advocaat23

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by advocaat23 12y ago
Nevertheless I heard (I should investigate this rumour) that being lazy enabled an easier integration of the IO system so there seems to be a connection between pure (i.e. side-effect free) and laziness.
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Is it concerning that most Haskell optimization guides talk about adding ! to enforce evaluation? It may be a sign that pure functional programming is not quiet there in the real-time world (e.g. real-time rendering) and that some abstracti
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Pretty nice. Writing a tetris clone targeting terminals is a fun endeavor and the easiest way to produce some moving graphics (besides Conway's Game of Life). It's also interesting to ignore curses and read and write plain bytes t
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Firefox@Ubuntu14. I think it works as intended by the designer it just irritates me that some images will stand still while scrolling.
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Wow, again a page that messes with the scrolling experience? What's up with that? Terrible user experience.
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by advocaat23 12y ago
What a crappy design. If I scroll down and there is an image, I have to scroll further (without visual indication) and then the text will float over. I have seen this design now on multiple pages, how is this called? IMHO it is a terrible u
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Another approach would be to choose a client server architecture but this is probably faster done in a separate project. But the idea would be that we have something like an editor core that exposes a SMALL API (e.g. "change cursor pos
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by advocaat23 12y ago
It is true that there are systems (Lisp Machines, Oberon, Smalltalk, etc.) with a more integrated approach and there are great ideas, but what I meant with the term "IDE" is classic IDEs on Windows, Linux and OSX. These OSs are he
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by advocaat23 12y ago
>A simple example is if I want to iterate through every item in a container, I'd like to just type 'for', tab, the first few letters of the container variable, tab, and have it all set up. Resharper does this, and will eve
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by advocaat23 12y ago
I had a look at the video and it really seams nice, but for me the cost (learning yet another tool, integrating it into your workflow, dependance on yet another big-size software project) is too high. The fancy stuff they show you are in my
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by advocaat23 12y ago
I think it's always weird how multi-dimensional arrays are implemented in most C programming books. Do you guys really use a pointer-pointer approach to represent them? Because nowadays I always allocate a flat array and just calculate
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Cool tech, but ... I went to the About-Page and I got the following message out of it: "We all want to spend our time dooing meaningful things so we ... bla bla ... have to make an app for that". Come on, I think this is just bull
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Welcome to HN! Ruby is a good idea for webdev but keep in mind that Python is also dominant in other domains of computing in particular scripting and scientific computing. So in my opinion for a beginner Python is more future proof than Rub
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by advocaat23 12y ago
Good news! I would like to add that another advantage of Python is its usage for scientific computing (Math, Physics, Biology, ...) so students hopefully choose Python to help solving problems for their math classes e.g. using numpy and co.