wsgeek

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by wsgeek 3mo ago
Not trying to offend anyone at all but this is a prescription for the symptom not the disease. M$FT marketing would loooove to create WindowsLite. In fact the did it already back in the day -- and the public fell for it. WindowsME/S
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Herb Sutter "Three Cool Things in C++26"(herbsutter.com)
6 points by wsgeek 1y ago|1 comments
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by wsgeek 1y ago
Herb Sutter's presentation from C++ On Sea
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by wsgeek 5y ago
What general area if I may ask?
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by wsgeek 6y ago
Well said
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by wsgeek 6y ago
Made my day :)
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by wsgeek 7y ago
I would like to ask a genuine question (not trying to provoke anyone!). Where is a good use case for Scheme these days (in any form?). I really love the idea of the language but I can't figure out where it really does a _better_ job
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by wsgeek 7y ago
100%
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by wsgeek 7y ago
Async is great... all those times a thread is waiting for even fractions of a second can now be easily put to use... using the same thread if needed (a big win for single threaded Python for example).
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by wsgeek 8y ago
I think everyone here assumes that Capita actually tried to use the 113 million and so they are confused as to why the website is so poor. It’s much more likely that about 10 million was spent on the website and the balance lined the pocke
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by wsgeek 8y ago
Ultima IV for me.... Good times
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by wsgeek 8y ago
... but with garbage collection
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by wsgeek 8y ago
Lisps are all very, very cool -- you basically get to build your own world. And the macros -- so powerful. But the parens! Not the number of them, as that is about the same as other langs, but the placement of them: Sample factorial func
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by wsgeek 8y ago
I think some of the comments here are unfair to Crystal and the careful thought (and lots of work!) that has been put into it. Projects like this should not be so easily dismissed as "also-rans". I read through the Crystal langua
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by wsgeek 9y ago
I followed the directions to the letter, and everything installed correctly on MacOS. When I tried the same on Linux, though, I got tons of the following errors on the build step (keep in mind I do have boost development libraries installe
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by wsgeek 9y ago
A reasonable question, but the reality is that C++ is the ONLY choice for certain fields (basically anything where you need a high-performance "engine" under the hood). Finance, gaming, databases, etc.
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by wsgeek 9y ago
Google Bill Clinton North Korea deal... there ya go.
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by wsgeek 9y ago
Apparently nobody liked Fruitcake 100 years ago either
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by wsgeek 9y ago
Do these actually run faster than the code produced by a good compiler? Benchmarks?
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by wsgeek 9y ago
I just skimmed the article, but if that was a crackhouse then wouldn't it be in a bad neighborhood? Then once their shiny new place becomes known to the local denizens, break-ins galore!
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by wsgeek 9y ago
Wonder what kind of "charitable donation" he made for that?
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by wsgeek 9y ago
Very Bridgewater-eque ...and the employees "wanted" this? I doubt it. Seriously, did I misinterpret this? Not trying to be a troll.
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by wsgeek 9y ago
Embrace.... extend.... extinguish. Be very careful when an OS vendor makes a move like this.
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by wsgeek 12y ago
This seems to be the same anti-competitive behavior that Microsoft was often found guilty of and chastised for. Come on Apple, please don't become an Evil Empire.
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by wsgeek 14y ago
That is not a bug, that's a feature!
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by wsgeek 16y ago
Amazon EC2 -- pay only for what you use, etc
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by wsgeek 16y ago
Gentlemen, Steve is not being overly controlling... You are all looking at his "blocking" of Flash as a closed-minded policy. Consider this: Do Active-X controls run on the iPhone (or Android)? No -- they never have, and this is for tec