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by Crinus 7y ago
Chances are those things were cloned from something else so you can simply clone that something else and put the clone in the array. AFAIK (though my knowledge is limited) in Self there isn't a language-endorsed prototype like in JavaS
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by Crinus 7y ago
What FaceApp incident?
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by Crinus 7y ago
I never used Chrome as a main browser (though i do use it sometimes for its automatic translation). Performance is ok but it isn't my main concern, i'm also concerned about features (after all lynx is faster than both of those bro
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by Crinus 7y ago
It became faster (not sure about double though) but i still remember losing MAFF, DownThemAll and a bunch of other addons. More importantly it is the functionality that was lost for new addons to be made that could provide features not thou
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by Crinus 7y ago
I have a bunch of computer CRT monitors and the only way to get bad refresh rate that you actually notice is to set them at 60Hz. At 70Hz or above (most can do 85Hz, any good CRT monitor should be able to go above that) you wont have any is
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by Crinus 7y ago
AFAIK this is a problem only if you want to regenerate the configure scripts. As a "user" (and packager) you should use the pregenerated configure script provided in the release.
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by Crinus 7y ago
After Firefox broke most extensions with their removal of XUL extensions and embrace of "WebExtensions" (aka Chrome extensions), it lost a major differentiation point from Chrome. People simply have no (immediate, practical) reaso
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by Crinus 7y ago
They are less common, but in general doing big projects in C as opposed to C++ is less common, at least in my experience (note though that it might be my bias on working with games and desktop software). C doesn't allow for much overen
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by Crinus 7y ago
Sure. As long as code generators that parse adhoc type descriptions from header comments and spit out code for a homegrown object oriented system / generic data serialization framework are banned on sight. Or most code generators in ge
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by Crinus 7y ago
> This is a way more common situation than the one you're describing (John Carmack) FWIW i remember reading that Carmack didn't really document nor explain his code and all people who bought id's engines got was a single d
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes, without having enough information to judge for themselves people tend to assume the worst. This applies to both the poll you linked and to people coming head first to a new complex codebase they have no idea about (yet need to learn fa
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by Crinus 7y ago
This reminds me of the Autotools duality: most developers hate autotools because of its unnecessary complexity but users (ie. those who want to compile the source) like it because of its flexibility (most autotool-based projects build prett
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by Crinus 7y ago
The problem didn't seem to be that C++ was slow to compile but the manager' inability to understand that C++ was slow to compile (i'm ignoring the whole "architecture astronaut" and "untestable code" angle
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by Crinus 7y ago
I think a more likely reason is keyboards. The main input device we use to interact with computers is a typewriter descendant, optimized for typing text. Mice are flexible but keyboards allow for more complex input. Touch devices (like touc
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by Crinus 7y ago
Sort of. Since it works by having a proxy do the heavy lifting and the proxy is most likely running a modern web engine, then it would be as secure as that proxy and engine are. No site will be able to access the NT 3.51 machine though.
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW when debugging i prefer the second style if for no other reason than that i can place a breakpoint in doOtherStuff while skipping doStuff. Also reading it, it is more obvious that the code calls both doStuff and doOtherStuff (though wi
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, the original comment was about bringing Flash back and Flash isn't exactly mobile friendly.
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by Crinus 7y ago
This depends on if you see Oberon-07 as a different "version" of Oberon or as a different dialect belonging to the same family. Personally i see it as a different dialect instead of being the same language exactly because it remov
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by Crinus 7y ago
Not an exception really, there are many simple languages and Oberon-07 (the dialect linked) is indeed an extremely simple one. Go is another language that is simple. And of course C (that compiler developers abuse undefined behavior to win
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by Crinus 7y ago
According to the linked article, by "passing a pointer" the sending thread relinquishes ownership of the object and, yes, cannot access it anymore after the point where it was sent. Of course this assumes all code in these threads
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not think it is in danger, it already does too many things that make it a complex language. Similar with Object/Free Pascal and to some extent C# and certainly others i cannot think of right now. These languages are like horses ru
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by Crinus 7y ago
Sure i am, i just keep the 9x for myself :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
Of everything that list all you really need is the X libraries and you do not need to carry (meaning distribute) those since they are part of the every single desktop environment and have a stable ABI. The rest aren't strictly necess
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by Crinus 7y ago
Opinions on a coworker they look down on, most likely.
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by Crinus 7y ago
A difference is that Digg didn't keep the old design around. With Reddit you can simply use old.reddit and forget about the redesign while being in the same communities you were already (no need to wait for the entire community to move
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by Crinus 7y ago
> casuals will be pushed to new.reddit, which may be a better fit for them. Why would new.reddit be a better fit for "casuals" when it is worse is pretty much every way?
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by Crinus 7y ago
So Java is native now? I think a simpler and easier approach is to simply wait until the inevitable next desktop disaster so that we can call Electron native.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> The way I see it is that a new toolkit like GTK or Qt is required in the target language. The way i See it is that a new toolkit like GTK or Qt is required in C so that it can interface with any language as to avoid unnecessary duplica
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by Crinus 7y ago
Let's have everyone come to agreement about if those "10x engineers" exist in the first place (and seen as a positive :-P).
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by Crinus 7y ago
Actually they did as macOS comes preinstalled, however this is irrelevant. The computer and the software is running under it must be under the control of the user, otherwise it is the user who is under the control of the software.

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