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by etanol 14y ago
Just like with C++. That language is a horrible mostruosity, yet projects keep migrating to it, e.g., Id's game engines, GCC, etc.
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by etanol 14y ago
> Right-Click -> View Source is what made the web so successful and it's awesome that we now have this for 3D graphics as well. That can't be serious. I bet he didn't try it on GMail.
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by etanol 14y ago
The comments about namespace are somehow ironic: is it very common to find developers that know what classes are but not namespaces? The namespace concept is much simpler than class. Which makes me wonder: who is the target audience?
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by etanol 14y ago
I use them both and I can say that Mercurial is way easier to learn and use than Git. Obviously, Mercurial has less features but, is there currently any DVCS system that has more features than Git? The funny thing about Mercurial and Git
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by etanol 14y ago
Probably most of the readers already know it. But it is worth remarking that these tips only work when there is an injection vulnerability in the application. If you prepare SQL queries as all manuals recommend nowadays, you're 99,9% s
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by etanol 14y ago
The NASA pen story, is it real or just a myth? In an attempt to answer myself, I found this: http://history.nasa.gov/spacepen.html
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by etanol 14y ago
Sorry, but I fail to see where the "env" command spawns a shell: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/env.... Could you please explain what am I missing?
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by etanol 14y ago
Brilliant
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by etanol 15y ago
I wonder what economical consequences would have that kind of social crisis in China.
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by etanol 15y ago
Well, considering that Emacs is supposed to integrate smoothly with external processes, it looks that asynchronous IO support it will be a better solution. Multithreading is generally a tricky business for interpreters and virtual machines
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by etanol 15y ago
« They are basically coercing everyone to do what they want or else. » To be more precise, they are coercing everyone with a fragile economy like Spain is suffering right now. China has much less respect for intellectual property than Spain
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by etanol 15y ago
I find the article a bit confusing. Given this statement: In addition, the keyboard is often more effective than the mouse for our work, since instead of floundering around in nested menus we can just type what we want. However, it’s wort
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by etanol 15y ago
Already done, and someone even did a better fix: https://github.com/holman/spark/pull/8
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by etanol 15y ago
The script is not a proper POSIX bourne shell script, as it uses arrays. For starters, it won't work in dash (Debian and Ubuntu /bin/sh implementation). So the shebang line should be changed to #!/bin/bash (not sure if it would work in Zsh
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by etanol 15y ago
Actually, many open source projects explicitly forbid vertical alignment as it becomes an obstacle for patch review. I'm quite disappointed the article doesn't mention that.
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by etanol 15y ago
Is it april 1st already?
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by etanol 15y ago
I would like to point out some counter-examples: « Think of journalists. Many are losing their jobs. Newspapers are barely surviving. In the old days, for every news event, there were probably hundreds of journalists writing about the same
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by etanol 15y ago
«And another thing you always desired: the struct keyword is not needed in the declaration» Someone doesn't understand the value of the "struct" keyword: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
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by etanol 15y ago
I'm a bit confused, aren't lexers implemented using similar techniques as regular expressions? (i.e: NFA to DFA conversion and DFA minimization). Or maybe I'm also confusing lexers with lexer generators.