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by ajxs 7y ago
I wish I could remember the exact tool, this was over a decade ago. If you just do a quick internet search for such a tool you'll likely find whatever I used, it certainly wasn't anything sophisticated. It was a Windows GUI tool d
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by ajxs 7y ago
Very cool. Have you considered incorporating an option for following links within the same domain to a certain depth? I remember using tools such as this in the past to save all the content from certain websites.
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by ajxs 7y ago
The canonical example I was thinking of was this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html We only get as far as the second paragraph before the official manual is recommending that we use a 3rd party crate. I unders
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm not sure if you're just being disingenuous here, but you're right that you're not going to be able to use all functionality from the stdlib of Ada ( and others ) on every possible target, but you were never , ever
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by ajxs 7y ago
First attempt: https://pastebin.com/axqVuzHU
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by ajxs 7y ago
You've made a very good point that proficiency in developing compiler infrastructure does not imply that you're qualified to develop every specific aspect of a standard library. Date/Time, as you pointed out, is a very good e
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by ajxs 7y ago
That does sound pretty useful!
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by ajxs 7y ago
The spartan C standard library was what my comment regarding 'small languages' was referencing. I don't have much experience with many of C's contemporaries, but for an opposing view take for instance the standard librar
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by ajxs 7y ago
More often than not, absolutely. It requires a much higher level of competence to design a language and develop a functional compiler than it does to design libraries. There are packages in Node with millions of downloads, packages that are
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by ajxs 7y ago
I would beg to differ with this. The kind of functionality expected from Getopt is fairly standard these days. I also disagree that features like getopt really need to 'evolve' much at this point in time. At the risk of courting c
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by ajxs 7y ago
At the risk of being slightly tangential, I've been sorely wanting to air this particular grievance with Rust for some time. It's somewhat related, since the author mentions their package system. Its package ecosystem isn't n
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by ajxs 7y ago
Let us not for a minute forget Google's Dragonfly Project. It's actually quite concerning that Google has refused to work on DoD projects but continues to work in China.
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In my eyes this is particularly damning in light of their upper management's milquetoast, flaccid response to recent allegations of political bias. This is the same company that would have us believe that they are responsible and moral
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by ajxs 7y ago
( Without watching said interview, I'm in the office and don't have headphones ) Did Sanders not indicate his support for decriminalisation of illegal border crossing in the primaries? I would hardly take that as an endorsement of
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by ajxs 7y ago
Of course. I think he has a good point though, that much of the centre-right discourse pays lip service to nationalism while supporting free-trade and minimal control on immigration. So many who would consider themselves to be anti-immigrat
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by ajxs 7y ago
This is the fantastic irony of the completely false dichotomy that the public imagines mainstream politics to be. The modern left seems to paradoxically be supporting open-borders _and_ worker's rights. Normally I would further qualif
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by ajxs 7y ago
Perhaps I misread your initial comment, I posted it quite late. My apologies, I'm willing to delete my last post there for the sake of remaining civil if that helps.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Also, the suggestion that John Lennon's 'Imagine' was written before the rise of the 'modern nation-state' is complete and absolute rubbish. By the time John Lennon wrote that incredibly asinine song, India and Paki
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by ajxs 7y ago
Of course. Individuals on the receiving end do not play a role in deciding when/where that money is spent though. Foreign aid is something entirely different, it is something decided upon by congress. An individual illegally crossing t
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by ajxs 7y ago
You must be joking. Just FYI, I'm not an American and nor am I a supporter of Trump. In the recent Democratic Primary debates a majority of candidates supported state-sponsored healthcare for 'undocumented' ( sic, the newspea
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by ajxs 7y ago
Thank you for posting this, it articulated my views on this issue so perfectly. I would call myself a liberal. Recently someone else who would describe themselves as a liberal called me a "free speech absolutist", a term they thou
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by ajxs 7y ago
Supporting sensible controls on immigration hardly constitutes 'intolerance'. The framing of anything short of open-borders as 'intolerance' has perverted the entire modern political discussion.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Judging by the tone of the democratic primaries debates, even professing support for such a benighted concept as the sovereign right of your nation to control its border is enough to 'shock' at least a reasonable portion of the pu
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by ajxs 7y ago
Very cool.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I have always wondered this. I've always been somewhat enamoured with the stern and mysterious two-word nicknames of classified programs, such as the ones listed: 'HAVE BLUE', 'ACID GAMBIT', 'AUTUMN RETURN&#x27
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by ajxs 7y ago
It's very unfortunate that this language doesn't get the recognition that it deserves. In today's world there's more need than ever for high assurance languages.
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by ajxs 7y ago
There was some attention given to using the DragonEgg project for this purpose. I don't think it ever gained any traction, unfortunately. One unfortunate factor that inhibits the porting of Ada to new platforms is that the language&#x2
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by ajxs 7y ago
How is Trump in any way a 'fascist'? What do you think actually characterises fascism?
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Do you think there are any parallels between the bakers who wouldn't make a wedding cake for a gay customer and the company who won't host 8Chan?
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by ajxs 7y ago
I came here to post that very same thing. What a great resource that was!

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