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by smosher_ 11y ago
This could be interesting. An observation: users have accepted that computing is organized as a constellation of rigid software appliances (“apps”) that never seem to work well together and certainly can’t be composed or extended And yet,
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by smosher_ 11y ago
Yes. Maybe. I don't know what you're latching on to, but I know both Jeskola Buzz¹ and Renoise² (which has some connection to the Buzz community) have been used commercially. These cover the tracker style + extra learning curve +
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by smosher_ 11y ago
You are probably experiencing a syntactic illusion where it looks like C++ but then it looks all wrong. I've used Rust and it didn't take long to get acclimated.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> I'm not sure what your point is here. Talented programmers have been releasing stuff that works great on shitty platforms forever. If the money is there, you work around the nonsense, warts and all. That is precisely my point. We&
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Unity works though. Unity games have a much better batting average in my experience than C++ ports, and I have more problems with "cross-platform" games and other applications written in Java. These aren't hobbyists and the
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> This indicates the formal death of the ecosystem to anyone but apologist hobbyists and thankfully we've gotten to a better place now. A couple of things. First: "This", so far, is anecdotal and doesn't indicate much
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> But yeah, I think it's okay to say "it never really worked." I don't. I mean yes mono <4.0 has a lot of problems, but it works well enough for me to shell out money for applications running on mono and be happy a
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Okular
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Thanks, my pdf reader can trim margins and make two columns out of one, but it can't make one column out of two.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Exactly what depends on what exactly the problem turns out to be once diagnosed. Issuing an ANY query is often the first step in the diagnostic process. > assuming you are hosting DNS on cloudflare of course That doesn't have much t
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I don't follow, what exactly is not the case? Edit: by the way, are you the one downvoting the posts critical of Cloudflare? I noticed you contribute to their repos on GitHub, and I didn't spot any downvotes on comments that are r
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> ANY queries are not widely used by any real world software. We aware of only two programs that issue ANY queries Does no one at Cloudflare use dig? I agree that applications shouldn't be issuing ANY queries¹ under normal circumsta
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> But can you guarantee that no information is lost by exporting? You practically never can when exporting in any format, from any program, since few formats are subsets of any others. The important thing is to be able to export the info
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Please try to read all the words before making implications about the author's character.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> If you write a standard, and no one uses it, what use is it exactly? Only non-people don't use Apple, got it.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> When the vast majority of mobile revenue is generated by iPhone users, that means if it doesn't work on iOS, it doesn't work at all - 80% marketshare be damned. How does this matter to Google or the W3C exactly? I don't
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Considering .exp results in a Num, not a Rat, there's no problem here. I seem to recall this working sensibly years ago, where numerical types would coerce in sensible manner. Same happens with large denominators, so even if you roll y
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Yeah, although Google and others were always willing to monetize your work without your knowledge or consent. To some degree that's how the internet works and it's not _entirely_ a bad thing, and a lot of it is not intentional (ph
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Your parent was modded down for bringing nothing to the conversation. It might as well have read "lol google." Unfortunately other similar media aren't as lucrative. Even if they pay as well, not being on YouTube creates an e
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by smosher_ 12y ago
The information isn't necessary for the compiler to reason about the program. The information is, in my opinion, useful for humans to reason about the program. The fact is I would reason about programs quicker if this was explicit. The
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> but I assure you that if you actually used it, you would have found what you suggested even uglier. It's not fair to make that judgment for someone, particularly because people using Rust at the time weren't complaining much
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> Lyla Blue, all dolled up with markers. The hand-scrawled note on this photo print said "Slash's Wife, I swear." Anybody recognize her from the back? Slash the guitarist? She does look like a fit for Renée Suran: http:&
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Sorry this is so long, I deleted many paragraphs. Something about this doesn't sound right to me. I think the third-party factors are overwhelming. After all, the basic I/O and other low-level stuff is going to be there on any sup
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I'm not sure how having an official OS SDK helps all that much if they also ship a C or C++ SDK. Anyone could write and maintain one for Rust, so what's the difference?
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Nice. I had seen some list-indexing uses of squareBrackets before. This looks interesting, also reminds me I should write tests.
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by smosher_ 12y ago
To play the advocate, given that by default compilation produces a binary that includes over 2KB of Lovecraft quotes¹, this article at least serves to reassure people that you can produce a compact binary with Rust. ¹ https://git
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by smosher_ 12y ago
> Io also suffers from Scheme's problem, where a minimalist language is more likely to calve a multitude of private and mutually incompatible frameworks. I think that could be addressed in exactly the way Ruby addresses it, by havin
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by smosher_ 12y ago
I'm fond of the post Lazy Bricks, Lazy Mortar ¹ where he basically pulls a rabbit out of a hat. It's a shame he didn't write more posts about Io. ¹ http://web.archive.org/web/20080430135919/http:&#x
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by smosher_ 12y ago
As someone who loves Io, it gets my attention because: — the language is very mutable, almost all behaviours can be modified — it's simple, all you can do is send messages to objects — you can write DSLs and macro-like things without
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by smosher_ 12y ago
Convenient timing, I just started working on a project to pull my Io DSLs and convenience protos into something more cohesive. So, plug: https://github.com/smosher/IoSetting Included are DSLs for List and Map construct

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