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by reichstein 3y ago
There are tools to automatically update the Gerrit change when the GitHub PR is updated. If you keep the comments on GitHub, eventually you may end up with an acceptable PR, which you have continuously tested in Gerrit too. Then you just la
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by reichstein 3y ago
This is either a sad reflection on society, or awesome sarcasm. (Hoping for the latter, but have you seen society lately?) The need comes first. If I have a need, I (re)search for solutions. The ad does not create the need. Ads still work.
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by reichstein 3y ago
The difference is that crypto (blockchain) didn't solve any problems that a majority, or even significant part, of people actually have. It allows tracking ownership of digital assets in a distributed way, but it does so in an overly c
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by reichstein 12y ago
Apropos, you can easily make your own date syntax in Dart: class Month { static const List<String> names = const <String>[ "JAN", "FEB", "MAR", "APR", "MAY", "
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by reichstein 15y ago
Actually the problem with automatic semicolon insertion (ASI) is the opposite: It sometimes doesn't insert one where you expect it. ASI only inserts a semicolon when not inserting it would give a syntax error. It's the cases where a newline
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by reichstein 15y ago
Javascript closures are more fun than most other languages, because the scope chain can be changed after the closure has been created. Try explaining this to a 6-year old: function foo(o) { eval("var x = 10;"); with (o) { return
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by reichstein 15y ago
Bit-fiddling at the C-level isn't necessarily faster on all platforms. E.g., the "masked combine bits" case where he says that r = a ^ ((a ^ b) & mask) is one operation shorter than r = (a ^ ~mask) | (b ^ mask). On ARM, the (a ^ ~ma
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by reichstein 15y ago
That's actually in the browser/rendering part of the browser (i.e., in WebKit), not in the javascript engine. So, no.