drobilla

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by drobilla 12y ago
Yet another fine example of why ESR seriously needs to stop pretending to be the arbiter of "hacker culture" as if he speaks for all of us.
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by drobilla 12y ago
I'm very happy to see Rust stabilize, about time we get a systems(ish) programming language with a half decent type system. With that said... I need to get some bikeshedding off my chest: I hate to let such a triviality lower my enthu
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by drobilla 12y ago
I'll take "fighting with syntax" over fighting with a GUI any day.
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by drobilla 12y ago
I will never understand the tendency, especially in the web community, to consider complicated, ambiguous, inconsistent, and difficult to parse syntaxes as "friendly". It might seem like a good idea at first, but over time it just
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by drobilla 13y ago
This guy is so biased he can't even see straight.
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by drobilla 13y ago
Not quite as easily solvable with software as you might think. Most such scheduling problems are NP-hard.
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by drobilla 13y ago
Engineers generally already have such things. I don't think "programmer" is a well-defined enough concept to be associated with an oath. You can't go around calling yourself a Medical Doctor or an Engineer if you aren&#
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by drobilla 13y ago
The Littler Guide to HTML Email: Don't.
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by drobilla 13y ago
> I could either have another expensive piece of paper, or add more code to my github account for future employment... You could always do both. Academics who can actually write good code are a pretty rare commodity.
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by drobilla 13y ago
Someone needs to write a "why getting a job in industry is a waste of time" rebuttal to this tired argument to illustrate how ridiculous it is to evaluate everything with a single (and shallow) goal structure. After all, it typically doesn
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by drobilla 13y ago
Painters paint, hackers hack
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by drobilla 14y ago
"Ha ha ha, I intentionally cause huge legal problems for the Open Source world and the software world in general, hilarious, right?" This stupid little license game of Crockford's is childish and inappropriate. The more he jokes about it t
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by drobilla 14y ago
Short circuiting AND isn't a very good example of the advantages of pure functions. Most languages, including those heavily based on mutation (e.g. C and its descendants), do this.
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by drobilla 14y ago
Never say never. This only applies to WYSIWG. When writing in plain text source formats, the two spaces enable tools to distinguish the end of a sentence from abbreviations and other uses of the period. For example, emacs uses this disti
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by drobilla 14y ago
No offence, but this is incredibly naïve, and it's kind of obviously an opinion that simply stems from working on things that just aren't that conceptually complicated. Some things are actually conceptually complicated, and the why is not
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by drobilla 14y ago
Funny, that's how pretty much everyone else feels about visual programming. Except the UNIX way of things runs the Internet, and visual programming tools run practically nothing of relevance at all.
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by drobilla 14y ago
Time.
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by drobilla 14y ago
I find the cognitive dissonance of Americans commenting on such things while still claiming silly titles like "the greatest country in the world" fascinating. This one has a "besides Canada" footnote disclaimer. Why, because Canada does ha
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by drobilla 14y ago
Well, this is true, but it's also hyperbole. It's not really everybody misunderstanding the problem so much as simply not caring. People are sloppy with the terms "NP-hard" and "NP-complete" and use them interchangeably because it's usual
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by drobilla 14y ago
A more accurate title would be "The Sorry State of Microsoft's C++ Compiler". As usual with native code, portability is actually quite easy to achieve - except to Windows using MS's native tools.
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by drobilla 14y ago
It isn't. That figure is more like the size of everything there is to do with LaTeX, uncompressed, than the size of LaTeX itself.
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by drobilla 14y ago
For half a century, especially in America, we've been hearing about the "future of transportation" in the form of some car, or car-like non-mass transit device. The numbers don't work out, the logistics don't work out, and the infrastructur
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by drobilla 14y ago
Significant whitespace in a live coding language? I like and use Python, but that seems like a show-stopper of a bad idea for a language designed for throwing code around in real time.
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by drobilla 14y ago
What you just explained is simply your arbitrary and subjective personal belief system about technology that makes one system inherently "better" / "superior" to another. Proprietary software - i.e., software you can not modify to suit yo
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by drobilla 14y ago
This is a very cool effort and method to teach a very silly font/language idea.
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by drobilla 14y ago
I have always maintained that if you have an unqualified "favourite" thing, you are probably not very in to that type of thing :) I use C the most because it is the most appropriate tool for the job at hand for most of the jobs I do. I app
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by drobilla 15y ago
Two-finger scrolling on both axes works well here on my Thinkpad T520, which is at least a massive improvement over edge scroll IMO, especially with limited space. Unfortunately the touchpad is quite small.
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by drobilla 15y ago
I have some projects with extremely thorough test suites, and some projects with no automated testing at all. I find my desire to work on those projects directly proportional to test suite coverage. Once you start writing against automated
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by drobilla 15y ago
Making a modern condensed character set is a nice idea, but this is a really, really bad execution. Many letters are the exact same shape, shifted vertically 1/5th of a character height? A-E are completely identical but for position. This
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by drobilla 15y ago
Hilarious, though not strictly correct. There is no guarantee 'sleep n' sleeps for n seconds, or that 'sleep n' wakes up before 'sleep n+1'. Granted, in reality if scheduling is so far off that things like this on the order of seconds bec

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