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New comment by mjbrusso in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

mjbrusso — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:06:41 +0000

It's the Carret Notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation

New comment by mjbrusso in "Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)"

mjbrusso — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:24:56 +0000

Now I feel old. I know void from K&R C and iota from APL

New comment by mjbrusso in "Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987"

mjbrusso — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:56:55 +0000

A lot of the work being done here by the program code was done in dynamically linked libraries in the original game.

New comment by mjbrusso in "Hurl, the Exceptional Language"

mjbrusso — Sun, 26 May 2024 12:03:02 +0000

This is similar `Resume Next` in VB

New comment by mjbrusso in "milliForth"

mjbrusso — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:18:38 +0000

Where do I find the implementation of int 0x16 and int 0x10?

New comment by mjbrusso in "A brief history of computers"

mjbrusso — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:42:12 +0000

The First Computers

History and Architectures

Edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681377/the-first-computers/

Show HN: ZetaMerge – New add-on for merging Google Sheet data into Google Docs

mjbrusso — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/zetamerge/95873314734

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643624

Points: 3

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New comment by mjbrusso in "There's never been a better time to build websites"

mjbrusso — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:10:41 +0000

Wouldn't it be better to put SQL statements in stored procedures rather than dynamically loaded text files?

New comment by mjbrusso in "x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (2018)"

mjbrusso — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:42:55 +0000

I agree. 68k was one of the most orthogonal architectures ever.

New comment by mjbrusso in "Currying in JavaScript"

mjbrusso — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:56:15 +0000

However , to pass a constant I could use default parameter value.

New comment by mjbrusso in "Currying in JavaScript"

mjbrusso — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:33:33 +0000

In the `logNow` example, the date argument will be eager evaluated, not lazzy evaluated. Am I right? So what was supposed to be a real use case doesn't seem useful to me.

New comment by mjbrusso in "Looking into Zig"

mjbrusso — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 11:22:29 +0000

The equivalent in Visul Basic would be:

On Error Goto line

New comment by mjbrusso in "Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game"

mjbrusso — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:36:19 +0000

A game with this UI and Voronoi diagram rules would be fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram

New comment by mjbrusso in "Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020)"

mjbrusso — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:05:16 +0000

I would say the argument is lazy evaluated.

New comment by mjbrusso in "Rust Weird Expressions"

mjbrusso — Fri, 14 May 2021 13:18:21 +0000

Wouldn't it be time to create a International Obfuscated Rust Code Contest (IORCC)?

New comment by mjbrusso in "“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”"

mjbrusso — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:43:32 +0000

What about distribute LLVM bitcode?

New comment by mjbrusso in "From microops to abstract resources: constructing simpler CPU performance models"

mjbrusso — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 23:10:37 +0000

x96 has been used in context of x64 + x32 architectures

New comment by mjbrusso in "Executable PNGs"

mjbrusso — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 13:32:24 +0000

> I don’t have a link to back it up but I recall that yes, PICO-8 in fact uses the two least significant bits of each color channel, respectively.

"The cart data is stored using a steganographic process. Each PICO-8 byte is stored as the two least significant bits of each of the four color channels"

https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat

New comment by mjbrusso in "C++ still isn't cutting it"

mjbrusso — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:22:44 +0000

C doesn't even have a standard filesystem library!

New comment by mjbrusso in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel"

mjbrusso — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:54:38 +0000

Many Basic implementations had this feature. The SAVE command saves a binary (tokenized) version of the source code. "SAVE file, A" saves in ASCII format.