marvy

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by marvy 11y ago
Not always possible though. For instance, I don't think it's possible to write "assert" as a function; it has to be a macro. But things like assert are admittedly pretty rare.
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by marvy 11y ago
So you end up with ads that say: copy/paste this URL. What have you solved?
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by marvy 11y ago
I was about to post that this is the Notepad Easter Egg, but you beat me by 5 hours. I guess I'll upvote you instead.
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by marvy 11y ago
I suddenly want to try this experiment
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by marvy 11y ago
Yep. I guess they're counting on that being so rare that it's worth paying the price in occasionally having to rewrite (and uglify) large chunks of code, in exchange for having a simpler language.
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by marvy 11y ago
C++ tries to make the same guarantees that the Go 1 compatibility promise makes. (Or at least very similar; they are different languages after all.) Basically: old code should keep working possible, but they have the right to invent new f
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by marvy 11y ago
Yes, but even if HN knows you by me@example.com, and this fact does not leak, something else does: someone (probably you) is interested at getting replies to your comments at krapp@example.com. Deduction: that is one of your email addresse
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by marvy 11y ago
Oh, well, then I understand. I wouldn't expect someone to actually read the description. Even I wouldn't underestimate laziness by that much :) I'm glad the VLC folks learned their lesson.
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by marvy 11y ago
5th word in the title doesn't count as "right up front"? sigh...
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by marvy 11y ago
But the users screaming bloody murder are right! (Or rather, they are exaggerating, but they are in essence right.) Most TLS errors are not the result of someone trying to spy on you; they are the result of someone letting the certificate
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by marvy 11y ago
The top result for me is: VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open ... The other results are all either directly or almost directly associated with VLC. I get no scam sites in the top 10 results. Have the search results imp
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by marvy 11y ago
I guess Citrine's creator feels the same way.
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by marvy 11y ago
I don't like it either. But what to do about it? It seems logical to use `{|` instead, but that's not much prettier. Presumably just a plain old open brace is hard to parse.
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by marvy 11y ago
How does this contradict your earlier comment? I think it's still valid: Person A believes H1 (real psychic), Person B believes H2 (talented fraud). The question now is how to get them to agree. And the answer is: design a better ex
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by marvy 11y ago
He has a pretty low opinion of English too: http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/11/23/the-unsui...
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by marvy 11y ago
Python: x = 2 if stringy: x = '2' print x+x # 4 or 22??? C++: int x = 2; if(stringy) string x = "2"; print x+x; // 4 (string x is out of scope)
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by marvy 11y ago
That works too, but the author said they have d digits each.
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by marvy 11y ago
Small correction: K should equal 10^d, not d/2. Unless I'm missing something.
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by marvy 11y ago
> perks allow [hiring] more cheaply than wage increases That sounds like the kind of thing some bored economist must have done some kind study on at some point. I'm too lazy to look for it, so maybe someone else can volunteer. I&#
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by marvy 11y ago
No need to worry about that one. Looking at Wikipedia's list of volume's, looks like distributed systems are not being covered. But I agree with you anyway. Let's quote the man himself (taken from his website): "As I
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by marvy 11y ago
I agree, but: consider that menus cost screen space, which is also at a premium. (But wait, a keyboard takes half the screen. I give up.)
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by marvy 11y ago
Thank you! I never did quite get the point of fashion. Now I know it's just another one of those things that I'll understand when I'm older.
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by marvy 11y ago
> On a tangent, what's wrong with shaming people into conformity as a general concept. Is it wrong every time and every circumstance? No. Not always. But often. If someone goes around doing things that might hurt others, shaming
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by marvy 11y ago
what's your better idea? (hint: this has to work in assembly language.)
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by marvy 11y ago
thanks
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by marvy 11y ago
What do you mean by that last sentence?
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by marvy 11y ago
Fine, so keep those aspects. There still remains plenty of relatively pointless undefined behavior. For instance, is the following well defined? int f(int* p, int* q){return ++ p + ++ q;} It depends! It depends on whether p == q. If so,
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by marvy 11y ago
I agree with you about the preprocessor example, but I bet that this is just a case of the standard being silly and real implementations are doing the right thing (that is, you will get an error message). I also agree with you about bounds
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by marvy 11y ago
Cool, thanks!!
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by marvy 11y ago
In case you're still checking these comments: do you think FlingOS is a good fit for someone who is comfortable with C, or would they be better off with something like xv6?

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