Skinney

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by Skinney 13y ago
Well, I'm one of those guys that prefer simpler languages. I prefer C over C++, Scheme over Common Lisp, Kotlin over Java/C#/Scala, Python over Ruby, Go over C++/Java. Kotlin is a language where every feature is carefull
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by Skinney 13y ago
When the only thing you care about is performance that is a valid comparison. Besides, Nashorn is fast, was ment to be fast, and they are working on making it faster.
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by Skinney 13y ago
Which isn't a bad thing
544.
by Skinney 13y ago
Great!
545.
by Skinney 13y ago
Seems like Kotlin is stabalizing, does anyone know how close Kotlin is to 1.0?
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by Skinney 13y ago
And Nashorn is supposed to be faster than Rhino... Nashorn and V8 are both JS-engines, why wouldn't you compare them?
547.
by Skinney 13y ago
Isn't the only real difference that hg branches are constant, while bookmarks are temporary?
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by Skinney 13y ago
What? Git push by default pushes to where you cloned from. If you want to push to a different remote, you say so: "git push another-remote". If the remote doesn't have that branch, you create it, same as you would with bookma
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by Skinney 13y ago
All branches can change, and are mutable in that regard (altough commits can't change). Local branch == Bookmark with unpushed changesets All branches and commits/changesets are treated equal. Yeah. In mercurial you have Branches
550.
by Skinney 13y ago
You don't have mutable branches in Git, I think he refers to commits mercurial don't allow you to alter (public ones). Local branches in Hg is the same as bookmarks you havent pushed. Remote tracking branches in Hg would be bookma
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by Skinney 13y ago
core.logic doesn't really use macros does it? Maybe to simplify the syntax, but macros is in no way required to build a core.logic library, at least not in the same way as core.async requires it. The real beauty of macros is to simplif
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by Skinney 13y ago
C# allows generating and re-writing code at runtime. Couple that with reflection, bypassing private/protected modifiers etc. Does that make it dynamic? Genuinly interested, what defines a dynamic language?
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by Skinney 13y ago
Not by default no, but it easily supports dynamic code through 'dynamic'
554.
by Skinney 13y ago
It is still a plugin, it's just bundled/installed by default. I've worked with Mercurial for the better part of a year, I'm not clueless about it. But yeah, since branches/bookmarks are an integral part of how you w
555.
by Skinney 13y ago
This is due to Git's tight integration with regards to branches and namespaced branches though isn't it? Hg push isn't aware of bookmarks as far as I know, so Git has more to explain compared to Hg, where lightweight branches
556.
by Skinney 13y ago
Hows the backup story with Hg nowadays? Git uses an immutable storage solution, so rebasing or other commands to alter history doesn't delete anything. Hg doesn't have the same architecture, so how does undoing histedit work? Genu
557.
by Skinney 13y ago
check the docs? What is so hard to remember about "git push"?
558.
by Skinney 13y ago
git stash? Actually, you can also just create a branch, commit your work (instead of hg qpush) and just use git rebase --interactive when you want to "finalize" your work.
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by Skinney 13y ago
Actually an object in JS stores string keys only, if you try to insert something else it's auto-converted to strings. Array is an object wich stores integer keys. You don't really have a datastructure that stores arbitrary keys in
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by Skinney 13y ago
Wouldn't two threads possibly run in parallel in a multi-core system? Concurrency, as I understand it, is dividing things into tasks that can run (to some degree) independantly of eachother. Parallelism is two or more concurrent tasks
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by Skinney 13y ago
In a nutshell, generational GCs works by scanning live data. Thus, anything not scanned is garbage. While the application is running, it also allocates new data. If you allocate an object somewhere --after-- that area has been scanned, the
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by Skinney 13y ago
The problem has been that IE contained alot of proprietary extensions, which were never a part of the standard. Since IE had most of the marketshare, people used IE, and thus things break when other browsers don't support the same exte
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by Skinney 13y ago
In my oppinion, one of the coolest things about Node is the ability to share code between server and client. Especially for validation, this is awesome.
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by Skinney 13y ago
The next release after 0.12 is 1.0. They want to be sure that the APIs are stable, secure and well designed before they push the 1.0 release.
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by Skinney 13y ago
actually, asm.js is just javascript. Basically, Mozilla looked at what sort of javascript code that the different JIT's allready handle really well, and made a specification out of it. So even in Chrome, asm.js will run very efficientl
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by Skinney 13y ago
You use the Option type. Option can either be None or Some(T). I think Rust optimizes this to (non)null, so there is very little, if any, overhead compared to the equivelent C++ code.
567.
by Skinney 13y ago
What do you mean? If you know Clojures syntax for Java interop, reading Java API's shouldn't be much of a problem. Searching for java howtos on how to use sockets and such should also give you a fair amount of results...
568.
by Skinney 13y ago
Nitpic: Clojure delegates most things to the VM. The subtle difference that it works just fine on JS engines and CLR. Arc and Golang would not be a good idea. I'm not trying to be overly negative, but Arc does have it's issues, th
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by Skinney 13y ago
You could have that in principle in any language. In Clojure it's built-in and idiomatic. Besides, there are people who prefer Clojure over Common Lisp and Scheme. You asked why anyone would want Clojure without the JVM, I just told yo
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by Skinney 13y ago
I would store application state in a atomic reference, and have "time" be updated every second by a timer. I would add a watch to the application state, so that every time application state changes, the UI is re-drawn. At least th

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