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by sally1620 5y ago
I think you are correct in some sense. It is just that kids who grow up in this culture will learn how to navigate it properly, while older people struggle to adapt and find their voice. Now I know what it is like to feel old.
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by sally1620 5y ago
The most important argument is that not all programming is systems programming. A lot of projects choose C, C++ or Rust only because they need performance: * Backend services * Numerical computation * Game development * Rendering engines, e
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by sally1620 5y ago
I remember reading that one of the main activities of FSF is to enforce GPL. Isn't this time they get involved.
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by sally1620 5y ago
The early free software was developed by the people using it, e.g. Emacs, GNU tools, Linux. GPL is a code sharing agreement among the developers. You get value from the product and contribute back to it. If you need features, you add it you
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by sally1620 5y ago
This approach works, and the user experience may be great. But it is very costly to build, and very costly to maintain. Compared to Electron, you need a few Javascript devs to spin up an app that runs on every major operating system AND in
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by sally1620 5y ago
A lot of players entered this space and some are actually profitable companies, but are none are as popular as Electron. aside from Javascript and WebAPIs, Electron is also free as in free beer. Qt: is truly cross-platform, supporting Mac,
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by sally1620 5y ago
Qt has done a fantastic job in this space. It is also isn't cheap. It is only free for GPLv3 software.
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by sally1620 5y ago
I use Qt for anything cross-platform. The main problem is that C++ is not an easy language for UI developments. also consider the fact that C++ devs are paid higher that Java, JS or C# devs. Most other UI toolkits are really terrible for cr
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by sally1620 5y ago
It is not really "obsession", it is economics. There is a high cost with maintaining different apps for different platforms.
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by sally1620 5y ago
This is really a win for Google, since most of these web apps are easily ported to ChromeOS. and it is going to continue as ChromeOS is gaining even more market share.
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by sally1620 5y ago
Pascal didn't fail, it was replaced by C. Both Microsoft (with WinNT) and Apple (with NextStep) left Pascal behind in the 1990s in favor of C to compete with other Unixes of the time. At the end of 90s, the only steward of Pascal was B
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by sally1620 5y ago
Why can't they just do the same as dropbox or onedrive, where they use Windows file system filters on a regular folder (no mount points). To all the people who suggest alternatives, our entire org is run by xooglers and they put everyt
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by sally1620 5y ago
Modern camera stacks use a lot of machine learning to figure out what kind of scene is being captured; primarily to apply specific tuning for that scene. For example, certain settings are applied for night time, portrait, landscape, beach,
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by sally1620 5y ago
I wonder if anyone is going to create a linux distribution with a base system baked in with pkgsrc managing the applications. It would be very useful for containers and WSL.
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by sally1620 6y ago
With IP addresses, it is not possible to validate TLS certificate as well. This should not work at all. Also we have HTTPS everywhere, but DKIM is still not supported by most domains. That is a more serious issue and it also covers this as
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by sally1620 6y ago
Microsoft took this matter into their own hands and the result ended up being Powershell. In the first iteration, they just ported Korn shell to windows but it wasn't that useful. So after a couple of iterations they ended up with Powe
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by sally1620 6y ago
What makes a Mac a Mac is hardware & software working together. Also the integration with other Apple things like watch, phone, and earbuds.
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by sally1620 6y ago
This kind of optimization actually drove me away from F#. I realized that high-performance F# is essentially imperative C# with F# syntax. There is no place for high order functions and functional constructs in high performance F# code.
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by sally1620 6y ago
Is there a WSL version of this?
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by sally1620 6y ago
Except more often than not packages do their own thing and don't follow the convention. this is even worse if you compile from source.
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by sally1620 6y ago
There are different benefits and drawbacks of mmap. I only use mmap because it simplifies my code (I write experimental code). But the OP and commenters are mostly concerned about the extra copy of read(). For video memory, DMABUF has been
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by sally1620 6y ago
A messaging app is not a personal choice like using Debian or FreeBSD, it is about community. I have iMessage, Whatsapp, Telegram on my phone. Each one is used to reach a certain group of people. I also have Signal, but nobody is on there a
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by sally1620 6y ago
I honestly think of Go as Java with an appeal to C programmers. And of course much better performance/memory usage than Java. Go is a high-level language. It is not meant for low-level programming. and yet the authors keep claiming tha
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by sally1620 6y ago
I don't think Go lies about what it is. It is just a victim of its popularity. The authors clearly say that is designed for writing scalable networked services. And they definitely don't care about GUIs, Windows, embedded, etc. Ov
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by sally1620 6y ago
Linux is accusing Intel of killing ECC intentionally. But that is not really the case, they just wanted people to pay up. If you care about ECC, you pay for Xeon. Majority of consumers don't run critical applications on their devices,
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by sally1620 6y ago
There is a single XML variant of the open document format. although images and videos won't be embedded in the document that way. I used this format when I was generating ODF documents using a script.
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by sally1620 6y ago
I wonder if anyone has implemented a document file format based on SQLite. SQLite file format is documented and other implementations exist. I am sure given enough interest, it could get standardized.
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by sally1620 6y ago
They already did that with SQ1 and SQ2. They collaborated with Qualcomm on this. Also, the main motivation is the cost. Any other vendor would want the highest profit out of their design.
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by sally1620 6y ago
NVIDIA has multiple generations of ARM SoCs. All of them are focused on GPU performance, though. Also NVIDIA quit the mobile market a while ago. They are focused on Autonomous driving and embedded market. The only consumer product on the ma
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by sally1620 6y ago
Bite the hand that fed. They are not going to get more funding by condemning philanthropist.

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