Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for August 27, 2015

All fine and dandy until the goons from Apple/Microsoft come and “gently” remind Roy that his proposed plan is incompatible with his OS.

Maybe you should try asking Andromeda to marry you, Jay; she might actually say yes (my wife did, which I actually was not expecting). As for you, Ed…don’t get your hopes up.

Jay, you’re living with the hottie Andromeda, and Ed….well, you actually have to go out on a date once in a while.

Write it as an app so you can show it to everybody on your apple watch.

interesting, but I am not sure how is this directed. Is it talking about Jay and Ed, or is it talking about Roy? Does it mean something about the relationship with his wife? I am not sure how that works either. He says something about assembler, but not for which platform. Is it for a recent platform that runs everything on a virtual machine, or that takes machine-independent-code and uses dynamic compilation? if the programs for that platform are machine-independent, what wold be the point of that, if there are no possible optimizations due to specific hardware knowledge from the compiler or the programs generated in that compiler?

to clear my point1. replace Roy’s dialog by ‘I have too much free time’2. Virtual machine is a layer that executes code as if it was emulated (and in some cases it emulates some other hardware). What a virtual machine runs is not machine language, but the code written for that virtual machine. The virtual machine makes the code independent of the hardware where it is running3. If it uses ‘dynamic compilation’, it is also independent of the hardware. The system takes the program, and recompiles it for that specific hardware. In both cases, there is no use in knowing about the hardware, because both the virtual machine and the dynamic compiler make it independent of the real hardware, which may be different in each machine4. most operating systems now days use dynamic compilation

I have known people who wrote compilers for fun. Strange but wonderful folks.

What Jay and Ed fail to remember is that Jay has the hottest girlfriend in the known universe and Ed has been married four times, last I checked.

Roy is living the dream.

That was a class in college if you where a Computer Science Major – back in the day

Anyone here old enough to have used PLATO back in college? Or, as I like to call it, the Internet Fred Flintstone would’ve used.

oh come on Roy, it’s not the 80s, even if you’re going to a new architecture you should just make a cross compiler on system your C compiler supports