the job?

there's a hidden feature I don't like at all. if you double click on the "white area" just inside the border, it goes into a " maximized" state where title bar and menus will disappear.

it's so easy to enter this mode by mistake and no obvious way to get back

edit: was wrong about the test price. It should be $38.99 / ea test.
Re:The Io Language on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:19AM (#29670855)
could you explain what does "free-form languages" mean? wiki tells me C/C++ is "free form"
I will give Wezterm a try wheb tmux CC mode(show tmux panel as native window) support is done
Re:The Invention of Chinese on Saturday December 11, 2021 @07:35PM (#29525803)
it's not true. Han Chinese are clearly genetically distinguishable from Yamato Japanese and Koreans, and internally the different Han Chinese subgroups are genetically closer to each other than any of them are to Koreans and Japanese.

Gene doesn't lie

Re:Jndi: An irresponsibly bad logging library on Saturday December 11, 2021 @10:11AM (#29521353)
We should not make fun of log4j2 developers for the work they're not paid for, they made it in their spare time. it's a shame so many companys are using log4j2 but few(if not none) sponsor them. https://github.com/sponsors/rgoers
I've seen a lot posts saying condition system in common lisp is unmatched. is there similar thing in scheme?
Re:Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:04AM (#29494675)
I was trying to write some function similar to `make` but in vein. Maybe I need to open the compiler like the author did. make() takes a type as argument but you can't define such functions in go. And `make` itself is not a keyword, how does golang implement it? is it a special case?
Re:“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.” on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:05PM (#29446134)
joke aside. we know a language is Turing-incomplete if it has only ifs and bounded for loops. And if 90% programmers' tasks can be done using a Turing-incomplete language, is there any benifits we can get from this?
Re:The big idea around unikernels on Friday December 03, 2021 @07:28AM (#29429234)
I think we will be stuck with JVM on top of k8s container on top of linux VM on top of kvm on top of linux forever
Re:JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:13AM (#29380063)
i will assume X=9
Case distinction does not happen in every language. I'm not sure if it's European-languages-specific.
Re:Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:01PM (#29034719)
is there any open design chasis? like a CAD file you can modify yourself? if you're living around shenzhen it's probably not expensive to find a manufacturer
Re:Leaving Google on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:28AM (#28966671)
> Google doesn't use the go command or modules, and since there's no direct measurable benefit to Google, it's very difficult to make the case.

i'm curious. What exactly they don't use internally?

i though sicp is most most mentioned book on HN. but sicp doesn't look like a book name.

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