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by ch_123 11y ago
I believe they have started explicitly targeting C99 support in more recent versions in order to make it easier to port C code developed against gcc or clang. Here's an older article - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblo
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by ch_123 11y ago
He is asked why Creative Suite costs $1,400 more in Australia compared with other countries when the software is delivered over the internet.
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by ch_123 11y ago
Finally, official OpenMP support!
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by ch_123 11y ago
Given that Windows 7 is by far the most widely deployed and used version of Windows, I would imagine that testing it would be a pretty high priority for a company developing a desktop web browser.
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by ch_123 11y ago
The javaslang library has a similar construct: http://javaslang.com/javadoc/1.2.0/javaslang/control/Match.h...
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by ch_123 12y ago
I think FreeBSD 11 will have it. See this - http://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/attachments/259_introduc...
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by ch_123 12y ago
One disadvantage of libraries is that the compiler treats them as regular code. If something is baked into the language, the compiler and run time (if any) can reason about particular operations and optimize them.
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HardenedBSD Development Server (Funding Campaign)(indiegogo.com)
1 points by ch_123 12y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 12y ago
In between his work on VMS and VAXELN, and leaving for Microsoft, he was also responsible for a system called "Mica" which was intended to be a micro kernel system which supported both a Unix and VMS layer on the system, and was w
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by ch_123 12y ago
I don't know about the 730, but the 780 had a PDP-11 (/03 I think?) in the cabinet which was in charge of the system console, and bootstrapping the VAX processor with code from an 8" floppy disk. Funny how their (then) new sy
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by ch_123 12y ago
Officially, you are not able/allowed to install the Play Store. In practice, it can be installed easily and it works fine.
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by ch_123 12y ago
I've had the Jolla phone since January. I'm very happy with the device - the UI is great, it runs Android apps well, has a full Linux environment. The phone itself also looks really smart (IMHO) I had some brief issues with the ph
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ReactOS 0.3.17 released(reactos.org)
3 points by ch_123 12y ago|0 comments
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OpenSUSE 13.2 released(news.opensuse.org)
12 points by ch_123 12y ago|2 comments
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by ch_123 12y ago
Dublin too. Even while Ireland's unemployment is quite high, there's a large amount of dev positions available.
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by ch_123 12y ago
An Alpha one too... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tadpole-ALPHAbook-1-OpenVMS-Alpha-... (Note: I'm not linked to that auction, and it's over. It just happened to be the best set of pictures I could readily find o
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Tyan Ships First Non-IBM Power8 Server(enterprisetech.com)
8 points by ch_123 12y ago|0 comments
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Cray Chapel 1.10.0 released(github.com)
1 points by ch_123 12y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 12y ago
It is sometimes claimed that x86 cannot support VMS because VMS makes use of four CPU protection rings, despite the fact that x86 has four protection rings...
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by ch_123 12y ago
I read through some of "C Programming, a Modern Approach 2nd Edition" by K.N. King. The parts I read were good.
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by ch_123 12y ago
> systemd replaces init.d CentOS 6 had Upstart, right? Which is likely to become deprecated due to the fact that Ubuntu is also moving to systemd. Sure, Red Hat are the ones pushing systemd, but some disruptive change away from Upstart w
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Dragonfly BSD 3.8 released(dragonflybsd.org)
2 points by ch_123 12y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 12y ago
> The post also fails the mention the concept of region in Emacs: you select a region than perform one (or multiple) commands on it, instead of encoding the region in the command like in vi. Would the visual mode selected areas in vim be
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by ch_123 12y ago
I believe the GNAT-FSF Ada compiler included as part of GCC (as distinct from the GNAT-GPL compiler that can be downloaded directly from AdaCore) can be used to create non-GPL software, see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by ch_123 12y ago
"It never had a big company behind it or a good marketing strategy." Wasn't IBM a backer of Smalltalk before it moved onto Java? I believe Eclipse started its life as IBM's Smalltalk IDE...
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Microsoft chops the price of custom Windows XP patches(zdnet.com)
35 points by ch_123 13y ago|37 comments
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by ch_123 13y ago
Even if they were to do that, I doubt that it's portable cross platform code. Someone will need to port it, and it's hard to know how the effort required compares with the effort required to optimize the Mono runtime to be as good
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by ch_123 13y ago
I've upgraded XP machines with 2GB of RAM, and they were able to run 7 just fine.
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by ch_123 13y ago
They would get fixed quicker too...
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Jolla open sources Sailfish browser(lists.sailfishos.org)
1 points by ch_123 13y ago|0 comments

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