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by philippeback 9y ago
Iceberg brings full Git support to Pharo. ...closer yes. As in an erzatz of coffee is closer to coffee than say, beer. Enterprise features are getting added. With UnifiedFFI, it now easier to bind to C libraries, so, expect more. I am looki
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by philippeback 9y ago
UI looks indeed better. Uses FreeType instead of strike font. One can tune the freetype glyph contrast in the settings as well. And use any freetype font, like Hack (which is what I do use). Works smoother because of usage of FastTable whic
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by philippeback 9y ago
Got floaters. Dark is better because of less shadows. I am pushing the dark theme thing in Pharo for that very reason. BTW, there is the Sublimish Theme that didn't made the release but will be in Pharo 7. The general take for the next
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by philippeback 9y ago
Another easy way to solve that for one's HiDPI support would be to hack the VM a bit to display things properly. I should do that for my Surface Pro 4. But that would be a specific build.
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by philippeback 9y ago
There is Bloc, which is a fully vector based engine that is resolution independent (actually there is Sparta under this which is a recast of Athens). All tools can use it but are not part of the official Pharo6 release. This does not mean t
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by philippeback 9y ago
Iceberg: code management with Git, so lots of actions can directly happen from inside Pharo. There can be other backends than Git in the design. Git is the only backend atm. Epicea is something dealing with code changes even if you are not
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by philippeback 9y ago
If one has tons of workloads (like in hundreds to thousands) to run concurrently on a lot of the data, Hadoop is pretty solid. YARN is also allowing interesting stuff.
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by philippeback 9y ago
10K is not much.
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by philippeback 10y ago
We've got pretty good continuations, call/cc, generators etc in here too. http://pharo.org If you do want to leave the comfort zone, this is a must. And we really do not care for the framework du jour, even if we use s
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by philippeback 10y ago
There is a MOOC on Pharo available http://files.pharo.org/mooc/ French speaking but PDFs are in english.
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by philippeback 10y ago
VMs are usually inlining those message sends, which makes them fast.
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by philippeback 10y ago
Anyway, WebVR support is shaky on most browsers, except Firefox / Nightly where it works properly. Get that working before WebGL 2 or whatever. And throw in some support for external GPUs. Moved away from Apple and got myself an Intel
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by philippeback 10y ago
In my config, some better mouse support, 256color, history saving, config reload, and emoji-weather (temp + icon) in the status bar. https://github.com/philippeback/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.c... Emoji-
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by philippeback 10y ago
Same boat here. Vim + tmux definitely helps with managing loads of things. Add w3m to the mix.
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by philippeback 10y ago
Books are here http://files.pharo.org/books/ and the "by example" one has been recently adapted.
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by philippeback 10y ago
Never used a less bureaucratic language. And am using it everyday for business. Shortest path between my ideas and a running implementation = Pharo. Ok, took me a couple years to become decent enough for my needs but this is one of the best
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by philippeback 10y ago
App not available in your country (BE). Meh.
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by philippeback 10y ago
Actually there is one more approach: https://pharojs.github.io/ Amber is interesting because of how it evolves and what it can do, like having real compiler producing JS as output. One can learn quite a bit by studying it.
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by philippeback 10y ago
I like my job. Because I am my own boss. New tech is fine. Lots can be leveraged through APIs and one has to accept to let go of some control in order to get results that are up to the expectations of today bleeding edge solutions. I have s
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by philippeback 10y ago
I have been working remotely for some time now (years). I am not doing it all the time as I like to be around people every once in a while (but having decent noise cancelling headphones for surviving those open spaces). The key thing is ind
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by philippeback 10y ago
Yeah, my page is gone... This is really an old thing for sure, packed with interesting stuff. Never heard of backups at C2? Geez, this is just a bunch of text files. I even have the original Perl script from Ward, I deployed a skunkworks Wi
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by philippeback 10y ago
Old times, with space saucers. Watched too.
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by philippeback 10y ago
I swim. Often. No phone. No internet for 2 solid hours. After that my mind is clear. And I do not want to reach for a smartphone. One great feature on this phone is the ultra energy saving feature. Basically turning it into a black and whit
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by philippeback 10y ago
Parsers made easy and pretty much interactive: http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog/petitparser-1 http://www.themoosebook.org/book/internals/petit-parser This include the dynamic generation of bl
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by philippeback 10y ago
Soulmate of yours here: https://clementbera.wordpress.com Lots of optimizations going on for OpenVM. https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm Interesting bit: VM is written in Slang and transformed
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Hackapost: how hackathons can be the best learning tool under the sun(medium.com)
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by philippeback 10y ago
Interesting to see that there is some VPRI / Smalltalk / Squeak influence with HARC/YC Research http://vpri.org/html/team_bios/yoshiki.htm aboard There is also Moose that can create grammars quite e
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by philippeback 10y ago
Now set as my desktop background.
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by philippeback 10y ago
Ah, these articles are worth their weight in gold. Not related directly but from the good old days: The Ars Digita Systems Journal. http://www.eveandersson.com/arsdigita/asj/
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by philippeback 10y ago
When you deal with large data sets (e.g. Hadoop/Spark...), BigO starts to hit badly. Dynamic Programming also requires you to have a clue about it. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5jsbhAv_M for some cool explanat

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