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61.
by Volt 7y ago
Is your point that they'll fall for it again?
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by Volt 7y ago
> MacOS X is so unstable that even go developers had to go through libSystem Just to be clear to anyone else, the Mac OS X syscall interface is guaranteed to be unstable by Apple. Going through libSystem is the only way.
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by Volt 7y ago
That's the point
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by Volt 7y ago
It still sucks. I have a few Haskell projects from a few years ago that I wanted to compile on another system. So I froze the dependencies, moved the project, and tried to build. Solver failed. I gave up.
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by Volt 7y ago
Two things: 1. Why does the article in particular upset you? You talk about how J looks like ASCII vomit, and the article is trying to mitigate that. Perhaps it doesn't go far enough, which I would agree with. 2. What does an APL suc
66.
by Volt 7y ago
>The same could have been said of Gopher. I don't think Chrome ever supported Gopher, but if some other browser removed something that worked fine before I wouldn't like it either.
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by Volt 7y ago
Code is code and code is good.
68.
by Volt 7y ago
Does it have a garbage collector yet?
69.
by Volt 7y ago
Like which ones?
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by Volt 7y ago
The implementation needs to be maintained.
71.
by Volt 7y ago
To be honest, if they're going to do stuff like that they shouldn't be offering those features at all. Developers should stick to implementing features they're likely to maintain.
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by Volt 7y ago
Should have applied item 4 to item 3. I don't really know what's going on there.
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by Volt 7y ago
It's a comparison to Lisp.
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by Volt 7y ago
There's no open source version of kdb+.
75.
by Volt 7y ago
They were only marked as WIP when people noticed they were missing.
76.
by Volt 7y ago
Not the parent, but I think dynamic linking with system libraries is the only time it makes good sense. Otherwise you're just asking for trouble.
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by Volt 7y ago
But this is about Linux.
78.
by Volt 7y ago
I hope you're a scientist.
79.
by Volt 7y ago
What are they moving to?
80.
by Volt 7y ago
What makes it obvious?
81.
by Volt 7y ago
I'm trying this with Dyalog 16 (Mac OS X) and I'm getting WS FULL. Do you know why that might be? BTW, what kind of machine are you testing on?
82.
by Volt 8y ago
That China needs to put in that much effort to be competitive with the US isn't a particularly good sign. Work smarter, not harder.
83.
by Volt 8y ago
Precisely what are you looking for? Projects that were negatively received, or projects that nobody cared about?
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by Volt 8y ago
>and if it’s a toss up between the JS powered 3MB+ websites and endless shitty electron apps or WASM, I’m going to elect for WASM. I don't know why you think the situation would improve with WASM.
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by Volt 8y ago
Taking this further, wouldn't this imply that WebAssembly is only for the Web?
86.
by Volt 8y ago
Really? He single-handedly killed Flash? What a powerful man.
87.
by Volt 8y ago
Same thing could have been said for Java apps 15 years ago.
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by Volt 8y ago
Medium does have RSS feeds: https://medium.com/feed/<username>
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by Volt 8y ago
Yes, there are degrees. But everybody wants their language to be a winner, I guess.
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by Volt 8y ago
If by Python you mean numpy, then yes.

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