the_hoser

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by the_hoser 4y ago
They think that is the thing Americans are going to get offended about? Come on, now. We're WAY crazier than that.
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by the_hoser 5y ago
These things are so stupid. But... they keep bored B-list tech journalists busy, so that's something.
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by the_hoser 5y ago
Probably not.
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by the_hoser 5y ago
I have a funny story about this plugin. The team I was working on was developing a new product with the word 'cloud' in the name. We were deploying database changes to facilitate the new product. This was a long time ago, and th
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Neat. I'll try to remember that the next time I need to work with Lua.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
This doesn't appear to really do anything to address the one big problem I've had with using Lua for larger applications. Does GopherLua still have global-by-default variables?
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by the_hoser 6y ago
The sad part is that it's not just a hardware problem. While most PC laptops have really terrible trackpad hardware, some do have pretty decent hardware. It's just that the software is still absolutely terrible. You can run
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by the_hoser 6y ago
When done right, they're wonderful. When done wrong, you end up creating custom keybindings to augment your workflow and lug a mouse around when that doesn't cut it. I've never seen a PC laptop do it right.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
I would recommend sticking to software-based systems on a modern computer, then. Virtual machines are really fun for this. The home computers of the 80s were anything but simple. They were very sophisticated, and the designs of those sy
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by the_hoser 6y ago
What is it that you want to do with this computer? Are you just looking to tinker?
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by the_hoser 6y ago
The poor App ecosystem was a direct result of poor timing. There isn't anything they could have done differently in mid 2010 to improve on that.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Timing. They waited too long to enter the market, and with two well-established platforms, there just wasn't room for a third, no matter how good it was.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
All it means is that counties aren't a useful way to think about the country, politically. They're arbitrary plots of land.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
This is already a thing in lower-power applications. Thermals become an issue in higher-power applications.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Awesome. The more VR office work being done, the better. I can't wait to ditch my monitors.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
I understand. Forum moderation is a hard job. I certainly don't want to make it harder.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Well, it was never my intention to do something that you would consider vandalism.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
You are aware that the standard library is a big part of the C specification, right?
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Fair enough. But I'd also like to point out that just because something is normal, doesn't make it right. If you think that it's okay for corporations to collect information on non-users in the way that Facebook does, then I
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by the_hoser 6y ago
The only kind of programming language that is ever "finished" are ones that nobody uses.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Then maybe he should handle Jai like he handles his games. Don't talk about it until it's almost ready to go.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
If that's all that he did, then I'd have no concerns. He likes to talk down other up-coming programming languages, too. But they've got something his language doesn't.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Well, that's fine, then. Many of them do eventually create something useful later. Johnathan Blow is a game designer, though.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
I'd be okay if he never spoke about it as the next big thing in programming with no intention of releasing it for public criticism. It's 100% okay to have private, in-house tools.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
I'd be 100% okay with that. That's not all he's doing, though.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
I'd even take a closed-source compiler. The problem is that, ultimately, he's effectively throwing rocks from a glass house, but he denies us the rocks to throw back. I just can't take him seriously.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
And rightfully so. In spite of all of the theory going into those languages, the one thing they're all missing is practice.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
Nope. I'm hoping one day that they do. I don't pay attention to Jai anymore, and I'm hoping someone hits me with a link.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
The issue is that he uses that platform to criticize other languages. That's my root problem, here. If all he did was write code, then nobody would care.
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by the_hoser 6y ago
If he doesn't want to accept criticism then why is he streaming about it?

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