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15y ago
I bought a dellbuntu once there was a bug with the x driver so x didn't work.
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15y ago
With my glasses it looks like Einstein.
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15y ago
no option for vim?(as opposed to vi?)
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15y ago
How readable/maintainable is the resulting code?
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15y ago
I was just about to say that.
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15y ago
It depends probably but I'm sure some areas the name of different foods are imprecise. Does caviar mean all fish eggs? all black fish eggs? Beluga, Ossetra or Sevruga sturgeon eggs? What about True cod. ect.
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15y ago
Have read_str return const char * while (strlen(read_string(s)) > 5)
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15y ago
"The GNU Hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. Yes, this is another implementation of the classic program that prints “Hello, world!” when you run it. However, unlike the minimal version often seen, GNU Hello processes its a
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15y ago
I'm sure there are a number of bots that are able to fool people a lot of the time and many have been around for a long time, but that isn't what people think of when you say AI.
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15y ago
Why don't they just categorize apps like desktop linux on Catorise on the n900?
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15y ago
Doh I forgot to mention puppet.
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15y ago
only on the browser, although some people do use desktop gui library bindings to javascript.
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15y ago
He probably has more influence on the language then the guys in charge of Rubinius and JRuby(across implementations).
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15y ago
Based on anecdotal evidence it seems like python is generally much more popular then ruby, being frequently used for just about any general purpose programming (other then some speed sensitive and low level stuff) such as os scripting, appl
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15y ago
How is that nice? And I can't find this quote in the article.
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15y ago
The good is the enemy of the better especially if you keep thinking its good enough. As the Java folk found out more speed is an important goal that can mean the difference between having your language used in certain fields and c extension
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15y ago
or get into the debian repos.
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15y ago
I'm not sure I understand what does compiling a javam have to do with replacing a vm with a compiler? The jvm has really good garbage control and a good jit compiler. LLVM has some of the stuff needed for writing a jit compiler for a vm. I'
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15y ago
otoh a lot of enterprise java code is probably tied to windows in some fashion. And linux runs best on x86.
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15y ago
Some password input box's on the n900 do not seem to like paste.
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15y ago
My guess is that it isn't just because of benchmarks running a gc takes time, running it all at once can be faster then running it multiple times. Getting the right balance can be hard.
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15y ago
darn forgot to mention ctags. If you are up for it supposedly scope is better but I couldn't get it set up. I don't know of any vim plugin for eclipse like macro expansion but if you see hairy macros you can always do gcc -E |vim - (gcc -E
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15y ago
at least if you stick to macros
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15y ago
can you get around the second without typeof(a gnu extension)?
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15y ago
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan Not to mention people aren't as smart as
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15y ago
Try opening it up in an editor/ide with ctrl+click to step into function or similar like gvim or eclipse(and hopefully a way to jump back. eclipse also has a nice expand macro feature which lets you look at macros fully expanded and at diff