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by incepted 11y ago
Yes, Wizardry was the first game to ship that was written in Pascal UCSD if I recall correctly. The boot sequence was pretty unmistakable (clear screen, switch to 80 columns, cursor in the upper left corner) but quite novel at the time. Her
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by incepted 11y ago
> Let's not forget that Go was invented to solve Google's problems No, it was invented to solve the problem that a handful of Google engineers experienced while writing C++ at Google. Most of Google's code base is written
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by incepted 11y ago
> I couldn't agree more completely. Mmmh... you say you agree with the previous poster but your message seems to disagree completely.
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by incepted 11y ago
Well, at least I bet the compiler compiles itself faster now :-)
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by incepted 11y ago
Don Worth and Pieter Lechner were idols of mine at the time. I would never have been able to crack a single floppy back then without this wonderful book. D5 AA 96 forever.
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by incepted 11y ago
Another interesting side effect of Apple DOS is the extraordinary fertile ground it created for software companies to copy-protect their applications. Piracy was already a big deal back then and pretty much every single software publisher o
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by incepted 11y ago
> Must of have
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by incepted 11y ago
I'm barely picking up the pieces of my blown mind from the "bash running on a Linux image inside Windows" announcement and now... this? Are you trying to kill me, Microsoft?
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by incepted 11y ago
> You think this case makes the FBI look good? Right now, I'd say they are looking pretty good: they hacked into the phone of a terrorist without breaking any laws.
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by incepted 11y ago
> it just looks like they're incompetent. They just hacked into an iPhone, something Apple has been claiming for a long time was impossible. Even Apple has no clue how they did it. Incompetent they are not. You're looking at p
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by incepted 11y ago
Blame the FBI? How is it the FBI's fault that this particular iPhone was not secure? It's mystifying to me how far Apple advocates will go to not blame their favorite company.
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by incepted 11y ago
I really find this whole thing hilarious. First, it's Apple sticking it to the FBI by making a stand for privacy and receiving public accolades doing so as a champion of privacy. The FBI is the bad guy trying to invade our privacy. Now
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by incepted 11y ago
There are not really comparable. The value of an email service is how many users it has. The value of a big database is... who knows? If Google one day decides the content of that database is a strategic asset, they might just as well decid
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by incepted 11y ago
> It's simply not going away because Google relies on it heavily. Still doesn't mean Google will maintain the public access to this database. They might just as well shut it down and limit its access to Googlers. Like they alr
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by incepted 11y ago
It's clear that whether you invite or don't invite someone to a conference, you are making a stand. What the organizers of that conference fail to see is that inviting someone with such a toxic and racist personality will only enc
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by incepted 11y ago
A speaker invited to that conference has posted racist and bigoted statements on his blog. Lambdaconf is (currently anyway) deciding to invite him to speak anyway, causing all kinds of chaos. That same person was once invited at another con
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by incepted 11y ago
> It is still easier with static compiles if you ask me You'd be surprised how many users have no idea whether they are running the 32bit or 64bit version of their OS. For them, running a Go binary will be anything but easy.
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by incepted 11y ago
> Can't beat the simplicity of running Go applications. ... as long as you downloaded the right binary.
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by incepted 11y ago
We're specifically talking about operators and finding a way to determine if they are universally known. If the wording bothers you, replace it with "We should only accept symbolic operators that are taught up to sixth grade"
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by incepted 11y ago
Slippery slope argument. I like the Litmus test that a ten year old should be able to read them, which means that +, *, / and - are fine but =~> and other nonsense should be banned.
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by incepted 11y ago
Sure, but at least, auto completion works automatically. With dynamically typed languages, you get cryptic (and vague) errors and auto completion just can't work.
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by incepted 11y ago
> High startup time. Anything bigger than a hello world takes seconds Oh, no! Seconds? Like five? Seven? For a process that you start less than once a day? Unacceptable. > High memory usage. Heaps in the 1-2 GB range are not uncommon
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by incepted 11y ago
DSL are certainly the future of this kind of tools but not with a dynamically typed language like Groovy. The fact that it's dynamically typed makes it pretty much impossible to get decent support from IDE's. Gradle's support
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by incepted 11y ago
Also, the problem is that 90% of their revenue apparently depended on this feed from Amazon. It's never healthy to be so dependent on one provider.
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by incepted 11y ago
> Of course I don’t know the full backstory, but it sure seemed like the original plan for 3rd party developers on iOS was to have us all just build apps using the web. Correct, there was no SDK on the first generation iPhone. It was a c
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by incepted 11y ago
He could have been a casual user of an Android phone. All you need is learning how to prioritize your time. A lot of adults can do that.
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by incepted 11y ago
> With Android, I always wanted to tweak silly things and run Cyanogenmod because So effectively, you prefer to use tools that give you less flexibility and that's why you prefer the iPhone.
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by incepted 11y ago
> I seriously doubt it's intended to mean (to quote the article) "LOL poor people". He didn't mean to but this is the general reflection of the culture that permeates Apple as a company and the bubble in which they li
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by incepted 11y ago
And by doing that, completely missed the point of the article.
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by incepted 11y ago
> - How do you search for a function other than by description or name. You were asking for modules and now you're down to the function level. That's a much easier problem to solve. Hoogle, Javadoc, documentation and good index

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