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by benibela 5y ago
I have always used Pascal for those reasons, and fast compilation speed FreePascal only does safe optimizations. (unless it has bugs where it does work at all)
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by benibela 5y ago
Unfortunately, classes teaching C often start with telling people that with C they learn how the real machine and the real CPU works on the lowest levels.
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by benibela 5y ago
Fun fact: 2134567890 is a valid IPv4 address You can try and ping it
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by benibela 5y ago
A funny thing is that I read that post years ago And this week I randomly thought about it. I also thought I should have bookmarked it, because now I do not know where to find it again
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by benibela 5y ago
It took me perhaps an hour trying to figure out how to save/export my edited photo...
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by benibela 5y ago
And Pascal
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by benibela 5y ago
I benchmarked dozens hashmaps when building my own programming language in Pascal Such an 2-array insertion order map turned out to be one of the fastest maps I was a little bit surprised
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by benibela 5y ago
But the standard C++ std::unordered_map only came with C++11
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by benibela 5y ago
I just implemented decompression in my HTTP client this week I could not test that part because both server I tried send raw deflate, without zlib container
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by benibela 5y ago
I did not know what else to do. And when I start something, I also want to finish it
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by benibela 5y ago
The are new theories for cycles: https://www.eur.nl/sites/corporate/files/2018-07/mooij-pup-2...
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by benibela 5y ago
We could get a lot of new land from a Mars colony
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by benibela 5y ago
But without rust it is unsafe
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by benibela 5y ago
Recently I finished a PhD about causal inference. How can that help my life or career?
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by benibela 5y ago
I had that problem after working a year on my open source projects. Then I went to get a PhD. I thought it would be flexible enough that I could keep working on oss. But there was no time for that. If it had been in a similar field, I could
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by benibela 5y ago
When I was a teenager I finished a dozen software projects Closed-source games for Windows 98 It was absolutely perfect. Closed-source, no one comes and complains they cannot compile anymore when the compiler and the library headers change.
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by benibela 5y ago
The best language that no one uses
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by benibela 5y ago
Open source is the worst waste of time ever. 20 years ago I was selling shareware software, and 15 years ago I moved to open source software, and since then I have not been paid anything for developing. Yesterday I made a new release of my
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by benibela 5y ago
So the nanobots will be stopped much faster? https://xkcd.com/865/
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by benibela 5y ago
On Windows 9x you could crash everything with a blue screen by trying to access c:\con\con Even remotely, <img src="file://c:/con/con"> on a website Those were fun times
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by benibela 5y ago
Why use tongue clicking rather than your voice?
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by benibela 5y ago
Or even better: text-only like HN
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by benibela 5y ago
XQuery 3.1 is also XQuery for JSON Having spend a lot of time to implement both XQuery and JSONiq, I rather wish there was only one such language
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by benibela 5y ago
I liked this syntax so much I now use XQuery for everything
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by benibela 5y ago
That is the problem with JSON. XML worked much better for integers. And if it is typed with XML schema or XPath, XML has an xs:unsignedLong integer type. I wrote my own command line XPath JSON-query tool and used bigdecimals for JSON numbe
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by benibela 5y ago
Seriously: https://github.com/benibela?tab=repositories I have been doing it for 20 years, and all the time Pascal had null-safe strings and C-like performance. And the strings even had mutability xor aliasing with copy on
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by benibela 5y ago
HTML5 only exists because the people who wrote the early browsers and HTML parsers did not understand SGML. If they had implemented SGML/HTML as the old standard said, we could still use that standard, and the nice short tags like <
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by benibela 5y ago
I tried to build a non-tree HTML parser that stores tags would have become a linked list of four nodes --> --> --> To efficie
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by benibela 5y ago
I have been rewriting things in Pascal for years, because it is much safer than C, and no one cares about that :(
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by benibela 5y ago
It became harder In the past you could write a straightforward parser for the pages you had. When it did not work on some other pages, you could say, that page has invalid HTML, it is not expected to be parseable. Now you have to spend a lo

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