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by pedrow 9y ago
And I was thinking.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_(emulator)
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by pedrow 9y ago
Does anyone how this would work if there were two value types with the same members/definition but from different libraries - would they be interoperable? For example, a mathematical function library and a chart plotting library might
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by pedrow 9y ago
Probably worth mentioning the Jupiter Ace here[0] - a ZX81/Spectrum era computer which had Forth in ROM, instead of BASIC which was common at the time. The basic model only had 1K of RAM. I never used one but I remember when it came ou
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by pedrow 9y ago
Does anyone know, if coroutines are implemented by the compiler, will they also be available for C? Specifically, I'm thinking about the brilliant Io language which uses its own cross-platform C coroutine library. If this could be done
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by pedrow 9y ago
Quick question on the timings of this. The report says that "This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline." - does that mean it was discovered 90 days ago and has been published now, or it was discovered on May 6 (as dates
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by pedrow 10y ago
My daughter (9 years old) loves Scratch. For her I think the benefit is that she can do the part of programming that involves analysing a problem and extracting the logical steps that a computer could process, without all the fiddly matchin
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by pedrow 10y ago
For what it's worth, the difference still exists when printing with Netbeans 8.1 - 41 seconds for 'B' and 2 seconds for '#'
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by pedrow 10y ago
Does anyone know the status of drivers using WinUSB[0] under this policy? Also, have there been many instances of malware in device drivers recently that would require a tightening up of the rules? [0]: Microsoft's user-mode USB driver
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by pedrow 11y ago
Premake ( https://premake.github.io/ )
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by pedrow 11y ago
Can anyone clarify - does this support any .NET language (C#, F#, mixed language)? In the 'fabulous' example, I can't see where the source code for "Hello World" actually is.
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by pedrow 11y ago
"In 1993, Netpbm was developed to replace Pbmplus. Netpbm was nothing more than a new release of Pbmplus, and named for the fact that people all over the world would maintain the package by submitting fixes and enhancements over the Ne
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by pedrow 11y ago
Sorry a bit late replying (been on vacation!) Try: ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/
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by pedrow 11y ago
For the curious, it's possible to download a 'Native Oberon' image from the website[1] and run it under VirtualBox. It's interesting to see how things might have turned out and also it's astonishing how quickly it b
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by pedrow 11y ago
It's worth noting that, quite often when this subject comes up, people suggest a straight replacement with strncpy, strlcpy, snprintf, or something similiar. This is safer because it doesn't overwrite memory or cause a segfault, B
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by pedrow 11y ago
I wanted to look at the source code. Just to save anyone else the time to find it, the link is: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/?id=v0.6
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by pedrow 12y ago
I wish Linus would now turn his attention to: 1) make (ought to be a simple concept but never seems like it's quite been done right) 2) init (only he has the clout to solve the pid 1 controversy) Will check back in 2025 for progress re
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ASxxxx Cross Assemblers(shop-pdp.net)
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by pedrow 12y ago
Possible solution: revive the Indiana Pi Bill[0] (assuming 3.2 has an exact representation in binary?) [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by pedrow 12y ago
When was this article written? I can see it refers to Snow Leopard as the latest (or possibly upcoming) version of OSX, so 2009?
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by pedrow 12y ago
Does C++ have late binding? For example, in the Obj-C Cocoa framework, a menu item can determine, at run time, whether the current control can respond to it, and enable/disable itself appropriately. Say if a button had the focus, the P
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by pedrow 12y ago
For those like me who find it hard to think outside the imperative programming box, Eric Lippert's series of articles is good. http://ericlippert.com/2013/02/21/monads-part-one/ A lot of Monad artic
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by pedrow 12y ago
Github says it's written mostly in Clojure but it doesn't look like clojure - it appears to be 'pfront' - does anyone have any opinions on pfront?
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by pedrow 12y ago
I think maybe (it's been a while) the generators in Icon[0] do something similar, i.e. cause implicit iteration in the surrounding code. Also, don't like the mascot character so much. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by pedrow 12y ago
The intention is not to replace all 'map-like' uses of Object with Map. This MDN link explains clearly I think: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by pedrow 12y ago
> ... letting an employee announce on Twitter that they are changing Generics in Swing I hadn't heard that - could you point me to a reference please?
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by pedrow 12y ago
> Would you say that the functional paradigm has started to gain more traction lately though? I would and I believe it started to happen when people started talking about Scala. I also think something similar happened with OOP in (maybe?
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by pedrow 12y ago
I've always been keen to try Slackware (probably dating back 10 years or more) but always been too daunted by the installation instructions. I tried again today - it's completely different from what I remember and very straightfor
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by pedrow 12y ago
I was surprised to see that DirectWrite was introduced to Firefox version 4 back in 2010 [0] - though the release notes don't seem to mention it explicitly [1] [0]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=1775755
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by pedrow 12y ago
When they use an unqualified, lower-case 'material design' they are referring to the thing that Google announced at I/O yesterday, are they?