renox

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721.
by renox 7y ago
Easy: don't recharge them ;-)
722.
by renox 7y ago
> C is portable assembly until it isn't: > - no access to carry/overflow flag in registers making it a chore to write bigint libraries C is portable assembly: so it provides access to a minimum common set of features whi
723.
by renox 7y ago
In the language maybe but both Rust and Zig show that it's possible to have much less 'bloat' for error handling even without using exceptions. I'd say that go designers have still work to do: Zig especially show that yo
724.
by renox 7y ago
So your goal is to filter people who say dumb things answering a dumb question ??
725.
by renox 7y ago
Is the right to left order common to all array language? It sure doesn't help onboarding..
726.
by renox 7y ago
Uh? Being a 'technical marvel' has little relationship with making money and without money developers may choose to do something else whenever they want..
727.
by renox 7y ago
Maybe, but remember that computers were very, very slow and with small memory, so GC's overhead used to be unacceptable (Emacs == eight megabytes and constantly swapping? I've seen it).. I think that Java came 'at the right t
728.
by renox 7y ago
The article is about OS ABI for applications (which Linux has), not internal OS ABI for drivers (which Linux hasn't).
729.
by renox 7y ago
This article while interesting is so oversimplifying things.. How about social security? Public hospitals? Public schools? History has shown that these 'socialist' institutions can work and IMHO can be better than raw capitalism b
730.
by renox 7y ago
>> "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" >I don't like seeing this quote in the context of programming. Maybe you're overthinking it? Just yesterday I delivered a temporary fix with copy&
731.
by renox 7y ago
Any good pointer on this?
732.
by renox 7y ago
> I believe Java overall meant progress. I'm not so sure, you're comparing it only to C,C++ or Tcl/Tk but what about Ada? Smalltalk? Lisp? Objective-C? Plus Java's standard library was full of bugs for a looonnng time
733.
by renox 7y ago
To implement a prototype of the future, this works well, but to sell something to consumers you have to implement something "cheap", which Xerox PARC didn't manage to do..
734.
by renox 7y ago
That's funny: I (and several other co-workers) hate cmake but make is OK. Not great but much, much better than cmake..
735.
by renox 7y ago
Web browsers didn't (still don't AFAIK) use one process per website visited..
736.
by renox 7y ago
Not surprising: being good at something != being good at teaching this thing. I remember seeing someone showing on TV how to open oysters, he was doing it with his bare hands!!
737.
by renox 7y ago
I like the convenient unit syntax, if this works well with IntervalArithmetic.jl, julia can become a competitor to Frink https://frinklang.org/
738.
by renox 7y ago
I think that a 'better' example is what happened in France during WW2: jews were deported to concentration camps, how did they know who was Jewish? Because the French government ( before the invasion) had a registry/census w
739.
by renox 7y ago
I'm not sure that this is a real change, this is already something I noticed when I was young: 'top alpha men' gets all the women and all the other men have nothing. Edit: note that this may only happen when you're young
740.
by renox 7y ago
Some of the slides are contradictory: miss lack of safety by default and miss focus on GC. Well if you want safety by default, then either you use a GC or you're a Rust/cyclone clone, I don't see a third way..
741.
by renox 7y ago
Zig is doing this, an interesting feature.
742.
by renox 7y ago
At work, we use cmake; i've never seen a technology with so little 'traction'; I know one guy who is good with cmake all the other (including me) avoid touching this thing as much as possible! Sigh, I remember debugging a com
743.
by renox 7y ago
> France did exactly that and did it successfully. They're paying half the cost of electricity as Germany while emitting less than half as much carbon. Successfully.. Maybe! The cost of electricity we pay include the planned cost fo
744.
by renox 7y ago
> Multiple return values instead of tuples I remember having some bugs in Python due to one element tuples, I don't think I would have had the same issue if Python had multiple return value instead..
745.
by renox 7y ago
That's not surprising at all: look at jujitsu and judo: the first is a martial art, the last is a sport, who has more practioner? The sport obviously. And that's fine as long as you know what you get (good shape), if you're u
746.
by renox 7y ago
That's funny; one selling point of rust is the easy propagation of errors thanks to the '?' but zig removed the % which was the equivalent I think
747.
by renox 7y ago
> People have always at least pretended to be against rape. Depends: the notion that a husband forcing his wife to have sex is rape is quite new.. Plus what about slaves? Women in a conquered city?
748.
by renox 7y ago
I remember a benchmark of kotlin-native which wasn't good.. That said, there may have been improvement..
749.
by renox 7y ago
If memory serves, AMD switched to a different compiler to reduce compilation time of the shaders, so reducing LLVM compilation time doesn't seem easy..
750.
by renox 7y ago
The GUI is an issue for all the non-platform languages.. It took a lot of effort for Java with average results. Python's Qt wrappers seems to be more successful.

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