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10 = 5 + 5 = 7 + 3

The corresponding paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00994 : Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties…

In 6502, there is LDA, LDX, LDY for various loads. However, ADC (add with carry) only works on the accumulator. Another important aspect of (at least the 6502) is a very limited instruction set. With …

The 6502 and many of its kindred are accumulator based machines. From http://nesdev.com/6502.txt > THE ACCUMULATOR > This is THE most important register in the microprocessor. …

The Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0... (HN from 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

There is also some ability to explore optimization strategies. http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.... As it’s such a limited language, it is so…

This reminds me of Mr. Fart’s favorite colors. https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177... > By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a tw…

I can't ask for a more authoritative source on the matter. Thank you.

One of the things that I look at is the timeline of other version control systems. http://blog.plasticscm.com/2010/11/version-control-timeline.... has one such (its a decad…

Git is a filesystem ( https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects ). > Git is a content-addressable filesystem. Great. What does that mean? It means tha…

I am reminded of an open letter / post from many years ago. Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html . > There …

Software recommendations has a very small community. If even a small fraction of the questions that get closed as recommendation each day re-asked their question there the 9 questions a day they curr…

The application of the policy depends on people with moderation abilities seeing it. The first link for example has only been seen about 50 times a month for the past 5 months. The Skype question is …

The existing system, a question that is closed as a duplicate automatically redirects users who aren't logged in (most users are anonymous google users) to the question that is the duplicate targ…

The mechanism that SO uses for sorting answers is community votes. That poor or incorrect answers get up votes is a problem. SO only has its community to do that sorting. The corporate and diamond mo…

Super user has difficulty with recommendations too. The effort upon the community to curate the content on a large site takes a very dedicated team. Past efforts to have such failed and the curation o…

Neither review, flag, nor vote give reputation. The only ways to get reputation is to create content that gets up votes or do edits that improve the post.

> If I sign in on my main account and reverse the mystery downvotes, I'm usually good from that point on. That’s the type of thing that will get that account deleted for vote fraud and sock p…

Do you have any examples of such questions asked in the past... let’s say four years? The problem with recommendation questions is that they are very time consuming to keep curated and useful. You’ll …

In the world of “stack overflow is unfriendly to new users”, banning a person providing an answer that other people have found helpful seems to be a suggestion that would take SO in the direction of y…

That site is still not for discussions. It is however a site for Q&A on the software development process and architecture which tends to softer questions. Still, discussions are for chat.

Once you have sufficient rep on one site, you get 100 rep on all sites which is enough to comment everywhere.

The indents there suggest a threaded discussion that looks more like a 1 on 1 chat or threaded discussion board. Wouldn’t one of those resources be a better place to hold such a discussion?

Unfriendly/ rude moderation is what happens when the tools in place to try to keep the site’s content in alignment with the person’s vision fail. Not enough votes. Not enough time. Poor filters. …

For some, it probably shaped it more than they knew. The Rankin-Bass animations (The Hobbit, The Last Unicorn, etc) was outsourced to a studio named Topcraft. > The studio went bankrupt and dissol…

Previously (and a link to the actual publications) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153 …

Maybe the 'DOM' wasn't the right word choice. However, in 1995 one could foo = document.getElementById and foo.innerHTML as described in https://docs.oracle.com/javase&…

The original use of JavaScript was to pass DOM information to the applet and back. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/in... and https:/…

In his own words: Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki WikimediaFoundation https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqxwwuUdsp4 at about 3:00 and on for a minute. There was a release of hypercard…