GyrosOfWar

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by GyrosOfWar 11y ago
Small correction: Rust doesn't have exceptions. panic!() crashes the current thread with an optional error message, but it doesn't do stack traces and there's no try/catch in the language (there's the try!() macro,
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by GyrosOfWar 12y ago
Yeah, that's definitely an issue. The Scala auto-complete is not very responsive, which makes the whole IDE experience with Scala pretty undesirable, sadly. I've been using IDEA with Java in the last ~2 months and it was perfectly
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by GyrosOfWar 12y ago
Yeah.. If you're gonna give your app a name from a foreign language, at least look it up in a dictionary. "Die Referenz" would be correct.
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by GyrosOfWar 12y ago
Also to note, the American qualifiers for the tournament will start tomorrow and run until Thursday. There's a good mix of North and South American teams in the qualifier and the stuff that is planned for the broadcast seems pretty exc
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by GyrosOfWar 12y ago
Really a fantastic performance. The recording quality of both video and audio are excellent too.
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by GyrosOfWar 12y ago
You could try Fauxbar, which is a Chrome extension version of the Firefox Awesomebar. I really like it.
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by GyrosOfWar 12y ago
How would immutability help with performance? (I'm not trying to ask a leading question, just curious) Value types are obviously nice for better cache performance (less pointer chasing, more linear data) but I generally associate immut
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
I see, that makes sense.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
It's addressed, but in the wrong way. IEEE 754 has positive and negative infinity for a reason. Why do there have to be 255 zero values? Also, what about rounding modes? Floating point math is really, really hard and this specification
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
Modern C# and C++ both have facilities that make the languages much more concise (lambdas in combination with std::algorithm resp. LINQ, type inference and the like). Java 8 will also have some of that and I can see it becoming a much nicer
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
Exactly. For someone like me who likes building websites for fun (and by myself), but sucks at design and CSS, Bootstrap is a godsend. Because of it, I can concentrate on the stuff that's fun for me while having a pretty reasonable-loo
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
There really is porn for everything, huh?
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
The German names are all rather convincing, except for the sometimes lacking umlauts. (interestingly, only in the surnames) No one is called Jager here, unless they anglicized their name for some reason (Jäger is German for Hunter).
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
I like Programming Praxis ( http://programmingpraxis.com/ ), it has mostly algorithmic problems and the questions also include solutions.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
With ((x | y) % 7) != 0), I get this result in Processing: http://i.imgur.com/K35xxI7.png I think I know what I'll do for the rest of the evening.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
It's also great advice. I especially liked the part at the end about using simple and direct language and the active voice. This alone makes a paper much easier to digest even if the subject matter is hard.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
The site crashes my browser (rather, the tab it's running in, Chrome 32) I see a loading bar, then I see something resembling a Spelunky level for a few seconds and then it crashes.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
Very cool. This really makes me want to get better at Haskell. I know enough of it to understand what's going on here, but not enough to be able to come up with something like this.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
What do you even mean with that? Marking all JVM languages as unsafe? Marking JavaScript as unsafe (because it has so much to do with Java, right?) The issues Mozilla has with Java are limited to browser applets and the lack of security upd
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
> One thing I would like to see: MS should ban FF because it is insecure :) Any follow-up on that? FF is, to my belief at least, one of the more secure browsers.
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
From what I've read in the Play documentation, this is intentional. [0] They say: > SQL is already the best DSL for accessing relational databases. I have no real opinion on the matter, as someone who doesn't like working with
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
Brady Haran's videos are in general very good. All of his videos are in this style, concentrated on a single topic and in general shorter than ten minutes. I especially like the SixtySymbols channel (Physics and Astronomy). He seems to
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
> Also note that there is a HUGE performance difference between appending and prepeding to a list. :-) If you're going to do a lot of appending, might I suggest a ListBuffer or a Vector?
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by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
Modern statically typed languages (cough cough not Java cough) generally have static type inference, which removes a lot of redundancy from the code. Being able to do val object = MyObject(someOtherObject(12, "hello")) /&#x2F