Comment on: A 6502 emulator in Common Lisp

Is lisp a good language to pick up? Any advantages over python?

2 22 Dec 2016 01:48 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: Prime numbers.

Avoid square roots if possible. They cost a lot more in processing and you can easily replace the condition in your for loop with b*b < a.

Edit: Forgot there's no ^ operator in C.

1 29 Oct 2016 17:55 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: Linux marketshare doubled since five years ago. From 1% (July 2011) to 2%, July 2016.

Woah.

3 01 Jul 2016 19:39 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: xmake: The Automatic Cross-platform Build Tool is released

Oh gooooood. More prerequisites to install because devs couldn't stick to make.

2 19 Jun 2016 16:46 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: 'goto' in Python by re-writing the bytecode

Yay! Finally an easy way to write spaghetti code in Python!

3 21 Sep 2015 11:49 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: How Google's New Logo Can be Just 305 Bytes

They still use a PNG version anyway, which is over 12kB.

2 04 Sep 2015 13:19 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: What music do you code to?

Fixed

3 24 Jun 2015 00:43 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming
Comment on: What music do you code to?

Not really music but, as a pluviophile, I often go to asoftmurmur.com when I code.

15 24 Jun 2015 00:33 u/PolishPandaBear in v/programming