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New comment by t1m in "Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)"

t1m — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:55:56 +0000

My “first” computer at home was a Burroughs B80. My Dad bought it for his accounting business in the late 70s. It was about the size of two dishwashers, had an 8in floppy, a built in printer and a small flatscreen display (orange on black characters) on a swing arm above the keyboard.

I remember flipping through the B80’s manuals and finding a software section. We could get games for it! I asked dad if we could order some, but unfortunately, he said, the accounting software supplier would void their warrantee if we were to install any other software on the machine.

All of my computer time before buying our Apple ][+ a few years later was spent “playing” data entry on the B80 for Dad’s business.

Firefox now isolates Facebook tracking

t1m — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:27:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167094/mozilla-firefox-facebook-container-tracker-blocker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688069

Points: 2

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Git Flight Rules

t1m — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:10:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15952115

Points: 1

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New comment by t1m in "Alcatel-Lucent releases source for 8th, 9th and 10th editions of Unix"

t1m — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:54:29 +0000

Back when I was in University, we had an Amdahl mainframe with Unix running under VM. The directory structure included an awful lot of source code. I remember porting source for lex and yacc to my PC-XT running Borland's Turbo C. I assume it was licensed to Universities and source was included under an educational clause, though I'm not exactly sure.

I wonder which version of unix I was using. This would have been around December of '87.

New comment by t1m in "Ask HN: Have you created a programming language and why?"

t1m — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:31:00 +0000

I wrote a language called T for Bell Northern Research, not knowing there was already another T language based on Scheme. The language was used for black box testing testing of terminal interfaces, and so needed good string handling.

One aspect of the language was that Unix regular expressions were a built-in type, and so were associate arrays. These two features worked together in a cool way:

  x['hi there'] = 5
  x['hello'] = 2

  # regular expressions are enclosed in `backquotes`
  x[`hell.`] == [2]
  x[`h.*`] == [5, 2]

How I write/publish libraries for node/browsers with npm

t1m — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:09:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/k88hudson/libtastic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386618

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Introducing Gogland – A Brand New Go IDE from JetBrains

t1m — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:32:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2016/12/15/announcing-gogland-brand-new-go-ide-from-jetbrains/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RBek5ERXpZVGd4TTJJMiIsInQiOiJBWHhjeTJTTk9oXC91K3VQZHJiXC95NGZIRW5EbzhqZ3hSejljK3hnaGJVQjYxdGxFYngzNHJPNFQ3dXlIblNnUTQra0RjSkJGWUhQXC9UYm5HR1VMU2t3T2k2SU1qQ3Jza2VtaHVuYnJmZW5lcUJVUDNxYWlCdnBSUkpoXC9seEJnWDUifQ%3D%3D

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382961

Points: 1

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HTML5 Is the Next $100B Game Platform

t1m — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:50:57 +0000

Article URL: http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/28/html5-is-the-next-100-billion-game-platform/amp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375292

Points: 3

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New comment by t1m in "EWAH – A compressed bitmap class in C++"

t1m — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:21:16 +0000

We used this incredibly fast/compact library for Hustle DB indexes. Anyone needing a good Python interface to it could pry it out of the dependencies: https://github.com/tspurway/hustle/tree/master/deps/libebset

Querying Data in Amazon S3 Directly with User-Space Page Fault Handling

t1m — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 20:19:00 +0000

Article URL: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2016/11/29/traildb-mmap-s3.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091933

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by t1m in "Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team"

t1m — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 06:55:42 +0000

I am a Canadian, so I neither have a say, or really can comment on American politics.

This Saturday, my two daughters (ages 11 and 8) are driving a 1,700km journey to North Dakota to show our support for the #NoDAPL movement. I am doing it because my eldest is really into Aboriginal rights right now. These people are just trying to preserve their land.

I hope we don't get shot by Peter Thiel.

New comment by t1m in "Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team"

t1m — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 06:30:26 +0000

Tens of millions of people are going out to the street and are not going to let these little goons take over America.

Ask HN: What is the difference between Libertarianism and Fascism

t1m — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 06:05:04 +0000

With Peter Thiel ascending to the TRump Cabinet, his extremely worrying ideas about women's and minority rights are extremely worrying:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian

What is up with this?

Best I can tell, Libertarianism is a kind of an explanation of why there are poor people, and how not to feel bad about it. I may be wrong!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928365

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by t1m in "Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team"

t1m — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 04:40:35 +0000

Peter Thiel's "Mein Kampf" excludes women and minorities, who he feels have "damaged" democracy: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

New comment by t1m in "[dead]"

t1m — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 04:31:39 +0000

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

Thiel believes that women and minorities have damaged democracy and openly questions whether they should be allowed to vote.

New comment by t1m in "Leonard Cohen Has Died"

t1m — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:48:18 +0000

I am reeling.

Leonard's music had an uncanny sense of timing, both musical and cultural. He referenced the external, political world, indirectly - not through selfishly inward bullshit, like many of his contemporaries, but by sifting it through relationships with others and his relationship to the divine.

As I am writing this, the next article in hackernews is about Peter Thiel and his ascension to whatever office he is seeking in Trump's cabinet. His views on the damage women and minorities have done to Libertarianism (whatever that is), and how democracy is shit are well known, and I will let you judge how Palantir has benefited humanity.

The thing that gets me is his straight faced desire for immortality. Note that he doesn't wish for immortality for someone who is great, he wishes it for himself.

RIP Leonard. You already are immortal.

New comment by t1m in "Writing Your Own Programming Language"

t1m — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:49:03 +0000

Prefix notation (ie. + 1 1) instead of infix notation (ie. 1 + 1) is much easier parse, as there are no precedence rules and you don't require different conventions for expressions and function calls.

New comment by t1m in "Micro web-framework for COBOL"

t1m — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:12:14 +0000

The wise programmer is told about Tao and follows it. The average programmer is told about Tao and searches for it. The foolish programmer is told about Tao and laughs at it.

New comment by t1m in "Micro web-framework for COBOL"

t1m — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:10:27 +0000

My interests in C, compilers, small computers and Unix at the time wasn't driven by career aspirations. I was just genuinely interested those things. Maybe I was "unemployable".

New comment by t1m in "Micro web-framework for COBOL"

t1m — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:51:47 +0000

I remember showing my "systems analyst" brother-in-law my second year university schedule when I was planning which courses I would take that fall.

"You don't have any Cobol, PL/1, OS360 Assembly Language or APL on here", he observed.

"I am going to focus on C, Unix and operating systems. I want to write compilers for microprocessor based computers".

When he finished laughing, he called me "unemployable" and said, "microprocessors will never be used for anything but toys. Take COBOL!"

Since then, I have made a point of not even looking at COBOL code. I have been in the presence of COBOL, but have averted my eyes.