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by PeCaN 10y ago
I agree. The only questionable part is the stuff like *(uint16_t *)q = D; q += 2; // non-aligned access OK *(uint32_t *)q = literal; instead of memcpy(q, &D, sizeof(uint16_t)); q += 2; // non-aligned
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by PeCaN 10y ago
> At the moment, what's their real alternative? Ada? Chapel? ATS? D if you avoid the GC? > That said, I agree this isn't acceptable C code for something that runs on untrusted data while using tons of pointer arithmetic. Why
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Eh. I feel like long variable names would obscure the algorithm. And bit shifting and array operations aren't interchangeable…. C just tends to look like line noise for numerical algorithms sometimes.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
- C++Builder: Compiler ICEs regularly - Both: No undo in the UI builder - Delphi: There are about 3 different ways of adding an existing file to a project. They seem to differ in how they track dependencies. - Both: Project files periodic
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by PeCaN 10y ago
As someone who works with Delphi and C++Builder for a job… yeah, it's the single shittiest development environment ever conceived by man, and they charge exorbitant prices for it. It's actually gotten so bad that my company is opt
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Hokkien Taiwanese is no longer particularly prominent in Taiwan, let alone the Taiwanese kana (according to that link they're not even all in Unicode). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuyin is more relevant, as it&
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by PeCaN 10y ago
What the heck? Are there no antitrust laws or do they just not apply to Samsung? One family-owned conglomerate controlling 20% of a nation's GDP and basically all industries belongs in some dystopian TV show, not real life….
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I think the parent is referring to the tendency of Asian design to be more ‘fun/cute’ than ‘modern/flat’. There's less infatuation with low contrast flat designs in Asian websites and apps. Ads are somewhat invasive in both.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I kinda like that, actually. It's more usable to me. I'm not a huge fan of current “modern” Western design trends. Asian websites do have a tendency to be a mish-mash of incompatible UI patterns though (IME, but my experience is l
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by PeCaN 10y ago
…Believe it or not, humans in general have been a huge source of actual evil throughout human history. You could probably reasonably argue that Christians and Muslims¹ have contributed enough good that in spite of their evil actions they&#x
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by PeCaN 10y ago
As a practicing Christian¹, I can honestly say the BSD Daemon never bothered me. It's kind of clever. Also, I have it on good faith (heh) that the FreeBSD developers aren't satanists. Expressions like “speed demon” don't both
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Well, if you're building the next SnapChat, MongoDB is an entirely reasonable option and may even save you some coding time!
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by PeCaN 10y ago
BSD and Solaris (which also has kqueue, and something else IIRC) got this really right while Linux got this really wrong. I still prefer NT's IOCP, but kqueue isn't bad. epoll… is what happens when you get someone who's nev
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by PeCaN 10y ago
VMS could run a versioned FS in <128MB of RAM, so there's really nothing conceptually in the way. I bet with dedup off and some tweaking you can get ZFS to run in very little memory.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
PCPP is basically “Referral Links: The Website” so I think they probably make some decent money from vendors. I doubt the ad revenue is much since the target audience probably uses ad blockers.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
For the record, every IBM iSeries uses EBCDIC and those aren't going away any time soon (actually, the OS on those is very advanced and amazing, minus the EBCDIC part). Also, discarding intellectual curiosity for strict utilitarianism
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by PeCaN 10y ago
The problem with natural selection as pertaining to language is that the language may be great but die because the culture dies off or shrinks or gets assimilated. For example, I don't consider Spanish an efficient or well-designed lan
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Or Go or Rust. But Phoenix/Elixir does seem to be the new thing. Not that I mind, always happy for the Erlang platform to get more attention.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
AI and basic income in the same comment. I almost forgot I was on HN for a second there.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Well, to be fair, the original Ruby interpret was a very naive AST-walking interpreter. Not that Matz isn't a good engineer; I think he probably just wanted to experiment. (Take a look at the Ruby parser sometime if you need confirmati
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I don't consider Common Lisp “more dynamic” than Python; at least in that you modify code at runtime and such. Frequently Common Lisp code is not particularly dynamic, because you can get the same level of expressiveness without relyin
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I registered #lily on Freenode if you want it. Impressive work! I think this is the first relatively conventional language that I've gotten really excited about in a while. It's a really nice blend of features and a quality implem
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by PeCaN 10y ago
> I -strongly- believe there is a market for this. It's the game scripting language I never knew I wanted. I was going to roll a custom Lisp thing for a game that I'm considering, but I may as well just use Lily instead.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I wish they'd open source EdgeHTML. I suspect it's far lighter than Gecko or WebKit, given that its development basically started with “let's rip out half of Trident”.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
NetSurf actually is good. Most of the web is more-or-less usable with it (usually “less” but it's definitely bearable). It's stupid fast too. My only gripe is stability issues and that it's not officially supported on Windows
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by PeCaN 10y ago
In some alternate universe the management didn't stop Eich: Scheme became the lingua franca of the web. Smug Array Weenies criticize Scheme for being “insufficiently APL-like”, while pure functional programmers criticize APL for being
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by PeCaN 10y ago
As a hardcore BSD user, GPLv2 is perfectly fine with the BSDs. They all ship with GPLv2 software by default. FreeBSD doesn't like GPLv3, but OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD don't have a problem with it. I don't know about NetBSD off
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by PeCaN 10y ago
That's a valid point. Seeing as I don't build anything that has to scale well I can't really comment on this, but I don't think it scales too badly. With stored procedures it's more or less just your model in the
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by PeCaN 10y ago
> connections, parameters The database driver takes care of that, not the ORM. (It's also not black magic.) > transactions Huh? That's a database feature. BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK are ANSI SQL. ORM is an _Object Relat
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by PeCaN 10y ago
It's fat models vs thin models, just with fat database vs thin database. You have to be careful.

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