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by tumult 17y ago
I use C when I have a program with tight timing and/or memory requirements. I see that this is a GC language, so am I right in assuming that it's not suitable for soft or hard realtime systems?
662.
by tumult 17y ago
:retab (in vim)
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by tumult 17y ago
the really smart, immutable ones, could let you treat the expression as any of those types as you like. this is supposed to be a cleaner C syntax, not another platform.
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by tumult 17y ago
because you can write to a variable or pass it to more than one function
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by tumult 17y ago
That's not trivial, suddenly you have to have type inference. 1? Did you mean an int? Float? Double? 8 bits? 16? 32? 64? signed? unsigned?
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by tumult 17y ago
If you know Lisp, you can tell it's an introduction along the lines of The Little Schemer/LISPer, and that it's cool. If you don't know Lisp, then you probably have better things to be doing right now, like learning Lisp :)
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by tumult 17y ago
You could read+watch Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and pretend that, instead of a suit jacket and fez hat, Sussman is wearing a kimono, hair bow, and animal ears.
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by tumult 17y ago
If you don't use eval, with, and a couple of other things, V8 and most of the other good engines will actually optimize that scope level somewhat. Introducing eval, with, etc will make that scope level and any more therein to be much more d
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by tumult 17y ago
It has to do with JavaScript's "scope chain" method of looking up symbol bindings. If something isn't in the current scope, it has to incrementally check each "scope" (such a bastardization..) for the binding it's looking for. If it works i
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by tumult 17y ago
This touches my nerd bone in a nice way, even though I hate Flash. Props. That being said, this neither runs at full speed nor supports audio. The SPC700 audio chip is notoriously expensive/difficult to emulate, often being more of a challe
671.
by tumult 17y ago
you're not building a netbook, you're buying some other company's netbook and running Apple's OS on it.
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by tumult 17y ago
Apple is preventing you from making your own netbook or phone?
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Feldspar: embedded domain-specific language for DSP algorithms in Haskell(feldspar.sourceforge.net)
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by tumult 17y ago
WTF? Talk about a totally obvious paid blog entry... that "iPhone app" is just a Safari wrapper around the Google Wave web client URL. The author of the stealth ad even tries to defend it. Pathetic
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by tumult 17y ago
agreed. i think his C# code is intentionally obtuse or something. and the 'refactored' version of the Clojure code with the gnarly bits removed is missing the logic to actually perform the calculations. speaking of functional, i'm new to Ha
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by tumult 17y ago
GPS simulators exist, though they're expensive. I wonder how cheaply you could make a ghetto one yourself?
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by tumult 17y ago
"Sorry, can't hear you, busy soaking in my jacuzzi full of money ."
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by tumult 17y ago
Show an example of a startup benefiting from the kind of copyright law that is deliberately biased in favor of established players?
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by tumult 17y ago
I create original art. When I have to work on distributing, I'm hampered by copyright law. I don't benefit from it. It harms me. Directly. I've seen artists have their work infringed by others working for large corporations, and their abi
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by tumult 17y ago
Whenever you see legislation that is massively in opposition of common sense and the well-being of a people, just think to yourself, jacuzzi full of money .
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by tumult 17y ago
I don't actually see anything wrong with that. The problem is that they don't seem to do anything with the numbers they gather.
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by tumult 17y ago
Why hasn't this worked for the DMCA?
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by tumult 17y ago
Temporarily, it will allow certain parts of these established corporations to continue with their current model and still have some sort of revenue. Eventually, they will die. Whether or not something like ACTA will prolong or hasten their
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by tumult 17y ago
Works great until encryption outside of "safe harbor"-approved banking sites is outlawed.
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by tumult 17y ago
You could start another internet. Wouldn't be very useful at the beginning, though.
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by tumult 17y ago
I don't know. We're probably fucked. If you believe you can stop this by writing to your congressperson or protesting: why do you think this is being done in secrecy? Obviously, they are fully aware nobody is going to like it. It will be en
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by tumult 17y ago
Protesting does nothing. edit: I'm specifically talking about in-the-streets-marches kind of thing.
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by tumult 17y ago
For the things Firefox supports between versions, it supports them infinitely more consistently than IE. That matters.
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by tumult 17y ago
Maybe for some SEOs that's what it means. I've seen too many where it's all about astroturfing links for pagerank and inserting junk into pages to fool web spiders.
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by tumult 17y ago
No, the point of SEO is to drive you up higher in search results. Droid is already at #1. There's nowhere for it to go. A crappy site and meta tag are unrelated.

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