renox

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871.
by renox 8y ago
> At some point people gave up on fact-finding Of course, irrationality is new! /s Uhm, what about religions?
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by renox 8y ago
The thing is "a simple I made an error" is not a good enough reason: everybody makes mistakes but why weren't they caught in UT, ET, code review? Explaining the cause of errors and improving the process (IF necessary) is much
873.
by renox 8y ago
I'm surprised to hear this, I would have expected a 16bit noop being necessary to align 32 bit instructions.. Is-there a summary of the discussion about this choice?
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by renox 8y ago
> - Getting dinged on my performance review EVERY YEAR because management wouldnt buy parts I needed to make the sheriffs new mine resistant armored vehicle work. Well I kind of understand the management here: why do the sheriff needs a
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by renox 8y ago
Saying that reusing the Linux kernel is the same as being "just another Linux distribution" is the problem: most Linux distributions are just Unix clone: if you create a VMS, a BeOS, a MacOS or Plan9 with a Linux kernel then what
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by renox 8y ago
Except that photons don't have tags.. Each time a story talk about entanglement, I'm stuck: what does it mean experimentally to verify that two particles are entangled? I don't know..
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by renox 8y ago
Well, developing an OS is more work than a game That said those working on Haiku suffer from the same NIH syndrome as the article's author but unfortunately all the efforts of the 'pragmatics' one who wanted to reimplement Be
878.
by renox 8y ago
That's funny, I've always thought that the various Linux distribution using different packaging format was a huge waste of resources and wanted everyone to standardize on RPM. After reading this article, I still thinks it is a was
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by renox 8y ago
I totally disagree that Google's success is due to 'thinking small' their success is because they understand that to boil a frog you have to increase the temperature slowly : first build a useful service without ads (which w
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by renox 8y ago
> I always thought that their purpose was to eliminate trade secrets: people are going to invent stuff whether you want to or not, but without patents, they'll take the secrets to the grave. Except that if you look at the history of
881.
by renox 8y ago
Not so easy to do when you have several children, especially twins..
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by renox 8y ago
ClearCase is only similar to CVS as it is a centralised version control system otherwise it's very different
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by renox 8y ago
That's funny to see how so many people are pro-brutalist for buildings.. At work we have an on-site coffee bar, they used the "industrial-look": exposed pipes and ceiling, it's very annoying because it's very noisy
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by renox 8y ago
I find this dismissive comment funny: I started programming a long time ago in BASIC then assembly then Pascal then C and I still don't like recursion. I remember having to fix a bug in a recursive code that I didn't write: my fee
885.
by renox 8y ago
NewOS is written in C/C++ instead of C only..
886.
by renox 8y ago
You're conflating Linux and GNU/Linux: if you just use Linux, you could create a non-UNIX like system.
887.
by renox 8y ago
Bah this standard answer is just wrong: nobody will force you to use X11 (for example) if you only want to use Linux..
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by renox 8y ago
> What makes Haiku better for personal computing, from the end-user perspective? It is a clone of BeOS which was much faster/responsive than Linux or Windows at the time (probably due to its use of multithreading). It is an OS which
889.
by renox 8y ago
Yes, gdb --tui ;-)
890.
by renox 8y ago
Thanks a lot for the tip!
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by renox 8y ago
I gave up too: I wanted to replace Eclipse with gvim but vim doesn't use efficiently multiple tabs by default and it would take a lot of configuration to change this..
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by renox 8y ago
Nice I'd really like to have something equivalent in gdb, I'm really bored of stepping in shared pointer's code
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by renox 8y ago
Funny I agree that Wayland has issues but not for the same reason as you: if you allow any application to take a screenshot if any application is compromised, so this restriction by default is normal, Wayland devs focus on CSD isn't no
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by renox 8y ago
'even Perl5'? Perl5 has also 'use strict' which ensure that variables ate declared before usage, a feature that Python doesn't have AFAIK.
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by renox 8y ago
Your examples show (again) that it is a mistake to conflate aritmetic operators and concatenation operators: the first are commutative the second aren't. D has ~ for concatenation which is nice but it has nothing for "concatenativ
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by renox 8y ago
> All that said, if you're thinking in terms of multiple inputs and outputs you're missing the point. The output isn't a pair, it's one or the other, and that's really important Only in the example showed in the
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by renox 8y ago
Me, it is the false explanation of how plane flies, the equal time transit.. I had an physic exercise in school based on this, I was so angry.. I told the physic teacher that there is no leach between the top molecule and the bottom molecu
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by renox 8y ago
I believe that Nim comes with its own grep to allow this.
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by renox 8y ago
> Nothing about software development is 'natural' Why do you say so? > I don't even know what definition of 'natural' you're using here I think that he's talking about the ease of copying software: i
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by renox 8y ago
I think that rust doesn't have (doesn't want to have) -ffast-math.

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