informatimago

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1. 751.▲
   by informatimago 12y ago

   There are big advantages to alphabetic texts. The three advantages that you cite are not. 1) there is no less fighting with syntax when you use a graphical syntax than when you use a textual syntax. Now we can agree that a lot of textual p
2. 752.▲
   by informatimago 12y ago

   Which is a failure in RMS, not in CL packages or the notion of namespaces.
3. 753.▲
   by informatimago 12y ago

   And that's why you'd want one of them to be a woman, otherwise, unicorns' race will go extinct.
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   by informatimago 12y ago

   Who said it wasn't? There are various web frameworks written in C, to write webapps in C. As an example, the fossil DVCS is written in C and contains a web server written in C. http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/tre
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   by informatimago 12y ago

   I guess this only proves Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk wrong. At least for now. AI is so lame, that it cannot translate satisfactorily simple blog posts. And this after 55 years working on the problem of automatic translation...
6. 756.▲
   by informatimago 12y ago

   You are missing a quite significant '2' on the number of francophones, it's 274 millions, not 74M. http://www.francophonie.org/Denombrement-des-francophones.ht...
7. 757.▲
   by informatimago 12y ago

   Those Usians... no sense of humour!
8. 758.▲
   by informatimago 12y ago

   Whouah! You mean I COULD patch bugs, fix dependency drift or have somebody do it for me against (reasonable) payment at all? That's wonderfull! Try to do that with Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Word!
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   by informatimago 12y ago

   Perhaps men really think with their dicks :-) LOL Ok, but seriously, present her Princess Leia, and how she programs R2D2 to go and deliver a message to Obiwan Kenobi. Or otherwise, present her with true princesses, enclosed in their castle
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    by informatimago 12y ago

    1984: MacOS GUI programming in (Lisa)Pascal, Lightspeed Pascal came the following year, and the MPW with Object Pascal a couple of years later. OOP wasn't very common yet, but when you look at the Mac Toolbox, you can see that it is de
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    by informatimago 12y ago

    The point is that nobody reads the standards.
12. 762.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    Nope. Size fit color is blue (or else black, which is kind of a dark blue). No (they don't tend to respect the blue rule). Also: move to a hot country to reduce the need for clothes.
13. 763.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    Why? I mean, Yosemite is easily the ugliest GUI since, ... ever really. It won't last long.
14. 764.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    You mean, like Pasteur (5 francs, 1966), Berlioz (10 francs, 1972), Travail et Science (20 francs, 1939), Le Verrier (50 francs, 1945), Saint-Exupéry (50 francs, 1992), Descartes (100 francs, 1942), Gustave Eiffel (200 francs, 1995), Pascal
15. 765.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    Find harder problems to solve. I'd expect you'd then be surrounded by smarter people.
16. 766.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    The iWatch feels like a very MVP to me.
17. 767.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    It happens. Usually, rewriting the code from scratch will produce a better version.
18. 768.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    It's rather idiotic to put money up on auction. There's a little exchange risk, since I assume there'll be a delay between the bids and the payment, but if everybody bids at the same time, they will bid the same amount, unles
19. 769.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    On the other hand, the USA doesn't have any orbiting space weapon, right.
20. 770.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    If he is really concerned, he should invest in AI and robotics, to develop protector robots to fight against deadly robots.
21. 771.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    That's your opinion. But the science disproves your opinion.
22. 772.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    On the other hand, this is not the kind of things to put on such a wide distribution channel as twitter. Know every programmer knows about it and will be forewarned. Perhaps we'd need a psychopath-specific social network...
23. 773.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    You could (try to) write coarser grained classes in Java too (granted, with static typing, it may be harder to do).
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    by informatimago 12y ago

    Well, MacOSX and iOS don't have a BSD kernel (or even a BSD-like kernel) at all. They have a Mach kernel. They have howewver, a BSD-like userland and kernel personality. But I guess we can assume that the Mach kernel is also more fr
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    by informatimago 12y ago

    Indeed. The difference may be that classes in the iOS frameworks are general more coarse grained than classes in the Android frameworks. When you only need one class to do something in iOS (and MacOSX), you might need ten classes in Androi
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    by informatimago 12y ago

    There a difference between countries and languages. Countries have flags, languages have not. Countries are codified by the ISO 3166 standard, with numeric codes, 2-character codes and 3-character codes. Israël has the 2-character ISO-3166
27. 777.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    It's called "sentiment analysis", and it's a very well developped and commercialized part of AI. And of course, text generator use it to choose words according to the conoted emotional load, according to the goal set by
28. 778.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    Yes, why?
29. 779.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    My oldest file is 1975-06-25. Don't bother. Just buy new disks. Disk capacities double every so often, while being cheaper and more energetically efficient. Therefore there's no point in spending time sorting out your files, del
30. 780.▲
    by informatimago 12y ago

    Indeed, if you want 0/1, use unsigned int, not signed int!