el_muchacho

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by el_muchacho 13y ago
What I would like more people to understand is, the NSA planting backdoors into everyone's accounts and software makes everyone less safe to both interior and exterior attacks. So no, it's not a case of NSA spying being a lesser
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by el_muchacho 13y ago
C++11 adds a little welcome syntaxic sugar to the language. Yet C++ is nowhere near supporting functional style as well as D does. It really doesn't look and feel the same.
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by el_muchacho 13y ago
> Or to put it another way: the Soviet government didn't start out surveilling their citizens before they just murdered all the ones who were considered dissidents. They started doing it after they needed to get better at murdering
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by el_muchacho 13y ago
> However, I don't see any direct evidence of police state action; no smoking gun if you will. So I believe it's better to confine ourselves to openly known facts & working to roll back the (already very bad) truth rather t
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by el_muchacho 13y ago
Between Word and Wordperfect, the latter was the better product. But Word was easier to use for simple documents.
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by el_muchacho 14y ago
I don't think there are problems with 64 bit versions, but many computers are still 32 bits. The PC I use right now is 32 bits and I don't feel the urge to buy a new one. So I suppose 32 bit machines will stay around for another decade or s
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by el_muchacho 14y ago
The drop after 2007/2008 probably corresponds to the Phobos/Tango debacle, and the fact that Walter decided to fork with D2. One of the main problems was, he was almost the sole compiler developer, and could hardly keep up with the tasks of
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by el_muchacho 14y ago
What is the definition of a system PL ?
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by el_muchacho 14y ago
Probably because there is no need for it ? If WaitGroup waits for the end of all tasks to continue, there is map/reduce which should do the trick.
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by el_muchacho 14y ago
Agreed, D is a much bigger and complex language than Go. Comparing the standard libraries, Phobos doesn't look far behind Go in scope. There are big holes though, like crypto, which is entirely missing, and a complete SQL driver (was in dev
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by el_muchacho 14y ago
D is pretty strong at concurrency today. See for instance http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1609144 and http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/parallelism.html