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by pdw 12y ago
For me too (i5-2520M laptop). This one runs faster: http://www.codebase.es/jsgb/
392.
by pdw 12y ago
A bit less flashy/more old-fashioned, Niklaus Wirth's 2013 edition of Project Oberon covers an FPGA-based CPU, operating system, compiler, tiled window manager and text and vector graphics editors. No Tetris though. http:/&#
393.
by pdw 12y ago
Newsqueak has nothing to do with the Squeak Smalltalk system, it was an extension of an entirely unrelated Bell Labs language with the same name.
394.
by pdw 12y ago
they still do... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Peak_Performance
395.
by pdw 12y ago
The limit was 40 bit. DES was 56 bit and "international" implementations zeroed out 16 bits of the key to make it exportable.
396.
by pdw 13y ago
I've used C++Builder (the 200x versions) and I really can't recommend it. Lots of compiler bugs and no improvement from release to release.
397.
by pdw 13y ago
I used to use rc on Linux. The details are hazy, but the two main things I remember are: 1. There were lots of little compatibility problems. ssh-agent and gpg-agent can output either Bourne shell or csh. rc can't parse either. I also
398.
by pdw 13y ago
I used C++Builder at a previous job. All their software was C++/VCL, they were completely locked in. Embarcadero tried to keep up with the evolving C++ standard and on paper they were moderately successful, but if you actually tried to
399.
by pdw 13y ago
Well, Meyer doesn't let any chance to bash C/C++ go unused :) But a good syntax should minimize the chance that an accidental insertion/transposition/deletion of a character/word/line results in a valid program
400.
by pdw 13y ago
Meyer argues that a language shouldn't have a separate block statement. Instead block structure should be integrated in the control flow statements. That would result in this code: (I'm keeping your indentation style) if error
401.
by pdw 13y ago
He's well known as the designer of Eiffel.
402.
by pdw 13y ago
The bug was introduced in version 1.0.1, released 14 Mar 2012. Aren't most of Snowden's documents older than that? And we certainly don't know what the NSA has been doing since Snowden collected his files late 2012 / beg
403.
by pdw 13y ago
If you have access to grub, you can edit the kernel command line and add init=/bin/sh. That will drop you in the initramfs, and you can mount the system's filesystems (assuming they're not encrypted of course).
404.
by pdw 13y ago
How does it break? I've always used virtualenv -p /path/to/python3 and it seems to work fine.
405.
by pdw 13y ago
Both of those would work in bash, but they're non-standard extensions. The seq construction would work in any POSIX shell, though the seq command itself is still non-standard I think.
406.
by pdw 13y ago
For portability you should also use \033 (the octal code) instead of \e, which is non-standard.
407.
by pdw 13y ago
Wasn't it the other way around? Raskin started the Macintosh project, and then did the Canon Cat after Jobs forced him out.
408.
by pdw 13y ago
There's an open source code dump of two versions on udanax.xanadu.com. "Xanadu Gold" is the most insane codebase I've ever seen -- implemented in Smalltalk but intended for automatic translation to C++.
409.
by pdw 13y ago
Proprietary C compilers are also alive and well in the embedded world.
410.
by pdw 13y ago
It was getting popular in hobbyist circles (probably mostly in pirated form), especially after new PCs started shipping with Windows ME.
411.
by pdw 13y ago
It would be third, the eradication of rinderpest was confirmed a couple of years ago.
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by pdw 13y ago
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/bpl/ Your options for certified UNIX seem to be Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, OS X and Inspur K-UX. WTF is Inspur K-UX?
413.
by pdw 13y ago
Given that Oberon was originally designed to run on a 10MHz CPU, that won't be much of a problem :)
414.
by pdw 13y ago
Don't forget the segfault.org classic: "What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus?" - An Empirical Study http://segfault.org/writing/segfault.org/Bus.html
415.
by pdw 13y ago
Traditional C++ would look something like this: for (vector<string>::const_iterator it = data.begin(); it != data.end(); ++it) { ofile << *it << endl; } But in this case we're dealing with a vector,
416.
by pdw 13y ago
Wikipedia's Terminal Event Management Policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Manage...
417.
by pdw 13y ago
How's that going anyway? It seems GNUcache, Lilypond and TeXmacs are already using guile (and geda also but that doesn't seem to be part of GNU). So make is the fourth Guile-using GNU project?
418.
by pdw 13y ago
What's annoying about GNU make is that the language has a lot of dark corners and the maintainers are pretty willing to break things. Half of the 3.82 release announcement was discussion of backward-incompatible changes (and that are o
419.
by pdw 13y ago
I've often seen normal people come up with deeply nested directory structures with long descriptive names and they get bitten hard by the 260 character limit. For example names like this are very common in my experience: C:\Docum
420.
by pdw 13y ago
Or just ls -1 (that's a digit one)

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