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811.
by zvrba 14y ago
No, they aren't. With Java you can change code while the application is running and it will be hot-swapped after you have recompiled it. I learned about this feature when playing a bit in Eclipse, forgot to kill the program between edits,
812.
by zvrba 14y ago
His reasoning is bogus. For his C equivalent, he writes: > There are only two states. Not initialised object/memory where all the bets are off and the structure can contain random data. He can get exactly the same effect by mimicking fs
813.
by zvrba 15y ago
I had a HP-laptop charger that developed a screeching noise -- it sounded like a slow-rotating fan that could use some oiling. It didn't explode, but it caused the laptop to crash hard a few times (the screen just got garbled) and, needless
814.
by zvrba 15y ago
> most undergrads get into CS to write software, not to learn "theory" or "compiler design" The flip side is also that an undergraduate enrolls into a CS class, discovers (so it's not their bag before enrollment) that "compiler design
815.
by zvrba 15y ago
Pascal has had labeled goto from its conception. Break is just an extension / syntactic convenience. Even in C and C++ i still use goto when I have to break out of multilevel loops.
816.
by zvrba 15y ago
Standing keeps postural musculature (those you use to keep balance upright) active. So even standing still is way more activity than simply sitting where postural muscles just do nothing. I wonder whether "active sitting" [e.g., sitting on
817.
by zvrba 15y ago
Having grown up on Borland Pascal, I have a sentiment for Pascal and its derivatives. I enjoyed programming in BP, and I'm not too happy that Pascal derivatives lost their popularity to C derivatives. (I was reading a bit about Modula 3 and
818.
by zvrba 15y ago
Agreed, the title lead me to believe that the OS is the Lunatik idea [1] taken much further. [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2010/10/05/msg008900....
819.
by zvrba 15y ago
Choose a random compound X, feed it to rats and see what happens. Could somebody explain how does one choose X?
820.
by zvrba 15y ago
That's what I thought too, until I found that there exists C++ ABI on linux. I tried to link together two small files, both using iostreams, one compiled with Intel C++, the other with g++, and it worked. Though I'm in doubt [haven't teste
821.
by zvrba 15y ago
> That is not a browser default. That is fluid vs fixed. Nitpicking. Fluid is default unless you change it. Fixed layouts belong to fixed media, such as PDFs formatted for a particular paper size. [with them I have no problem, and, inci
822.
by zvrba 15y ago
I'm impolite because I'm annoyed and I'm annoyed because browsers by default automatically adapt text layout to the window size, and you have somehow purposefully broken this mechanism. Victory of design over functionality. What's more,
823.
by zvrba 15y ago
Your webpage layout sucks: in a Browser half a window wide (Opera 11.61, 64-bit Win7, 1680x1050 resolution), the text overflows past the right margin. When I scroll it horizontally, the blue block of text ("Paul Stamatiou") and the purple
824.
by zvrba 15y ago
Great! I'm just wondering why it took them so long: Opera has had this built-in for ages.
825.
by zvrba 15y ago
> Try building chromium or firefox in a reasonable amount of time He wrote "in any language with modules ". C++ doesn't have them.
826.
by zvrba 15y ago
> Segment:Offset addresses are converted to 32 bit linear addresses That's true, but segment descriptors have a not-present bit, which allows you to implement segment-level swapping.
827.
by zvrba 15y ago
I have the same problem when maintaining Latex files in some RCS. After any "big" change (rewritten sentence, etc), I customarily reformat the text in emacs so that it looks nice on screen, which also totally messes up the diff. emacs has a
828.
by zvrba 15y ago
The ability to access the raw memory underlying any object.
829.
by zvrba 15y ago
Interesting piece of information below in the thread: in reply to "Go being advertised as a systems PL", David Symonds replies with: "It's not. It used to be, but it's not any more."
830.
by zvrba 15y ago
> and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX GNU defaults to NOT being POSIX-compliant, which makes most of GNU software a PITA to build on platforms which default to being POSIX-compliant. Also, except for ema
831.
by zvrba 15y ago
Functional programming for the rest of us: please structure your code, to the extent that it is possible and practical, around functions whose return value depends only on its arguments.
832.
by zvrba 15y ago
In light of C++11, I see Go as something rather obsolete. I see absolutely no reason why I should spend my time on a language that's different just for the sake of it, instead of studying new features of C++.
833.
by zvrba 15y ago
Right. When I read that paragraph, my thought was that this guy has no clue what he's talking about. STL is anything but object-oriented; Stepanov is one of the greatest critics of OO. Also, STL goes to great lengths to resolve everything a
834.
by zvrba 15y ago
Because there exist fools who bow to every word they say.
835.
Tcl API as a replacement for glib?
2 points by zvrba 15y ago|2 comments
836.
by zvrba 15y ago
I dare suggesting that this is a larger problem and trying to close individual questions is not a scalable approach.
837.
by zvrba 15y ago
SO has recently been flooded by people who create an account and post questions in the "fix my problem" style, often also pasting a bunch of their defunct code. There are also questions that would be more appropriate for rent-a-coder. All i
838.
by zvrba 15y ago
OK, living in Norway, prices are "somewhat" higher. On the website of a popular computer-shop (digitalimpuls.no), the cheapest screen I found was Iiyama LCD 24" for 1100 NOK =~ 200 USD. (All other screens, also smaller, were more expensive
839.
by zvrba 15y ago
So it's a minicomputer without the disk, keyboard, mouse, screen, and speakers, which quickly adds up to $250 with cheapest components if you want to use it as a general-purpose computer. At the same time, it runs linux and the same linux d
840.
by zvrba 15y ago
Maybe I'm clueless, but why would you order one if you already have a PC?

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