anand-bala

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by anand-bala 5y ago
I personally love watching the live coding sessions by Andrew Kelly, creator of Zig, regarding progress with the language/compiler. Archived videos available on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/showcase/7818787
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by anand-bala 5y ago
I personally use Setuptools (.py and .cfg) with pyproject.toml for the build settings. Last I used poetry was a couple of years ago, and IIRC it didn't gel well with Conda environments.
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by anand-bala 5y ago
Well, the author did post the entire email thread (redacting information that may be proprietary) on Imgur. Personally, I think the Replit CEO could have explained what the specific issues were before threatening to sue. Since there was no
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by anand-bala 5y ago
> Part of the function of time is to filter out the timeless from the merely timely This is such a beautiful observation. As a kid, I wasn't into "old" fantasy and scifi, but recently have started reading them. And I must
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by anand-bala 5y ago
If you loved Tales Of Earthsea, you _must_ read the last book in the Earthsea Cycle: The Other Winds. It takes a very introspective approach to the notion of mortality and immortality, which ties in with the importance to the _names_ of hum
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by anand-bala 5y ago
I suffer from severe depression in general and social anxiety around more than a handful of people, and have talked to therapists regarding this. One huge benefit of therapy is that I was quite quickly able to answer the question of __why__
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by anand-bala 5y ago
I loved the DMT story, and I would love to know more about this Owl drawing tutorial you recommend. :F
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by anand-bala 5y ago
In most cases, what you are looking for is a language server like `clangd` (works for most compilers) [1]. You can find a Language Server Protocol implementation for your editor at [2] (I don't think it lists __all__ clients, but it sh
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by anand-bala 5y ago
If the issue is with including transitive dependencies that are in your own codebase, then you should annotate the public interface header to the implementation details with IWYU Pragmas [1] that export the implementation (for example [2]).
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by anand-bala 5y ago
I've found that using IWYU Pragmas [1] for codebases you own and IWYU Mappings [2] for third-party libraries __almost__ entirely eliminates weird IWYU suggestions (there are a few annoyingly stupid suggestions from the tool I just igno
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by anand-bala 5y ago
While I agree with a lot of the points that the author is making (especially #5 regarding major labels feeding into the "viral hits" hype), I feel like the author is discrediting a lot of musicians that actually care about the mus
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by anand-bala 5y ago
I am not sure what you mean by "false abstractions" in this article. Could you cite some concrete examples in the article that support your claim? The author isn't claiming to go into a deep dive into C or C++. They are tryin
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by anand-bala 5y ago
As an ex-Sublime and ex-VSCode user, I realized that macros and Visual Block mode covers all my use cases for multicursor functionality.
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by anand-bala 6y ago
Disclaimer: not a parent, but anecdotally curious as a child. Give them video games. Problem solving, and creative button mashing as a must if you want to be good at a game. Then slowly extend to things like old laptops (get them to help yo
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by anand-bala 6y ago
This is a great point. Personally, the only reason I would want to switch to Emacs is Org mode but the muscle memory for custom Vim and Tmux keymaps is hard to give up.
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by anand-bala 6y ago
The Rust rewrite of Coreutils (this post essentially) _is_ meant to be a drop in replacement for GNU/Coreutils. OTOH, ripgrep and fd are not "drop-in replacements". Rather, they are "replacements" that devs can use
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by anand-bala 6y ago
You have a valid point, but if the only formatting issue you will have is tabs, then running `zig fmt` on your codebase is pretty much a non-issue. If your project is small, just run `zig fmt` on the command line. If you have a large codeba
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by anand-bala 6y ago
I think the whole point of picking a language standard is to prevent the "space vs tabs" debate. Andrew is trying to standardize the language formatting issues, similar to tools like `rust fmt`, `gofmt` and `black`. The "Spac
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by anand-bala 6y ago
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile.
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by anand-bala 6y ago
I came here for an intelligent discussion on why this article seems like some sales/marketing nonsense, but stayed for the Reddit-like quips.
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by anand-bala 6y ago
(On the phone so forgive the possible typos) I am not sure (1) is a very convincing argument. The subtraction of 1 internally is not necessarily gonna be there once the code gets compiled. I will personally concede with you on (2), but it&#
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by anand-bala 6y ago
> Does anyone know if the Rust community has ever done anything original, though? Depends on what you call "original". Is the Servo layout engine _not_ original because layout engines already exist? :) Moving away from the rhet
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by anand-bala 6y ago
To me, it doesn't seem like it is LLVM doing the heavy-lifting as much as Docker/Podman (which are used through Cross). Maybe I am missing something... I definitely agree with you that Zig and Go handle cross-compiling much nicer
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by anand-bala 6y ago
I am not sure if you read the article in it's entirety. The author's point is the exact opposite: while Ubisoft developers are ok with burning churches (which magically restore themselves), they do not show any of the other Viking
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by anand-bala 6y ago
This is sooo true. I realized that there are actually some subreddits that are well moderated, and toxic stuff is quickly removed. I also made it a point to stop browsing Reddit at the first comment that is either posted by a troll or is of
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by anand-bala 6y ago
I am an avid (Neo)vim user. I love it and have been using it for the last 4-ish years. I know it's not a lot, but I _am_ in my early 20's. :D I started coding only during my undergrad (computer engineer), so first editor/IDE
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by anand-bala 6y ago
I personally use Flatpak for Discord and Slack. I used to have issues with my package repositories not being up-to-date too, but this is much more convenient.
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by anand-bala 6y ago
This is true for Autotools projects, but isn't true for CMake, Bazel, Meson, and others. Let's take CMake for example, which is IMHO the most popular build tool: most modern CMake projects prefer to use the Ninja build system over
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by anand-bala 6y ago
All the things you mentioned can be found in Zig! [1] It's exception semantics are very similar to Go, but unlike Go, you have to handle the error. It has constructs like `defer` and `errdefer` which allow you do clean up at the end of