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by marrs 12y ago
`type` and `like` seem like a really natural way to enforce interfaces in JS. What happened to those ideas?
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by marrs 12y ago
That depends on what you're trying to succeed at. If the primary goal is to be free then freeness is the primary measure of success and popularity comes second. The question here is about the choice of licence affecting the success of
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by marrs 12y ago
For me it's a matter of principles, and the free software ecosystem is a natural consequence of the adherence to (at least some of) those principles. I think the GPL is most useful at keeping us honest, or if it fails to do that, at le
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by marrs 12y ago
It taught me how to code.
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by marrs 12y ago
Then you are able to use the proprietary driver so long as you agree to its licensing terms. I suppose that you are arguing that an OSS driver licensed under more permissive terms would encourage GPU manufacturers to contribute more back to
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by marrs 12y ago
The only straw man I see in this thread is the one you just set up. If encouraging your project's success is secondary to preserving the freedom to scrutinise, modify, or redistribute its code, then GPL should be considered. Windows is
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by marrs 12y ago
I'm referring to unique_ptr, introduced in C++11. http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#std-unique_ptr
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by marrs 12y ago
Perhaps I should have been clearer: don't do anything serious with it if you have a deadline to meet.
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by marrs 12y ago
Until these results trickle through to the workplace as well. When I was still in school, girls were outperforming boys at secondary level, but not at further or higher levels, then they started out-performing boys at further level. Now wom
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by marrs 12y ago
I meant "coursework", not "courseware".
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by marrs 12y ago
Well, at least it prepares you we for a career in programming :)
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by marrs 12y ago
Just trying to think back to my schooling... I went to a mixed secondary school and I think there the girls generally outperformed the boys at all levels. I went to a different school at 6th form and there I think the best achievers were mo
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by marrs 12y ago
I really don't know anymore. I've been listening to a lot of feminist activists on the radio recently, probably because of the lead up to international women's day, and they can barely conceal their misandry, and it's be
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by marrs 12y ago
You sure it wasn't just an excuse to bash dynamically typed languages? ;) In any case, I'll be interested in seeing how it ends up getting used. It's nice to have it available.
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by marrs 12y ago
Well, presuming you're right, since a negative outcome is pretty absolute, I guess the more important question is, is the gain worth the risk?
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by marrs 12y ago
Well what should we expect? In the last 20-30 years, a huge amount of effort has (rightly) been put into bringing girls' performance up. Examples include substituting practical classes for theory, exams for courseware, and so on. Also,
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by marrs 12y ago
I genuinely think you should put that to him. Not enough organisations recognise the value of junior developers imo.
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by marrs 12y ago
But it's just recently hit 1.0 As an alpha only. It's still much too unstable to be able to do anything serious with it.
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by marrs 12y ago
I'm sure event loops have their uses in all languages, but I'm not sure why the author rubbishes Python and JS, citing callback hell, and then writes an example that uses callbacks. Anyway, the article's introduced me to cons
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by marrs 12y ago
Give it a chance to grow, and give yourself a chance to learn it. You're talking about a brand new language implementing a memory management system largely untried in production code (although C++ has it now). The language will be refi
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by marrs 12y ago
But this about creating the job description, not reading CVs. There are already lots of apps designed to parse CVs and sort them based on keyword relevance. I didn't really see the point of this tool. From what I can tell, you put in a
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by marrs 12y ago
No, you stumbled into the mainstream. The wholesale migration to OOP was complete by the end of the 90s. But you've probably been doing functional programming within OO languages and not realising it. For example, most of the PHP stan
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by marrs 12y ago
It's not so much that OOP is falling out of favour, but that functional programming in particular is being rediscovered, probably because we have to multithread now, and if bugs are hard to keep out of single-threaded code, they'r
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by marrs 12y ago
I do commercial closed-source development; there is no public branch to the whole world. OTOH, all feature branches are public to the team; only trivial features involve a single developer. So your assertion doesn't seem
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by marrs 12y ago
Git won't let you push a modified history without a force anyway, and you can set up the remote to refuse these pushes if you want.
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by marrs 12y ago
Absolutely. I'm sick and tired of idiot developers fucking up the web with their bullshit "apps" which are slow, crash all the time, and break everything. I've worked on more "web apps" than I can count and the
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by marrs 12y ago
I think this is a direct consequence of the commercialisation of the Linux desktop by Canonical, Red Hat, et al, but especially Canonical. The amateurs were pushed out and the professionals swarmed in, and now the requirement was to bring
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by marrs 12y ago
The fact that water is not compressible means that the water moving in one direction is capable of exerting an extremely large force on the water moving in the other direction when they run into each other, which would bring the wate
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by marrs 12y ago
I interpreted that to mean the top end of entry level
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by marrs 12y ago
But it's plenty liveable elsewhere in the UK, and there are plenty of descent tech companies looking for devs. And the point is, that's money you're earning, not money your borrowing as a student.

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