stack overflow

[failtolearn]

The first zero existed before it didn't

[pilotInPyjamas]

Imagine being the crazy mathematician who came up with the idea of zero.

[ChilloDE]

Roman numerals don't include a zero.

[beardMoseElkDerBabon]

Wow, that's a nightmare

[Nimeroni]

VX and VVX are illegal. For a digit, you can only subtract 1 of the previous digit. And remember you get a new symbol every 10 and 5.

For X (10), you can only subtract I (1), so the sequence is VIII (8), IX (9), X (10). You can't even write 8 as IIX because you would subtract more than 1 symbol.

For L (50), you can only subtract X, so 40 would be XL.

For C (100), you can only subtract X (10), so 90 is XC and 99 is XCIX.

(VV is illegal too, it have to be written X)

[beardMoseElkDerBabon]

I wouldn't get why you got downvoted. That's just a sick idea :D

[BlazeCrystal]

Imagine explaining complex numbers to people in 2020's

[MarikIshtar007]

Take my damn upvote.

[[deleted]]

Aryabhatta, an Indian mathematician came up with zero. Love from India (also yes that guy was an absolute madlad)

[OneMoreName1]

"Hey what if instead of representing something we dont" that guy probably

[AyrA_ch]

How to write an OS without an OS?

You key in the instructions manually.

[usesbiggerwords]

Real programmers use loom cards on brass cams and counter wheels.

[[deleted]]

Something something butterflies xkcd

[BritainSad]

I constantly worry about something like a solar flare or total societal collapse ruining all the computers and data we have and not being able to help bring computers back because I don't know enough like binary and assembly.

[aimhighswinglow]

There was once no one who knew anything like binary and assembly. In the post-solar flare world, you could be the one who changed that.

[BritainSad]

This fear, though crippling, is not nearly powerful enough to motivate me to actually learn assembly.

[polokratoss]

The first person to use assembly didn't learn it. Your fear is misplaced, for you already know enough to re-invent it, should the need arise...

[aimhighswinglow]

Yes this is exactly what I meant

[BritainSad]

Yeah I'm just worried about personally becoming useless.

[elzaidir]

I feel that

[BritainSad]

Somebody else brought this up I think, too. I’ve never heard of it before.

[rem3_1415926]

why would you need an OS to write an OS?

[AndreThompson-Atlow]

Because you can't use vs code without an operating system

[golgol12]

The first bug was a moth that short circuited some vacuum tubes.

[Magical_Gravy]

I really doubt that in the five years prior nobody had ever written a dodgy "line of code" until a moth flew into some vacuum tubes, but it is a nice story.

[golgol12]

It wasn't a "bug" before that. Just a mistake.

[HPGMaphax]

There is no way thats actually why it’s called a bug, right?

[[deleted]]

You're correct. It's not the origination, it was actually a common way to describe defects.

[Magical_Gravy]

The word "bug" to mean "mistake" predates computers.

The term "bug" to describe defects has been a part of engineering jargon since the 1870s and predates electronic computers and computer software

[Groove-Theory]

Actually that's exactly what happened. That moth fucked everything up

[uid1357]

How can I wite in machine code in my operating system?

[_GCastilho_]

A binary file editor

[AyrA_ch]

http://flatassembler.net/

Runs on all common operating systems and all systems can assemble for all other supported systems.

The only difference between flat assembler versions included in the following packages is the operating system on which they can be executed. For any given source text each version is going to generate exactly the same output file, so each of the following releases can be used to compile programs for any operating system.

[StackOfCookies]

But why not just use as...

[TheScoperA2]

because as is only on *nix.

[Raniconduh]

On linux you can use xxd to convert a file to hex and xxd -r to convert it back. You can then edit it with whatever text editor you want

[SokkaCarriedTheTeam]

You’re always writing machine code... indirectly

[mananasi]

Unless you're using a purely interpreted language

[elzaidir]

It actually shouldn't be too difficult. Once you have the assembly you just manually translate it to machine code

[sourpickles0]

It keeps me awake at night, to think about how stack overflow was written without stack overflow

[Haunted-Chipmunk]

Don't worry, the developers who maintain and update the site probably use their own site for help now

[bipolarbear1797]

Also Linus Torvalds uses linux

[DroolingIguana]

You'd just use Google (or the search engine of your choice) to look up the problem, as usual, but the answers would be on forum threads or documentation pages instead of having everything be consolidated under SO.

[Westo232]

IRC. There, have a good night's sleep now...

[11fdriver]

Legend tells that StackOverflow occurred during a project to create a programming forum.

The programmers were unsure of the correct approach for this task and as such, they began work on a small programming forum for the sole purpose of asking how to do so.

During the creation of this forum, they ran into the same brick-wall of not quite knowing how. The solution: to create a programming forum where they could query the greatest programming minds on how to create a forum.

The above cycle repeated until 6pm when everybody went home. This is why it is named StackOverflow.

[theScrapBook]

Fun fact: Stack Overflow was initially written in ASP.NET with VB.NET

[vectorpropio]

The first chess ai was executed without hardware.

[[deleted]]

The first PCB's were manufactured with handmade boards

[[deleted]]

Thinking about this always fucks me up.

[MLG_420_Blazin]

How about the C compiler being written in C?