nocman

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by nocman 4y ago
Your note taking, organizing and writing will have helped you retain a lot more info for a longer period of time. It wasn't wasted effort. Still, there is a such thing as "too much". Higher degrees of success are achieved
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by nocman 4y ago
No matter how you spin it, this makes the landing page very misleading. Nobody cares about the "design" of a language when there is no implementation that fully realizes the design. Otherwise, anyone can say "my language i
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by nocman 4y ago
I agree whole-heartedly with OP's use of "braces around variable names where they aren’t strictly needed". I have two reasons. First, consistency is nice. Second, they aren't needed now , but invariably you will end
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by nocman 4y ago
> Sometimes the point is just having it possible. Sometimes I need to get that last bit of performance out of some code I'm talking about complexity beyond using a small subset of C++ features, things like template metaprogramming
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by nocman 4y ago
My opinion is similar to others in this thread. The complexity you are required to manage in order to push the limits of C++ makes doing so not worth it. There are far too many ways it can bite you, and the benefits you gain by moving bey
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by nocman 4y ago
I'm sure the people who do the competing enjoy it, but I can't imagine it being something any large group of people would enjoy watching .
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by nocman 4y ago
kinda funny if you spam click it also.
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by nocman 4y ago
> To use anything else (than JavaSE without heavy deps.) on the server is madness. That's a terribly broad generalization. There are multiple other options that are entirely sane.
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by nocman 4y ago
You offer plenty of criticism for using and/or generating makefiles, but I can't find any place in the discussion where you suggest an alternative. So what is your solution for building large projects?
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by nocman 4y ago
For some reason I thought (because of the title) this article was going to be about implementing a Lisp dialect in vimscript. I thought, wow , that's impressively masochistic! :D
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by nocman 4y ago
> So sorry, there is no ransoming. Just a bit of old fashioned fraud, and not on the part of Tesla. Actually, it's just a bit of old fashioned stupidity on the part of Tesla (or, at least, on the part of one of Tesla's employee
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by nocman 4y ago
Well, you NIP'd that in the IPL bud. I've only used big iron in anger (as part of my company's "ways of doing things" - and all of it unexciting parts of my job, and many years ago). I was not aware of said Nucleus
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by nocman 4y ago
As is often the case, the mouseover text on that XKCD just makes the comic!
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by nocman 4y ago
Don't you mean "the Nucleus of the Core of the Kernel"? :-D
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by nocman 4y ago
'cause we're all in the mood for a movie, and we'll be rewinding all night.
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by nocman 4y ago
> He is referring to a firing. How do you know that? OP doesn't say whether or not other people were let go at the same time also. It could be either.
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by nocman 4y ago
Nope. I earnestly clicked the link wondering how in the world Billy Joel was keeping Blockbuster Video alive. LOL.
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by nocman 4y ago
Just because someone suggests a way to work around a problem doesn't mean that they aren't also annoyed by the problem. There are some problems you do not have a viable way to attack at the root, and you just have to deal with the
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by nocman 4y ago
I'm not being at all obtuse, you just don't agree with me.
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by nocman 4y ago
Also, if you don't want to use "git reflog" at all for "undoing", you could undo your previous commit with: git reset HEAD^ Or if you also want to discard the changes you made to files in the repo at the same
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by nocman 4y ago
You have made my point for me. There is a minimum level of knowledge you need to know to use git. It is not as straightforward as, say a simple text editor. The problem git is solving is more complex than that, and therefore understandi
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by nocman 4y ago
> How is "reflog" the correct and intuitive choice for "undo"? Was there something I wasn't understanding? No, I'm just supposed to accept that. Actually your initial intuition was correct. There are things
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by nocman 4y ago
No. (edited: by that I mean you are not the only one)
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by nocman 4y ago
And after wasting enough time to find out what it actually looks like, it left me with this opinion: The "Simple Checkbox" they started with is 10,000 times better - although it seems silly to me to have one checkbox be the only
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by nocman 4y ago
It's not just you. :-D
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by nocman 4y ago
Because it is a sped-up/chipmunked version of Roger Miller's "Whistle Stop". And Roger Miller was freaking awesome! ( https://youtu.be/JPt1n2AdQd4?t=35 )
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by nocman 4y ago
"not large software systems, but programs that process data" I disagree. Perl still works fine for large systems. I understand why people choose other languages. It depends on what your needs are and what skillset works best fo
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by nocman 4y ago
Yes, and not just maintenance, new systems.
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by nocman 4y ago
From what I've gathered, Larry was simply focused on Perl 6 (which became "Raku" in Oct of 2019). It seems to me that he just wanted to let others handle the new development in Perl 5 rather than being directly involved all
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by nocman 4y ago
> It is weird OP left Perl 6 out of the story of "what happened to Perl 7". I guess it's just too painful? Actually, it is not weird when you consider what the article is about. The announcement of Perl 7 was not about Pe

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