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Which is a deficiency of compilers and languages they support: there should be a notion of "verbatim" code, where the compiler doesn't try to apply any code transformation changing…

Did you give a shot at other languages in the same category as F#, like Haskell, Ocaml, Clojure or Elixir?

It may have to do that often actions on set top boxes are related to accessing content, for which the software has to check permissions; these are usually embedded in the stream (t…

In one of William Gibson's books (the first trilogy I believe), there was this idea of companies running algorithms on new product names to check if translated in other languages, …

I didn't talk about liking or disliking ads. I don't like medicaments but I find them very valuable.

Well, I don't know. I think that people from the west tend to see the negative aspect of advertising: people over here think "annoyance" (all the answers to my provocative post wer…

> No user would opt-in to commercials, ever. I don't believe for a second this system was designed with opt-in in mind. The occidental mindset is heavily geared against advertising…

I guess the text tries to cover both opt-in and opt-out dialog boxes, which perhaps indicates that somewhere in the admin level configuration is an option to choose which mode the …

> The only experience that's worse is those set-top boxes the cable companies provide you with. I don't know about the American market. Over here (France), set-top boxen aren't so …

It's probably the only one that works, and it's just a hint (the conversion function is weird btw, it accepts hexadecimal symbols ranging from '0' to 'z'; it actually "decodes" any…

I wouldn't worry much about people whom I granted access to my computer, (though it could be worrisome if someone else got their hands on their credentials), I would worry about pe…

I don't understand the point you're trying to make: are you saying that no matter the OS, some hardware platforms will be flaky and others well supported?

Welcome to this year edition of the Galactic HyperBowl . Whether from the mountains of Deneb Drei, Vega Primo red glow, Jupi II clouds or the Green Fields of Durulis, don't miss th…

I must admit that my knowledge of llvm is very limited. I did make the (perhaps wrong) assumption that it would be easier to understand on that basis alone (well, and the fact that…

That doesn't mean no decision has been made: in a typed language with subtyping, this amounts to choose the "top" type of the type hierarchy, and without subtyping, you're choosing…

Yes, it's correct, at least my dictionary says so.

Gcc code is arcane: it relies heavily on macros to define some kind of DSL for the compiler backends (check out the .def files), but if you want to contribute seriously you need to…

Was there a followup to that story? It seems like the author made a lot of assumptions (I read PG article about Corp devs).

It makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

Great work! The image quality is astounding, really. So, I just tested your renderer with the material test scene, and while it ran pretty fast, it seems it only used 3 cores out o…

Of course, but even with lisp you can't (programmatically) work on the code without having that code representation. If it's trivial, then there's no harm in opening it, but RMS th…

Hmmm, Charybde and Scylla. There's no solution I suppose, or maybe just go by what RMS wants: produce a data structure for the necessary data for the simplest possible improvement,…

You really should have a look at the rust code this guy wrote. I would not call that last optimization type safe.

It doesn't have to be like that. I suggested elsewhere in that thread that emacs maintainers should use llvm for what they need, since it can already provide that service. This wou…