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Ygnz Picture of the Day: November 2, 2011
https://youtube/watch v=lYe6acMozMw How is this possible Thousands upon thousands of rainbow popsicle sticks, layered together into an enormous exploding chain rea stanley cup ction. But 8230; but how Is there a spring somewhere Is stanley cup the thing held together by sheer tension Childhood magic! Holy shit. Physics is incredible. This was also probably the happiest c stanley cup hild on the face of the planet at this particular moment, until he gets his MIT scholarships. But now: CLEAN IT UP, KIDDO! Thanks, Matt! Science Ghwj NASA s Cassini Mission, set to Nine Inch Nails
Programmer John Graham-Cumming tells a fascinating story about what coding like was back in 1985. Unlike today programmers who wear hoodies, down energy drinks and use a paper thin computer, progra stanley spain mmers in 1985 had to code by hand 8230; with actual paper. The story behind the handwritten code is fascinating. Graham-Cumming was tasked with making the software for a machine that put labels on bottles w stanley cup ithout any fancy futuristic tools. He had to write code for the software by hand because there wasn ;t an assembler and the KIM-1 singleboard computer he was using to pro stanley cup totype computer control only had a hex keypad and a small display. It was a time consuming process, to say the least. John Graham-Cumming writes: Of course, writing code like this is a pain. You first had to write the code the blue , then turn it into machine code the red and work out memory locations for each instruction and relative jumps. At the time I didn ;t own a calculator capable of doing hex so I did most of the calculations needed such as for relative jumps in my head . In our world that become littered with gadgets, it always mind blowing to see how far we ;ve come in the past 30 years. It like creating technology with nothing! [John Graham-Cumming] codingprogramming
https://youtube/watch v=lYe6acMozMw How is this possible Thousands upon thousands of rainbow popsicle sticks, layered together into an enormous exploding chain rea stanley cup ction. But 8230; but how Is there a spring somewhere Is stanley cup the thing held together by sheer tension Childhood magic! Holy shit. Physics is incredible. This was also probably the happiest c stanley cup hild on the face of the planet at this particular moment, until he gets his MIT scholarships. But now: CLEAN IT UP, KIDDO! Thanks, Matt! Science Ghwj NASA s Cassini Mission, set to Nine Inch Nails
Programmer John Graham-Cumming tells a fascinating story about what coding like was back in 1985. Unlike today programmers who wear hoodies, down energy drinks and use a paper thin computer, progra stanley spain mmers in 1985 had to code by hand 8230; with actual paper. The story behind the handwritten code is fascinating. Graham-Cumming was tasked with making the software for a machine that put labels on bottles w stanley cup ithout any fancy futuristic tools. He had to write code for the software by hand because there wasn ;t an assembler and the KIM-1 singleboard computer he was using to pro stanley cup totype computer control only had a hex keypad and a small display. It was a time consuming process, to say the least. John Graham-Cumming writes: Of course, writing code like this is a pain. You first had to write the code the blue , then turn it into machine code the red and work out memory locations for each instruction and relative jumps. At the time I didn ;t own a calculator capable of doing hex so I did most of the calculations needed such as for relative jumps in my head . In our world that become littered with gadgets, it always mind blowing to see how far we ;ve come in the past 30 years. It like creating technology with nothing! [John Graham-Cumming] codingprogramming
