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Java 8 Nashorn Tutorial(winterbe.com)
1 points by copx 13y ago|0 comments
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by copx 13y ago
That post reminds me of a farm field: so many straw men. I appreciate you perfecting it with accusing me of being illogical after constructing all of them. Your post does not deserve a detailed reply.
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by copx 13y ago
>I'm the earliest developer still full-time on the Rust language (4+ years) and I was exclusively using Mac OS X from the beginning. If you look at Servo, Mac is actually better supported than Linux at the moment. You mean XCode and
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by copx 13y ago
>Isn't the Nuget package manager becoming increasing more popular on .Net / Windows environments? I do not know how popular it is exactly (how can you?), but I am willing to bet money on the fact that the vast majority of Windo
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by copx 13y ago
You write much software like that in C or C++? The sector you mentioned is dominated by other languages (Ruby, JavaScript, Java) for a reason. You are right that my statement was too generalized, though. Yes, there are sectors where the &q
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by copx 13y ago
>every single changeset is required to pass tests on Windows That alone does not make Windows a first class platform, and the attitude I quoted was exactly what I got from the developers when I pointed out how relatively complex it was t
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by copx 13y ago
>Huh? Python has a (sort of) package manager and you can still make a standalone application You can (try) yes. Have you tried it? I have. It was a horrible experience. Support for making standalone binaries is an afterthought in the Pyt
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by copx 13y ago
I am very skeptical about this. Every language which needs a "package manager" tends to make building standalone applications painful. I do think C++ is in dire need of being replaced, it is unsafe at any speed and full of legacy
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Industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?(theguardian.com)
65 points by copx 13y ago|67 comments
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by copx 13y ago
>Curios how many people here actually use Lua ? I use it, my favorite language by far (after trying about all of them). >What are the applications you are using it for ? Game development. >I know it is used a bit in the gaming indu
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by copx 13y ago
Well if manually managed memory allocated through the FFI is unacceptable to you for some reason you are out of luck indeed. Well, the limit is per process but I guess distributing the task across multiple processes is not acceptable either
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by copx 13y ago
The people who avoid the GPL3 do it because they do not share the goals of the GNU project. The GPL3 expresses the same philosophy as the GPL2. GNU released a new version only because companies discovered a loophole (a bug if you will) in t
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by copx 13y ago
You should have linked the first post in that thread. It explains what the whole thing is actually about: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00... Tl;dr: Mercurial is a free softwa
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by copx 13y ago
>I think you forgot to turn on your optimizer. I did not. I used Pelles C to compile it (with the optimizer turned on). I am not surprised that GCC managed to eliminate the pointless loop entirely in this situation. In fact I was happy t
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by copx 13y ago
While we are at stupid microbenchmarks. The following loop in C (line being a struct, length is int): for (int i = 1; i <= 400000000; ++i) { ++line.length; } Compiles to the following ASM: @8: inc eax dec edx jne @
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by copx 13y ago
If ReactOS every became a thing (i.e. more than a hobby exercise) Microsoft would sue them off the planet. I am sure Microsoft has countless patents covering Windows technology.
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by copx 13y ago
Where is the definition of the actual hash function? That is the interesting and tricky part of a hash table. Is "hash" a Clojure built-in?
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by copx 13y ago
I see, thank you for the explanation.
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by copx 13y ago
I know very little about this type of security, how can one remotely hack into a computer just because it is connected to the internet and has some known vulnerability? I mean as far as I know my computer does not execute arbitrary code som
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by copx 13y ago
>I haven't had wifi issues with Ubuntu for over 5 years. No surprise there. Some wifi hardware is supported out of the box and will just work. That is not the problem. The pain starts when something does not just work. >What comp
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by copx 13y ago
I do not just believe it, I know it. When something does not work in Linuxland the answer is still "open the terminal, enter a bunch of cryptic commands" and/or manually edit text-based config files. I can do that easily, I g
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Making 30-Year-Old Pascal Code Run Again(troydm.github.io)
6 points by copx 13y ago|1 comments
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by copx 13y ago
That is what you get if you're going to San Francisco . The city has been a left/liberal activist stronghold since long before Google even existed. And yeah, things like gentrification and private luxury buses do tend to provoke
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by copx 13y ago
HN was about startups originally. Nowadays most of the items on the front page are general programming/IT stuff. Personally I come here for that. To me HN is a superior alternative to /r/programming, because the comment secti
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by copx 13y ago
Every newer language can do "this". First class functions and anonymous functions have been a standard feature for a while. Does not mean that say Lua or Ruby are functional programming languages. If you just require the ability t
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by copx 13y ago
In the past the argument against putting things like this in the standard library was always that it is non-portable. C and C++ are meant to run on systems which do not even have a monitor, much less a GPU (think embedded). The logic was th
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by copx 13y ago
The newer versions of Windows have much higher system requirements. Seriously, get out of your rich man's ghetto at least occasionally. Many people still run very old computers because they do not have the disposable income to buy new
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by copx 13y ago
I do not know, but if I recall correctly there was an issue with 0.8 where the - then current - MinGW installer would grab packages incompatible with the Rust 0.8 binaries so you first had to setup the current version of MinGW, and then use
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by copx 13y ago
Wasn't this release supposed to finally offer a Windows package which works out-of-the-box? I just tried it. Only got an error message about a missing GCC component. Seriously, a ~90MB download and that still does not include all the G
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by copx 13y ago
I grew up watching Star Trek: TNG and that episode is something to remember indeed. It makes a strong rational and moral case against torture. While modern American TV shows do indeed do the opposite. I think I know the reason for this. Gen

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