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by veltas 4y ago
> And then there are the floaters, the passers-by. They judge Emacs solely by its features. > But that's not how a power users judges it. Instead, the power user judges a piece of software by what power it provides and what he co
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by veltas 4y ago
You can argue for KISS on the basis of productivity, maintainability, and elegance. Maybe get them to read a bit of suckless.org and suckless code.
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by veltas 4y ago
Poorest people are hardest hit by inflation. The system is rigged from both ends, really. Sometimes it's conscientious to avoid inflation.
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by veltas 4y ago
There has always been a tendency of authors to inject a lot of themselves into technical content, which is charming to some and anathema to others. And I would guess in the 80's people felt subversive and "not square" writing
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by veltas 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what kind of TODO app you wanted? I might try this in Forth as an example (and if I do I'll email you).
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by veltas 4y ago
> Out of the box, out of the standard, there no real structured data type ala records, there's no strings, there's no modular coding construct. All of those can be added, but that's the trick. They have to be added. There
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by veltas 4y ago
(To be clear: this is not a comment on Google's broken platform or the article, that's just awful. It's a response to the question "who gives a fuck?" regarding torrenting generally.) > would Jesus' other te
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by veltas 4y ago
A lot of articles have this same story: "dying person can't do the basic thing they want because tech sucks". And it's a valid, moving story every time. It's a shame that it's hard to convince people that tech
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by veltas 4y ago
I was addressing the commenter who said they just pirate. I think the article is another matter.
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by veltas 4y ago
I ask for open mindedness that I bring religion here, I feel it necessary to discuss this question of ethics/morality: "Who gives a fuck?" I quote Mark 12:15. > But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to
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by veltas 4y ago
You just don't set a bidding price early, it can only increase the final price you pay. And don't bid unless you're willing to pay.
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by veltas 4y ago
Well at least one party bid up unnecessarily, that's the point.
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by veltas 4y ago
Believe it or not this is still better than the Amazon experience.
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by veltas 4y ago
Selling a laptop on eBay, there were two bidders and one cancelled at the last minute after pushing the other way up. Other bidder then refused to pay, claiming they hadn't got their paycheck. I waited the mandatory time and then got o
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by veltas 4y ago
It's my opinion that the best policy is no policy. If you make rules people will break them. And when the rules are so strict it means nobody bothers. If the rules aren't strict some will push it as far as they can. Everything has
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by veltas 4y ago
Apologies, reading it I got stuck on the same sentence about 3 times and gave up. If you want, I don't mind giving more constructive feedback on what's wrong.
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by veltas 4y ago
They didn't say natural numbers (at first).
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by veltas 4y ago
First function doesn't halt with infinity as argument.
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by veltas 4y ago
So what is it, intimate or social? Sounds social from what you say, like monkeys picking bugs out of each others' fur.
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by veltas 4y ago
Well which is it? Mundane or elegant? To me, it being the most elegant makes it a worthy algorithm.
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by veltas 4y ago
No Dave, you can't upload this export-controlled document to this web tool. I don't care how convenient it is.
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by veltas 4y ago
It's not inappropriate, it's just never a better choice than languages that are actually used, because then everyone who learns can say "I know X". I know Forth really well but I don't put it on my CV, even though I
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by veltas 4y ago
You could use it for getting an address that will be linked in later. On GCC I get a warning (which I don't think I can mask) for taking the address of such an object, because its expression is type void. A better way of achieving this
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by veltas 4y ago
I think it's aimed at C programmers. foo is a struct, so it's a type, it's not a variable. The point is just that struct bar is also defined by the definition of struct foo.
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by veltas 4y ago
"Flat Initializer Lists" is given as an example in K&R C I think, at least the first edition, when writing those extra braces to fill out an initializer must have felt very redundant. These days many compilers will warn if you
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by veltas 4y ago
It's probably because you want to teach a language that people can use. There is very little practical use left of Forth.
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by veltas 4y ago
I love this book, but many people seem to dislike the cartoons. It reminds me of Learn You a Haskell, it's very hit and miss. So would I recommend this for a textbook? No. But as a book that people are offered of their own accord, yes
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by veltas 4y ago
Just now learning why it's called Yocto Linux.
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by veltas 4y ago
You can do a lot more today, but it was easier back when you could learn your way around an entire machine in a week.
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by veltas 4y ago
There were different versions of the manual, some thicker than others.

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