jpr

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by jpr 15y ago
open source != free software
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by jpr 15y ago
I would categorize this as programmer-gore.
93.
by jpr 15y ago
Why does everyone conflate allocation and initialization?
94.
by jpr 15y ago
1+KLOCs a day of C? WTF?
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by jpr 15y ago
> will certainly wind up pissing people off/alienating people entirely If someone else implementing a vaguely similar idea makes those people pissed off, well, it's certainly not the implementors fault. I've had a zillion ideas only to
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by jpr 15y ago
Can't seem to find the package on Ubuntu 10.10, do I need to enable some repository? EDIT: Apparently it was included in the basic gdb package or something.
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by jpr 15y ago
The company in this case is also a hospital. You just don't fuck around when people's lives are at stake.
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by jpr 15y ago
A fitting username you have.
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by jpr 15y ago
And now it says 11:00 am , when it's 23:25 here. Apparently quality of code didn't prevent Google from succeeding.
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by jpr 15y ago
> It was the very first time that I used 'structured programming', a technique a friend of mine had shown to me. Huh? How old is this guy? I thought structured programming was something that came out in the 30's or something.
101.
by jpr 15y ago
It hardly matters what the laws are when politicians wipe their asses with the constitution.
102.
by jpr 15y ago
Hmm, to me it says 3:00 am. Is there some localization thing going on? I'm looking at it from Finland.
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by jpr 15y ago
> Code shouldn't be generating other code, it should be generating more structured values. How is code not a structured value? Do you mean that instead of some properly typed AST you only have lists, symbols etc?
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by jpr 15y ago
I have no idea what Rails actually does, but I recently wrote a web application for a school project in Common Lisp, using just libraries (Hunchentoot, LML2 and Postmodern mostly) that aren't really meant to work together in any significant
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by jpr 15y ago
I'm not sure what you were disagreeing with, but I have to disagree with your disagreeing because if 5/11 people crashed the thing in an hour , it's completely unusable for many people, me included.
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by jpr 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what OS and browser? Opera on Ubuntu just displayed a big ass box of non-readable text but didn't gobble all my memory or anything.
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by jpr 15y ago
> default scripting language for Rails I guess I'm somewhat out of the loop when it comes to Rails, but why does something written in a scripting language need a scripting language?
108.
by jpr 15y ago
It's easier than you think. Just invent something and declare it human right. Done.
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by jpr 15y ago
studying my native language -> studying CS Windows -> Linux blub -> learning Lisp and Haskell not knowing C -> knowing C dial-up internet -> broadband random editors -> emacs 19" and smaller monitors -> 24" monit
110.
by jpr 15y ago
Care to elaborate on the eating/lifestyle issue?
111.
by jpr 16y ago
Why not just use const references as parameters? No excessive copying, immutability. Seems like a win to me.
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by jpr 16y ago
I think Java and C++ et. al. get it wrong by overloading the . operator. On one hand it means "gimme this field of that object", and on the other hand it's "find this function in the method table of the class ". These are completely differ
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by jpr 16y ago
It's rejects all the way down.
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by jpr 16y ago
Yep. Some are in transition from "too skinny" to "too fat".
115.
by jpr 16y ago
> Lack of some necessary features that other languages have (prior to 5.3, namespacing, clojures ) groan...
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by jpr 16y ago
If "everything are files", then the whole concept of "file" is completely meaningless.
117.
by jpr 16y ago
Isn't the whole "security industry" a prank gone bad?
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by jpr 16y ago
Agreed. I believe that nuclear energy is safe and nice and dandy when properly managed, but the humankind has demonstrated with 100% certainty that it can't properly manage anything , ever. I don't want anyone to make decisions that can di
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by jpr 16y ago
> I kind of assume that they're competent "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by jpr 16y ago
I think it's shortsighted, naive and optimistic to expect that subsidization of "fresh produce" would produce any better results than the current system. After all, there's nothing inherently wrong with corn or cattle when they are produced

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