IsTom

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601.
by IsTom 12y ago
Actually, there was a story about somebody selling 0-byte executable for DOS allowing you to resume programs because of some peculiarity.
602.
by IsTom 12y ago
Monospace fonts are fixed-width too and they don't look bad. The thing is that they're full-width.
603.
by IsTom 12y ago
Are there any reliable reports about size of LoL? All I've seen is Riot-made infographics without any backing. On the other hand http://steamcharts.com/app/570 seems trustworthy.
604.
by IsTom 12y ago
There's only one RFC though.
605.
by IsTom 12y ago
It's their victory that they convinced you that they don't want just to squeeze everyone else dry.
606.
by IsTom 12y ago
If we (as in democratic countries) don't keep outselves together because there are "worse things" (there always are) there will be no demoracies anymore in few dozens of years.
607.
by IsTom 12y ago
This is a standard construct in functional languages, probably why it's getting into C++14. This "|" is $ in Haskell with its arguments reversed. F# even has it in this particular order of arguments "|>" IIRC.
608.
by IsTom 12y ago
Never seen that happen and we drive to visit our futher familiy there every other month.
609.
by IsTom 12y ago
BM is too provably O(n + m) (and without dependence on alphabet size unlike KMP) if you apply two heurestics that I don't really remember. For some reason it's not mentioned on wikipedia.
610.
by IsTom 12y ago
Works for libc.
611.
by IsTom 12y ago
Any language that has C FFI is susceptible to heartbleed-like problems.
612.
by IsTom 12y ago
You won't see (#a,b#) in client code, that's hidden behind the facade of a library, unless you are very desperate. Nor will you use pointers.
613.
by IsTom 12y ago
If a database is not kill -9 resistant then how can it be power-off resistant?
614.
by IsTom 12y ago
Haskell doesn't require you to do that by default. There is a warning flag for that, but in general language is okay with defining partial functions, more so than most languages (because laziness lets you cheat death).
615.
by IsTom 12y ago
It's not that much better on Linux. As a fan of Haskell it makes me sad.
616.
by IsTom 12y ago
"These days"? Really?
617.
by IsTom 12y ago
One of points of the article is that if you write a+b then compiler is free to assume that no overflow happens. If the compiler was sufficiently smart then if you wrote if(checked_addr(a,b,rp)) { //something 1 } els
618.
by IsTom 13y ago
It just makes programs ambigious when reading. The amount of typing you save is the amount of type information the reader loses. It's okay if there's just one instance of IsString you're actually using, but if you're usi
619.
by IsTom 13y ago
As a non-fan of OverloadedStrings, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
620.
by IsTom 13y ago
I've met an 'architect' who didn't know either. Apparently Java world is governed by a different set of rules.
621.
by IsTom 13y ago
Generally, there are infinitely more things that don't have a closed form at all than things that do.
622.
by IsTom 13y ago
IMO one of the most useful features of FP languages is type inference. I'm not sure you can cherry-pick that.
623.
by IsTom 13y ago
> native code can not be generated for modules using maps Does it mean HiPE or something else?
624.
by IsTom 13y ago
I disagree. Erlang is great for even small applications, as long as they're never turned off.
625.
by IsTom 13y ago
Because it only took 6 hours anyway.
626.
by IsTom 13y ago
It lets you traverse a lot less of memory. It's great for concurrent garbage collection.
627.
by IsTom 13y ago
It's a wiki with a link to github repo. You need to compile it first.
628.
by IsTom 13y ago
I used to be a fan of multiparadigmatic languages, because hey, I can do anything just the way I want, but then I heard Carmack during Quakecon say: "Languages talk about multi-paradigm as if it's a good thing, but multi-paradigm
629.
by IsTom 13y ago
Perhaps it varies wildly between countries. I've never heard of anyone I know having a CT scan, but I know of 3 MRI scans.
630.
by IsTom 13y ago
Most of the time compiler can do without most top-level declarations too. They're a form of documentation enforced by the compiler.

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