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by bitcracker 14y ago
That's awesome! I have searched for an offline tool like that and it looks very good. Thank you!
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> The majority of the Clojure startup time is spent on initializing the Clojure runtime. That's correct but even without this startup time Clojure is significantly slower than other functional languages. Look at SBCL and Racket in http
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by bitcracker 14y ago
According to this link precompilation with AOT produces worse results than normal JIT execution. If so, what is AOT useful for? "Da AOT-Code über verschiedene Programmausführungen hinweg bestehen bleiben muss, ist die Leistung von mit AOT g
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by bitcracker 14y ago
It's an implementation problem of Java. I never understood why the JVM folks didn't get along to develop a JIT cache. That means the first time I start a Java program it would run normally slow. But from the second run on it would use the n
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> FPGAs are very expensive. Yes currently, but price depends on demand. On the other side, if FPGAs remain expensive then Assembler could become even more important to put as much code as possible into an fpga. > can be likened more
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> So, why would you want to learn 6502? It’s a dead language isn’t it? Well, yeah, but so’s Latin 6502 isn't dead, it has even been relaunched: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Relaunched-the-6502-m... 6502 was my first processo
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by bitcracker 14y ago
IMHO there is no better and faster way to learn a new programming language in-depth than to use it seriously in a project. Of course you have to be an experienced developer to do that, and you have to have the time and freedom to afford it
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by bitcracker 14y ago
Please don't misunderstand me: Weapons are bad. But if we can't avoid them then it is better to use the best option to make bad things a little better.
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by bitcracker 14y ago
I am also against warfare but if Linux (or OSS in general) helps to enhance the security and realiability of weapons so that they don't kill civil people accidently then it's ok. It's not Linux or GPL what makes things good or bad - it's th
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> Ada is "mainstream"? C++ "failed" in the 1990s? Do you realize that this report is written in "electronic design", or an embedded systems journal? It's not talking about the PC desktop here. I don't know the exact numbers but Ada stil
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> Porting XCode and emulators to windows/linux is probably a huge undertaking Apple doesn't need to port their software to Windows or Linux at all but simply allow to use OSX in an emulator. Even this is forbidden by Apple (it's not a s
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by bitcracker 14y ago
Agree. Even when all static analyzers in the world would say "Error free" it doesn't mean that your code is really error free. It just says that their implementation wasn't able to detect the other possible errors in your code. Btw. one of
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by bitcracker 14y ago
As long as you handle usual letters it is no problem to miss Unicode. How nice Unicode is I always realize when I copy and paste some foreign text from somewhere into Emacs or Racket Scheme and everything works just fine.
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by bitcracker 14y ago
Very good!
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by bitcracker 14y ago
One serious thing Lua is still missing is native Unicode support (correct me if I am wrong). When I discovered Lua the first time I was enthusiastic. The JIT is so fast, and everything seems to be fine. But missing Unicode is a big disadvan
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by bitcracker 14y ago
I disagree. Of course not _everybody_ can abandon C++ but some really can. I have developed C and C++ software for many years but with Racket Scheme (a functional language) I am MUCH more productive now. This works because I think and code
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> I'm really happy to see "lower-level" languages adopting these features. Makes so many problems that much easier to solve! Wouldn't it be much easier to use a high level language like Scheme which has these nice features built in alre
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by bitcracker 14y ago
> I'm sorry, but this is a perfect example of the difference between design and eye candy. You are absolutely right. Eye candy can quickly become eye straining. Hacker News is successfull not only because of its content but also because
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Interesting! I am curious how it develops. Another option (addon) would be to use commented invariants like in SPARK which are tested against the code by an automatic verification system even before compile time. To get an impression what i
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by bitcracker 15y ago
I have real experience with ADA (also C, C++ and many others), and I have discovered that ADA is brilliant, a way underestimated language. But ADA requires a lot of discipline which is a possible reason why many developers don't like it. I
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by bitcracker 15y ago
I would recommend to read this story about Ada which is the preferred language for highest quality software: http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/business_benefits
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by bitcracker 15y ago
The awesome thing about Linux is that I got a Unix like system for free (Windows 3.1 was mainstream at that time), and that I can do in Linux whatever I want to do because it is open source. Linux hasn't lost its fascination although I am a
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Yes, but it was fun to configure the modem and to calculate monitor modelines to get X11 working :-)
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by bitcracker 15y ago
I would like to see a graphical chart where I could follow the votings over time. That would be interesting.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Started with Basic and 6502 Assembler on the first available Personal Computer (Commodore PET-2001).
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Happy Linux user since 1992. Sometimes I also use Windows in VM for customers.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
LISP and Scheme still have one killer feature all other languages don't have: extremely powerful macros. http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/Lisp-Notes/Macros.html This article gives a good insight what about LISP is so awesome: http://www.defm
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by bitcracker 15y ago
> Evolution is a pretty cool tool. This is not evolution, it's exactly the opposite. Take the cake sample. You have a goal (the cake) and let the AI system find a way to reach that goal. Evolution has no goals at all.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Android 2.3 is good enough for most smartphone users. Android 4.x will be good enough for most Pad users. These are the two distributions I expect to be successful in the long run.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Thoughts on porting NumPy to PyPy: http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-p...

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