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by fzltrp 13y ago
Yes, I think the main selling point of ML languages is the type inference mechanism. Haskell doesn't support exactly the same mechanism, but it has typeclasses, which is very cool too.
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by fzltrp 13y ago
I don't know how other similar languages deal with GUI. It's always sort of hairy, obscure code when you look at it closely. Mainstream languages (like Java) usually give you GUI building tools which generate all the boilerplate s
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by fzltrp 13y ago
> I know there's Camomile Camomille is great, but it exhaustively covers the whole UTF standard, which you might not need for more casual uses. There are other libraries bringing lighter support for UTF strings (ocamlnet for insta
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by fzltrp 13y ago
a lot of people != all php users. Actually a lot of people != the majority of php users. You're reading a bit too much in what OP wrote. I have beern an avid php programmer several years ago, and still like it very much
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by fzltrp 13y ago
> Really, they should ape every single one of Photoshop's functional features. That's a very uncertain territory there. What sort of legal action could Adobe start if gimp started mimmicking their flagship product UI? And who w
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by fzltrp 13y ago
2nd choice (sorry for my confused english). But then there might be legal consequences to factor in. Engineers shouldn't probably care about that. As for the first choice, ideally Intel should do that to provide the best possible compi
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by fzltrp 13y ago
All right, then I suppose that what you are saying is that Intel should leave the genuine Intel chips detection out, and let customers implement specialized paths for AMD products, if the automatically selected path happens to underperform
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by fzltrp 13y ago
I understand you. But, is it possible that say, between two features, say SSE 4 and AVX, the less powerfull one happens to be the most efficient for a given algorithm on platform A, and the least efficient on platform B? If yes, how would a
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by fzltrp 13y ago
> People have pointed out that the "Intel" code is faster than the "AMD" code even on AMD chips, so the stuff about performance being difficult to achieve across different CPUs, while true, does not seem to be relevan
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by fzltrp 13y ago
That's interesting: could you elaborate on those problems? I was pretty much supporing Intel on the ground that their competitors products were just running a safe path, but your input might change my view entirely.
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by fzltrp 13y ago
I guess they could do that, and trust that customers will always be reasonable to not sue them when in those situtations that they wanted to avoid. Besides, it's not 2009 anymore: if they want to maintain their arch on the market again
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by fzltrp 13y ago
> This is not an acceptable use of trademarks. But if you were Intel, would you have your engineers work on competitors' products to make sure they are well supported on your line of tools? Before making an answer, consider that the
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by fzltrp 13y ago
The last two points aren't that valid anymore when you compare it with an android/ios migration. People coming from the MS ecosystem will probably want to have the softs they had then, and it's most likely they'd have to
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by fzltrp 13y ago
I guess this wasn't too far fetched an idea. Google engineers must have thought of this before me as well, which means that they must've a good reason to not implement it. I wonder what it could be.
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by fzltrp 13y ago
They could perhaps implement meta reviews, which let users rate reviews. Note That: * perhaps the ratio of misleading ratings isn't necessarily high enough to render the system ineffective (iow, it may be just noise), but in order to k
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by fzltrp 13y ago
So I suppose you'd rather not wear any bulletproof vest?
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by fzltrp 13y ago
It depends on what you guys are talking about. If you mean "constant" primitives, i.e. things which don't require to expand the language grammar or type system, then it's a question of future prevalence of usage of said
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by fzltrp 13y ago
There's this utility called swig( http://www.swig.org/ ) which let you create wrappers for C/C++ libraries to a number of different target languages (dynamic and static), though often time languages offer ffi on the
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by fzltrp 13y ago
The sad reality is that a computer is a complicated thing. Sometimes, your car breaks and you need a mechanic to fix it. Same goes for computers. And of course, businesses have strong expectations regarding mechanics and liabilities. One ma
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by fzltrp 13y ago
The opportunity is still there. This kind of mistake is easily fixed: create your own aliases for the functions you'd like to rename, and it's done. If the PHP people are unhappy with them, they could do exactly the same, deprecat
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by fzltrp 13y ago
That's unfortunately the exception rather than the norm. I have seen laptops with switches for WiFi, and camera obturators, but manufacturers hardly think about these things. It's obviously not an Apple problem only, but it certai
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by fzltrp 13y ago
Manufacturers used to offer the possibility of requesting to get a refund for the unused MS Windows license. Did that possibility go away?
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by fzltrp 13y ago
Is there a jigdo link? If they plan to do point releases they should go with that system, it saves quite a lot of bandwidth.
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by fzltrp 13y ago
I don't think that the word atom here refer to the usual physical object (which shouldn't be called that way btw), but rather to indivisible objects (ie. the original meaning of atom) in the game data model, iow every actors (pass
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by fzltrp 13y ago
Sand is not sedimentation.
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by fzltrp 13y ago
If you take it too seriously, it's indeed not very good. I personally take it as a compliment for Haskellers: it means that people from the Haskell (and fp in general)community do think at a higher level than the average programmer, so
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by fzltrp 13y ago
Once you start dwelling in the intricacies of a very complex type system, it becomes quite difficult to keep things easy to understand. There's this joke about how a Haskell programmer's style on a hello world programme evolves wi
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by fzltrp 13y ago
Even storage of the metal may bring benefits: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alum... .
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by fzltrp 13y ago
Give it some time.
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by fzltrp 13y ago
> I disagree. Low quality articles like this are part of the reason why many undergrads are full of strongly held opinions about things they don't know much about. I doesn't happen with undergrads only (but that doesn't ma

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