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by dcw303 11y ago
I take your point as well. I guess I'm coming at this as a novice with a recent interest in compilers. I was working through a tutorial series for writing a compiler in Go, but it got frustrating when I realized the author's examp
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by dcw303 11y ago
It's well written. It's clever. The comments style does a great job of explaining the concepts. My only gripe is, although translating one high level language (lisp) to another (c) is technically a compiler, in practice most peo
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by dcw303 11y ago
Sure, they've done it before. But if it's Embrace/Extend/Extinguish, why did they wait for so long to do this? What is it about Linux in 2016 that makes it a different threat to them than it was 5, 10, 15, 20 or 24 years
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by dcw303 11y ago
This is good news for developers with Macs, and it has nothing to do with an option to switch platforms. By doing this, Microsoft are legitimising bash as an OS feature for "developers who like unix". This has two effects on Apple
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by dcw303 11y ago
Deduction should make it pretty simple. There are a large number of phones out that law agencies want hacked. If the FBI completely stops asking for assistance, Apple can consider the exploit still active.
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by dcw303 11y ago
CDs: I haven't logged into my Japanese iTunes account in a few years, but at the time there wasn't much to choose from. I assume some draconian local licensing deals keeping most stuff out, but I don't know for sure. Newspape
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by dcw303 11y ago
Nice. I know it would be tricky, but it would be extra awesome if it could factor in shipping / customs fees as well. Otherwise you're not telling me if I'm really coming out ahead.
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by dcw303 11y ago
I treat each unit test as an individual assertion on the logic of the program. I find using a <methodName>_<Conditions>_Expectations syntax documents the intent very well. E.g: testCalculateGrade_scoreOver85_returnsAnA()
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by dcw303 11y ago
Nobody buys the Fed's story. It's clear that it was never about a specific phone and only about setting a precedent. Which is all well and good, but it begs the question why did they back out now? Public opinion was divided from
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by dcw303 11y ago
I mostly agree with the thoughts on testing, and agree with the principle that unit test overkill is not constructive. I don't think 100% control path coverage is hard to achieve though. If done correctly, it should not require an exce
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by dcw303 11y ago
That's a good point, I didn't think of that. I suppose there is a semantic difference between content that has been taken down globally for DMCA infringement, and content that is blocked in a particular region.
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by dcw303 11y ago
This could be really useful. If this was done by other big content sites (Youtube for example) then a search bot could build up an index of banned resources. A repository of burned books.
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by dcw303 11y ago
This is very Nintendo. They have always built the hardware first, and then designed the games around that second. The Super Famicom had advanced graphics (including Mode 7) and sound, and the games showcased that. Nintendo 64 had that ama
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by dcw303 11y ago
I remain sceptical yet hopeful that they've solved the motion sickness problem. Biggest problem for me playing DK2 was spending more than a minute running around in anything first person induced the urge to vomit. I see that Star Wars
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by dcw303 11y ago
Like everyone on this site, I've been following this story too closely to get any new info from this segment, so I couldn't tell if this will convince people. It was up to the always high standards of Last Week Tonight though. I r
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Writing a Compiler in Pure Go (2014)(noeffclue.blogspot.com)
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Napster founder plans to screen movies at home on day they hit cinemas(theguardian.com)
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by dcw303 11y ago
As I had zero experience with graph databases, this was generally a good intro, but the article could do with some polishing to save newbies like me from the underlying suspicion that they're missing something obvious. I tried just rea
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by dcw303 11y ago
This sounds promising, but I think a lot of potential users would be deterred by the lack of examples. This positively screams for a online interface to test drive.
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by dcw303 11y ago
Sorry, I didn't explain myself well enough. What if I want to download a specific image on a different Mac to the one I want to install the OS on?
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by dcw303 11y ago
Edit: after a restart I can now see Locals in the Variables window! Seems to be related to breakpoint location - if I break at main.main entry I can see variables.
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by dcw303 11y ago
I can't find any scientific references to back it up (I think I first heard it said on Khan Academy), but I like the idea that the brain is like a muscle - you need to exercise to keep it strong. It's only anecdotal evidence, but
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by dcw303 11y ago
Delve integration is better than I anticipated. Breakpoints, step in, step over work as expected. Step out not functional but that's a given as delve doesn't do it either. Call stack is implemented. Variables doesn't seem to
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by dcw303 11y ago
> There is one caveat to all this. Apple won’t allow a newer Mac to download versions of OS X that aren’t compatible with that Mac, so on a 27-inch iMac with Retina display, for instance, the App Store app refuses to let you download Mac
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by dcw303 11y ago
Old media has always been in the business of printing stories that sell newspapers, or airing news stories that attract viewers. Facebook (new media) is in the business of getting eyeballs for advertising. These are basically the same busin
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by dcw303 11y ago
> The sales that would go to that $15.99 book are going to lower-priced books from indie authors and self-published authors, like me. > They actually proved the consumer will buy the cheaper option, but okay I find it alarming that an
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by dcw303 11y ago
I'm a docker newbie and I had a hare-brained idea to install postfix and dovecot in a container. I thought it would be neat to version/deploy the various config necessary on top of a clean OS install. As I'll probably mess it
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by dcw303 11y ago
There's no Internet access, but is there a local network? If the end goal is create a Wordpress site, it would help a lot if the sites could be uploaded to a server, even if it's a local one.
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by dcw303 11y ago
If he could get the drive eject button to unmount the SD card, this would actually be more functional that current tech. It bugs me that unmounting SD cards / USB drives and physically removing it are two seperate actions. It's
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by dcw303 11y ago
This just makes the Gates story even stranger. Did the FT misquote him because they're incompetent, or do they have an ulterior motive at play?

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