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by brinker 10y ago
Glad that the soundness bug was caught so quickly, and that the new version has been put out so quickly. Thanks Rust team!
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by brinker 10y ago
I don't think they were offering up Go as an alternative to C, but rather giving an example of an OpenSSL implementation in a language that isn't C. Rust is mentioned because the prior comment called for the creation of a pure-Rus
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by brinker 10y ago
Thank you so much for saying this. I agree wholeheartedly and think this is a very important point to make. Really, the whole pattern of Why Don't You Know This Already is nothing but harmful. When someone learns something new and shar
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by brinker 10y ago
Rust by Example was actually not originally a Rust team project. It was an independent work that was handed over to the Rust team for maintenance by the original author. As I understand, it received basic polishing and updates to make sure
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by brinker 11y ago
Sure, no problem. As a kinda funny aside, I also wrote the linked-to FAQ answer. Took a number of drafts to get all the fiddly Unicode terminology right.
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by brinker 11y ago
I shied away from the word "kind" simply because that has a specific meaning in type theory that doesn't fit here. Higher-kinded types are a must-requested feature for Rust, and I didn't want to confuse readers into thin
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by brinker 11y ago
Hey, author here! Happy to answer any questions people have, and happy to hear any feedback.
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by brinker 11y ago
> The package system for the rust language actually relies on github, as many found out during outage. This is not quite correct (although close to it). Cargo doesn't rely on GitHub, but it expects that there is some publicly-access
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by brinker 11y ago
Did you try using rust-gdb or rust-lldb? They're wrappers for gdb and lldb respectively that make working with Rust code a lot nicer. They ship with the Rust compiler.
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by brinker 11y ago
These types of articles are always frustrating, in that they very rarely provide an even halfway decent explanation of the math or science involved (if they do, it is buried deep), and are instead little more than a repetitive explanation o
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Taking suggestions for the new Rust FAQ
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by brinker 11y ago
This was the textbook in my file systems class a couple years ago. Great book that really does a good job of explaining how file systems work.
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by brinker 12y ago
Here ( http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20... ) is an interesting article about this issue from 2009. It says that while some states require the availability of information like name an
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by brinker 12y ago
There are a number of issues with this system: 1. The people providing the reviews are other students. How qualified are university students to decide if someone has the potential to be best in the world at anything? That classification is
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by brinker 12y ago
I'm not suggesting that combat-based games aren't fun. I've spent countless hours playing first-person shooters and the like, and they can be absolutely wonderful. However, I am also interested in video games as an artistic (
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by brinker 12y ago
It's interesting that the author's first idea was a combat-based game. For some reason, the world of game development has to a large degree becomes fixated on the idea of combat and violence. So games that don't necessarily n
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by brinker 12y ago
It's already been said, but this whole debacle is ridiculous. The fact that a judge was even willing to give Microsoft (a third-party organization) control over another company's property without that company being allowed to know
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by brinker 12y ago
The rise of gluten-free dieting as a fad has some interesting effects for people who actually have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. On the one hand, increased awareness has made gluten-free food more available, on the other, the stigma
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by brinker 12y ago
I'm not suggesting they trust another dev with their IP. Perhaps I phrased things poorly. I think it could be potentially worthwhile to make their platform more open to allow devs to introduce their own IP on it. I also think that Nint
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by brinker 12y ago
It's a little sad to see things the way they are. Nintendo has a load of beloved IP, and a generation of developers who would likely love to build for a Nintendo platform. But they've failed to capitalize on either.
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by brinker 12y ago
It seems some intellectuals take pride in being difficult to understand. As if that difficulty is proof of their intelligence. So they use big words and write big ideas, and wonder why so few others appreciate their brilliance. The truth is
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by brinker 12y ago
About a month ago I got an old slide rule from my Grandfather that he'd used in engineering school. It's a little thing, but it's amazing to hold something that was some decades ago the standard tool for certain types of comp