When I worked there many decades ago, I had pressure and saw people get rewards for patenting everything you could. Seems like things haven't changed.
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CountHackulus commented on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on? · Posted by u/_false
About 10 years ago I was working on a net-new COBOL compiler for z/OS. There was a huge demand from banks especially for this.
They don't always hit the mark but I sort of miss the times when Apple would innovate more boldly with their devices.
Apple Intelligence isn't it - it's just playing catch-up with a market that tries to slap AI onto everything it can think of.
The hardware upgrades are always nice but there's nothing 'out there' like a touch bar or even a 'dynamic island'. Just more safe iterations.
The last time they "innovated" on macbooks we got a touch bar (ignoring M chips). I'm good with incremental improvements if we can avoid those gigantic blunders.
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CountHackulus commented on Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step() iquilezles.org/articles/g... · Posted by u/romes
I love seeing the codegen output, makes it easy to understand the issue, but claiming that it's faster or slower without actual benchmarks is a bit disappointing.
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CountHackulus commented on Hotline for modern Apple systems github.com/mierau/hotline... · Posted by u/tonymet
Hotline was an amazing experience when I was younger. Really taught me a lot about devops and about ISPs.
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Just call it ECMAScript and forget about "Java".
"JavaScript" was not a good choice of name to begin with. The original JavaScript did not have much in common with Java.
I remember briefly calling it DHTML. But that was ages ago.