claystu

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by claystu 12y ago
I'm afraid the typewriter defeated all computers--including the C64.
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by claystu 12y ago
What do you mean about Go? (And no...I'm not trying to pick a fight--just curious)
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by claystu 12y ago
The best part about this thread are all the recommendations for websites to replace RadioShack.
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by claystu 12y ago
There is no reason to suppose this. My wife eats salads all the time at home and packs them for lunch, but whenever we go to a fast food joint, she orders the Big Mac and fries specifically because she doesn't eat them at home and does
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by claystu 12y ago
I disagree...the restaurant pictures show what I see people typically order...or darn close. Obviously, they have big menus and if you want, you can go to a fast food restaurant and order nothing but green salad, but I don't see many p
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by claystu 12y ago
I don't know of any short books on Ada. Given the language, and the fact it's still growing, I doubt there are any.
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by claystu 12y ago
Interesting, I didn't realize there is a new edition: Programming in Ada 2012 by John Barnes: http://amzn.com/110742481X I wonder if ADA wouldn't be better if they were subtracting features rather than adding them
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by claystu 12y ago
How was your feeling about the C codebase compared to Ada? Did one feel more comprehensible or reliable than the other?
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by claystu 12y ago
When you get started, here are the two books that seem to get recommended the most frequently: Ada as A Second Language: http://amzn.com/0070116075 Programming in Ada 2005: http://amzn.com/0321340787
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by claystu 12y ago
I'm not sure you understand the definition of entitlement. OP isn't saying the Ruby community OWES him a windows installer; instead, he is expressing disappointment that the Ruby community doesn't seem to care about its Windo
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by claystu 12y ago
Finally! One of the major players has finally decided to really push cross-platform. Looks like it's time to finally learn F#
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by claystu 12y ago
It looks like free pascal has generics: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refch8.html#refse46.... But to your larger point, doesn't any non-programmable programming language exhibit the same weakness to
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by claystu 12y ago
What weaknesses of Pascal are being repeated in Go?
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by claystu 12y ago
Which is understood by all those people when they purchase insurance. This isn't news. Spreading the risk around is why people buy insurance in the first place.
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by claystu 12y ago
Wirth is a true believer in strong typing: marrying strong types to inflexible compilers If I understand that quote, he means that variant records are dangerous because they make it possible for programmers to interpret data in different wa
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by claystu 12y ago
I used Hypercard for a solid year in high school. It was black-and-white and ran on Macs that were old even for 1994, but you could do stuff that was just awesome. That was 1994--20 years ago--and my anatomy teachersomehow had a lab for Hyp
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by claystu 12y ago
Would you mind if car companies switched the gas and break pedals whenever they felt like it. After all, gas pedal on the right is no harder than gas pedal on the left. Except...the custom is already set. Most users would rather ignore a pr
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by claystu 12y ago
I disagree. This is one of the most important pieces of feedback any opensource project can get. Technical merit means nothing if users find the cost of using the interface more trouble than the benefit of the program. I think the lack of e
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by claystu 12y ago
Are there really no good GUI libraries for Go, and if so, is anyone working on correcting this?
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by claystu 12y ago
It killed it for me. (So not absolutely misleading)
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by claystu 12y ago
According to Distrowatch, out of the top twelve (12) distros, all but #8--Arch--use Python2. The other 11 in order of popularity are #1 Mint, #2 Ubuntu, #3 Debian, #4 Mageia, #5 Fedora, #6 openSUSE, #7 elementary OS, #9 Zorin OS, #10 Puppy
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by claystu 12y ago
Perhaps we shouldn't teach anything at all? Let's just cancel school. Does teaching everyone a foreign language have a huge impact on the world? How about English? Or history? Or Art? Or PE? How many high school students change th
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by claystu 13y ago
That was my first thought too. Who knows where 3.x will be in 6 years, but now a huge number of people will continue to develop in the 2.x series with no worries. Six years feels like a long time when you're at the beginning of them. B
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by claystu 13y ago
> See, I really don't think it's worth courting people who have that attitude. What attitude? Someone goes to a website out of curiosity, but it isn't very helpful so they leave. (Who hasn't done this?) Erlang might b
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by claystu 13y ago
Why does he say "infamous" logo turtle? Logo is still the easiest to grasp programming language for young children with the possible exception of Scratch, though I still think Logo is better.
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by claystu 13y ago
I absolutely think those should be changed, though not to cooking. Imagine what a country of citizens--educated in engineering and computer programming to the same degree we do literacy today--might be capable of accomplishing.
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by claystu 13y ago
Can you provide any citation for that quote? (Note...this isn't one of those pedantic "prove it" citation requests. I'm seriously interested...)
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by claystu 13y ago
These are some of the best paragraphs I've seen on the subject. Well said... The magic is that people can actually convince themselves of realities they know to be false.
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by claystu 13y ago
Which admits that sometimes they're right. Besides, it looks like he's just publicizing what another PhD geologist and PhD archaeologist have been researching. I have no idea if either one is right, but it's more credible to
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by claystu 13y ago
The Byte article on Robotwar can be be found here: http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE... It's still cool to read. Moreover, Robotwar inspired a forth-like clone called Grobots: http

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