gonzus

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by gonzus 7y ago
If you come from the dBase / Clipper experience, then Harbour could be considered a more modern version => https://github.com/harbour/core
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by gonzus 7y ago
Since I cannot downvote this, I will reply... to say how much I disagree with your comment. One may prefer to bike even if one owns a car; one can help a friend with or without a car; one can dress one's kids appropriately for a bike r
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by gonzus 7y ago
It is just a fact of life. Not enjoyable, of course, but so what. Of course, if the bike ride is really long, it might become unfeasible.
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by gonzus 7y ago
Does nim have any way to write a one-liner that includes nested scopes? Something like `nim --run="if(...) { while(...) { foo; bar;} }"`? Not knowing nim, I just made that syntax up... :-)
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by gonzus 7y ago
A shout out to Mathologer too.
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by gonzus 7y ago
Can you clarify which book do you mean when you mention "Russel"? I cannot pinpoint it, unlike the other two.
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by gonzus 7y ago
One trade-off at the moment (if I understood this correctly) is that function pointers lose this transparency, and you have to be explicit about them being async (or not). Maybe the plan is to lift this restriction in the future? I am not p
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by gonzus 7y ago
It might be a cherimoya (although we spell it as chirimoya): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherimoya -- the best fruit in the world in my opinion. It is sometimes referred to as custard apple in English.
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by gonzus 7y ago
Nim is not curly braced, it uses Python-like indentation.
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by gonzus 7y ago
I understand he suffered from chronic pain, so sleep must not have been easy for him. I can totally see the lure of propofol in such a case.
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by gonzus 7y ago
And, sadly, it also doesn't handle correctly / easily the case of a rule building two or more outputs (think yacc producing a .h and a .c file): more contortions are required.
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by gonzus 8y ago
100% agreed.
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by gonzus 8y ago
To complicate things even further, although "ordenador" may be the official word in Spanish for "computer", it is merrily ignored in many countries, which simply will use the atrocious neologism "computador". I
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by gonzus 8y ago
If you read that out loud as if it were Spanish, it would sound like the original French pronunciation for Galois. So, good job! :-)
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by gonzus 8y ago
I am putting my money and hopes on Zig.
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by gonzus 8y ago
I have always wanted to get my hands on the "definitive" book about von Neumann, whom I find a fascinating character. Is there such a thing? Any recommendations?
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by gonzus 8y ago
Same here. In fact, I have actively avoided travelling to the US for the past four years, which means I have mostly missed conferences. I would really like to travel there again, I have friends and favourite places, but the hassle is just t
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by gonzus 8y ago
I live in the Netherlands, where we have the (I think) famous "doe normaal": act normal, don't stand out. Still, bringing a roast beef sandwich for lunch seems to me far from not acting normal... Oh well, vive la différence
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by gonzus 8y ago
I find it very hard to believe you would get "stern looks from colleagues" simply because you made yourself a different sandwich... It this for real? If I had to bring a sandwich to work, I would certainly make it with something I
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by gonzus 8y ago
Was this stated / implied in Catcher in the Rye (I honestly don't remember), in some other work by Salinger, or is it the result of one of those works of psychological analysis that purport to tell us what really goes on in a no
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by gonzus 8y ago
You are right, I was just ranting... As others have already mentioned, I think the best summary is "Holden Caulfield is full of shit". I hated his whiny attitude throughout the whole book, and I did not feel any sense of closure a
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by gonzus 8y ago
I live in the Netherlands and have a MasterCard credit card from ABN AMRO. The pin for this card gets assigned when the card is issued and the only way to change it, according to ABN AMRO, is by requesting a new card.
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by gonzus 8y ago
I will probably burn all my virtual karma, but I just need to say this: I hated Catcher in the Rye with a passion. I used to do a lot of reading, still do my fair share, but just could not stand that book.
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by gonzus 8y ago
Not in EU it seems. Your credit card pin get assigned when the card is issued, and can never be changed after that. Go figure...