Budget Android (€99) vs. Expensive iPhone (€1000) (2018)(willem.com) Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and web developer, I need to know how different devices work in real life. This time I used a budget Android smartphone, making me curious how it would compare to an expensive iPhone.
Polyglot Maxxie and Minnie(jcarroll.com.au) Continuing my theme of learning all the languages, I took the opportunity of a programming puzzle to try out the same approach in a handful of different languages to compare how they work.
76 points by thunderbong 29 days ago | 74 comments
Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)(antirez.com) In an article recently linked from reddit entitled Tour de Babel you can read (among lots of other nonsense): Heck, people still use Tcl as an embedded interpreter, even though Python is far superior to Tcl in every conceivable way -- except, that is, for the frost thing.
40 points by walterfreedom 60 days ago | 67 comments
How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes(peelarchivesblog.com) It’s been a while since we posted one of our articles pulling back the curtains on archival work. To make up for that, here’s a special edition of our popular Archives FAQs and Facts series. For the first time, we’ll compare how archivists in two countries do things a little differently to achieve a common goal.
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison(blogsystem5.substack.com) Over the years, I’ve repeatedly heard that Windows NT is a very advanced operating system and, being a Unix person myself, it has bothered me to not know why. I’ve been meaning to answer this question for years and I can do so now, which means I want to present you my findings.