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by delhanty 9y ago
>Have you tried the surface pro (4+)? In my mind the main issue with the sp4 is battery Another issue from 3 weeks ago on HN: >One import thing with all Surface laptops that most people don't know: >>Support is limited to t
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by delhanty 9y ago
Language design choice pretty obviously relates to market size as my comment makes clear. I referenced Rust because that was the article was about. Swift and F# are languages that are not as basic as Go, but easier to find devs than Haskell
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> .. you can write vastly more complicated programs that are, say, 80% as fast as hand-optimized C for only 10% of the effort of hand-optimized C. I don't mean to be personal, but your quantative claim smells a little like unsubstan
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by delhanty 9y ago
> .. you can write vastly more complicated programs that are, say, 80% as fast as hand-optimized C for only 10% of the effort of hand-optimized C. Computer Language Benchmarks of GHC versus C don't seem to be close to matching your
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Every language has quirks about how to write performant code, but Haskell is notorious in my mind for being quite easy to write obscenely slow code in. +1 One approach that occurred to me was to use Haskell and Hackage for prototyping a
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Interesting. Never heard of it. You wouldn't of. It was developed internally to write Parasolid. Probably they still use it - several of the original devs are still there 30 years later.
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by delhanty 9y ago
+1 I too would dearly love FreeCAD to succeed because the FOSS world dearly needs at least semi-decent parametric MCAD. My view is that the UI and UNDO problems that you report are likely more tractable than the deeper problems with OCE. My
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Some people are doing this (esp Galois Inc). I've heard of Galois Inc. Isn't that where Don Stewart one of the RWH authors worked for a while? Looking a the Galois team on their webpage he doesn't seem to be there now.
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by delhanty 9y ago
>No reason to get defensive. I didn't ask for advice or instruct anyone about what they should do anywhere on this thread. You on the other hand immediately instructed me what I should do. Perhaps you are accustomed to giving peop
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by delhanty 9y ago
My exercise schedule is long-standing and unchanged - see other comment.
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by delhanty 9y ago
Did I say I was healthy? What works for you doesn't necessarily work for everyone else. You frankly have absolutely zero clue about what I've tried over 30 years to become that morning person.
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The exercise (ocean swim) isn't new. I've been doing it for years. And yes - it does help enormously (e.g to get the blood really flowing well) - as long as I get the start time, duration, intensity and intervals about right. I
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by delhanty 9y ago
I'm getting some mileage from this. Never been a morning person - assumed blood sugar must be low. Did the glucose testing strip thing - found that was completely wrong! Now cut carbohydrate intake until after daily brisk swim around 1
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by delhanty 9y ago
>It could be revived and improved if people wanted. It got nowhere with C programmers, though, in the past. I guess the market will decide. Ransomware will explode in the next few years. If a big enough exploit gets pinned on Linux then
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by delhanty 9y ago
So we agree about something at least ;-) Slight tangent: I started my programming career in 1989. The product was Parasolid and the language was AGA - a C inspired language that preceded C++. I vaguely remember the following extensions: * b
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by delhanty 9y ago
Some more idle thoughts [1] refining what I wrote elsewhere on this thread: FreeCAD Arch is a smart pivot: they just need to do a hard fork from the rest of FreeCAD and replace Open CASCADE with CGAL. History based parametric MCAD is hugely
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by delhanty 9y ago
Yeah - sad! IMO that's the reason that OnShape exists at all though - the rockstar team that founded Solidworks finally got fed up with Dassault and decided to write Solidworks for the cloud. ShapeManager by Autodesk is probably the te
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by delhanty 9y ago
I strongly agree with all that. In fact, being FOSS could be a huge advantage. The #2 kernel ACIS by Spatial is massively held back by albatross round its neck - ie. the parent company Dassault who have foisted there own IMO inferior kerne
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by delhanty 9y ago
OK - so maybe Solvespace is history based. If I was doing it, which I'm not, for the free (as in freedom) and/or open-source kernel, I think the best way forward would be to salvage the STEP, IGES etc import/export code from
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by delhanty 9y ago
I think this a smart pivot for FreeCAD: from MCAD to Arch. The weak point in the kernel (Open CASCADE) is curved surfaces (and associated nightmare case analysis for blends/fillets/chamfers).. They just aren't that important
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by delhanty 9y ago
Is Solvespace history based parametric CAD? FreeCAD's architecture that combines history based modeling with inferior kernel (Open CASCADE) is about the worst choice from a reliability standpoint. The best kernel, Parasolid, only start
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by delhanty 9y ago
>but it's so full of little bugs and crashes it's not really usable in my mind See my comment below comparing Open CASCADE with Parasolid. Developing B-rep modeling kernels with support for curved surfaces is very labor inten
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by delhanty 9y ago
FreeCAD is great because it's free as in freedom. The technical weak point that will always hold it back is the kernel, Open CASCADE, when compared with Parasolid, which powers OnShape. Parasolid is in effect subsidized by the Industri
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by delhanty 9y ago
I agree that the net effect of general political discussion on HN is negative. Jacques M did not post his article to HN though - that was someone else. He put it it on his own blog, where surely he's entitled to talk about politics if
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by delhanty 9y ago
The key for such a project being successful would be to set expectations low in defining what success was. Something like "a proof of concept of an experiment to rewrite small amounts of the Linux kernel in Rust". One would fork
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by delhanty 9y ago
True - we are way off topic! Sorry and thank you again - was very interested in your experience.
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you for the useful clarification. From what you write, it sounds like in production that, if one is attracted by the BEAM, there is less risk in choosing Erlang than Elixir. One thing that concerns me for production use is the combina
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you. I was just reading your comments and found this one: >Erlang: the general disinterest of Ericsson and the hapless stewardship of Erlang Solutions. Is that related to the reason that BEAM is no longer part of your day job? The
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by delhanty 9y ago
That sounds like another nice idea. What happened to your project?

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