Roboprog

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541.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Luck of the draw. I have not seen the huge Perl funcs, only a few times in C (literally thousands of lines). But that's just the crowd I happen to have worked with. YMMV, as they say.
542.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Yep. That's where I found $" and the other one, whatever it was :-) I can remember $_, $? and $!, but that's about it. And I like Perl.
543.
by Roboprog 10y ago
That's an important page - for reading other people's misguided cleverness.
544.
by Roboprog 10y ago
The real WTF, in any language, is relying on precedence, rather than just using parens. I've seen some expensive boo-boos due to operator precedence mistakes (e.g. - in C) That said, there are a lot of special variables that can be ted
545.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Perl idioms translate to Ruby quite well, but with better object syntax, and a more unified runtime library to deal with code blocks or other higher order function type usages.
546.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Ruby. (mentioned elsewhere, but let's distill it down)
547.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Well, if you wanted "Perl, only better", you went with Ruby. Python is good, but it has a different flavor.
548.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Aside: what stops chumps from making 3000 line Python "run" functions? (as far as I know, Python doesn't give you an error message when your function gets up to 66 lines, or whatever, long)
549.
by Roboprog 10y ago
The article had a point about not overdoing it, and, to consider specifics of things that actually helped, which would sound more sincere if mentioned. You have to remind yourself that people actually are helping you. (skip the joke about
550.
by Roboprog 10y ago
The rich did just fine before the New Deal. They'll be fine again. The other 90% of us are going to be left behind, though :-( It's too bad, though. Our country made a lot of progress and did some amazing things in the 20th cen
551.
by Roboprog 10y ago
As much as I dislike Trump, it is pretty amusing watching many of the insiders squirm, since they don't like him either. (this presidential election seems to come down to a "Simpson's Treehouse of Horror" scenario where
552.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Yeah, I would like to hear about the red side, too. Both parties represent the rich, alas.
553.
by Roboprog 10y ago
But when the emails are about business, they belong to the business. They can be subpoenaed, and so on. Doing stuff that is very close to official business on private email accounts is shady.
554.
by Roboprog 10y ago
There are good high level languages out there that use automatic memory management. Java (language) just isn't high up that list. If I'm going to pay for a garbage collector, I want to do functional programming, NOT mutable OOP.
555.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I have not used Embarcadero's Delphi, just their database client. I have used Free Pascal, though. Interesting, but no demand for it :-( The whole 90s C/C++ thing was such a debacle. Running C for app work in the internet era r
556.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I haven't used Borland's stuff (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, TP-Windows, Debugger) since the early 90s. I bought a copy of Delphi around 96, but never really used it, as my late 90s job was more off in the unix side of things by then
557.
by Roboprog 10y ago
No vim plugin for VS? I haven't used VS in about 10 years.
558.
by Roboprog 10y ago
They seem to have become what Borland should have.
559.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Agreed. Started with Eclipse, then Netbeans, now IntelliJ. Cumbersome seems like a good description for Eclipse. I love the ease with which you can reconfigure the layout from task to task with IntelliJ. "Distraction Free" mode
560.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Or, use an IDE and vim. (vim plugin) The vim plugin is a good extension. You get all the automated viewing / searching / generation (if need be), plus the "hands planted on the keyboard" few-key-strokes low level edi
561.
by Roboprog 10y ago
And that works well for some use-cases, as well. E.g. - I (only) want to read some hidden link data in the original page DOM, then load some page fragments that are taking longer to generate.
562.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I guess I should have said it is helpful that somebody is putting together a tutorial for what they feel is a useful path to a certain destination. BUT, the author might want to address the "elephant in the room" that there is a c
563.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Oh sure, let's pick on the fat kid :-) Yeah, there's a lot of evil lurking in Java-land, but that doesn't stop people from having to use all those things, either.
564.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Describing that collection of tools as "minimalistic" was indeed a touch of irony. Angular (1.x) might not be "cool" anymore, but it can be pretty darn "minimal" to set up: https://github.com/r
565.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Process, thread, task, whatever. (I so remember the first time I was reading about threads in OS/2 and Novell back in 1989 or 90 - no risk not worth taking to squeeze a little bit more out of 10 MHz CPUs with OS's with crummy proc
566.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm sure it was. But that's still a bit of a risk. Yuck.
567.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Seriously: "Soylent"??? Somebody thought that would be a good name to market mystery food sludge? Just the link title made my WTF-ometer peg when I saw it. As Bullwinkle used to say: "I think I shall now be sick."
568.
by Roboprog 10y ago
"Ensure" (I think) is the stuff in a can that they give old people to make them NOT lose too much weight. That sounds close to Soylent.
569.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I believe it is "only" one process per tab on Chrome. This sounds like having multiple processes per tab (or at least, active tab), splitting up different kinds of work to "specialist" processes. Clarification / re
570.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Easy to do: "power corrupts..." and such.

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