Paged Out #9 [pdf]
133 points by laurensr 8 hours ago | 18 comments
zOneLetter 5 hours ago
`Baby Steps in C` is hilarious lol. I'll be buying the print editions going forward. They hooked me right in with that.
replymalfist 37 minutes ago
That article triggered me to send it to my friends. C be crazy.
replywalrus01 2 hours ago
It reminds me a little bit of a Phrack textfile, but if Phrack had raster image art advertising in it.
replyRendello 5 hours ago
I like page 30: The Subpixel Zoo. It must be hell for text rendering:
replybrainwad 2 hours ago
Desktop OSes just assume the vertical subtiles (at best with an option between RGB and BGR). TVs and mobile devices don't generally support subpixel rendering at all.
replygynvael 2 hours ago
Sorry, we moved this. It's on page 37 now - "Hardware" section works better for this one than "Food for thought".
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lubujackson 5 hours ago
I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.
replyunprovable 3 hours ago
Fun fact - the computiles piece is an uncredited rediscovery of Wang's work from the 1960's on computable tilings. Specifically, he went as far to show that the halting problem is equivalent to the 'domino problem' - can we tile the plane using a given finite set of dominoes (aka tiles) where we have infinitely many copies of each and the tiling must preserve edge-meet criteria. Every tiling is a computer program, every computer program is a tiling.
replybbayles 5 hours ago
Michał Zalewski's article on page 42 is very funny.
replymixedmath 5 hours ago
Would someone be interested in explaining what in the world is going on in that article?
replyq3k 4 hours ago
What do you mean? It's just simple beginner's examples in C. Should be easy enough to understand, C is famously very simple ('portable assembler' as they say!).
replyFergusArgyll 27 minutes ago
> In our experience, C has proven to be a pleasant, expressive and versatile language for a wide variety of programs. It is easy to learn, and it wears well as one's experience with it grows.
replyThe C Programming Language K&R
brcmthrowaway 4 hours ago
The anime avatar twitter people have finally created something beautiful.
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