Joker_vD

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   by Joker_vD 7y ago

   I manually wrote more recursive-descent parsers that I am comfortable to admit (hey, they're fun to write), and most of the "beyond the context-free!" approaches described in this article seem to me to fall into two categorie
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   by Joker_vD 7y ago

   Huh. So, how does one check that a cast from double to long would succeed in C? Just go and do lround()+errno check?
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   by Joker_vD 7y ago

   > It was the first language to add "if/else" constructs, GC, closures, first class functions, reference semantics, and recursion. "Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques, such as recursion and condescension.&
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   by Joker_vD 7y ago

   Oh boy. Right now, I am implementing a workaround for websockets in Safari on iOS 13 — apparently, they've somehow broken their already non-standard "x-webkit-deflate-frame" compression scheme and can't properly send fra
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   by Joker_vD 7y ago

   Sometimes you want to read some seminal paper from the 70s (somehow, most of the seminal papers are from the seventies), and half of the time it's re-hosted by someone or some university and is freely available, but another half of the
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   by Joker_vD 7y ago

   You probably need to add "increase human happiness" or something along those lines, because otherwise the group of "let's painlessly euthanize all the other humans first, and then ourselves" guys are trivially &quot