thepicard

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by thepicard 13y ago
A modern OS is definitely a virtual machine, where each process perceives that it is running on a single CPU with its own single contiguous bank of memory. Threads are a bit of a leaky abstraction but whatever. What is interesting is that t
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by thepicard 13y ago
If you have 16GB, which is normal for high-end laptops these days, then you already can.
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by thepicard 13y ago
>If the profession ever wants to produce anything reliable in C++ This has already been done, so you are obviously wrong. Exceptions are cute for small amounts of code. But as soon as you get a sizeable codebase, you have zillions of fun
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by thepicard 13y ago
Because that server was not that important?
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by thepicard 13y ago
The different examples are all pretty much just different ways of writing the same thing. And then another different way of writing the same thing is presented, with "db:" prepended. Huh. The only thing that is substantially diffe
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by thepicard 13y ago
Because it's more than that. It wasn't originally to speed up run time, but compile time. That history is wildly fascinating to me. We tend to take compile time for granted, unless we are bitching about Scala, or compiling C++ at
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by thepicard 13y ago
But your contact book and location?
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by thepicard 13y ago
Definitely. I was going to say, was this not obvious when the app requests every permission related to your personal info?
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by thepicard 13y ago
If you ask the average 1st world human being "What are Macs good at?" They usually say something about ease of use and multimedia stuff. It's just what people think. Now, on my Mac, I do exactly zero multimedia related things
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by thepicard 13y ago
Okay that's seriously metal.
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by thepicard 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law "Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficul
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by thepicard 13y ago
I agree on some level, but you also can't say that this is a great thing. All these extreme opinions... Can't we all just agree that Google is pretty great, but going through an annoying phase right now? Google _is_ taking advanta
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by thepicard 13y ago
Or she was referencing this username... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult
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by thepicard 13y ago
I also have this question. There are technical reasons that PostgreSQL is better than MySQL, especially when it comes to features, but none are mentioned here. > From the development perspective Postgres was a necessity. Not a slam dunk
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by thepicard 13y ago
Speaking of digitalocean, are you guys affiliated at all? Because I get a digitalocean vibe from your pricing/terminology/etc. for some reason.
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by thepicard 13y ago
My nexus 4 is still an excellent phone, but I want to buy the 5 anyway... Brain... brain stahp...
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by thepicard 13y ago
I'm tempted to say: "unless mongoDB gets a lot better, this is not going to be true." However, a minute fraction of the rails community is large sites, so it doesn't matter. I also think a lot of people like rails becaus
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by thepicard 13y ago
They do, it's just a complex and involved process. I don't recall exactly but I believe it might also need an upfront investment as a music publisher or something? I too am lazy. Distrokid also does multiple services in one go.
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by thepicard 13y ago
Again, I think one with deep understanding would know that leaving it unset would result in zero, but also know that initializing it declares intent of the original author, and is thus useful.
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by thepicard 13y ago
Arguably if people have such strong understanding of things they will be better programmers too. I would prefer the person who knew what they were doing, because they also know _why_ weird things are weird, and have a better real understand
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by thepicard 13y ago
Can you whine some more?
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by thepicard 13y ago
Riak.
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by thepicard 13y ago
Well also, a government has a responsibility to act in the best interests of its people. While shafting the banks with a gigantic legal dick would be kind of funny, it could hurt or inconvenience a lot of people. If this works, people all o
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by thepicard 13y ago
Your example is ridiculously contrived. I would imagine the rule is not used extensively in practice because it exists as a preventive measure should such a thing ever come up.
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by thepicard 13y ago
#include <Python.h> int main() { Py_Initialize(); PyImport_ImportModule("necromancy");
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by thepicard 13y ago
Aren't namespaces a C++ feature?
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by thepicard 13y ago
Actually, I think the original intent regarding greater than was: greaterThan(100, 5); //=> true That is, l is greater than r, and to then properly curry the arguments do need to be flipped such that maybeGT(5) results in
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by thepicard 13y ago
A lot of these examples are wrong... function double(n) { return 2*n; } map(double, [1,2,3]) //=> [1, 4, 9] should be => [2, 4, 6] function greaterThan(l, r) { return l > r; } greaterThan(5,
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by thepicard 13y ago
I think you mean http://mate-desktop.org/
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by thepicard 13y ago
Unlikely, I would go with. It's unlikely that it couldn't be done. Based on the level of understanding in that thread, I'm not terribly surprised.

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