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by adev_ 7y ago
> Perl (cpan), Python (pip or conda), Ruby (gem), and Rust (cargo) all behave as NPM does Wrong. None of them have chosen the "micro-package" way of NPM. None of them have an average size of "3-10" line of code per pa
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by adev_ 7y ago
For the note: ChaiScript is from Jason Turner. He also does CPPCast ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCjADS4u3uJDTqUaG0H9dA ) and is a regular presenter at CPPCon ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBk
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by adev_ 7y ago
Yes. You can fire a state employee in France but the departure bonus is big and it cost money. Consequently it is much better for shareholders to push them to leave by making their life miserable, and it's exactly what they did....
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by adev_ 7y ago
> Assuming some portion of employees will commit suicide from the job loss It is not. The problem here is that no firing has been done. They harassed they own employees close to suicide to make them leave instead of paying them to leav
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by adev_ 7y ago
It does not solve anything sorry. You protect your business, That's your choice. But it will make me stay with Qt until better OSS alternative.
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by adev_ 7y ago
Sciter has very likely the right approach : HTML/CSS for the GUI, native languages for the logic. However it has one major issue : it's proprietary... And that's a no go for many project / companies. I would not make my
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by adev_ 7y ago
For a pragmatic, really readable configuration file format, TOML never disappointed me ( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml#user-content-local-date ). - This is human readable contrary to the JSON family and its {} ab
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by adev_ 7y ago
> Compared to Java, Javascript, Python, put together? Yes still. Look to your laptop right now and count the software running in C/C++ vs anything else. They still dominate by far. And the current fashion of writing everything in J
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by adev_ 7y ago
And still I prefer all these decisions to a pseudo-compagny that try to create a monopoly on publicity by rebranding Google-chrome (WebKit). Brave could almost be qualified of a scam. They have all ingredients of a scam, including an ICO.
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by adev_ 7y ago
And ? The Linux foundation heads have a similar salary range, like many other foundations and it is not an issue. "Not for profit" means with a public stated goal, means that your share holder will not suddenly overcome your compa
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by adev_ 7y ago
> Most of us do startups to do something more than to schmooze, threaten and ultimately bilk customers paying with other peoples money. Do you know Theranos ? That's the definition itself of bullshit and it was a "startup"
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by adev_ 7y ago
> calling someone a fanboy is not an argument I do not think having called anyone Musk fanboy, but you seem to have been hurt or felt concerned wierdly :) I did say that Musk hates the idea of Hydrogen car, and that might not be only for
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by adev_ 7y ago
> Hydrogen was a dead end in 2000 and it's only getting deader Easy sentence with no content. Dead on which aspect ? In Elon Musk propaganda speech ? Hydrogen never was a dead end technically. It's only blocker is cost of gener
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by adev_ 7y ago
> It'd be just perfect for Toyota, then, once they give up on Hydrogen, The Fuel Of The Future. Before getting back to Hydrogen when the world realize there is not enough Cobalt and Lithium on Earth for every car.
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by adev_ 7y ago
> As usual, France is really good at introducing laws that don't bring anything new instead of simply enforcing the current ones. The usual French way is to have law that makes almost everything illegal but with laws that are never
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by adev_ 7y ago
Signal, or what any chat system should be : E2E encryption, user friendly, Open Source, Vendor neutral. What else ?
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by adev_ 8y ago
> Assuming the script is hosted on an https site, is a popular tool (like brew or rustup) from a trusted source, why would this be any more dangerous than downloading and installing from a a package manager? Most package manager use an
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by adev_ 8y ago
> The media is usually biased towards left-wing ideology, with a globalist spin. Since Macron embodies both those ideals, it's easy to see why he gets helped by the media. Ahahah, the good joke. Most medias, everywhere world-wide ar
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by adev_ 8y ago
> It's very easy to implement GDPR compliance, and A LOT of websites opted for blocking their content in Europe instead of working to make their services compliant. "A LOT". I live in Europe and the number of website inacc
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by adev_ 8y ago
> And you would probably want to focus on parallelism, where C++ again is not the best. Here again, this is wrong. 99% of highly scalable parallel code that run on supercomputers is C++ or Fortran. And there is reasons to that, if you wa
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by adev_ 8y ago
> Most programs don't need C++ performance. Java is usually within factor of two and usually fast enough. Meshing software is a typical program where you need C++ and where Java is a terrible choice. By nature, meshing makes you pl
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by adev_ 8y ago
> And do people need the productivity/prototyping of Python? Often not. Most work is on established code bases where static typing (even weak static typing) is a huge benefit. You can change "productivity/prototyping"
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by adev_ 8y ago
Not even considering that unordered_map is not the fastest hash map implementation for C++. There is plenty of the flat hash map implementation (swiss tables) around that beats unordered_map by an other factor.... https://abseil.
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by adev_ 8y ago
> Sure, the Nvidia driver is closed-source and a pain to work with for OS developers, but for the use-cases it's designed for (CUDA etc), it's far and away the best-in-class on Linux. It's unfortunately a sad truth. CUDA w
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by adev_ 8y ago
> Ethernet nowadays can do RDMA, soft guarantees on latency, in-order and reliable delivery at lower costs, and an option to reuse existing L2 networks. Mellanix has squeezed the infiniband cow dry. And who did the Ethernet RDMA protocol
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by adev_ 8y ago
> HTTP2 is stateless. It follows the same semantics as HTTP to be a generic stateless protocol. It is not currently. HTTP/2 header compression is stateful. HTTP/2 is a protocol that appear stateless to the end user.
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by adev_ 8y ago
JR rails makes an important part of its benefits from the huge commercial centers (Atrée & others) they run in their stations. That's a model that works in Japan, but cannot run everywhere. Not every country is a tiny island with s
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by adev_ 8y ago
Outside of costs, an army / police using a foreign-develop proprietary operating system for their everyday internal need is insane.
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by adev_ 8y ago
And I would argue that a Macro is external language put on top of your language as a patch (hack), when your language is not expressive enough for genericity. Then yes, there is nothing as "proper" Macro. There is just an attempt
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by adev_ 8y ago
There is nothing as "a proper macro". There is proper meta-programming support or a badly design language.

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