dscrd

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by dscrd 12y ago
Option types and safe pointers, and modern abstractions. Some other programming languages offer these too, but Rust attempts to do them while incurring no run-time costs.
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by dscrd 12y ago
What is it about WhatsApp that made so many people adapt it over all the alternatives, I cannot understand it.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Yes, and you should only use Windows desktops and program in PHP. Generally never improve!
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by dscrd 12y ago
Well, they had an actual artist do it.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Given that this is the main filesystem in Linux, and is thereby automatically well supported by anything that leverages Linux, this choice makes absolutely no sense. Somebody in Google decided this; somebody in Google is a total idiot.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Seems to me that the only correct fix to Shellshock and this is to completely remove bash from all systems. I'm not sure what to replace it with. rc perhaps? (Yes, I know that almost every distribution depends heavily on bash for all k
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by dscrd 12y ago
Is there some technical detail in Firefox OS that makes it a good choice for cheap phones? I've come to understand that it's not particularly lightweight, but am I wrong?
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by dscrd 12y ago
They were at some point?
39.
by dscrd 12y ago
Except that Linus isn't fireable in this analogy. He's on the top of the hierarchy, equivalent to a major shareholder and CEO of a company. Such a person can certainly act like an asshole every second inside his organisation and k
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by dscrd 12y ago
I'm not deep in either CS or JS, but I suppose one could find some pitfalls from the differences between == and ===, and from checking the existence of a variable? Also, JS switch/case statements follow the good-old maldesign from
41.
by dscrd 12y ago
Bugs is (are? heh) written in PHP.
42.
by dscrd 12y ago
Not to mention that their name is DataCOUP. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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by dscrd 12y ago
It's so cute when people ridicule superior engineering like plan 9 while they wallow in the incredible quagmire of so-called pragmatic systems.
44.
by dscrd 12y ago
"Its syntax is insane" => (do source source $= conduit) $$ sink vs. source source | conduit => hmm.
45.
by dscrd 12y ago
Why should we care if it's justified? Was the abuse justified?
46.
by dscrd 12y ago
>Disappointing to see yet another language-specific package management system (Cargo), though. As a packager in a Linux distro, I'm disappointed every time somebody tries to cram in PL-specific packages inside distro packages.
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by dscrd 12y ago
CMMI seems to be mostly a moneymaking scheme directed at business types with no skill. In contrast, Boeing used actually effective engineering disciplines.
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by dscrd 12y ago
War on Drugs has been won, not lost.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Perhaps it's different these days, but when I moved to Linux in '96, my primary experience was a distinct lack of frustration when compared to the previous.
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by dscrd 12y ago
That's showing incredible restraint (and, might I add, virtue) from them, considering that their ideological enemy, Israel, has nukes and is more than willing to use them.
51.
by dscrd 12y ago
Excluding outright poisons (which none of the narcotics are), everything is ok in moderation. Trouble is, many things are too enticing to keep using moderately.
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by dscrd 12y ago
These guys have been trying for as long as I think http://silcnet.org/ I would assume that the problems are more difficult compared to simple P2P.
53.
by dscrd 12y ago
Remember your gas mask if you ever check out literate programming...
54.
by dscrd 12y ago
Typo on first page under "Sane": "The workout is the right amount of challenging to keep you in shape, without being too though to stay motivated."
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by dscrd 12y ago
Programming languages are tools, not religions. Calling PHP terrible is not an "opposing viewpoint", it's stating facts. It's not garbage either: if these comments manage to help people steer clear of PHP in favour of st
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by dscrd 12y ago
It's not a one-way mismatch. The so-called real world is also out of touch with academia: just witness countless upon countless of ill-chosen technologies and techniques in use.
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by dscrd 12y ago
>I started from scratch last night and was having fun immediately. "Fun" in dwarf fortress usually refers to losing violently.
58.
by dscrd 12y ago
What you mean by resource heavy? Symphony at least is one of the heaviest frameworks, and not just for PHP.
59.
by dscrd 12y ago
If it's meant to signify paths, why not use the sigil that everyone uses for path separation, i.e. /
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by dscrd 12y ago
If a theoretically weaker programming language is able to destroy computer science, it deserves to be destroyed. (It isn't of course)

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