sigjuice

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1. 751.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   I mean this earnestly (no snark): what could it have been instead of T3X that would make you care?
2. 752.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   The author is unknown to me (and I am nobody!). FWIW, I just bought the book and quickly read through the chapter on bootstrapping. IMHO, it is really well written.
3. 753.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Yes, I know that about executables, but I guess compiler-related subtleties are lost on me. I will clearly benefit from reading the book I just bought.
4. 754.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Looks cool, but what is FreeBSD-specific about it? Shouldn't a compiler just be reading and writing files?
5. 755.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   What exception(s) might happen in this context? It should be possible to examine the disassembly (or the code) of the relevant exception handler(s).
6. 756.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   I went over the article a couple of times, but I cannot quite tell what the actual memmove bug is. Does this assert(ptr == array + 1) imply that the buggy memmove returns the wrong pointer?
7. 757.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Any large piece of software will have its own terminology (car, cdr, frame, window, buffer, yank, kill, meta, ...). It is a shame that people would rather fixate on these superficial things instead of the minimal effort to get familiarized
8. 758.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Emacs shell-mode does the first one. The other two should be trivial for someone moderately proficient in elisp.
9. 759.▲
   by sigjuice 9y ago

   Exactly. IMHO, this is quite similar to Python indentation rules, except it is up to writers of Lisp code to be disciplined enough to maintain the proper indentation.
10. 760.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Almost all Lisp code will put the closing parens all together at the end. And the idea is to not care about how many there are by using an editor that provides the appropriate assistance.
11. 761.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Is there more information on this? Perhaps a mailing list thread or a Git commit?
12. 762.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    I'm not seeking a flame war, but what Emacs shenanigans were those? I mostly use Emacs, so I am just curious. Thanks!
13. 763.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Does prominent compiler literature use the term "transpiler"?
14. 764.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    I would suggest reading the first couple of pages of any compiler book. e.g. https://books.google.com/books?id=_tgh4bgQ6PAC&printsec=fron... Compilers are computer programs that translate a program written in one langu
15. 765.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    I am not a Python developer, but thanks for not using the unnecessary term "transpiler".
16. 766.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Why is "IoT" even a separate thing? What is fundamentally different about small computers vs large computers when it comes to getting them on the Internet?
17. 767.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Will an iOS engineer never consider a binary search tree to store sorted data?
18. 768.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    If you are running as a *nix process, then yes. It doesn't matter if it is Rust, assembly code, ...
19. 769.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    The golang project says "send PGP encrypted email if you like" right here https://golang.org/security Why should people be ridiculed for sending PGP encrypted email then?
20. 770.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    It does not make me feel any better or worse either way. I am merely curious about Apple's motivations for publishing xnu and other Darwin code.
21. 771.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Why does Apple continue to publish Darwin code then? I have always been curious.
22. 772.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    I would pay TB prices for a 15" with traditional Fn keys.
23. 773.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    What sort of questions about the OS X kernel do you have in mind?
24. 774.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    C does have a bool type as well. I have not seen it used much in the C code that I have encountered. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stdb...
25. 775.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    What is the largest Python 2 codebase you can point at which has gone Python 3?
26. 776.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    There will be many Python 2 production codebases that will forever remain at Python 2. Whether Python 3 is a new language or not will not make a difference.
27. 777.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    Do you mind spelling out the few lines of code needed to do this?
28. 778.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    And nothing bad will happen if you alloca too much?
29. 779.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    VLAs are actually not so nice. There is no sane way to handle failures if you make one too big.
30. 780.▲
    by sigjuice 10y ago

    I used to play Coursera lectures while driving to work. The various Algorithms courses were my favorite and for the most part, were surprisingly easy to follow just by listening.