oldmanhorton

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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
Astoria was the start of a lot of the technology behind the Windows Subsystem for Linux, if i remember correctly. I use WSL every day, so that was definitely not a failure in my book.
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
Well, in the most general case where x's value can only be determined at runtime, most any compiler can and will assume that the initial if could or could not be hit and will therefore assume that y could , conservatively, be uninitia
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
* Linux developers like their command line tools. Many of us had our first real programming happen in college on Linux, but theres no need to No True Scotsman this.
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
Foxit is great on Windows, but it seems like their Mac and Linux versions are both pretty limited by comparison. Still could check it out, though! (I got rid of my mac a few months ago and only ever used Preview when I had it, so I cant com
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
I don't care if it's Microsoft or canonical or whoever wants to have their go, but I am so, so ready to leave both Android and iOS. I have a pc so half of the iPhones features are useless to me (I never really cared for the platfo
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
This is fantastic! ASP.NET Core documentation has definitely been lacking for some things, and I learned a ton from this.
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
I find that it still falls down with a lot of programming questions, but in those cases I can always punt out to google. Aside from that, I think it works plenty well.
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
It is not - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy for the where these terms come from. Context-free grammars are strict supersets of regular grammars and cover the vast majority of programming language co
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
Can't agree more. ASP.NET Core with C# is a breath of fresh air after doing mostly complicated express.js-backed SPA development for a while.
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
I am currently working on two dotnet core projects (both ASP.NET Core) and my only complaint has been the tooling. Visual Studio talking in terms of solutions and the dotnet cli talking in terms of projects means that I have `launch.{sh|ps1
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
I have updated three computers -- a Lenovo laptop, a surface book, and a custom desktop -- all without any issues. Its important to remember that everyone with a problem will make sure to say something, but everyone without a problem usuall
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
Well, you don't have to write any declarations -- everything will just be typed as `any`, which isn't preferable but is exactly what you'd get if you weren't using typescript.
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
This should probably point to the original article at http://blog.originate.com/blog/2016/06/29/write-modern-async... rather than the (currently empty) reddit discussion?
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by oldmanhorton 10y ago
There was a comment a bit below that suggested that those who paid for commercial support got it 24/7, but if that's true, id imagine the fix that commercial support would have given to paying customers would have fixed it for eve
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
A sufficiently powerful drill, which humans have possessed for some time, can unlock any and all safes...
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
Having used Bison as well has my own hand-written compilers, I personally would suggest that Bison is not worth it. With recursive descent, you end up writing the same BNF structure anyways, but you don't have to fight the Bison file
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
Are selective schools overrepresented, or are nonselective schools underrepresented? I don't think these two ideas are the same, because I think there is room for discussion about both. Also, the article seems to imply that discussing
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
This looks a lot like typescript. Is there any particular reason for not either 1) adding a wasm backend to tsc (which tsc may or may not allow), or 2) implementing a strict subset of typescript? It just seems like piggybacking off of a lar
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
This would be appealing if the Soundcloud apps (including web) werent so atrocious. Navigating through your collection on Android is a mess, and the webapp shows as few as 2 tracks on a full laptop screen (while eating up gigabytes of RAM a
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
Seems like this company is a custom web design company, so it is in their best interest to perpetuate the "Wordpress is bad" meme.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
As someone who has never done meaningful Java development, I always find the project structure of Java codebases indecipherable. Why are there so many folders? I understand that namespaces depend on directory path, but it just seems like th
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
It seems as if this is his Go extension, based on the VS Marketplace link and commit history. Microsoft probably just took over ownership to make it "official"
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by oldmanhorton 11y ago
I was getting plain-old 500 errors, which is what brought me here
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by oldmanhorton 12y ago
I am confused about notabug.org, why do the project and profile pages look eerily similar to GitHub's?
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by oldmanhorton 12y ago
made an account just to saw how awesome this was