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by cannam 7y ago
Obviously depends on what you're doing, but in my experience it generally isn't as fast as the C++ I write and compile with a modern compiler. Maybe comparable with other optimised compiled languages with GC. It's not magical
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by cannam 7y ago
This is neat, and I didn't spot any mistakes in my first very light skim through. One practical nit is that the position of the "forward" button moves around depending on how long the section title is, so you have to keep cha
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by cannam 7y ago
The name "Standard ML", with a capital S, is not ambiguous - it's (still, just about) unambiguously the name of a programming language. You have to call the language something. For decades it was mostly just referred to as ML
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by cannam 7y ago
> No, "distribution licenses" are very common in this type of commercial software for embedded systems market So does this whole topic apply only to embedded systems then? I am a Qt developer who has bought Qt licences in the d
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by cannam 7y ago
Is that a new thing invented to go with this start-up licence? I can't see any reference to distribution licences elsewhere in their pricing material. It seems... eccentric... to make a public announcement of the price of a new licence
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by cannam 7y ago
> Apple ships a very old magic file with macOS I particularly relish the way it identifies macOS disk image files as VAX executables. I hope they never change that.
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by cannam 7y ago
So it's sort of like a mode switch? You give the prefix, and then you can give it a whole series of commands, based on a crib sheet that it shows you, that have that common prefix - without having to retype the prefix - before passing
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by cannam 7y ago
Oh, evil wasn't something I ditched - I never used it. I just mentioned it because it's so often cited as a vital thing. (ooh, nice potential pun there in vi-tal... hm) Same goes for the colour scheme. It's the higher-level a
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by cannam 7y ago
What's a hydra? (in this context)
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by cannam 7y ago
> I completely agree. I used vanilla Emacs for about a decade before finding list-packages I think it helps to think of Emacs as just another platform - and a nice stable one. You may or may not use, or know about, all the "applicat
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by cannam 7y ago
Rosen's short book "Piano Notes", about the "job" of being a concert pianist, is a terrific read. If I remember aright, it's this book that describes the nerves of the performer preparing to hit the fortissimo
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by cannam 7y ago
> I also enjoy reading what people though the computing future would be like This prompts me to propose (although it's not obscure) "Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea" by John Haugeland. It's an AI textbook that
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by cannam 7y ago
That's an amazing opening. I'd like to read that now. (I have heard of this book before, but only in outline.) Edit: Oh my word! He wrote the text of the children's book "Bread and Jam for Frances" (and, I now learn
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by cannam 7y ago
Your harmony book sets a high bar for obscurity! I'm sure many of us with an interest in harmony would like to know more - please tell us something about it. A book I am very fond of that I don't think is widely known (though it
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by cannam 7y ago
> Of course, Apple did announce that it will be ripped out in the next release They did? Damn, I was using that...
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by cannam 7y ago
> are familiar with his most famous phrase In some cases, possibly, via Asterix: https://www.everythingasterix.com/latin-jokes-content/2015/4...
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by cannam 7y ago
If I'm reading this correctly: as soon as you drag a path into the terminal window, anything run from Terminal has access for that path apparently permanently, through a special hidden capability attribute, bypassing the usual Catalina
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by cannam 7y ago
> Do they exert creative control over things that are submitted for notarization? No, they don't, but the article covers two different topics: notarizing apps for macOS desktop (for which you have to pay the developer fee, where pre
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by cannam 7y ago
Interesting article with some nice pictures and links. I have a very simplistic question. The article asks, "Given the historical popularity of 80x24 terminals, why do so many modern systems use 80x25 windows?" My question is: Do
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by cannam 7y ago
I have the same feeling about Vista. I think there must be a Vista Revival one day, as there are for architectural styles.
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by cannam 7y ago
Would love to have had the Open Look and Athena scrollbars. Open Look was super cool looking, but awful to use. Athena was (is?) awful looking and lacked any affordances for beginners, but was terrific for expert use. I am fond of Open Look
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by cannam 7y ago
Absolutely right I think. Getting feedback from users is surprisingly hard and it's important to show gratitude for it even when it's bad. I've found it quite hard to get feedback even when I push out beta releases of an appl
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by cannam 7y ago
Ooh, that's nice. I'm definitely using that. Thank you.
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by cannam 7y ago
> The thing is, the contents of a commit aren't patches. They are snapshots of the worktree I know that is true of Git - that's why I thought that that was what you were complaining about.
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by cannam 7y ago
Ah, I misunderstood you. I thought you were asking for the identity of a commit to be the identity of the contents of that commit, i.e. the changes - but it seems you're talking about the contents of the working tree at the moment of t
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by cannam 7y ago
> the identity of a commit should be defined by a hash of its contents only, but independent of its history I think this is sort-of how Pijul and, earlier, Darcs work ( https://pijul.org/ )
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by cannam 7y ago
This makes for one difference which sometimes bites people even if they use the two tools in the same way: if you change a file "while committing it", e.g. changing it in one window while writing the commit message in another, Mer
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by cannam 7y ago
I hadn't realised the first iterations of the PC keyboard used the tall Return key even in the US layout. I wonder why they changed it. (In my view the tall Return key is far nicer to use than the little flat one)
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by cannam 7y ago
There definitely are people who toggle Caps Lock every time they want to type a capital letter. That's how my kids were taught to type at primary school, presumably because small hands have difficulty reaching with the Shift key, and i
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by cannam 7y ago
Official documentation may be more important for a framework that is new, especially if it's one that developers are being required or encouraged to switch to.

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