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541.
by sid0 16y ago
Visual Studio programmers that can write a makefile are not many That's a good thing, to be honest. One person fewer who needs to worry about stupid semantic differences between tabs and spaces is one person happier.
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by sid0 16y ago
> Are you saying people confuse charged ions with flowing current in a circuit? Charged ions moving in an electrolytic cell is charge flowing in a circuit. Electrons are not the only way to have a current.
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by sid0 16y ago
Of course not. All base-N number systems are by definition positional.
544.
by sid0 16y ago
There is no such thing as a "Windows Update link" in modern Windows.
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by sid0 16y ago
I agree. One of the biggest benefits of a proper type system (and by saying "proper" I immediately exclude C and Java, so don't even bother mentioning them) is that you get clean semantics for both nullable and non-nullable types. Hoare cal
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by sid0 16y ago
They're ahead of Apple, and Google isn't stopping you from using OS X, therefore Google's view is inconsistent with reality.
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by sid0 16y ago
Windows 3.1 (or 9x or XP) is quite irrelevant to the discussion. Do you say the same about modern Windows (Vista/7)? Many people will disagree with you if you do.
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by sid0 16y ago
Beyond Compare 3 -- which I'm a really happy user of -- seems to be much more powerful. For example, it can actually merge files. And there's clearly been a ton of attention paid to its design.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yeah, it's clear that more than a bit of PL research has fed back into C# as a language and .NET as a whole, in stark contrast to Java/JVM.
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by sid0 16y ago
> The new convention I don't think the convention of the slanting accent ("virama" or "halant") is new. I know it's been used in books for at least the last hundred years. This means that conjoined ligatures aren't strictly necessary, b
551.
by sid0 16y ago
I disagree. I think given the choice to do only one thing out of the two, browser vendors should focus on things that fundamentally improve users' experiences with what they already have than implement random specs. I think the lack of canv
552.
by sid0 16y ago
How would it be any worse than it is today? http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html
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by sid0 16y ago
> You must be joking. It's great that they have finally decided to add SVG support, but bragging about SVG "hardware acceleration" when they won't even commit to supporting the canvas tag is unconscionable. No, it's not just SVG that wi
554.
by sid0 16y ago
The argument for one browser vendor switching from engine A to another engine B "just like that" is entirely invalid unless engine B is strictly better than engine A. And by the looks of it there are areas in which IE9 Trident is going
555.
by sid0 16y ago
Who sticks with what, where? Windows and Linux both have their uses. I use Windows because in my opinion Visual Studio is the best native code debugger ever created. I'm hardly a fanboy though, and I use Linux a lot (valgrind is awesome).
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by sid0 16y ago
> The command that lost data was hg qdel Yes, so that deletes a patch. Anything in patches is basically in flux, and I wouldn't call losing a patch "data loss". If you call hg qdel "data loss", you'd call any sort of modification to a p
557.
by sid0 16y ago
Because he lost data? hg rm wouldn't ever lose data. He probably used an hg strip (which is an advanced command and must specifically be enabled in .hgrc through the mq extension) but didn't realize what he was doing...
558.
by sid0 16y ago
Yes, and hg and git both make you work hard. I'm not sure what his point is. He used a quite advanced command without understanding its consequences, he paid the price. A non-advanced user would really have no need to use hg strip.
559.
by sid0 16y ago
Yes, hg has a non-destructive rm too. And yes, what he's talking about is outside the normal workflow. Way, way outside .
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by sid0 16y ago
Because functor is kinda-sorta a portmanteau of function object and people wanted to sound clever, I guess.
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by sid0 16y ago
> And btw, here there is a loss since all character sets are not fully covered even in UTF-16 (iirc) If they aren't covered in UTF-16, they wouldn't be covered in UTF-8 or UCS-4 either. All modern Unicode encodings (i.e. not UCS-2 ) ca
562.
by sid0 16y ago
I'm pretty sure C# uses UTF-16, not UTF-8. Regardless, Unicode is Unicode.
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by sid0 16y ago
Not for free though -- and bitbucket only has one private repo for free.
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by sid0 16y ago
> I've heard that a lot, but it may very well just be bad design. By the time another platform displaces windows we'll know. Talking in terms of "may" and "might" isn't particularly useful. Do you have concrete examples? > I don't t
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by sid0 16y ago
> and the colour fringes you see when zoomed in clearly show that they're using the individual sub-pixels independantly Seems like you're still missing the point. You'll see the colour fringes with ClearType too. Here's a test: iiiiiiii
566.
by sid0 16y ago
Yes, but where does it say Apple does sub-pixel positioning? From what I remember last time I checked, I'm 99% sure it doesn't. My overall point is that calling ClearType "old-skool" is an injustice when it's more technically advanced than
567.
by sid0 16y ago
Private repos?
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by sid0 16y ago
One of the best things about hg is that it doesn't have an hg: protocol.
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by sid0 16y ago
I didn't say sub-pixel rendering . I said sub-pixel positioning . Can characters be placed at sub-pixel boundaries instead of whole-pixel ones?
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by sid0 16y ago
Agreed 100% -- that was the most valuable thing I took away from my GSoC too.

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