I like how it has almost become the norm to post the link to Adrian Colyers blog about any paper on Distributed Systems than a link to the paper itself. :)

(I'm not complaining, I love his blog)

Re: distsys: You might also like https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/

In this case it actually makes sense because it's not easy to find a non-paywalled version of the paper.

For someone coming from a high(er)-level programming language like Python - who wants to learn more about how computers work - I think it would be a useful stepping to learn C. C introduces some of the concepts and techniques that you need to understand Operating Systems & lower level things like that.

Astronomically low

Ha ha this is pretty awesome!

Not surprising given the industry.

I'm always amazed by the vast size and splendor of space! This is brilliant. Waiting for more to come.

This is promising news. Though I do feel that current 3d technology leaves a lot to be desired. Personally I feel the next evolution in the the realm of movie theaters would be VR.

"Why else? Well, FP is easier to write, easier to read, easier to test, and easier to understand."

Only after you get your head around the paradigm shift required to use FP fluently.

Of all the technical problems we face as programmers when managing codebases, lack of familiarity with a tool is pretty much the only one that never gets worse. Learning is what humans do best.

This is awesome!

Why, exactly?

Because it's using a 41 year old language which has ultra low memory requirements, no dependencies and runs like a bandit, on internet of things. (And can be compiled to machine code by using Awka.)

In Bryan Cantrill's (paraphrased) words: "let there be an orgy of AWK one-liners!"

(Or even better, entire applications written in AWK, since the language is perfect for dynamically generating web applications.)

Awk is pretty awesome - certainly one of my first loves. As I often do when it comes up in an HN thread if anyone has the artwork or is willing to scan said artwork of the infamous Bell Labs T-shirt I would be eternally grateful. It emphasizes the one weak point of AWK which is debugging. The shirt shows a gangly bird parachuting out of an airplane and reads "Awk bailing out near line 1"

The original as referenced here - ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix.pdf - is no longer available as "The Independent UNIX Bookstore" no longer exists.

gawk has a debugger:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Debugger....

To give the parent the benefit of the doubt, I think the point he was making was less "this isn't awesome" and more "explain why you think it's awesome, don't just place your upvote in the form of a comment".

Thank you. I expected that my addition of "exactly" would help, but honestly, my post was rather lazy.

Nice explanation!

Thank you!