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Mason Thomas
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rachelbythebay.com
mkremins.github.io
dolphin-emu.org
gamasutra.com
gamasutra.com
gamasutra.com
lwn.net
evanmiller.org
joyent.com
liyang.hu
norvig.com
gperco.com
twitter.com
Dominic Davis
ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit
rachelbythebay.com
Logan Peterson
Gabriel was right. UNIX and "Worse Is Better" are viruses.
James Ross
Now hang on just a minute
Isaac Myers
How modern descendants of Unix and even Unix itself haven't actually adhered to the Unix philosophy very well when it comes to the design of the CLI and the file hierarchy, instead inheriting all the flaws of the original implementation. This is despite the ability to more faithfully implement the philosophy today given the freedom we now have from the constraints of the 1970s:
mkremins.github.io
Jeremiah Cox
lmfao
Connor Cook
lol
Bentley Turner
That post doesn't mention Linux at all, and the article says that "neither Linux nor OS X was designed with close adherence to the Unix philosophy in mind".
Are you making things up? Do you need help with reading?
Nicholas Baker
If you're referring to Linux and the Linux command line environment, Linux has none for it is a kernel program and only a kernel program without a command line.
Jose Thompson
Kernels can adhere to the Unix philosophy, believe it or not.
Jaxon Fisher
That whole blogpost was so meaningless. `ls` implementing certain features is not bloat, he misunderstood the phrase "do one thing and do it well". It's about handling tasks, not just executing one function. The program `ls` fits that definition perfectly - it does one task, display files in various output modes, and it does it well.
Jacob Mitchell
I disagree. The Unix philosophy is all about combining tools to accomplish tasks.
From The Unix Programming Environment:
Nolan Barnes
Yes, but "listing files" is a single task. If the philosophy is "Do one thing and do it well", then `ls` perfectly fits that definition. The standard example is that a task like "print a file with line numbers" is not something that should be handled by `cat`, because `cat` is for concatenating files. `ls` is for listing files, and so flags that assist in listing files are not bloat.
Levi Roberts
The Dolphin emulator blog, they regularly post really detailed and interesting writeups on the inner workings of GameCube based systems:
dolphin-emu.org
Jaxon Martinez
Gamesutra has a great series called 'Dirty Coding Tricks', it goes into detail and explains a bunch of cool tricks that people have used to get stuff working, my fav is the one on saving memory (because I'm obsessed with optimisation):
gamasutra.com
The rest:
gamasutra.com
gamasutra.com
Justin Ramirez
Some madman replacing x86 firmware with Linux:
lwn.net
Jonathan Evans
The Joy of Erlang
evanmiller.org
Easton King
calm down user
Unikernels are complete cancer user. Here's my article it's by Bryan Cantrill and it's about how unikernels make debugging hell.
joyent.com
iirc
Carter Smith
Who said anything about unikernels?
A kernel fits in the Unix philosophy if, among other things, it has a simple implementation and doesn't duplicate things that ought to be in userland. You don't have to go all microkernel to accomplish that, I just mean that it shouldn't include anything like a HTTP server.
The Unix design philosophy is about far more than just modularity. The GNU coreutils are not much less modular than the original, but they're much worse than following the Unix philosophy.
I don't like the Unix philosophy though so if something is complete cancer that doesn't automatically dissuade me that it follows the Unix philosophy.
Connor Jones
fair enough I suppose.
Tyler Williams
Church of the Least Fixed Point
“Well, personally, I belong to the Church of the Least Fixed Point. Amongst others, we worship the logician Alonzo Church. Whereas ‘Christ is our Church’ is metaphysical rubbish, (along with similar claims, like ‘God is Love’, ‘The Absolute is Perfect’, &c.) ‘Alonzo is our Church’ is merely hard, simple fact.
A major problem to be solved by a religion is ‘What is the Self?’ This is essentially a problem of Self-Realisation: A Self is an X that thinks of itself. Thus, where Think X is the operation of thinking of X, we want an item Self, such that:
Self = Think Self
The Church provides an answer to this question using His Paradoxical Combinator, Why:
Why = λf. (λx. f (x x)) (λx. f (x x))
With this, it is easy to show that:
Self = Why Think = Think (Why Think)
yielding a fixed point as required.
We believe that there is great signifigance in these Results, although there remain some details (such as the exact nature of the Think functional) to be worked out.”
-Calvin Bruce Ostrum, Feburary 1983
Kevin Harris
Joseph Hill
gperco.com
Some guy built a proof-of-concept single pixel camera with a mechanical hand randomly waving in front of it, instead of a lens.
(yes, lensless cameras with a single point detector are entirely possible, google "Radon transformation" and "compressive sampling single-pixel camera", there's a ton of research in computational imaging on that topic)
Parker Morales
I read a good long article on virtualization becoming the next security paradigm a few years back and never bookmarked it. I always wish I could find it again.
Thomas Murphy
That's interesting, but the result looks almost nothing like the reference.