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From a quick look it seems like it's "as fast as a linter" because it is a linter. The homepage says "Not just generic AST patterns", but I couldn't find any rule that did anything…

> My takeaway is that his test email bounced What test email? I see no mention of a test email in the blog post. The mail that bounced was the one with the verification link from V…

> but we shouldn't forget that this kind of failure can only happen starting from an ambiguous grammar specification I don't think that's true. The following CFG is unambiguous: S …

Note that they're actually citing "Mitchell, Webb et al." in the paper.

> A lot of these games with fancy anti cheat protection the cheat tools basically just tell the server "spawn me a vehicle right here" and the server just does it. Citation needed.…

And perhaps more relevantly, the regex from the article also works fine in RE2.

> re2 uses a DFA-based system instead that just doesn't support the kinds of regexes that catastrophically backtrack There are certain fearures that are harder or impossible to imp…

Yes and buying music on Amazon (which is what the comment I originally responded to was about), you get system number 2, i.e. a DRM-free MP3 download. Buying movies on Amazon is a …

Which current systems? For games on Steam and movies basically anywhere, the current system is that after I buy the game/movie, I can watch/play it for as long as I have access to …

> > music I've purchased > They really ought to stop using "buy"/"purchase" metaphorically to mean something more like "one time fee for an indefinite lease that ends upon account …

I wouldn't say the source language is not meaningful. If you wrote an ahead-of-time JavaScript-to-WebAssembly compiler and benchmarked the WASM generated by that, it would probably…

An important difference between your add method and binary search is that the signature of your add method already implies the contract that the sum of the two integers must fit in…

> if this was true every company would be transparent "Only assholes and sociopaths are transparent" does not mean "all assholes and sociopaths are transparent".

> I am fairly confident that people still use Apache Ant as build system As in: there are still (older) projects around that haven't (yet) migrated away from Ant? Sure. As in: Ant …

If the `exit` variable were set to a string, `exit()` would be an error because you can't use `()` on strings. `exit` is a callable whose `__str__` method returns that message. Not…

> it's conceptual slow because of the language (types, implicits, ...) and it's accidentally slow because written in Scala (a slow language) on the JVM (slow startups and warmups) …

Å isn't a German character, it's Norwegian. GP was ordering a package from Germany to Norway.

> Honestly your comment is so beside the point that I am not sure that you are not trolling. That seems pretty antagonistic for no reason. > You parent comment basically says the v…

Word of warning: The Scanner class does not adhere to the maximal munch rule, so you shouldn't use it to match keywords the way that it's done in the code in the linked reddit thre…

I can't find any evidence of that being true. In this article[1] for example, all the examples either have the comma before the "aber" or none at all. I can't find any example anyw…

> In fact you wouldn’t really use iphone at all, but smartphone The sentence "Smartphone is a phone made by Apple" (or maybe "A smartphone is a phone made by Apple") would have a v…

> What is the programming equivalent of stack equal columns? The game's "stack equal columns" corresponds to Haskell's Data.List.group function: > import Data.List > group [1,2,2,3…