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I’m reading Petzold’s Code [1], and it dawned on me that I didn’t understand logic gates intuitively until now. I took a Computer Architecture course back in college, and I understood what logic gates meant in boolean algebra but not empirically. Petzold clarified this for me by going from the empirical to the theoretical using a lightbulb, a battery, wires, […]
Ask HN: In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago?
Reading Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work , and this is Joe Armstrong on the issue: >Also, I think today we’re kind of overburdened by choice. I mean, I just had Fortran. I don’t think we even had shell scripts. We just had batch files so you could run things, a compiler, and Fortran. And assembler possibly, if you really needed […]