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PS1 Programming Course with MIPS Assembly and C
Original EnglishI used the scratchpad to store projected 2D “stamps” of the 3D world (stored in an octree) and Crash: a kind of low-res Crash Flatland.
Show HN: I spent my vacation writing a modern JVM assembler
Original Englishwe maintain platform independence of interpreted code, but at a reduced ongoing cost as our interpreter component is much simpler; additionally, because of the optimizations …
After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult
Original EnglishWe saved the tech talks for internal presentations with people who would get value from them.
I spent 18 years in the Linux console
Original Englishbecause they got better at opening MS files, and partly because my career shifts and the changing world around me reduced the need for full …
Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director
Original EnglishThunderbird is a lot more reliable than outlook - I use both daily.
Ask HN: How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?
Original EnglishWe also use API gateway with lambdas, its a small API, about 2 requests per second on average, but very peaky during business hours, its …
Reverse engineering a software crack
Original EnglishI opened it using a hex editor, converted (using calc.exe) to HEX the count I wrote down on (2), searched for it, and found it.
Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)
Original EnglishI'm breaking every rule there is on jinxing things but there hasn't been a single bug introduced due to those updates and there's ~85% coverage.
Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
Original EnglishI’ve used it before, and many clients sites are now dead because their web host didn’t want to support old PHP versions anymore.