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by buserror 8y ago
I also think that the committee is out of touch. C99 was an awesome improvement on the language, and since then, it went downhill. We don't need the extra weird C11 syntax things, duplicating of existing libraries; we want tools that s
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by buserror 8y ago
Not really. awk is pretty simple, basically I just assume it's plain C with a huge regexp pattern 'switch' case at the top level, then I google again for the arguments to substr() :-)
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by buserror 8y ago
I wish the BBC stopped downgrading their coverage to the level of the mirror+daily wail websites, and create articles by cut&pasting other bits of 'social media' to make 'content'. As a non-native english speaker, fo
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by buserror 8y ago
That's an OSX kernel interface, not at all related to what they called 'classic' afterward... Beside, despite the syntax sugar, it is NOWHERE near C++ at all. No constructors/destructor (if I remember correctly), no stac
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by buserror 8y ago
I remember these years well, and there were years where C (not C++) was prevalent on the mac dev market. Metrowerks only appears quite late, with the PowerPC macs -- I remember having both a prototype of the PowerPC 601 66Mhz pizza box a
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by buserror 8y ago
everything was written in pascal back then, not just Photoshop. I spent years writing pascal as a professional mac developer before Lightspeed C (which became THINK, then Symantec C later on) appeared... Then I never looked back. MPW (Mac
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by buserror 8y ago
Ah, so not related to Filesystem in User SpacE[0] that has existed for much, much longer time? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
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by buserror 8y ago
Yes and it annoys me no end that clang has refused to implement them as well, as they were part of my codebase as well... How better to implement stuff like qsort() callbacks than with a simple, contextual small function just over it ?? Y
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by buserror 8y ago
Well, it's not disappointing really, it's just recognition. I have no problem with how the system works, it's silly, it's unbalanced, it's all based on illusions, but here it is... You can either feel disappointed
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by buserror 8y ago
I've been trying to coach my wife out of this for years and years. She's very smart, dedicated, hard working, talented, analytical and you name it -- she's a fantastic person... And she has perma-doubts. She recently refused
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by buserror 8y ago
Not really. Experience induced clarity. I'm like OP. I've been in the tech industry for a stupid amount of years, and I swear I can improvise a CEO grade speech for any circumstance.
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by buserror 8y ago
Interesting the comments about the bubbles being detrimental to the optics. For most of last century, having bubbles in the lens elements was actually a sign of a great lens! It was eventually narrowed down on how the glass was cooled (conf
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by buserror 8y ago
That's the standard reply. However, people with dentures don't change them every 3 weeks. There are perfectly sane way to disinfect/clean these sort of things on a long term basis. You could imagine leaving your brush in a cl
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by buserror 8y ago
The health industry has no reason to cure patients. On the contrary, they have reasons to create new patients. And it's across the board. I tell myself exactly that when I look at my toothbrush. A toothbrush lasts about ~3 weeks be
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by buserror 9y ago
Ah, you can learn the beauty of merge AND rebase at the same time then... Here to 'present' feature branches, we take a feature development branch will all the associated crud... Once it's ready to merge, the dev checkouts a
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by buserror 9y ago
I use git sub-trees. Actually I love the thing. They give you a 'linear' history, and allow you to merge/pull/push into their original tree, keeping the history (if you require it).
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HEDGE FUNDER JOHN THOMPSON: Tesla is 'on the verge of bankruptcy'(businessinsider.com)
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by buserror 9y ago
In 88 (I was 19) I was a 'professional mac developer' and wrote a stack in hypercard to convert huge list of points to polygons, and split them with other polygons. The project was to split the parcels of land from Lille to Paris
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by buserror 9y ago
My brother is a companion stone carver. He's always there when there is an historical monuments to repair, as most insurance companies insists the work is done by them. he's full of cool stories, and taught me quite a few cool tri
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by buserror 9y ago
I agree, I'm paid by the hour to deliver a set of features, and the client very, VERY rarely would pay for me to start 'diverging' and writing test cases for something they see as superfluous. A bit of field tests (ie, users
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by buserror 9y ago
I've been writing C for 30 years+, and my style has changed massively in that time. In the meantime I did all kind of other things, perl, ruby, Obj-C, C++ (a LOT), java/script etc etc... My 'design patterns' in C now h
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by buserror 9y ago
Actually I was less than impressed with the rather poor HDR impression of the photos in that original article. Makes me think of all the wrong cheap tools around that makes dark skies, fluo greens and halos around everything....
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by buserror 9y ago
To be fair, even a while back it became pretty easy to use fbdev (memory mapped), and Cairo to draw on it. For event handling eventfd (and now libinput) also became quite a bit easier to use as well so many many years ago I decided to cut o
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by buserror 9y ago
I use a cheapo chinese brass fountain pen with an extra fine nib for scribbling in my notebooks, and I use a fancy Mont Blanc 146 with a medium-fat nib for writing cards, signing and others... People always mention how they loved my cards&#
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by buserror 9y ago
Too bad this ^^ was downvoted, because the big pharma has exactly the same incentives as the rest of the big corps at generating money. And they aren't 'nicer' than car or light bulbs companies. You know, remember the tobacco
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by buserror 9y ago
The thing people miss a lot about makefile, apart from what has already been mentioned is the fact you can have "local" version of the "global" variables, per rules. It's very very powerfull, clear to read, and simp
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by buserror 9y ago
Ahah funny I always seen these as ... these! Really I always thought it was quite elegant, in a nerdy way ;-)
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by buserror 9y ago
Donated too. I haven't have a fantastic use of the project until now, but I do appreciate the effort, and the will to resist the bullies.
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by buserror 9y ago
I actually disagree. I will take 100% of the time a kernel that /doesn't compile/ because an option has been set that had 'bitrotted' than a kernel that compiles with the same code in a "if (my device tree flag
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by buserror 9y ago
Yeah XIP is the only way to go for small config these days. There's some nice QSPI controllers that helps there, however, it's still such a waste. What's forgotten about is the impact on readability in the kernel... Last week

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