R.E. Elitism and the osdev forums - I think it's pretty reasonable and not elitist - or at least, not unreasonably so - for the OSDev Wiki to clearly and unambiguously state from the outset what...
R.E. Elitism and the osdev forums - I think it's pretty reasonable and not elitist - or at least, not unreasonably so - for the OSDev Wiki to clearly and unambiguously state from the outset what skills and experience they expect you to have - especially since the wiki also serves as a primer for interactions on the forum. The community was established in the first place to provide a place for experienced systems programmers to discuss extremely technical and low level programming without having less experienced people barging in asking why their pointer arithmetic is segfaulting or what an Interrupt Descriptor Table is. In general, inclusivity should be aspired towards, but entry requirements aren't inherently a bad thing.
Kind of offtopic, but I really like the HTML format of these slides. It was a good experience on both desktop and mobile, especially compared to other online slide viewers.
Kind of offtopic, but I really like the HTML format of these slides. It was a good experience on both desktop and mobile, especially compared to other online slide viewers.
I like how responsive they are, however I thought that this particular information could be better presented in a regular page format or at least bigger slides. I found myself going between slides...
I like how responsive they are, however I thought that this particular information could be better presented in a regular page format or at least bigger slides. I found myself going between slides when I could normally just read that amount of material on one page.
Well, judging by the URL this was intended to be delivered as a talk, so the slides make sense. It's worth mentioning that the author has a lot of excellent blog posts on similar topics if you'd...
Well, judging by the URL this was intended to be delivered as a talk, so the slides make sense. It's worth mentioning that the author has a lot of excellent blog posts on similar topics if you'd prefer to read in that format.
R.E. Elitism and the osdev forums - I think it's pretty reasonable and not elitist - or at least, not unreasonably so - for the OSDev Wiki to clearly and unambiguously state from the outset what skills and experience they expect you to have - especially since the wiki also serves as a primer for interactions on the forum. The community was established in the first place to provide a place for experienced systems programmers to discuss extremely technical and low level programming without having less experienced people barging in asking why their pointer arithmetic is segfaulting or what an Interrupt Descriptor Table is. In general, inclusivity should be aspired towards, but entry requirements aren't inherently a bad thing.
Kind of offtopic, but I really like the HTML format of these slides. It was a good experience on both desktop and mobile, especially compared to other online slide viewers.
I like how responsive they are, however I thought that this particular information could be better presented in a regular page format or at least bigger slides. I found myself going between slides when I could normally just read that amount of material on one page.
Well, judging by the URL this was intended to be delivered as a talk, so the slides make sense. It's worth mentioning that the author has a lot of excellent blog posts on similar topics if you'd prefer to read in that format.
Ahh yes, that makes more sense. Can't believe I missed that ha.
It's just a blank page with Javascript disabled. And I see no reason to make an exception just for reading something...