octo_t

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by octo_t 13y ago
To people who say Scala has too many features, which ones would you remove? (Please don't say + to concatenate strings, because everyone knows its terrible, its there for Java compatibility)
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by octo_t 13y ago
I would add the caveat of 'does unicode well without breaking backwards compatibility'
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by octo_t 13y ago
Even in perl5, the unicode support is incredibly good: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-p...
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by octo_t 13y ago
for old legacy systems, keeping /etc/ in RC is (and has been) a massive godsend. Its nice to see a rarely used bit of software from 31 years ago still being maintained.
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by octo_t 13y ago
obvious answer: universal healthcare.
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by octo_t 13y ago
ref counting has a couple of pros and cons: cons - can't handle circular references - sudden churning when something at the root of a large tree can be freed, causing recursive freeing. - it really doesn't like multithreading pro
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Cmder: portable console emulator for windows(bliker.github.io)
230 points by octo_t 13y ago|54 comments
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by octo_t 13y ago
by his lawyers own statements, what he did was rape.
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by octo_t 13y ago
you know what he should be charged with? rape. because he raped two women.
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Functional Data Structures in C++: Trees(bartoszmilewski.com)
4 points by octo_t 13y ago|0 comments
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by octo_t 13y ago
Has literally anyone actually completed that certification?
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by octo_t 13y ago
I'm guessing you mean "can't use GPL'd code" here. embedded work is different, in that you often embed your container in your data-structure, so you end up with something like: typedef struct { int x; in
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by octo_t 13y ago
It is explicitly not a display issue.
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by octo_t 13y ago
Kim Dotcom?
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by octo_t 13y ago
pretty much every genocide ever?
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by octo_t 13y ago
what account details?
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by octo_t 13y ago
why? languages like ruby etc dont even have universally defined behaviour - there is no spec etc, just a reference implementation.
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by octo_t 13y ago
Simple solution: remove the undefined behaviour from your codebase.
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by octo_t 13y ago
why? the best thing about HN is that normally if someone doesn't have an informative/useful comment about a topic, they don't say anything.
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by octo_t 13y ago
people said/saying the same thing about ruby/RoR too. "While there was some hype about Rails, it didn't turn out to be a fad. The ecosystem is thriving and not slowing down anytime soon, especially with Ruby 2.0 and then
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by octo_t 13y ago
Am I the only one who is getting annoyed at these zero effort sky is falling NSA comments? Every single damn submission on the front page has some meaningless hand wringing over the exact same issue and it is 100% unproductive.
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Ask HN: Looking for a decent pair of wireless headphones
8 points by octo_t 13y ago|17 comments
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by octo_t 13y ago
say perhaps the New York Times?
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by octo_t 13y ago
If you have repeated crashes, please report them to JetBrains. I had a problem with intelliJ crashing on some Scala code, sent them the logs and they said they were aware of the problem and that a fix was almost ready for deployment. I&#x27
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by octo_t 13y ago
Yet there are no decent XML libraries for node.js. I'd trade decent JSON support for decent XML support every single day of the week. And Scala/Java/JVM have already solved the problems you mention above.
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by octo_t 13y ago
std::list is a doubly linked list, how else do you propose they do this? This is traditionally how list sizes are calculated. (libc++ keeps a track of the size somewhere, but this in occurs a 4/8 byte overhead)
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Growing A Language - Guy Steele(youtube.com)
1 points by octo_t 13y ago|0 comments
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Typesafe acquires Spray.io(marketwired.com)
74 points by octo_t 13y ago|22 comments
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by octo_t 13y ago
the kind that correctly uses XML for everything.
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by octo_t 13y ago
you can run diff <(ls /path/to/dir/1) <(ls /path/to/dir/2) in bash/zsh - im not sure if its a per executable thing or actually built into the shell?

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