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Message Passing in C(damienradtke.com)
1 points by dradtke 13y ago|0 comments
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by dradtke 13y ago
It's absolutely possible. I actually implemented it the way I did more as an experiment to see if it was possible, and when it turned out that it was, decided that it was ridiculous enough to be awesome. I probably wouldn't ever u
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Using and Abusing Macros(damienradtke.com)
4 points by dradtke 13y ago|3 comments
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by dradtke 13y ago
If you're seriously considering switching to Linux, then be aware that nothing you find is going to feel as polished as OS X. Linux developers tend to be more focused on security and under-the-hood improvements while Apple focuses on u
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by dradtke 13y ago
Isn't the blockchain going to keep growing like that indefinitely _anyway_ if Bitcoin is successful? Unless there's a plan to reset it somehow, then a few valentine's day cards are, in the long run, going to be the least of y
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by dradtke 13y ago
I just don't get why GCC needs to cripple itself; shouldn't the (in)ability to incorporate GCC be handled by the license? It's a legal issue, not a technical one. Sure, making it easier to plug in to other programs enables pr
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by dradtke 13y ago
Looks interesting. A couple suggestions: 1. People have already suggested this, but it would make more sense to make users call email.New() rather than email.NewEmail(). 2. Alternatively, since the user will be populating a bunch of values
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by dradtke 13y ago
I'm really looking forward to Rust 1.0. It seems like an awesome language in many respects, not least of which because it's possible to write operating systems and other low-level software in, but the lack of stability will be kin
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by dradtke 13y ago
Yeah, my approach is definitely one of "get it done as quickly as possible for my specific use case", and since Allegro made its headers easy to parse, I decided to just take advantage of that. Maybe in the future I'll rewrit
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Measuring C API Coverage with Go(blog.damienradtke.org)
41 points by dradtke 13y ago|8 comments
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by dradtke 13y ago
This is awesome and kind of makes me want to get back into game programming. Unfortunately, I have no artistic ability whatsoever, and don't really have the time if I did.
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Channel IQ raises $12M in venture funding(chicagotribune.com)
1 points by dradtke 13y ago|0 comments
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by dradtke 13y ago
Salesforce is an online CRM tool and development platform. From a programmer's point of view, it essentially includes the full stack from database to UI, but the API can be used to allow external programs to access its data. That said,
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Cgo and Callbacks vs. Closures(blog.damienradtke.org)
2 points by dradtke 13y ago|0 comments
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HTTP Server in Less Than 100 Lines of Tcl(blog.damienradtke.org)
1 points by dradtke 13y ago|0 comments
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Automated GTK+ Widget Building in Go(blog.damienradtke.org)
3 points by dradtke 13y ago|0 comments
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by dradtke 13y ago
Depends on what you want out of learning a new language. If you want to become more familiar with the fundamentals of computers and how they work, C is the best option; if you want to learn a new paradigm and way of thinking, I recommend Ha
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by dradtke 14y ago
I don't claim to speak for everyone, but discussions like this feel counter-productive because there's nothing to really say , and no amount of text is going to accurately portray another person's experiences. At this point, these posts ar
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by dradtke 14y ago
> You can obviously discriminate against a man based on sex, but that's not part of a larger, overarching societal norm. I would argue that many of the pressures men face, such as those to "man up" in difficult situations rather than fr
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by dradtke 14y ago
Why is this even a debate? Dropbox is for syncing files, not version control.
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A Compromise Between Dynamic and Static Linking(blog.damienradtke.org)
1 points by dradtke 14y ago|0 comments
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by dradtke 14y ago
> Windows is the only commercially viable platform where you can ship software to users without getting approval from a giant bureaucracy (well, perhaps I should say it used to be). And there's the stab at Windows 8.
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by dradtke 14y ago
I think it was a stab at Apple porting their app store to Mac OS, but I agree that it was worded poorly as well as out of place.
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by dradtke 14y ago
Honestly, I don't even care about gun control laws, I just don't want packing heat to be a cultural norm. We Americans, on the whole, have a huge obsession with guns. They're iconic, from the wild west to world war II. We romanticize righte
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by dradtke 14y ago
I work under the assumption that there aren't any "bad guys," there are just people who wake up one day and snap. If somebody snaps, I would rather they not have a gun, even if they originally bought it for self-defense. But yes, I agree
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by dradtke 14y ago
That doesn't mean we should start encouraging everyone to carry guns, knives, diesel fuel, whatever. "More guns" isn't the solution any more than "fewer guns" is, but I would still feel safer if I knew that getting a gun was more difficul
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by dradtke 14y ago
> Your inspiration for interface design is MS-DOS rather than Apple, OS X, or iOS. You know, there are other good sources of design inspiration besides Apple.
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by dradtke 14y ago
But why not present it as an option to the user on first launch, or first search? Considering how relatively few people actually want shopping suggestions on their desktop, I expect the majority of users who don't turn it off to be people
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by dradtke 14y ago
Given how much of the programming community is made up of white men (especially in Britain), I don't see a 100% white male speaker lineup as being too far-fetched, barring some form of affirmative action. Given the situation, the selection
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by dradtke 14y ago
gobject is built on top of glib, not the other way around, and it's mostly there to make it easier to create language bindings, so there's no real reason to use it (gobject) unless you're building a library like GTK. As for the typedefs, th

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