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by bremac 11y ago
Scheme has the smallest (useful) language specs that I know of. For example, R5RS is 48 pages (44 if you exclude the back matter.)
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by bremac 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the loop in the last example. AFAIK top-level plpgsql statements (including DO blocks run in psql) execute in a single transaction, so it seems like you end up slowly locking the entire table, a
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by bremac 12y ago
Master / slave replication also has a synchronous mode, so lack of consistency isn't an issue. Either way, you still need to do some work on top of replication in order to get automatic failover.
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by bremac 12y ago
It should be available from https://www.youtube.com/user/osbootcamp/videos at some point in the next few days.
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At the restaurant of the future, tablets take your order(theatlantic.com)
46 points by bremac 15y ago|58 comments
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by bremac 15y ago
As someone who has had an infection requiring dental care: dental surgery is covered by the Canadian provinces if it is medically necessary. On the other hand, preventative care and cosmetic surgeries are not covered.
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Can Color-Blind Users See Your Site?(msdn.microsoft.com)
5 points by bremac 15y ago|2 comments
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by bremac 15y ago
Interesting. The extensions to the type system remind me of Ωmega ( http://code.google.com/p/omega/ ), though without higher-order kinds. EDIT: Turns out "Programming in Omega" is cited by the section on related work. No wonder the mention
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by bremac 15y ago
Adding a newline into a line buffer (which is a user-space buffer) flushes the buffered data up to and including the newline. fflush also flushes a user space buffer. Also, the "for those" implies I'm talking about someone else, not myself.
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by bremac 15y ago
printf prints to standard output, which is line-buffered by default when reading from a tty on UNIX variants. This can lead to strange problems for those who try to use it to track which parts of a program are being executed, as demonstrate
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by bremac 15y ago
It's closer, but it still increases the screen real-estate used by some elements significantly - for example, the line item for each email displayed in the inbox has grown from 23px tall to 29px tall in the redesign. Maybe I'm in the minori
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by bremac 15y ago
Perhaps http://ropas.snu.ac.kr/~bruno/papers/TypeClasses.pdf is the paper that you're looking for?