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by eliben 13y ago
Interesting. I never considered that shady language is a purposeful thing, always assuming it's genuine mistakes by non-native speakers.
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by eliben 13y ago
+1, this phrasing immediately triggers my brain's spam alert. It's not simply a "familiar" kind of phrasing friends or teenagers would use to make communication shorter - it's just that kind of mistake scam emails tend to be full of, for so
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by eliben 13y ago
TL;DR Microsoft, who's forgotten what innovation is in the past 10 years and is hanging by a thread in a declining market, engages in the one thing it still knows and loves to do - FUD campaigns against their more successful and innovative
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by eliben 13y ago
Note that for a huge amount of software functionality, the amount of tests required to "exercise full functionality" is infinite, and very rarely can we mathematically prove that a finite set suffices. When code is multi-threaded, for insta
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by eliben 13y ago
(1) is actually perfectly doable w.r.t. to this project, so I must be missing your point.
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by eliben 13y ago
Of all the vile things Microsoft has been doing to suppress superior competition to their inferior products, this must be one of the vilest. It's absolutely disgusting.
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by eliben 13y ago
He most certainly did! But did you notice the commit says "original patch by Éric Araujo" ?
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by eliben 14y ago
Isn't this only true for companies that provide a grant at signing and no other grants afterwards?
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by eliben 14y ago
There's no Clang 4.1, though. You probably mean "the Clang that comes with version 4.1 of XCode"? Clang 3.3 will be released soon.
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by eliben 14y ago
Why does ethnicity play a role in the USA in 2013? Is someone born here to parents who came from Asia considered "Asian"? Because he/she looks Asian? And what if he/she is 4th generation in the USA and looks Asian, is that considered Asian?
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by eliben 14y ago
I've always found a smartphone's screen to be bright enough to serve as a flashlight for most situations :-)
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by eliben 14y ago
You can download stable releases from http://llvm.org/releases/ - it has binaries for some common platforms. A stable release is made once in 6 months on average. But to be on bleeding edge, yes, you update from SVN. It isn't hard, but yo
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by eliben 14y ago
Actually my initial motivation for developing pss was Windows. I had to use Windows at work at the time, and installing Perl just for the sake of ack was pain. ack also needs an additional module from CPAN (for console coloring), so double
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by eliben 14y ago
If you prefer Python and don't want to have Perl around just for the sake of 'ack', check out 'pss' - a similar tool written in pure Python: https://bitbucket.org/eliben/pss [sorry for the plug, but it's definitely relevant to the discuss
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by eliben 14y ago
For the sake of fairness, do a google search on "boston bomb" or similar and see what it shows (spoiler: there's a link to Red Cross too).
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by eliben 14y ago
Not at all. I withheld this reaction N times before finally posting it. The project mentioned in an earlier comment ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp ) is another example. I'm talking about programming projects in ge
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by eliben 14y ago
There used to be a time where people created programming tutorials just for the heck of it: to learn the language better themselves, to do something good, to get some rep, to make a name for themselves. I wrote quite a few myself - enjoyed
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by eliben 14y ago
Not true. Last year the cap was reached in mid-June ( http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f... )
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by eliben 14y ago
Yep, after the feature freeze between 3.1 and 3.2, 3.3 was a significant jump forward.
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by eliben 14y ago
Once you get used to AT&T syntax, Intel's seems somewhat verbose. That said, deciphering complex addressing modes (especially for LEAs) in AT&T is pain. So each syntax and its quirks...
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by eliben 14y ago
x64 has actually been used for quite a while both inside and outside Intel. It's simply a shorter version of x86-64, with all the other alternatives (IA-whatever and EMT<whatever>) never really catching outside Intel.
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by eliben 14y ago
Which dependencies are needed to run Python plugins?
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by eliben 14y ago
Yes, but AFAIK the API isn't complete there - i.e. not all hooks are exposed as they are to Vimscript, which explains why with Python "scripting" being around for a while people still write Vimscript.
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by eliben 14y ago
I must say, Sublime Text 3 with its Python 3.3 scripting is tempting. Vimscript is quite horrible.
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by eliben 14y ago
This makes sense. Every time I side-peek at JS, I get terrified by the huge amount of libraries that one is supposed to be used to just get it running. It must be a liberating feeling to be able to just use one language with one standard li
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by eliben 14y ago
The answer is contained in your question, I think.
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by eliben 14y ago
Yes, published USA time, but most of the world's population is living in April 1st now (India, China, Japan - all Asia essentially, Australia and so on). So it's not only Iran.
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by eliben 14y ago
As in fools that forget that their couch is not the center of the earth? Wake up, it's April 1st in some parts of the world now. As an exercise in self-education, go find out which.
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by eliben 14y ago
With all due respect to Reader, IMHO this announcement, viewed in the context of the legal battle that rages over software patents these days, is in a wholly different league.
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by eliben 14y ago
This is great! Continuum Analytics are doing cool stuff for numeric / big data Python and it's great to see the language getting more and more traction in this domain.

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