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by vkazanov 8y ago
I think the more important question is: whose "modern political opinion" is the decisive one. Notice that even relatively politically close countries have diverting understanding of important cultural issues. Think about sex-rel
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Since when is GitHUB a version control system?
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Yeah, a pity
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Remind me what's wrong with GPL, here? You can't repackage and resell it?
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Not sure about China but in many Asian countries drug-related crimes are considered to be very, VERY serious, and often lead to death sentencies: Vietnam, Thailand, Phillipines all have very strict laws here. For non-foreigners this normall
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by vkazanov 8y ago
This comic is brilliant! I ended up being a programmer but I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree. What's interesting is that I generally don't recall fundamental physics or applied coursed having this attitude, i.e. no
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by vkazanov 8y ago
yes, all those things are just... Enraging. Having a nice diff-based change history and being able to ignore formatting issues when writing is a blessing.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
From other comments: 7) collaboration is almost impossible
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by vkazanov 8y ago
The article is very, very misinformed. Word processors are good for text..?! Pure text markup formats are bad? Oh, really-really? I suspect the author never really wrote anything reasonably complicated. How about: 1) can't have proper
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Those techniques are a relatively niche thing. People don't write bytecode interpreters daily. Couple of months ago I wrote a few articles on the topic. Unfortunately, they are in Russian. I'll probably translate 'em at some
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Maybe because compilers nowadays are mostly not about syntax? Parsers are the boring part.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
So who cares? Inbox was good because it was not Gmail, not because Gmail lacked features from it.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
..and what's wrong with mailing lists? Too complicated? A need to have discussion of the patch in question? it's very easy to write an email and there are some benefits to it. I.e, you don't need an account on a proprietary (
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by vkazanov 8y ago
I suspect that in every relatively developed country nowadays executing systematic requests of the kind you mentioned would get you some kind of personal attention. That's why they invented it, right? To make sure the political status
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Yeah... C is not Lisp, okay. :-) But that only strengthens the point: language features are just abstractions we use to reason about data. One can always strip all the abstractions and end up working with raw bits. If there's a useful
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by vkazanov 8y ago
I absolutely agree about the multiple return values in general. Unfortunately the discussion around N2289 is more about providing something a lot like exceptions for both C and C++ but without all the exception problems. The proposal really
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by vkazanov 8y ago
In fact, I think WG14 was in favour if the N2289 proposal.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
I read the Charter, yes. Now, how do those error-related proposals violate it? Such as: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2289.pdf It seems to be very delicate about being backwards-c
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by vkazanov 8y ago
C is not a holy cow, is it? It's just a very, very popular language. Error handling is important in programming in general, and having ways to implement it conveniently helps a lot. Yes, errors are just data. And everything is data, in
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Yeah... Actually adding something like defer {...clean up code...} would be really nice. But who are we to ask..? Just programmers, i.e. mere mortals nobody really cares about. :-)
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by vkazanov 8y ago
I will just pray for the better error handling proposals. Both are fine. For modern code with no global state, especially the multithreaded kind, everything is better than the errno.h mess.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Is it about the new register allocator? How good is it?
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by vkazanov 8y ago
While sometimes overruling he's completely reasonable here. There had been multiple approaches to jit-ing emacs bytecode, and all of them offerred a very limited speed-up. Jitting engines bring extra dependencies and one more layer of
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by vkazanov 8y ago
TL;DR It seems that Windows doesn't like NUMA architectures all that much... Unlike Linux where the new Threadripper rocks.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
You don't seem to understand who you are arguing with :-)
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by vkazanov 8y ago
Judging by the errors they describe the code in question really wants some static analyzer love. Even the free/OSS ones can handle 'em. x==x, true || true, etc... Blackmail or not, this is stupid.
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by vkazanov 8y ago
I guess the problem here is that the article really mixes up two different things: "continuosly existing state" and "continuosly existing civilization". E.g., when people talk about Ancient Egypt nobody doubts its contin
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by vkazanov 9y ago
So... You think that not following language code style guidelines and introducing cryptic ("mathematical") variable names helps you to do your job..? Are you even a programmer? :-)
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