ziotom78

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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   Thanks, that answer actually adds some very important context!
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   Apart from "great concurrency story", because of the well known problems with the GC. This might be a huge shortcoming for a number of people.
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   Very nice project! Apart from the impressive set of features, what impresses me the most is the README, which is extremely clear and enjoyable.
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   I'll definitely steal this!
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   I find this extremely interesting! In the last weeks one of my colleagues had to work to some legacy application that was developed using National Instrument's LabView [1]. For those who do not know it, it is a visual language to devel
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   I cannot say how useful Alexandra's work has been for me. Apart from the fact that subscription prices to scientific journals have increased significantly in the last years, in the same period Italy has severely cut research funding. A
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   Thanks, this is indeed a nice idea. However, it reminds me of this comic: https://xkcd.com/196/ :-)
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   I have to agree. After years using Thunderbird, I switched to mutt in 2015 and used it as my unique email client till a few months ago, when I switched back to Thunderbird. Despite its fantastic speed, the difficulty to handle attachments i
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   by ziotom78 9y ago

   I used these notes when I prepared the general relativity exam in my university years. I found them much clearer than Wald's "General Relativity", the textbook used in the class. However, when I had to prepare lecture notes f
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    …unless your library exposes classes/templates, which is probably what the majority of C++ libraries do (e.g., wxWidgets, Qt, Boost, etc.). In this case, creating C bindings is a real pain.
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    I too am not convinced of the usefulness of these lists in helping you to shape your toughts. However, they might turn useful in understanding why somebody told you not to "put up a straw man", or used other apparently weird expre
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    You're right, US keyboards do not support AltGr! I have always used european keyboards and every one of them supports AltGr, so I assumed that US keyboards did the same. Just for testing, I installed a few new keyboards on my KDE deskt
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    I agree, I think this is one of the best museums I've ever visited! Other more famous museums (e.g., El Prado in Madrid) overwhelm visitors with a lot of stuff presented in a quasi-random order. On the other hand, this one is extremely
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    On my Linux Mint 18 KDE system, ² can be typeset by typing AltGr-2 (I can get ½ by pressing AltGr-5). I am using an Italian keyboard, but I bet this works with US keyboards as well. Recently I used Windows 10 quite a bit, and the number of
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Faster compilation times. A good C++ compiler as fast as Free Pascal's (which has units, much similar to modules) would be a killer.
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Hi i336_, I believe the problem lies not in the fact that there are only 256 values available in an "unsigned int" (an int is at least 16 bits wide). The point is that ncurses requires to work with color pairs, which encode both t
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    > Art is a very fuzzy concept, and has been redefined over and over so many times that nailing down a correct definition and saying "this is" and "that ain't" is like trying to grab hold of a greased eel. So true
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Another important example is Lilypond [1], a music engraving program. It requires the user to write scores in text files, which are then compiled to PDF/PS files. The core is implemented in C++, and Guile is used as an extension langua
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    You're right, but I think that truecolor support is easier to program. I vividly remember when I wrote DOS programs which used VGA/SVGA graphics in the early 90s; switching from palette-based colors to RGB colors was something I r
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Sorry, it wasn't my intention to hurt you with my comment.
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    See my comment above: it would allow more precise specification of a color by avoiding the need of indexing an implementation-dependent palette.
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    What I think is really interesting in this is not the possibility to use 16 millions colors per se, but rather the ability to directly specify the RGB components of the color to use. The current approach used by terminfo and ncurses is to r
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Well, I used to bash C++ and OOP programming till not a long time ago, but I am slowly reconsidering my ideas. I am now learning Rust, and for this purpose I am trying to implement a small TUI (Text User Interface) framework. In order to ge
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    What is the point of running Chrome in a Docker container? Is it useful only for developers which want to test stuff using a fixed version of the browser, or is it something that everybody surfing the web should really want to do? (I am not
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Interestingly, I read about this idea in «Corps et âmes» (1943), a marvellous novel by Maxence Van Der Meersch (a physician). The wife of the main character is able to recover from tuberculosis thanks to a diet with very low calories.
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    I can confirm this. I have used it a couple of years ago for a GUI app I needed at work (1): Lazarus was a real time saver! When a colleague asked me if he could use my app under Windows, the porting process was 100% painless: all the code
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Thanks, I didn't know about Catch. However, my point is that this kind of tools should be part of the standard library, like it's the case for other modern languages.
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    I completely agree with you. The lack of a module system (still missing in C++17) and of standard libraries that are commonplace in other languages (testing, string formatting...) are the two most serious drawbacks which are preventing me f
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    I used to write scientific code in C++ too, but since a few years I've switched to Python+Fortran using f2py to automatically create bindings. Although there are a few drawbacks (different conventions in indexing arrays is the most ann
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    by ziotom78 10y ago

    Several years ago I documented in a blog post a few experiments I did with Racket [1]. The experience was extremely pleasant, Racket is well designed and the documentation is superb. [1] http://ziotom78.blogspot.it/2011&#x2F