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Development tools on linux continue to be great. A visual studio quality ide would be nice, but realistically I'd continue to use vim and the terminal. What really irks me is the d…

You may also be interested in this post[1] by nrc for a couple of strategies for implementing graphs. And this companion[2] by Niko Matsakis. [1] https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp/blob…

> wicked fast and devoid of bugs Having ported a lot of old fortran to modern fortran and C I wish that were the case. More often than not, that's the assumption but its rarely tru…

> Every human endeavour until incredibly recently in our timeline was a self-cost, whether it be in health, time or wealth. Only in the last blink of an eye have we expected a Govt…

For what? Most of openmp is useful because you can slap a pre-processor directive on a for loop and make it parallel. Rust has the ability to provide ergonomic fork-join parallelis…

At worst firefox will use some of the libraries that come out of servo. Firefox is supposed to use the url parser from servo by 2016.

> Seperate Select for files and Sockets on Windows.. And linux has the epoll/posix aio split for sockets and files.

> Go was attempting to use only very-well-understood ideas to make a very-well-understood, simple language. Many of the ideas in go were not well understood and had only been demon…

And the /bin symlinking... systemd and GRUB legacy were bigger. But about annually there's something arch land that will break even the most minimal installations if you aren't car…

This is correct. I haven't had flash on my computer for nearly a year and I've been able to watch hd youtube videos in firefox.

Its also ambiguous there are about 5 different, relatively popular "x64" architectures.

Its very heavy. I've been using airline for the last year or so. https://github.com/bling/vim-airline

In the windows 10 announcement they demoed a version of Office that supported the adaptive design. I don't know if they're dog fooding to get there though.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I opened a 26,000 line file (no I don't want to talk about it). In vim it opened instantly and my scrolling was only limited by my key re…

>While it's easy to say "it's more compelling to do stuff on a phone than it is to do it on a watch, so you'll naturally use the phone more", that rather makes me wonder why I woul…

LLVM isn't a vm like the others, its a generic compiler backend. Languages with LLVM backing generally compile to native.

Correct and there are games that model that behavior, for instance iterated stag hunt[1]. This shows the benefits of cooperation for pack animals much more than the classic prisone…

That's not a problem with game theory. That's a problem with using overly simplistic games. You can easily model all of those punishments with different payouts in a game. In fact,…

Doubtful. WPF isn't even the recommended GUI toolkit on windows anymore.

QE finished last October.

That story has never made any sense to me. The U.S. and Britain are far closer allies with a much longer history of extradition. If the U.S. wanted to extradite Assange they would …

They're referring to writing your own allocator.

That's just a viewer. Getting documents to render and making a usable touch interface for editing documents are two very different things.

Hit Alt the numbers and letters are the shortcuts for moving around the ribbon. That's actually one of my favorite parts of the ribbon, you are able to see what the shortcuts are v…

The new pkg tool in freebsd is pretty good and meshes nicely with the ports tree. The marginal improvements for 3rd-party built packages with apt aren't really worth getting rid of…