Derbasti

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by Derbasti 15y ago
Seconded, the book is friggin awesome, if a bit dry. It is written for an experienced programmer though. Personally, I learned object orientation through this book. I knew basic OO before, but this book really explained it to me.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I know a bit of eLisp and I quite like it. Frankly, it's not that Lisp syntax is bad (it's wonderful), but most popular languages have a C-derived syntax. For teaching to non CS-types, the target is probably a C-like language and I guess Lu
813.
by Derbasti 15y ago
Lua is pretty minimalistic. There are few batteries included. The standard library is very basic. There is no native object system, though implementing one is trivial. That said, I friggin love Lua for its flexibility and transparency. Once
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Very simply, the medical system can extract as much money from the patient as they want. The worse the illness, the more the patient will pay. Because the alternative is death. Health care is not a matter of supply and demand, it is a matte
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Good question. I'm going to try to answer it for embedding a scripting language into your existing code base. I'm going to presume that your code base is written in something relatively low-level because otherwise you would not need to embe
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I have quite some experience with Lua scripting and embedding. Honestly, I can't see any other language taking that throne any time soon. For all its quirks, Lua is an amazingly powerful language that was designed from the ground up for emb
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by Derbasti 15y ago
You can already do that...
818.
by Derbasti 15y ago
So that's like, three months? Ok, not exactly the first ones on the field, but good enough for me ;)
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Will there be a Lion fullscreen-mode and Lion-style floating scrollbars? That would make my day! Edit: Apparently, not so. A pity. Does anyone know when we will see them?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Does not seem to be available on the App Store in Germany. Could you tell me why?
821.
by Derbasti 15y ago
Look at Europe or Asia: All them old cities were designed without cars. Actually, many European cities today opt for car-free downtown areas.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
If you don't fill up dozens of football fields worth of city space with parking lots but instead build buildings, cities tend to get a lot more manageable without a car. Case in point: Just about all of Europe.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Japan is not alone with this. Just about all of (central) Europe has excellent public transportation, too.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
It seems to be a bit early to criticize Julia on details like that. Still, not a bad article.
825.
by Derbasti 15y ago
Want!
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by Derbasti 15y ago
The book Don't Make Me Think states that it is meant to be easily readable during one intercontinental flight. I think that is a good length for an introductory book. I have read a introductory books about programming languages. Usually, al
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I love how their iOS API documentation is laid out in the same style as Apple's documentation!
828.
by Derbasti 15y ago
But isn't that basically where the term came from? Actual insects frying on circuits and shorting contacts?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
That is a great idea! Even greater would be to extend this to a consistent way to manage windows whose title bar is above to upper screen edge. Both Windows and Mac OS try pretty hard to avoid this, but with two monitors it happens every no
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I guess Emacs and Vim get so many mentiones partly because we all want to rationalize the effort we put in to learn and maintain them. Text editors that cost less effort have probably a less profound impact on our lives and thus deserve les
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Visual Studio based projects don't play nice with the command line. Linking MFC without VS is a fast path to madness.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
> So long as it can do what you want. That is kind of the thing about Emacs and Vim, right? Vim is a text editor. Emacs is... well, Emacs is a text editor, too. And then an outliner, a news reader, a file manager, a source control inter
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Which just underlines his point. Feed Demon is functional all right, but I would not call it cool. In fact, I usually prefer to use my smartphone instead of Feed Demon.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
So true! Why is there no beautiful news reader for Windows?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
If only these tools would wirk reliably. I have seen too many cases when find all references did not find the reference I was looking for (even though it was in no way special or obfuscated). Goto definition works pretty well though.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
So, tell me, how do you use your Macbook? Are you a console junkie and live in the terminal anyways? Do you see value in the strictly commercial Mac App Store? What do you miss from Linux?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I think it's good that Linux is for geeks. I mean, what other options are there for geeks? I would much rather have Linux optimize for geeks and leave the fluff for OSX and Windows.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Some people (on this thread, too) seem to think that in order for Linux to be successful, it needs to become Windows. I think the exact opposite is true. Linux will never beat Windows at being Windows. But it may well be the superior operat
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I don't know. I don't have a problem with not being able to install stuff while updating stuff. Incidentally, the same is true for Windows and Windows Update enabled programs (think Office, Visual Studio) or OSX and the App Store. Also, whi
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by Derbasti 15y ago
There are plenty of cases where there is no real medicine. In many cases, all they can do is administer painkillers. Take a bad joint, lower back pain, migraine. In a good percentage of these cases, placebo works really well. If you don't b

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