Hi ben

I appreciate your general attitude and I hope that you find the job you
love to have.

Stef

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:02 PM, Raffaello Giulietti <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>>
>> On 2017-05-03 14:56, Ben Coman wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the follow up.  Glad to hear its nothing intrinsic to Pharo.
>>>
>>> btw, Is there somewhere in the documentation or class/method comments
>>> that you believe this N-base situation should be spelled out better?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, I wouldn't call the parameter of ExternalAddress>>byteAt:...
>> methods a "byteOffset", as offset invariably indicates a *difference*
>> between indices or addresses. Thus, I would for example expect an offset of
>> 0 to refer to the first byte, whether its index is 0 or 1.
>>
>> This is in contrast with the Smalltalk convention that <something>At:
>> selectors with numerical arguments usually mean a 1-based *index*.
>>
>>
>>
>> BTW, just for information, what is your role in the development of Pharo?
>>
>
> For me Pharo is a dedicated hobby, doing a few hours most week nights and
> longer stints on weekends.  Some people love doing crosswords.  I love
> programming and enjoy Pharo the most. Not having any commercial time
> pressures has allowed me the luxury to dive deep into areas of interest,
> which is usually the lower level stuff like DelayScheduler,
> semaphores/mutexes and Processes in Image & VM - but so far I've not done
> anything with the JIT.
>
> My day job is this... https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencoman/?ppe=1
> I dream of one day using Pharo as a soft-realtime industrial automation
> control system on a Beagleboard, but so far I've taken limited concrete
> action towards that.
>
> I'm located south of the equator in Western Australia, so quite remote
> from most others in the community (although I did have the pleasure of
> meeting Thierry & Onil once when they were visiting family here).
>
> cheers -ben
>
>
> P.S.  I'll take this opportunity to mention I'm between jobs at the
> moment. So I'd be happy to hear from anyone needing some odd jobs done,
> while I consider my options.
>

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