Roboprog

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by Roboprog 10y ago
It looked like the battery pack was just behind the motor, in the nose, on the test plane. Easy to let the heat just flow back from the motor. Of course, it's a small battery pack. FYI: I've ridden a few regional flights from Sa
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by Roboprog 10y ago
And that was the joke: that the original code "out-minified" minify - that running the original gibberish through minify would NOT make it any smaller :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I was joking. The example sort of looks like something that would fall out of minify -- although 'a' - 'z' would have to be used/visible in a scope before 'aa' would be generated as a name.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
It depends on how many characters are significant to the compiler/interpreter. This was a real issue in the 80s, as laughable as it sounds now.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Or Apple "integer" BASIC. Probably a few other dialects, as well.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Thank you for that. That was a good little read. While many of the Bell Labs guys didn't much like Pascal, Turbo Pascal managed to address almost all of the complaints I've ever seen, while preserving the good parts of Pascal (or
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I remember in college in the mid 80s trying to get something to work on one of the Apple IIs in the library in BASIC, only to discover that my earlier experience with the disk based interpreter supported 6 char names, but the ROM based in
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Many early 90s C compilers did much the same thing, though the limit was usually around 32 chars, rather than merely 10.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Exactly. Make a "times" record/object/tuple (whatever the local custom you have for an aggregate type is), perhaps with a "tenth" nested such item (10% = 1/10), with "fall" and "rise"
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I miss Pascal "type" block definitions (or C typedefs, at least) when I have to work with too many Java generics. I know, [Turbo] Pascal (etc) never had generics. But if they had, you would have been able to make a type with a ge
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by Roboprog 10y ago
"I ran the code through minify, but it's bigger now?!?"
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by Roboprog 10y ago
So you run and you run, to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death! Something like that? If I remember correctly, the whole Dark Side of the Moon album is one big birth to death existen
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Honestly, the 2016 presidential election really does feel like the 1996 Simpsons Halloween special. (only without bothering with the meat-suit disguises) It's a two party system; you have to vote for one of the green tentacled monster
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Great, so you get to absorb the heat of vaporization from how ever many moles of water that is per hour.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Even in the Central Valley in California, it routinely gets into the high 100s for a few months in the summer. Having lived most of my life there, and knowing how debilitating that level of heat is, I can't imagine what drives peopl
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by Roboprog 10y ago
JBoss seems to work well enough. Er, Wildfly???
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I hear you :-) We have been doing an app rewrite at work to do a rich HTML/JS client, reducing the Java back-end to just REST services. As far as I'm concerned, there is still too much "Enterprise!" in the back end, but
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Pulling out of Java EE probably makes sense for them from a financial perspective. It's a huge codebase with god-awful complexity and a zillion legacy features. And, if it's not making any money, what do you tell your shareholde
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Sure, something that worked like a Bussard ramjet, but without necessarily funneling all the particles through the craft itself, would still be useful. Grab all the hydrogen (and any bonus dust) within a few kiloclicks and throw it backwar
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Thank you, thank you. THIS, exactly this.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Also, be sure to repeat adjectives and other name parts as much as possible. Ideally, the same names could be used in the directory/package, file/class, function/method and variable names. Never let the reader forget that t
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by Roboprog 10y ago
This article does a good job of encapsulating the prevailing Java "ignorance is strength" (worse/longer is better; abstraction is bad) paradigm. When are the right-tailers (in the bell curve) ever going to let you use new fea
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I've had the same "flashback" for a financial account site I inherited. Offshore work done in a hurry... In fairness, though, it's hard to constantly be on your guard NOT to EVER update something that might be visible t
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by Roboprog 10y ago
And then you call something that, unbeknownst to you, updated some shared state like a singleton. I like your rule #1. (But I do Java server programming so I can put the kids through school, so, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!&
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I seem to remember first seeing threads used to run Novell and OS/2 on the 80286. (they must of been invented long before that, but that was my initial "OMG!" exposure to them) But threads aren't just complicated, they
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by Roboprog 10y ago
The first part was a bit harsh, but you make a good point about games for girls. (my now 20 daughter plays a lot of console games, but hates "ugly" scenery)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
And here I was thinking it's about a practice of returning & accepting a tuple of ( primary-result xor dead-already-cuz ) and morphing the (primary) result type as the "f * g * h of x" pipeline cascades.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Wow. That made my head hurt. And, I'm more convinced than ever before that threads remain a TERRIBLE idea. Maybe Java 13 will have something like Erlang tasks with isolated memory and message queues (only) or something... Somehow I
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by Roboprog 10y ago
print $ref REFERENCE$HASH Or something like that, it's been a while. I'm spoiled by the Javascript debuggers built into Chrome & Firefox, although I'm not sure about the Node.js debugger. Is there a shell (either graphic
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Perl is also one of the fastest things out there - if your problem is doing lots of string handling. I have this little test that does a lot of string concatenation and garbage creation, which I recently pulled out of the closet to compare

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