teknico

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by teknico 8y ago
Excellent overview of the language, ecosystem and community. Thank you for writing it.
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by teknico 8y ago
Yes, pun intended: "And like a classic example of itself, the decline has been long, gradual, and barely noticed."
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by teknico 8y ago
I read PDFs on an Android 8" tablet without problems with the EasyPDF app. It mostly works on the phone's 5" screen too if the text is not too small (reflow mode doesn't work well for many files).
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by teknico 8y ago
You could have added a description, though, so that uninterested people don't have to click the link. Here it goes: "Alfred 3 for Mac Alfred is an award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords,
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by teknico 8y ago
Simplicity and C++? Like speaking of rope in the house of the hanged, as we say in Italy... Congrats for the effort though.
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by teknico 8y ago
Two of them. 1) 1993: switching from computer programming to system administration in order to avoid the C++ onslaught (at the company I was working for). Managed to successfully avoid it since then (25 years). And now we have Rust: life is
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by teknico 8y ago
"Thou who shalt be king hereafter, protect yourself vigorously from the Lie; the man who shall be a lie-follower, him do thou punish well, if thus thou shall think. May my country be secure!" https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by teknico 8y ago
Been there recently. The peace and quiet was uncanny, it felt like my hometown half a century ago.
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by teknico 8y ago
Nope. Nor is grey text.
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by teknico 8y ago
Slaves to speech suppression are masters of nothing - Eric Raymond http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8114
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by teknico 8y ago
Downvoting reality does not make it less so, people.
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by teknico 8y ago
"When do we start throwing obsolete things away?" We started already: work is afoot to throw away C, C++ and JavaScript, the main culprits. Rust is a good stab at all three.
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by teknico 8y ago
No need for a prescription in Italy.
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by teknico 8y ago
Good keyboards and pointer devices are not as expensive anymore, both in money and learning time terms. My picks: Kinesis Freestyle Edge (never mind the "Gaming" slant): https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/edge/
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by teknico 9y ago
Thank you for posting this, definitely interesting and useful.
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by teknico 9y ago
Thank you so much for Deck! I used it for a few talks recently, you can find two of them about Go on my BitBucket page: https://bitbucket.org/teknico/ You also have a pull request on Github. :-)
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by teknico 9y ago
I'll just leave this here. Downvotes start in 3.. 2... 1... The long goodbye to C - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711
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by teknico 9y ago
Yes to the latter. As for the former, it's up to you to decide. ;-)
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by teknico 9y ago
> Has any serious blockchain successfully implemented PoS at this point? Decred has, in production for months: < https://docs.decred.org/mining/proof-of-stake/> . True, it's a hybrid Pow/PoS syste
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by teknico 9y ago
Another valuable coin missing from that list is Decred (DCR, https://decred.org/ ). The on-chain atomic swap (no Lightning Network involved yet) was executed using Decred technology ( https://github.com/decr
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by teknico 9y ago
Speaking of cross-platform alternatives to traditional Unix shells, if you like Python try http://xon.sh . More compatible and overall usable as a shell than IPython.
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by teknico 9y ago
It's a lost cause: there's no such thing as "sane" or "orthodox" C++. Instead, use something actually sane like Go. Or Rust, if you really must (first bad pun is free, then it's 50 cents each).