EdiX

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by EdiX 14y ago
Compiler and standard library are two separate codebases, in fact gcc gets routinely used with standard libraries other than GNU's. Reimplementing printf parsing probably is the cleanest solution.
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by EdiX 14y ago
The original VB was a far worse language than VB.net ever was.
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by EdiX 14y ago
Why wouldn't a more sensible solution happen instead? For example creating _ex versions of functions with many parameters?
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by EdiX 14y ago
Some people are wrong, the word they are looking for is runtime, not VM.
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by EdiX 14y ago
> Other problems though such as default function parameters are less likely to be addressed (it seems to me). It's unlikely to be addressed given that Google style guide forbids using default function parameters even in C++. > This
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by EdiX 14y ago
> To be honest I don't understand why this is on HN. Since when did these simple, short, and obvious posts become amazing and worth reading? I think some people just read the title think "yes, this looks like something I want to read on
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by EdiX 14y ago
It's definitely the ability to parse expressions like "<file>:<lineno>" and open files at the right position, it essentially makes it integrated with many many unix tools without actually having to write any integration code
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A Steady State Economy(liminalhack.wordpress.com)
1 points by EdiX 14y ago|0 comments
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Automated DRM keeps spoiling the show, from the DNC to Mars(jwz.org)
3 points by EdiX 14y ago|1 comments
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by EdiX 14y ago
> This way comments with so little value to the community that they are ignored completely or just downvoted would reduce the commentator's Karma If a comment gets downvoted the user already loses karma on it, does it really matter if y
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by EdiX 14y ago
> The evidence for or against TDD is, admittedly, inconclusive, but it's more recent and of a better academic caliber. There have been a lot of studies. Most of these studies aren't any good - but at least someone is trying. Can you poi
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by EdiX 14y ago
> Soon after launch reddit had performance issues and was rewritten in Python. The reason was explained here: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html I quote: Emacs and SLIME are a killer combination, but I develop on a Mac, and
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by EdiX 14y ago
BTW in go a string can be cast to []byte like this: []byte(aString) it returns the utf-8 bytes, casting to []rune gives unicode codepoints.
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by EdiX 14y ago
> Our legal system has no room for ethics. But your brain does.
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by EdiX 14y ago
And what if I'm just distracting myself thinking about irrelevant philosophical problems because I'm too stupid for the test?
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by EdiX 14y ago
I don't refuse to take them but midway through I always start thinking about the philosophical implications Wittgenstein rule following paradox, computational learning theory and solvable games. I also wonder if I would have a higher IQ (or
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by EdiX 14y ago
I can't believe this bug still exists after two years.
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Add-on developer abandons Firefox(andyhalford.com)
12 points by EdiX 14y ago|10 comments
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“Types considered harmful” considered insightful (arcanesentiment.blogspot.it)
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by EdiX 14y ago
"Fix permissions using the Disk Utility" I bet people will continue to give this suggestion as an attempted fix to random problems long after all memory of what it was actually for will be lost (i.e. classic environment screwing with HFS+ e
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by EdiX 14y ago
The logic here is that the detention of Bradley Manning without due process for two years in inhuman conditions along with pressure made to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal to halt payment processing to Wikileaks (later found illegal), whatever
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by EdiX 14y ago
Make upvotes and downvotes visible (i.e. not the final number the actual list of users). Knowing that no one will know fosters petty up/down votes.
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by EdiX 14y ago
"To further enhance the security of this fix, we will also supply a security TORX screw with each mechanical cap to further secure the battery cover in the lock" I hope it's not one of those small security torx that can be unscrewed by a fl
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Prophetic 1995 Student Internet PSA(youtube.com)
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Lessons learned from Fortress(arcanesentiment.blogspot.it)
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by EdiX 14y ago
You can tell gcc to keep around the assembly files it generates and it is human readable, does it mean that C code compiled with gcc is actually written in assembly? Is the litmus that they are caching the intermediates of the compilation o
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by EdiX 14y ago
Most of it automatically generated, therefore it is not written in C.
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Binary search eliminates branch misprediction(pvk.ca)
1 points by EdiX 14y ago|0 comments
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The Cellular automaton method for cave generation(jeremykun.wordpress.com)
2 points by EdiX 14y ago|0 comments
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by EdiX 14y ago
> like why does 'git push' push just the current branch, and 'git pull' pull all branches? It's the opposite, "git push" pushes all branches and "git pull" only pulls the current branch. I think it's because push will only do fast-forwa

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