AlexanderDhoore

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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
The word "Contemporary" always makes me cringe a little. It's such a fancy synonym for "Now". Anyway, I love ballet myself. I did ballet when I was a little boy (for about 8 years). I like going to ballet. Especially when my sisters perform
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
The Go people really have figured everything out. You don't need IDEs! You need reusable pieces of code that you can plug into every other text editor, IDE or what have you. For C/C++/Obj-C we can use llvm/clang. [1] I've found Pysmell[2]
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
The more I look into freebsd, the more I realise how awesome it is. This same thing has been in freebsd for ages: jails. (maybe not the fancy deployment, but the container technology) That, together with ZFS turns freebsd into one hell of a
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I'm in college, and I think they should teach us some computer/software history. In every other science (not that CS is a science) they teach people by telling them the stories of history. In chemistry, physics they go over all great discov
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
Chapter 3 in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (SICP) explains the environment model to evaluate scheme. That's exactly what you need to understand javascript closures. Only read the 3.2 part, it's not long: http://mitpre
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I send this in because I've had a hunch about this my entire life. Math is fascinating.
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Q: addition, multiplication, exponentiation, then??(answers.google.com)
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
It's amazing though, isn't it? KDE, Gnome, XFCE, awesome, Enlightenment... That's a lot of DEs!
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
Not entirely the same thing, but there are some plugins for Vim, Emacs,... that show different figures/characters in place of things like "=>" or "lambda". But don't actually change your source code. For example: https://github.com/eha
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I'm also a Fleming and I HATE our keyboard. For example languages with $ signs for variables are horrible with it. $ needs AltGr and is all the way to the right. Thus requiring you to leave the home row completely. (Not even getting into ho
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
The above comment happened to be one of the first responses. The others came later. That's why.
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
That actually might be it. Very interesting. Thank you! (Makes me think of Scheme/Clisp too)
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I think they are very different too... I just can't explain how or where. Some people SWEAR by one of the two, and refuse to use the other. That's pretty harsh for languages that similar. There must be a reason... (The simplicity vs eleganc
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
That's exactly what I mean. People feel very strongly for one or the other. Yet, even you, can't deny that they are very similar! Compare them to Java, Lisp, C, Go, Haskell, Perl,...
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I had to google "linux-libre". So they actually rip out all the proprietary code? Must have horrible driver support. Every piece of hardware on the market is proprietary... Where do you draw the line then. I'd rather draw the line above the
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
Anyone have any thoughts on why python and ruby are so similar, yet so far apart? They are obviously very close, because people switch between them all the time. And they are compared on everything (languages features, libraries, tooling...
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
That would be really great. Me being skeptical pays off after all. This is why HN is so great. I look forward to your blog post.
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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I was wondering about this. Are they planning to keep some part open source? I feel like they ditched that entire idea...
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I agree it's a bit disingenuous. But I believe, for example, that the fact that Android is easier to develop for than iOS, delivers all the crappy "I just got out of college" java apps. And although they promote it as the platform to rule t
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I tried to analyse that article a bit. Paragraph 1: Ok, so we have some serious competition. 2: We are not going to beat them, we are changing the game. 3: There is massive developer potential. 4: Html sucks, or does it? 5: Frameworks and c
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I tried some FirefoxOS phones for about 20 minutes @ fosdem. As a developer the idea of native html is tempting. As a normal user I'm rather unimpressed. "What can this do, that my Android can't?" Without the answer to that question, people
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
The fact that it runs Qt is the biggest win in my opinion. Must - learn - Qt !
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
It wasn't recorded. At least not officially. Fosdem has so many rooms, I think they just give up at some point. It's a shame though. Edit: Just checked and there are videos for only one devroom. And there were around 30...
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How would you compare it with python for things like unit testing c code? Here lua is chosen because of it's small footprint, but for testing that doesn't really matter.
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It's very small and uses very little memory. It's designed to be embedded. And has a liberal license (MIT).
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
Indeed, prototyping functionality is the main point here. The whole system isn't even part of the default install and can be turned on/off. Easier is always good. It's still far from easy though.
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by AlexanderDhoore 14y ago
I was at this talk @ fosdem. Pretty cool stuff. He said he considered java (there have been attempts to write drivers in java) and python. Python didn't make it because of high ram usage (java wasn't any better). He didn't look into ruby, b