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by gecko 12y ago
EDIT: Nope, I'm wrong; as pointed at below, Apple charges $1/month for unlimited service, whereas Amazon's offering it free. INCORRECT FORMER COMMENT: Apple has already thrown unlimited photo storage into iOS 8 ( http:/&
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by gecko 12y ago
And adding to that: the reason why things like LLVM come up a lot is because, if you write your chain right, you get things like LLDB for free. Using DynASM as your JIT base still forces you to write GDB hooks or a custom debugger, which,
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by gecko 12y ago
Can you explain why? I pretty much hate all the ones I've worked with; some insight into a system that people actually enjoy to use would be really valuable.
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by gecko 12y ago
I'm not clear what Blueprints aren't providing here that the author needs, but aside from that, a slightly bigger point: I really like Flask, but Flask's entire point is that it's a thin, user-friendly wrapper around Wer
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by gecko 12y ago
The original reason for that was simply because they hadn't thought of that. The ongoing nominal reason was that it was a continuing nod to skeuomorphism. But given Jobs' passing, and the otherwise massive ditching of skeu
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by gecko 12y ago
That's unfortunate. The presence of the command module alone ought to make it clear that's not true. I think Ansible aims to be more idempotenty than other environments, and I think it succeeds there. The lack of something like Ch
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by gecko 12y ago
I doubt it, unfortunately. I think a Nixos-like approach is the closest you can get to having a single tool, simply because it's a fairly logical extension of apt/rpm/etc.-style systems, but its very operation makes it too al
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by gecko 12y ago
This post is ridiculous. A very valid complaint would be that Ansible isn't idempotent, which I think is what the author was trying to get at. Nixos would be a great example of an idempotent system, and you might be able to convince me
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by gecko 12y ago
So first, to pick a knit, if I'd gone to the next comment, I'd have included God exists. That pretty-much reverses bad and good. The FBI is evil against God. I am good with God. Simple as that. which is responding
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by gecko 12y ago
Look: I'm a big fan of freedom-of-speech, but that doesn't mean that I, or anyone else, has any obligation to provide a venue for you to say what you want to say. As it happens, TempleOS manages to be sufficiently offensive and a
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by gecko 12y ago
There are links to not only Android, but even Windows Phone, on the linked page. Where did you get iOS-only?
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by gecko 12y ago
OS X uses HFS+ resource forks for a variety of things, beginning around 10.4. Prior to Mavericks, they were used to handle ACLs, to track Time Machine metadata, to track whether a file was downloaded or native to the file system (which in
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by gecko 12y ago
I'm not quite sure what you're aiming for, but the Be Book is available online ( https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/ ), and includes all the documentation for the API. I don't know that any
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by gecko 12y ago
I didn't realize that ReFS in Win 8.1 had had a meaningful revision, but that's great to hear. And I wasn't saying that ADS or HFS+ ADS were new, but rather that they're barely used, and that the relative increase in us
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by gecko 12y ago
I don't think anyone's really begun tackling it. There's widespread agreement that Haiku should eventually support it, but I don't know that anyone's done any effort to really move in that direction (with one pseud
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by gecko 12y ago
I might grant that NTFS is conceptually similar to BFS (though its alternate data streams lack types, IIRC; been awhile since I dove into that). I am optimistic that the new commandlets introduced in PowerShell 3, along with better tooling
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by gecko 12y ago
While true in a narrow sense, it does so by targeting the lowest common practical denominator—in practice, a chip that looks a lot like a 386 or 32-bit ARM with no SIMD pipeline. That puts it as little more than a better GNU Lightning.
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by gecko 12y ago
Interesting you should mention "git reset", because, depending on the options you give it, it either: * reverts one file * reverts all files * removes changes from the index, but doesn't otherwise change anything at a
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by gecko 12y ago
There are two things people mean when they say Git is complicated. Some people mean that Git's model is complicated, which what you're talking about. I actually find its model very simple, some people find it complicated, but a
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by gecko 13y ago
Not that I'm really against this article, but psake ( https://github.com/psake/psake ) is a more realistic end-goal to handle the kind of flexibility you really need in projects. (It's accomplishable through M
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by gecko 13y ago
I am not exactly Windows biggest fan, but one of my pet peeves is talking to a Unix developer who assumes that Windows doesn't do something because it doesn't do it how Unix does it, or who blindly assume that the Unix version is
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by gecko 13y ago
I personally think this is silly. I agree! Thankfully, that's not actually what Fog Creek does. Let's separate two aspects of this process, because they deserve different treatment: 1. *Going to recruiting sessions
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by gecko 13y ago
Please do note that Fog Creek provides an apartment to interns for exactly that reason. You would not being paying New York rent as a student.
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by gecko 13y ago
Fog Creek has frequently had co-ops; they just don't advertise it very much, for two reasons: they can't offer the same outings/bonding experience, and they can't take as many students at the same time. That said, if yo
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by gecko 13y ago
Have you tried with F# specifically? Even the old collector generally did fine for C#, but F# tends to allocate a tremendous number of very-short-lived objects, which is where Mono's old GC got unhappy. I actually do fully expect t
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by gecko 13y ago
That's a rather unique take, given how Xamarin has managed to build a massively successful company around the idea of using .NET to target non-Windows platforms.
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by gecko 13y ago
Many of the core F# developers develop on Mono first, so I think it's probably reasonable to run F# on something other than Microsoft's VM.
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by gecko 13y ago
Lots of them, but two key ones: 1. You have much richer libraries available. There's a decent amount of stuff in OPAM these days, but that's dwarfed by what you can grab out of NuGet. 2. You have a great asynchron
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by gecko 13y ago
C# is a much higher-level language than C, with a much richer set of libraries that can be relied upon to be everywhere. That's why it matters.

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