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by DCKing 12y ago
It's actually too general. What I mean with component here can be anything from a line of code to a class hierarchy. In a sense, using the word 'component' here was an ugly hack. I should have gone for the proper solution and
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by DCKing 12y ago
To be fair, PHP has a well-known problem of a lot of people not being able to properly judge the quality of the code they write ;) [1] [1] Of course I don't mean you, my dear PHP writing comment reader.
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by DCKing 12y ago
I love the term 'ugly hack'. It's a very short way of saying 'a solution for a problem that assumes too much of the current context in which this component is called, and is guaranteed to break when the context changes&#
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's worded quite strongly, but the programmer can only be certain that a certain bounds check is guaranteed to succeed if the compiler agrees. In other situations something about the current context may allow a bounds check to pass, b
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's the job of the compiler to optimize out things it knows are secure. If an array lookup is known to be secure at compile time , then LLVM already optimizes out bounds checking without the need of a fast mode [1]. If there is not e
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by DCKing 12y ago
The "unlikely"s and "by accident"s in your comment are correct if and only if you assume too much about the scenario in which LibreSSL is to be deployed. It goes far beyond web servers, you know. For example, what of rou
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by DCKing 12y ago
Obviously Google makes more money when the web and 'software' has a better reputation. Even 'altruism' itself can be a business model for a company the size of Google if this improves their image and therefore their prod
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by DCKing 12y ago
That was not his point. /dev/urandom on Linux does return low entropy strings when it simply doesn't have any at boot time. /dev/(u)random on BSD actually blocks until it has collected enough entropy to get going
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by DCKing 12y ago
The RNG device for Mac OS X's XNU kernel is open source [1]. The kernel for OS X is open source and you can compile your own kernels if you want. [1]: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72&#
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by DCKing 12y ago
> end of the road for this one design. Yeah, that's exactly the question I got from reading it. If they are implying the end of the road for this design, does that imply they have a next design? If so, why would they want to redesig
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by DCKing 12y ago
Curious they're explicitly naming this the "final evolution". First up, I'd be surprised if they continued with a "Raspberry Pi 2" soon. The RPi is still very adequate for its original goals in education and wi
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's interesting to see that most of these libraries are either web services or language support. Are client side apps for the (Oracle) JVM definitively over?
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Scala was a short term hack to fill in the gaps until Java has lambdas. If you think this is true and not just trolling, you are extremely ignorant about Scala's history, Scala's aims and Scala's features. Scala is so mu
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by DCKing 12y ago
Samsung and TI don't design their own GPUs so it'd be surprising to see them outpacing AMD in this. Qualcomm's efforts also appear to be behind AMD so far, and they don't appear to have as much priority for it as AMD doe
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by DCKing 12y ago
Well, I think the answer to you question then would have to be that not enough advantage could be gained from changing program profiles to compensate the disadvantages of JIT.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Now I don't know if it's intentional or not, but many things you are saying are just FUD. You seem to be assuming that the only way to do JVM stuff is considering all the difficulties that enterprise Java shops with legacy project
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by DCKing 12y ago
> But why not just cache the JITed code? What is the difference between AOT and sufficiently aggressive JIT caching? > Caching first-run still gives you the ability to do more/new profiled-based optimization later. Well you could
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Compared to Scala, Go is incredibly simple, both to learn and to use. Probably true. Go has a far more simple language specification, but it's not as if Scala is particularly alien. > If you don't have a lot of experience
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by DCKing 12y ago
I'm not saying Go is a weakly typed language. I'm just saying that the statement "Go is a weakly typed language" is a factual statement that may be true or false. You were wrong in positing the claims "weakly typed&
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by DCKing 12y ago
Are you aware that the notions 'weak' and 'strong' are actual terms used to describe type systems [1] ? Did you bother to look that up before going overboard and immediately accuse me of bias? I don't program in eit
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by DCKing 12y ago
Go's type system being weak is a factual statement. Haskell's type system being overcomplicated is an opinion. One might prefer a weak type system over a strong type system, but that's a different discussion. The parent clear
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by DCKing 12y ago
There's a difference between "the language has long compile times" and the implied "you spend a lot of time waiting during development". It is true that Scala's compile times are long, but the tooling provides
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by DCKing 12y ago
Scala? Strong static types, lots of quality libraries both for Scala and 'inherited' from Java. Fits well among the languages you already mention.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Why the hostile reaction? Expanding your horizons is not a bad thing. > Most javascript developers want to use Javascript OP mentions nothing, parent mentions CoffeeScript. Dart also has packages and an official package manager. It also
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by DCKing 12y ago
> - they interact poorly with requirejs and amd in general. > - the tooling in general is currently rubbish; no way to easily combine sass + jade + coffee into a web component (eg. with gulp, no the dart bindings don't count as t
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by DCKing 12y ago
There is a bit of convergence going on. Chrome is now a first-class citizen of Android; its tabs will now appear seperately in the multitasking menu. Android apps are coming to Chrome OS in windows. If this is to be interpreted as a first s
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by DCKing 12y ago
This has been an incredible mission. Ignoring all tremendously profound scientific discoveries that have been made, it would have been worth it just for the pretty pictures [1]. I hope someday we can have missions like that to Uranus and Ne
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by DCKing 12y ago
I admit that I have not taken SBT anywhere near its limits. For simple projects, later versions do present a very easy to read build system in my experience, though.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Scala 3 will be a bigger undertaking, likely to have a major amount of breaking of core language contructs and other fundamental changes. Experimentation is already underway: it's called the Dotty compiler [1]. [1]: https://
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by DCKing 12y ago
If you frame your question in that way, it's hard to provide a good answer. IDE support and SBT are great for many people as was pointed out already, and they are improving. These complaints are, in my perception, quickly becoming a th

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