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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
Intriguing! How frequently does the SDK sample the barometer's readings? Does having the phone in one's pocket affect the perceived atmospheric pressure?
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
Ha! I've been using this function for ages and always assumed it was a compiler built-in. I love that it's just that simple.
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
Neat project, but the marketing's a little disingenuous. It's not "entirely written in Javascript", it's a Javascript layer on top of Chromium, an enormous codebase written in C++.
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
I wonder whether they could charge an even less, say 0,0001€. One cent gets you 100 deliveries! Still not free, but feels an awful lot like it.
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
I get pretty excited about languages, but I admit that I'd only ever heard of Lojban via XKCD[1]. You might want to provide a link to the Lojban homepage[2]. [1] http://xkcd.com/191/ [2] http://www.lojb
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
There was a lot of neat stuff shown off at I/O, but I was sort of bummed that they didn't announce a programming language update for Android. I'd been hoping that they were going to unveil a move to Java 8. I suppose the lega
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
> Furthermore, the units are used only at compile time. At run time, a Length<Inch, f32> value is stored in memory as just a single f32 floating point value, with no additional data. The units are “phantom types” that are never ins
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
Additionally, idiomatic Rust code will employ iterators rather than direct indexing where possible. Rust's iterators are memory safe and do not perform bounds checking.
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by portmanteaufu 12y ago
Why are they still on Java 6? Oracle stopped supporting it in February of 2013 [1]. What's preventing the move to 7? [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Oh, my mistake! Thanks for clarifying.
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
The single quote is used for lifetime declarations and is borrowed from the ML family of programming languages. I'd never seen it before Rust since none of the languages I was familiar with had lifetimes.
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I had the same reaction initially, but I found it a lot more palatable when I realized that the lifetime notation was taken directly from the ML family of programming languages. For an example, see the Queue data structure snippet here: ht
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I've been following Servo for a long time and had never begun to consider this. How incredibly exciting it is that they could actually get to the point where the only thing holding back their performance wasn't even in the code.
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
It was about a year between the first release of 2.4 and the 2.6 release. Should we expect another full year for 2.8?
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
This is the first time I've ever seen the written word "sewer" in reference to "one who sews" rather than "a sewage system". Perfectly correct of course, I just had to re-read that sentence!
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I've also noticed how very common it has become to find questions in the format "How to do [task]?" rather than "How do I do [task]?" I strongly suspect that this has arisen from Google searching, where people natur
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Could you elaborate on this? I thought that JSR-310 and Jodatime were supposed to be nearly identical. Why would they introduce such a regression?
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
What a curious perspective. Lots of people like IntelliJ better than Eclipse, so they must be succumbing to "group-think?" Why don't people try to defend and improve Pepsi?
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Interesting! I'm surprised to hear that maps aren't viewed as a replacement for records as Joe Armstrong (probably jokingly , I now realize) declared. Your explanation makes complete sense. Thanks for sharing your perspective, and
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Whoa. This makes the language feel much more approachable. I love that they've provided both an "upsert" and a semantically distinct "update" for their maps. Working without upsert is painful, but the problem of acc
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
#rust on irc.mozilla.org. They're a super helpful bunch.
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I'm impressed by the rate at which Rust has begun accumulating serious ports of and bindings to valuable libraries. There's already varying levels of support [1] for a number of serialization and compression formats, databases and
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I had the same experience. They had me up and running with the $30 plan immediately. For people wondering, the $30/mo plan is a prepaid plan that includes: - Unlimited Texting - 5GB of 4G data, unlimited 2G data after - 100 minutes, $0
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Here's a good starting reference on the legality of owning lockpicks from state to state: http://toool.us/laws.html It doesn't cover sale / purchase, just ownership by state.
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I was really hoping that this article (or the original LA Times article) would have a summary of the Comms Act as it stands and the changes that the legislators are hoping to introduce. Instead, all I got was "Things have changed in 18
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I read about this in the mailing list, but never having relied on linked failure in the past I wasn't sure what the implications were. Could someone give an example of when this would've been used before and how you might accompli
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Last I had heard they were going to try and provide both M:N and 1:1 implementations and using whichever was more appropriate for the platform. I could be wrong about that, though, it's a hazy memory from a lengthy mailing list discuss
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Regular exercise. I did a CS master's degree at night while working a full time job programming. After sitting 9 hours at work, I'd sit a few hours in class and then sit a few hours doing homework. After three years, I was a wreck
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Hear hear! I'll never forget reading a blog post [0] by Brendan Eich in which he addressed upcoming ES features that were influenced by or emulated Coffeescript syntax. It was a pretty solid Krusty the Clown reference on his part. [0]
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by portmanteaufu 13y ago
I can't speak to the reference counting and garbage collection libraries (which are likely the items to which you are mainly referring), but I found Rust's approach to the more mundane memory management scenarios to be enormously

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