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by pmr_ 14y ago
Reading the write-up in combination with the code is usually really entertaining. Having the code before that would make it a lot less entertaining. But you are of course right, as long as there is no code, there isn't much to actually see
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by pmr_ 14y ago
4) It's a common "click of the eye" gesture to design-savvy public, like their basing their podcast app to classic 60's design, etc. Or it is just another case of Skeuomorphism gone wild. Not everybody who pays attention to design likes t
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by pmr_ 14y ago
It was an amazing experience. I go to the page, see the Google Books link, make myself ready to buy it just because I want to reward the license decision and the ability to read it in plain HTML and than you hit the territorial wall of yest
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by pmr_ 14y ago
The article wasn't even explain why the sentence-fragment was sexist. And I don't see how it was. Yes, meetings would be more attractive if there attendants were more evenly distributed across the spectrum of the human population. Otherwis
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I don't think OP actually wants to know how he can do that with post-processing, but in a real Emacs session.
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I've just ported the theme to Emacs 24 [1] custom-theme.el and made the same realization. [1] : https://gist.github.com/3723433
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Yes, that's how it started. But C with classes (or even C++ before standardization) is a really different language from what is there now. As I said in another child of my post: It is a multiparadigm language. Of course a lot of people are
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I was thinking the same after re-reading my post. I always thought it was a negative statement but it simply confirms what Stroustrup has always been saying about C++: "It's a multiparadigm programming language." Surely the support for one
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by pmr_ 14y ago
What strikes me is the assumption that C++ is an object-oriented language. Yes, there is some support for the paradigm but it is neither great nor is it the main focus of the language. Developers have come up with reusable intrusive data-st
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I'm wondering: Was the technique of compiling from C++ to JS primarily for code reuse? I always perceived the ability to code in something else besides C++ as one of the main advantages of the whole "Games on the Web" thing.
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by pmr_ 14y ago
This has been the complete opposite for me in Europe. I have to get a new account on the national Amazon website if I want to avoid paying extra fees for out-of-country delivery. That also screws up Recommendations, doesn't transfer my Wish
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I actually found the content disappointing and don't see why to bother spending tutorial time on explaining them. A somewhat competent programmer will have figured out how to add mode-hooks after looking at his first one or two EmacsWiki pa
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by pmr_ 14y ago
The thing with namespaces is that they also introduce a problem through the various using clauses programming languages provide and how that interacts with common tools like grep. An API that uses a naming-convention that emulates namespace
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by pmr_ 14y ago
clang doesn't outperform gcc on most projects I work on or that speed increase is not significant. I run quite a lot of test-suites - maybe I should try to measure them and provide some real numbers for reference instead of hand-wave myself
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I share your enthusiasm but there are limits. C++ compilation speed (and thus interpretation speed) will make it quite impossible to use it as an extension language. And while I like and use C++ a lot I don't think it is the right language
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Has the Rotten Tomatoes API improved recently? A few years ago I tried to work with their site to extract some data and automate some of my personal movie recommendations and it turned out to be a huge mess. At a point their web interface e
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Referring to [1]: So, if I would try to sell libraries targeted at avionics there is no way for me to get certification for that specific library? Is there a way to guarantee "certifiability"? Sorry for the late reply.
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by pmr_ 14y ago
You mean the media-player player that is violating the GPL? http://roundup.libav.org/issue112
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by pmr_ 14y ago
The rules seem quite reasonable and less strict than what I had expected. The libraries section mentions "Only DO-178B Level A certifiable" libraries. Are any common open source libraries among those and is there a list available somewhere?
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Starting with gcc 4.7 and 4.8 the error message for C++ are also improved [1] and start to get close to clang. The competitions seems to be good for gcc and I like to have the choice between two compilers. [1] : http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Cla
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I own a XPS15z but I was never able to put what is wrong with it so succinctly. I absolutely don't get what's with the pre-installed software thing, I can do that myself. What I need is full-driver support and some basic information of what
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by pmr_ 14y ago
There can be safe-guards against funding gaps, which are already in-place in some universities (e.g. at least in some parts of Europe). While funding is allocated by politicians the exact distribution of that funding is done on another leve
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I think one of the failings of the pharma industry is to incorporate both, production and R&D. If R&D would be done in the public sector and its results freely available industrial pharma could compete on an even level concentrating
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Reading the communication makes me feel sad for the poor guy. He believes he is talking to people which feel responsible for their actions or the corporation they work for. He scrambles to produce a complete picture and tries to argue that
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Google currently isn't winning the price for cool APIs. There is still nothing decent for G+. Are there any news on how an API for Drive is supposed to look like?
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by pmr_ 14y ago
Oberon was the language used in my high-school courses (This was only 7 years ago). I had a hard time understanding the choice at the time and no one was able to explain it to me, but now it seems it was the logical decision when you try to
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I don't see the value in producing an error instead of using the meta-program to produce an unrolled loop with mpl::for_each that actually prints the sequence at run-time. ;) Seriously, the MPL is a powerful and surprising beast but in most
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by pmr_ 15y ago
That is not entirely true. ISO itself is funded by the member bodies (the national subgroups so to say), member organizations and selling standards. This gives the concrete figures for 2011 [1] on page 2. [1] http://www.iso.org/iso/about/i
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Maybe I'm being naive here: Where is the alternative to RSS? I live in a small happy world (I use feeds heavily with gwene.org and Emacs Gnus as my reader and I like the experience). How am I (or anyone else) supposed to consume content fro
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Apparently. Judging from what it does the implementation could be a nice example of layering shell tools on top of each other to get new functionality. Probably it has some uses for people that work entirely with the shell.

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