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by webreac 13y ago
Blackberry was the best smartphone with a keyboard. It was not only the choice of enterprises, but also the choice of users who do not like touchscreen as a keyboard. The smaller screen (because of the presence of the keyboard)) means also
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by webreac 13y ago
baobab ?
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by webreac 13y ago
GNU tar has evolved and can use simpler syntax: % tar cp -C /foo . | ssh bar tar xp -C /baz
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by webreac 13y ago
Do you trust a program to have no bugs ;-)
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by webreac 13y ago
Do you accept that a robot performs a search of your house without a warrant because a robot is "unbiased" ?
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by webreac 13y ago
There is also an answer for that: do not build large system. Split them into largely independant parts (I think this is called silo architecture). When one of your silos get outdated, you replace it.
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by webreac 13y ago
I have used W8 slightly less than 2 weeks on the laptof of my wife (she asked me to install linux instead). Like many, I have not liked the general UX, but what surprised me a lot is that to work around the bad UX, I have naturally started
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by webreac 13y ago
Very difficult to read if you do not understand German. The German text is clearly written, but The google translation is awful. Is it a plot of Google to convince people to learn foreign languages ?
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by webreac 13y ago
Am I the only one to read that an Oracle employee has caused damages to an open source organisation ?
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by webreac 13y ago
At least Plan9 did something wrong. UTF8 is so superior to this silly 16bits encoding.
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by webreac 13y ago
Your sentence is perfectly correct, but its translation in french (by google translate) is far from perfect. The translation toward english is generally not so bad, but for me, google translate is still very poor.
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by webreac 13y ago
scala has also macros since 2.10.0 : http://scalamacros.org/ Is there something special in clojure macros ?
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by webreac 13y ago
I do not understand the hype around clojure. I think functional programming languages have mainly evolved to introduce stronger typing and to remove the parenthesis. I wish a great future to scala (and haskell). For me, clojure is outdated.
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by webreac 13y ago
When working in a team, human code formatting can cost a lot of time. The rule is generally to have an auto code formatter that runs when we do a commit. The choice of formatting rules is made collectively and can be discussed. The usage of
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by webreac 13y ago
With visual studio V6.0 (AFAIR), I made a short program that crashed the compiler: int a;::a::b();
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by webreac 13y ago
Which one is obscure ? define factorial (lambda (n) (if (= n 0) 1 (* n (factorial (- n 1)))))) let rec fact = function | 0 -> 1 | n -> n * fact (n - 1);; There is a little more syntax to learn in caml, but the suppression o
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by webreac 13y ago
According to their site, they have switched to python followed by java the second year. As it was after I finished, I have almost no feedback.
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by webreac 13y ago
When I was student, my school has decided to stop using Ada as teaching language. They were hesitating between CAML Light and Scheme. They asked me my feeling because I was one of the rare student to know well both of them. I like both of t
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by webreac 13y ago
Less nasty: echo -n - ; echo n
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by webreac 13y ago
Why switching to linux mint when you can replace unity by cinnamon while remaining on ubuntu ? Except the desktop, what are the compelling advantages ?
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by webreac 13y ago
I fully agree. I just want a desktop that stays out of the way. I have ubuntu and I have replaced unity by cinnamon. It is not very polished, but in a couple of minute, you can configure it to be usable.
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by webreac 13y ago
Do you mean Windows 8 debacle ? AFAIK, IE10 is a good browser and IE9 is not so bad.
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by webreac 14y ago
In short, statistically, God (our creator) exists and we can resurrect, it is just a question of backup restoration. BTW, this movie on the subject is not that bad: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
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by webreac 14y ago
no, thanks. Too much wasted space. Too much contrast (white background). Too much effort to associate the right column with the title on the left (lack of zebra). Tabular form is something of the past ;-) The single improvement I see for HN
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by webreac 14y ago
you are dis-informed.
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by webreac 14y ago
Ada was the main language at my school (I graduated in 1993), they have changed a few years latter (for Caml or OCaml AFAIK). I do not think that Gnat has increased the usage of Ada. Before Gnat, there was an army of salespeople selling ver
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by webreac 14y ago
Ada is not widely used in OSS, but it remains widely used in industry. It is generally not chosen for new projects because of the lack of developers, but I always ear positive feedback on Ada. The latest ones were about migration (from redh
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by webreac 14y ago
I like very much the "copy-paste-curl-command style of installations" because it is as simple as possible, and it invites to be more creative during installation. I do not envisage to perform a copy-paste-curl-command installation, except p
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by webreac 14y ago
10 years ago, I have used SNiFF+ (from windriver). This seams to have disappeared. It was very flexible for cross-platform (MSVC and HP) development in C++ and java. I think there are many good ideas in SNiFF+ that could be taken.
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by webreac 14y ago
Haskell is for native application, it can use C libraries. Scala runs on java VM and can use any java library. It is slightly less concise than haskell. Like haskell, it has very clean theoretic foundations. It benefits also from a good fra

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