Hacker News: zmower

New comment by zmower in "Porting the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64"

zmower — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:07:43 +0000

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

New comment by zmower in "One week of empathy training (2019)"

zmower — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:47:54 +0000

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...

New comment by zmower in "Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?"

zmower — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:40:24 +0000

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.

New comment by zmower in "Summary After Four Months with Ada"

zmower — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:18:06 +0000

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.

New comment by zmower in "Summary After Four Months with Ada"

zmower — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:02:59 +0000

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.

New comment by zmower in "Comparison of C++17, Go, and Java for a next-generation sequencing tool"

zmower — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:44:18 +0000

"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.

New comment by zmower in "Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?"

zmower — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:49:52 +0000

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.