galacticpony

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by galacticpony 9y ago
I was interested to hear the argument up until "Ruby on Rails" showed up. If "Ruby on Rails" does what you need, that's great, but then I'd say you're barely programming anymore, just like writing HTML&#
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by galacticpony 9y ago
...so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
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by galacticpony 9y ago
I was about to write the same comment. Since you beat me to it, I'll just point out that this guy really should put on a proper shirt.
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by galacticpony 9y ago
data contained in an exe (or dll) is not necessarily in RAM at all time
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by galacticpony 9y ago
If you read the article, you'll see that what Corral is right now (i.e. the supposed "next generation") is in fact being abandoned. It's a dead-end, at the very least.
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by galacticpony 9y ago
I'm not doing your homework for you.
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by galacticpony 9y ago
Many languages in use today don't even have a (first class) concept of unions or structures, at least not in the sense that you are talking about. If you're talking about about "bloat" those contexts, you might want to s
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by galacticpony 9y ago
...maybe because JSON is one of the worst serialization "protocols" in common use? If you ever need an argument for why "worse is better" actually rules the world of software, point to JSON and drop your mic.
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by galacticpony 9y ago
>> The downside is then if you just get a message without knowing what it is about it's difficult to figure out. You're saying that as if there was a clerk reading the message at the other end. If a computer program gets a m
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by galacticpony 9y ago
You're being completely disingenuous here. Nothing is competing with HTML on being what HTML is. Nothing is even close. All text encodings in common use build on top of ANSI. The de-facto standard (now) is UTF-8 and there's no rea
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by galacticpony 10y ago
The manpower behind Linux is superior. Not sure if it's the "vast majority", but for many business cases following the GPL(v2) rules simply is not a problem. Both the PS4 and the Nintendo Switch run on FreeBSD, by the way.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Some people care about privacy. Most probably may even care about it to some degree, but not to the degree where they sacrifice their convenience for it. Again, the media has done its best to scandalize the very real privacy concerns with
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Yes, it is. Fair points, good luck!
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by galacticpony 10y ago
> What other game dev tools can a user on a Chromebook use? Or an Android device? Well, you're kinda making a point for me there. Why would a game developer use a Chromebook or an Android device? The second point applies more or les
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Like you said, this is all theoretical. You can reach "the whole world" with the right browser. At that point, you might as well ship an Electron app. But that's not even the point of my question. What I actually meant is: Wh
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by galacticpony 10y ago
This isn't a new problem. We "know" the common people don't care because all attempts at scandalizing this in the media, for years, have not found much resonance.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
...even for a team of one developer! Look, I understand how one might like HTML imports. Once you've gone down the rabbit hole of Web technology, all the fancy experimental features make it look like HTML/CSS are now adequate.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
There are web applications that are way more demanding than this, that have run on more platforms for a while and that don't need any of these questionable experimental features. I could understand if you said you need WebGL or WebAu
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by galacticpony 10y ago
> Those of us that do understand the technology have a duty to help the people without that knowledge and experience. No, we don't. The fact that the "common people" don't value privacy enough led to this whole situat
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Can't you just... program that stuff yourself? By relying on such "cutting-edge" features, you get all the drawbacks of web technology with none of the reach.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Does anybody ever actually want to do serious work "in the browser"? I can think of many drawbacks. Where's the benefit?
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Second Line: "However, in practice, the short seller is required to post margin or collateral to cover losses, and inability to do so in a timely way would cause its broker or counterparty to liquidate the position." That's e
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by galacticpony 10y ago
What you're talking about is a "naked short", which is of course very risky. No Bitcoin exchange allows for this. In fact, most exchanges don't allow for shorts or any sort of leverage. While what you're saying may
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by galacticpony 10y ago
You're cleary not familiar with the context at hand. You don't know how exchanges like Bitfinex operate, what the terms of use are, etc. Everything you said so far is just wrong in context .
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by galacticpony 10y ago
Not if you simultaneously BUY ON THE OTHER MARKET. Jesus. You also can't lose money beyond what you put in (on the exchanges that allow for this), your position just gets terminated.
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by galacticpony 10y ago
What does that have to do with anything? You don't understand the point. You go short on one market, while simultaneously going long on the other market. That's how you profit (arbitrage).
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by galacticpony 10y ago
How so? This is a rather a case where a law is being followed to the letter to an objectively worse individual outcome . It's highly questionable that having 20,000 free videos removed from public access is the intention behind the
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by galacticpony 10y ago
I'm making a general statement, not specific to UC Berkeley. Even if you don't consider UCB a business, most of its income does not actually come from taxes and its spending isn't going to be all that different from a priva
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by galacticpony 10y ago
This is ass-backwards. If a business has to spend extra time and effort to fulfill some regulation to provide a free service, it's just not gonna happen. Everybody loses. Even if it wasn't a free service, if the regulations ma
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by galacticpony 10y ago
> Yes, it has since at least 2010 (and probably earlier). See my reply to whitequark_, this seems to be loop-specific. > The Vec classes can be used as Point structs. Oh, sure. Which one though? How do I abstract this, again? > S

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