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by mhd 8y ago
Of course, we're talking American bitcoinbro libertarianism, not Kropotkin, right?
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by mhd 8y ago
Hmm, is wolkenkit still rather dependency-heavy? Saw it at a presentation once and the default install pulled in both Postgres and Mongo.
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by mhd 8y ago
Mandatory reading: Michael Abrash’s Black Book, available freely and legally online at https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
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by mhd 8y ago
I think one of the reasons why new languages are going for compilation again is the death of the multi-architecture ecosystem. Support x64 and ARM and you can play with the big boys. Back then? Intel was barely considered mature, every Unix
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by mhd 8y ago
I would miss the instant replies on most Rust topics from you. That and acemarke's similar quick response to any mention of Redux make the world seem like a more predictable place in these troubled times...
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by mhd 8y ago
It also dropped some letters (æ, þ) and pronouns (thou, thee). Most of what was added was vocabulary, to be comparable to C++ one would probably have to add all the Finnish cases, Japanese gendered language and all the Vietnamese accents. A
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by mhd 8y ago
If your functions are short enough and with a low level of cyclomatic complexity, it really shouldn't matter all that much. If it means that you have to wrap 2/3rds of your function in an if just so that the single final return st
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by mhd 8y ago
Yikes, that sounds like a horrible experience. Never got that from hanging around at the Arch linux forum back in the days where their products were moderately popular. Having said that, my general impression was that there was an inordinat
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by mhd 8y ago
For the backend, you need something with a standard library. Static typing and performance is nice, but if you have to pick-and-match every single little detail where you have to interact with the outside world, you'll still end up w
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by mhd 8y ago
"Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap your keyboard or the Emacs keybindings before the chords and sequences it comes with by default have wreaked havoc with your hands? If you do not do anything to ma
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by mhd 8y ago
Really? ed existed before GNU ed, so at the very start of the project you can basically implement all of the existing features. The "parent" probably doesn't add any new features, and there probably isn't a broad userbas
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by mhd 8y ago
That's the local OTC dose here (Germany), too, although I always got the somewhat strict advise that this shouldn't be kept up for more than four days in a row. Mostly because of renal damage and gastrointestinal issues, if I reme
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by mhd 8y ago
Yes, that's the first non-green PCB I can remember, too. And it took a while until I saw it become common -- I guess a big incentive was the appearance of side windows on PC cases. At first all DIY (Dremel), then commercially sold.
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by mhd 8y ago
Getting a button to appear in ExtJS ain't the problem. Getting it to appear where you like often is. Comapared to nested panels with umpteen different layout managers, flexbox ain't that hard (nevermind subtle cross-browser bugs
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by mhd 8y ago
I guess someone needs advanced access to cryopod batteries. Still not quite the level of Dropbox '14.
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by mhd 8y ago
Is excluding someone from being mentioned in the same sentence as LE a disservice?
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by mhd 8y ago
We're definitely not doing enough interface research anymore, now that our corporate overlords have decided that "apps" are the thing to aim for, as they're easier to exploit for maximum profitability. At one time, more
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by mhd 8y ago
Not without better concurrency support.
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by mhd 8y ago
Big codebases tend to contain licensed code or at least depend on it, so you'd get code that's either illegal to publish or contains huge gaps. Getting it in a state where you can put it on github, would require quite some dev and
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by mhd 8y ago
MacOS 9
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by mhd 8y ago
I wasn't talking about Tcl/Tk's current state, but about the similar situation it "enjoyed". It, too, had a pretty large community, which quickly went on too greener shores. User base is much more fickle than one mi
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by mhd 8y ago
That's what I thought about Tcl/Tk.
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by mhd 8y ago
CATIA has VBS, if you're in that particular circle of hell.
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by mhd 8y ago
Not as common, as it clashes with using '-' for subtraction, but as that's never been a problem for Lisp, it's quite common there. Perl6 went that way, too, despite having infix syntax. But hey, it's Perl, we'r
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by mhd 8y ago
By the way, does anyone know who started the "Advent of ..." series? Earliest one I'm aware of was Perl.
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by mhd 8y ago
So is there a Ratfor2018?
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by mhd 8y ago
"Across the country"? I thought that a lot of the production of the English warbow and its associated equipment was pretty centralized. Hunting equipment (both bows and arrows) as something entirely different (I think there's
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by mhd 8y ago
I remember when everyone suggested their own way of s-expressions (basically) to avoid having to write superfluous end-tags and other XML/HTML tchotchkes, now we're getting multiple ways to get all the markup boilerplate into our
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by mhd 8y ago
Does anyone have a good source for their prior scene? I know of the KCs, but never saw a lot of what was done with and to them. These end-game GDR computer clubs seem to have completely switched to western Commodore products.
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by mhd 8y ago
True, but its popularity seems to have decreased enough that I don't get that many quackery-NLP news in my personal bubble / here. So when NLP does turn up, it usually means the right thing. That people now use "ML" when

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