archangel_one

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by archangel_one 5y ago
It was originally developed as part of KDE (KHTML), although Apple have obviously done a lot with it since.
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by archangel_one 6y ago
Hi, one of the implementors here... Yes, WSL is an option, and I believe Please works just fine in it. Right now we don't have any CI etc set up so we can't stand behind it and say "this works", but it works in WSL as mo
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by archangel_one 6y ago
Please is a pretty different tool to Jenkins - you could use it within Jenkins, but instead of make / Gradle / go build / cargo / etc. It does have some features to facilitate CI and testing at scale, e.g. `plz query cha
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by archangel_one 6y ago
We wanted something like Blaze (Google's system); at the time we were using Buck which didn't satisfy us (e.g. only one output per genrule, no directories; and it was more or less impossible to write first-class support for a new
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by archangel_one 6y ago
In that case, you can stitch both Python and Go builds together in the same interface, and then tie them into further actions (e.g. Docker builds, Kubernetes), again using the same interface. Neither setuptools nor go build are particularly
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Lost world? Not so. Look a little harder. Try visiting the Department of Coffee and Social Affairs, Fernandez and Wells, Speakeasy, or one of many other boutique coffee shops serving excellent coffee. Okay, they're outnumbered by Starb
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Sure, but trying to persuade billions of people to switch to a new system with unclear benefits and no backwards compatibility is not a recipe for success.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Having worked at a software company whose internal date format was indeed based on days as the base unit, I suggest that this is an extremely bad idea. 0.75 may be 6pm, but what is 7pm? 0.7916666666666666 is as close as computers will gener
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by archangel_one 13y ago
No, the same restrictions apply to class as to struct. The most relevant difference in C++ is that the compiler can reorder data members that are in different visibility specifications (public, protected, private) but not within one of thos
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Maybe because the people who bought it early on have already played it and derived significant value from it? It doesn't seem right to me that they get all their money back when presumably most of them weren't playing it any more.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
I do live in London, and while it's expensive, I can't see how you could need £100k annually simply for accommodation. Unless you have a very large family to support too?
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Yes - that the progress so far has allowed other form factors like smartphones. If it continues, it may open up new possibilities as well that wouldn't be feasible with the current level of chip technology.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Nope - the newest lines (Victoria, Jubilee) are all smaller diameter trains. The larger, squarer cut+covers (District, Circle, Metropolitan etc) are generally older, because you can't cut a trench across London for a new Tube line any
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by archangel_one 13y ago
I suspect a lot of the people buying the Final Fantasy remakes are people who played them years ago and are buying them to replay now because they no longer have a Playstation / SNES / the original game discs, but retain fond feel
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by archangel_one 13y ago
FWIW, no, I think the reason "the community" is there was mostly because the founders provided enough star power to get the thing started. I'm not sure it's as far as in spite of the "questions police", but I
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by archangel_one 13y ago
I imagine most of "the market" just don't care about it. Given the speed new phones are coming out, by the time the battery has degraded to the point it's worth doing something about, they'd rather have a new phone
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by archangel_one 13y ago
> people will end up looking on movies instead of the road all the time Have you used Glass? It hardly seems likely people are going to use it for watching movies on while driving - the screen is really small and in one corner of your vi
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by archangel_one 13y ago
FWIW, I disagree; having seen a candidate interview for a senior position at my last company who couldn't code in an interview at all , I think it's worth three minutes on a basic question to make sure they really do have some ab
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Not that you'll have any time to enjoy your presumably lovely 3 bedroom flat in Barcelona with two 4 hour commutes each day.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Why? I mean, the point of the article is a little shocking, but it carefully doesn't mention the commute time, which appears to be the thick end of 7-8 hours per day (2h 30 flight each way, and Stansted is not exactly in the heart of L
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Does to me; I guess I think of it as either an adjective or referring to the language. While this usage is technically correct, I think I'd always say "Japanese person". I don't really have a good explanation though of w
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Nope. Firefox 23 on Gentoo here, it's fine. Odd really, there are quite a few pictures of the map tiles, but nothing unusually large. Nothing I'd expect to kill a browser.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Not a rare earth element.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Exceptions and RAII match well, actually. Managing resources via RAII means that when an exception is thrown, the destructors of local objects are invoked so they'll release resources they've acquired. In fact, I'd argue that
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by archangel_one 13y ago
As per the article, they're very (very very) slowly migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. I suspect Puppet and Chef are not even on their radar at this point.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Actually, not really. Germany was awarded the '36 Games in 1931 which is before the Nazis came to power. And even in '36 it wouldn't have been so obvious exactly how bad the Nazis were going to turn out to be. Much easier to
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by archangel_one 13y ago
2560 characters isn't that many. You'd have to proofread the OCR'd version anyway, I'd say it'd be easier to just type it in.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
As funny as that might be, there is such a thing as contempt of court which I guess he'd find less so.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Yes, I think the semantics of c_str() and data() effectively require that it is stored contiguously. Although it is still possible to make it faster by overallocating in the same way as std::vector, but at the cost of more memory use.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
US pronunciation is generally rhotic, ie. they will pronounce the r's distinctly in those words. Most of the UK (the southwest being the largest exception) is non-rhotic, as are Australia and New Zealand, and in those accents those wor

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