Arelius

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by Arelius 15y ago
The problem is many languages are designed on US keyboards. And even engineers who are otherwise mindful of unicode and other internationalization problems, may trivially forget what keys may not be on other keyboards. I suppose your best b
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by Arelius 15y ago
Making a strong association between tasks and message boxes like erlang does makes too many assumptions. That'd be an apt choice for many languages. But for Rust, as a systems languages, that seems like a poor choice.
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by Arelius 15y ago
It's actually really consistant with the rest of their decisions. Ports channels are much more primitive then mailboxes/messages, and yet, still safe. Mailboxes can then simply be a library built on top. This makes less assumptions.
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by Arelius 15y ago
I'm not really sure that Rust is quite ready for much usage yet, always worth a try, but some simple things are still pretty hard.
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by Arelius 15y ago
Sorta... many types have a more strongly enforced ownership style lifetime scope, but depending on the data you are declaring, the collector may come into action automatically. Basically, Rust makes it easy to avoid the collector by clear o
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by Arelius 15y ago
I think your first point is valid, but Punctuation has other advantages, the symmetry between {} and the distinctness of the symbols (Taller than most, for instance) provide other advantages for the later.
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by Arelius 15y ago
As it turns out, Web Browsers and AAA video games in addition to Kernels are things which generally require a "systems language"
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by Arelius 15y ago
Agreed, but not surprising... calling a nice modern lens "warm" would be nearly an insult. Modern lenses generally prioritize accuracy to warmth, and appropriately so. It is however a little sad that there is such a small market for more st
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by Arelius 15y ago
I'd hardly call the STL, ATL, or WTL particularly heinous abuses of the template system.. And the syntax, is in general, pretty reasonable... Boost on the other hand...
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by Arelius 15y ago
That's sort of like saying that any RISC machine becomes a CISC machine at soon as you install the JVM on it (With the caveats that I don't know if the JVM has a CISC instruction set)
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by Arelius 15y ago
The difference is the purpose of the system. I the prior, the purpose is to simply multiplex the hardware into multiple logical systems performing different tasks. And the later the purpose is to build a single unified system. It has more c
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by Arelius 15y ago
While I agree that C++ templates when used for anything but simple type generalization, are a gross, gross part of C++. I'd hardly call that core to the C++ syntax. However, I'd also argue that using templates to that extent is misuse. Even
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by Arelius 15y ago
This is something I need in my life! Tacos delivered via flying robot. Could you imagine getting the delivery while at Dolores park?
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by Arelius 15y ago
I'm not sure that closing over only global really counts...
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by Arelius 15y ago
Interesting. Function pointers are powerful, but are hardly a replacement for closures.
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by Arelius 15y ago
No, not really. Closures... close on variables, function pointers, are just pointers to functions. What you are saying is sort of like saying that Classes and Objects are equivalent, creating a closure creates an instance , wheras a functi
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by Arelius 15y ago
Not as well known to C programmers, or not as well known to programmers who don't program C? I don't know a single C programmer that doesn't regularly use function pointers.
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by Arelius 15y ago
The global interpreter lock is a large one IMO. One of the huge advantages of type safety is that you can use types to help enforce thread safety rules, but if the interpreter itself can't handle it, that's a huge problem!
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by Arelius 15y ago
There are a lot of problems with C++, but I've hardly heard syntax referred to as one of them.
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by Arelius 15y ago
IMO, you want to do this, at least initially, in a language that has an AST that is built for user manipulation. That is to say, you want to prototype this in Lisp. Yes, Lisp has paredit. But that gives you a prototype that is most of the w
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by Arelius 15y ago
> Maybe relying only on personal reference is doing it wrong then. We try not to, but other forms of recruitment have thus far, returned less than stellar applicants. The only other luck we've had is actively seeking out people with pro
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by Arelius 15y ago
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. Just saying we see it less. We're open to remote workers (We have one person working from Greece ATM), but so far haven't been impressed with any applicants we've received from the 'midwest'. I'm always loo
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by Arelius 15y ago
I have a very small sampling of midwest developers who I've worked with to be a representative sample. But for those I do know, the great developers from back home already moved out to the bay.
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by Arelius 15y ago
While the substance of your argument is coherent. Your argument could be improved with clarity. I understand that English is likely not your primary language. And no offense intended, but grammar does add substantially to clarity.
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by Arelius 15y ago
> Quite simply that is not true. There seems to be evidence that this is, at least statistically, true. There will of course be good developers in the Midwest. But when you combine the draw of the valley, with the fact that most of the
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by Arelius 15y ago
I don't know. Getting something in orbit isn't too expensive, but there is only a few people who do it, and there is a big legislative bottleneck. Easy to compute trajectories and everything makes orbits easy to track, and hard to put up. W
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by Arelius 15y ago
My guess is that it doesn't scale. It seems to violate the second law of thermodymamics.
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by Arelius 15y ago
Can you hook into another movie trailer service? Perhaps Apple trailers? I imagine that since trailers are Ads, there might be a service that provides some sort of affiliate commission, or at least shows them without ads and without fees.
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by Arelius 15y ago
Agreed, the Arrow was pointing somewhere completely unrelated on my system. Best to redesign that rather than try to guess it.
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by Arelius 15y ago
I don't think that they generate more energy emitted as heat, rather it is that heat dissapation becomes much more expensive at higher density.

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