Rochus

I'm over fifty too but very much like what I do. The reason might be that I'm self-employed and work from home most of the time. And Epicurus is my hero. I have friends who are professors, a…

He spells "Ungar", not Unger; the referenced PhD thesis was finished in 1986 at UC Berkeley; after the PhD Ungar went to Stanford and was a consultant for PARC.

They also implemented a fast Smalltalk VM in 1983 which is described in this book: http://sdmeta.gforge.inria.fr/FreeBooks/BitsOfHistory/BitsOf... . It influenced the Self VM…

- ENIAC - The triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer - Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age - From airline reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog - a history of the sof…

Well, I am Swiss and I consult some of the mentioned companies. These companies do most of their F&E in Switzerland and also some manufacturing. It's in no way just management. And Victorinox…

> they have almost 0 medical manufacturing here Well, that must be a very big zero. Have you ever heard of companies like Roche, Tecan, Hamilton or Ypsomed (just to name a few)?

Would certainly be an interesting lecture, but the quality of picture and sound is terrible. You can hardly read or understand anything.

Note that the original link of the image is http://www.wolczko.com/st80/image.tar.gz The referenced github page is a tool which makes use of the sources file included in the orig…

Interesting paper, thanks. Confirms what I have noticed in my work over the years.

After many years of experience and optimization I am most convinced of the outliner concept, and eventually I have even written my own tool for it (see https://github.com/rochus-keller…

That's likely how SystemVerilog came into being.

Interesting that Verilog is considered a programming language. And Smalltalk and C++ were both already covered in HOPL II.

It has a built-in configuration for Yosys and some other FOSS tools, but you can also build your own configuration using a scripting language if the backend is not supported yet.

See https://github.com/rochus-keller/VerilogCreator/blob/master/... for a compatible IDE.…

You are invited to try it. You will not be able to avoid the laws of nature, and there will also be many legal hurdles. But if you make a big step forward, you will undoubtedly be a Nobel Prize candid…

It will not go without replication, trials and production, regardless what oracle you have. And keep in mind that the oracle has a quite significant error rate. You won't get an immediate solutio…

Molecular biology is not that easy. Selecting a promising molecule is only a small fraction of the work. If you know the molecule you still have to be able to replicate and bring it to the place where…

Then his name most likely was not Alan Kay ;-)

I like these presentations of the CHM very much. Cedar is an impressive environment and it's very interesting to see where the Oberon System which I have recently become involved with (see https…

Cedar was a programming language and a development environment (not an operating system) and also run on Solaris as demonstrated in the demo, and I didn't see it crash during the two hour demo.

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Well, some MUMPS implementations had adverse limitations, but there were also others, and companies like Intersystems managed to gradually expand and continue using the technology successfully. What b…

I read it. The article is superficial and one-sided. And there is nothing wrong with companies building their own tools. There are many such companies, including SAP, Microsoft and Google.

What do you have against MUMPS (i.e. ANSI M)? It was a great technology of its time, and there are still many critical applications running with it today, and internationally recognized companies like…

Well, there is a considerable difference between "good taste" and professional experience with the art market. A lot of art sales are made with things that are totally tasteless from my unpr…

There are certainly cases where this might be true, but I doubt that this assumption is generally true; one would have to do some experiments and put these artificially generated paintings up for real…

Great idea. Looks very convincing and aesthetic to me, but I am not an art expert. But I do know a lot about music and I am not yet convinced of the current offers of AI in this regard. So it would be…