wott

8 ms·

31.
by wott 5y ago
Same for Perl.
32.
by wott 5y ago
It's not related to being dynamic or not, it's a syntactical choice: that's also the way to concatenate string literals in C.
33.
by wott 5y ago
If the library is installed separately, the terribleness is about adding "-lfunkylib" to your linker command. If you embed the source in your project, the terribleness is about adding to your Makefile: funkylib.o: funkylib.c
34.
by wott 5y ago
It is an atrocious fad imported a few years ago by young programmers coming from script languages, because they don't grasp modularity à la C and adding -lthatlib in a Makefile or a build script seems out of their reach :-(
35.
by wott 5y ago
> A lot of sites seem to have scraped StackOverflow and GitHub issues, put a crappy ad-loaded interface around them, and somehow out-rank the original SO/GitHub content. Some even made slideshows of SO screen captures and put that o
36.
by wott 5y ago
I never had a problem with the website of my Finnish bank 20 years ago. And I could order my plane tickets too through the Web in the first half of the 2000s. I cannot say the same of the website of my French bank and its multiple rewrite o
37.
by wott 5y ago
Normal users, as they represent by definition the largest numbers, are necessary to enable the network effects on which the Internet companies rely, and as a result they also put other, reluctant users in a position of minority, the positio
38.
by wott 5y ago
There cannot be evidence of the first, but there can be evidence of the other two (supposing one of the latter options happened). The problem is that there cannot be evidence that those two didn't happen. So if the first option happene
39.
by wott 5y ago
> As someone who had to go rattling over the USB gadget subsystem, I can tell you that running "grep" with "find" was the standard way to find some data structure buried in a file included 8 layers deep. It has alwa
40.
by wott 5y ago
> Every machine can do web browsing too. Tell that to most of my browsers which refuse to display any Gitlab content (they only ever show the side bar).
41.
by wott 5y ago
To many people, Italy would first evoke pizza and (the huge amount of Nonna's) pasta :-) "Gourmet", "Chef", "Cuisine" and dozens of other terms: even in the English culinary vocabulary, the French words ha
42.
by wott 5y ago
> Developped countries share the same technologies, but this obesity and diabetes problem you're talking about seems largely rooted in North America. In France ("the land of delicate and healthy food", as it is sold to y
43.
by wott 5y ago
Yeah, when we are lucky to have a several days long Internet breakage at home (we don't use cellular Internet), all of a sudden things which had been 'not possible' or 'so hard' or 'so tiring' for months o
44.
by wott 5y ago
> if you have a draining job and don't have energy Never in modern times have we worked less. It is not that much the 7 or 8 hours of not-quite-daily work which make us tired, it is that on top of it come the 2 or 3 hours of not-rea
45.
by wott 5y ago
Please update your views of European urbanism (browsing Google's aerial photos should be enough). Urban sprawl is the defining key of the last 50 years. Here is a starting point, miles and miles away from the historical centre of Toulo
46.
by wott 5y ago
> people like to share things they like. People like to share things they hate , especially on the Internet of the last decade My national subreddit was a perfect example of that, most of the posts were posted by people opposing wha
47.
by wott 5y ago
> My advice (after also having spent 'too much' time C++) is to never focus on a single language. Well, you/they practised at least C++98, C++11, C++17... That's many different languages already ;-)
48.
by wott 5y ago
It seems to be one of those nowadays numerous people who invest a great part of their time into programming 'communities' to the point it becomes a defining point of their life, instead of just considering the underlying tool... a
49.
by wott 5y ago
It used to be well organised grid-ordered thumbnails (regularly displayed even when from different aspect ratios) on a white background that made picture stand out, with titles and descriptions as first citizens. Ipernity ( http:/&#x2F
50.
by wott 5y ago
> And since robocall spam is illegal, i get ~1 call every 4-5 months at most, to sell me a different internet or electricity or mobile plan, and they're obligated to respect my refusal to be contacted thereafter ( and all do). You a
51.
by wott 5y ago
> the demonstrated ability to complete a large, self-directed project from beginning to end I am not sure this (both the self-direction criterion and the 'complete to the end' criterion) applies to a majority of PhDs .
52.
by wott 5y ago
> [headers] There is some kind of message matching algorithm, which looks at the "subject" of your e-mail. There are dedicate headers fields for that purpose, they are set automatically.
53.
by wott 5y ago
> It feels like more than a coincidence that the flavor of "security" that comes out of these companies hinges on infringements of ever increasing amounts of their users' privacy. It is the same as in politics: saying &#
54.
by wott 5y ago
> Those will last basically forever. Yes, but where? :-) Because those large plates and the attached isolation plates fly damn well when there is a bit of a tempest.
55.
by wott 5y ago
> And structures, unions, pseudo-meta programming via the macro processors, Those exists in macro assemblers, for they are extremely thin abstractions, no thicker than jumping to a label instead of jumping to an absolute or relative addr
56.
by wott 5y ago
> 40 is not an adequate sample size. Not even close. Last time I looked for a study of a similar subject (I think I was looking for speed comparison between T9 and multi-tap input), it was something like that too: 30 or 50 students given
57.
by wott 5y ago
> GPL software should use the same predatory tactics as proprietary, and trend chase. Focus primarily on trend-chasing and marketing, focus on getting cash by any means necessary other than not making the source available. Market hard,
58.
by wott 5y ago
Well, you don't really need to mimic OO to make that code cleaner and less error prone. Here's what he wrote in order to complain about it: if (mode == ambient) { // handle pixels as ambient... int step
59.
by wott 5y ago
I use ConTeXt. It is a perpetual moving target. If you want a document to keep compiling to the same result, you'd better pin a version :-/ They keep on adding things, experimenting things, sometimes removing things, changing engi
60.
by wott 5y ago
You'd better test if her Photoshop works fine with Wine. If it does, nobody get frustrated, there is no need for her to relearn everything from scratch if she is satisfied with that tool and her workflow established over more than 10 y

More ›