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AlexeyBrin
11,535karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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I suspect that the brothers simply don't want to deal with the huge time sink that is governing an open source project with many contributors.
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> But does anyone else feel kind of betrayed/insulted that the project is not open source? Honestly, I find it hard to comprehend how much entitlement your comment suggests. A game is a work o…
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Careful that a stock C.H.I.P need to be reflashed in order to work with the PocketChip.
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Wow, if I try to order a Pandora from North America is more than $300. I mean with these money you can buy a decent Chromebook, install Linux on it and any old console simulator you need. PocketChip o…
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Personally I never seen a C++03 program that doesn't compile in C++11/14. Obviously, if you are talking about C++ code written before C++ was standardized, like in the 90's, you are pro…
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> I find it hard to justify starting a new projet using C++ today when there is languages like Rust, swift and golang to a lesser extent. A simple reason, for Swift and Rust at least, if you want t…
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The book can be read online, link is easy to miss but it is there https://leanpub.com/fullstacklisp/read …
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There is actually a link to read online on the same page https://leanpub.com/fullstacklisp/read …
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In some ways Fortran is more advanced than C and even C++, e.g. had modules since Fortran 90, pure functions and so on ... It is a very different language from the original Fortran.
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> So in essence Visual Studio .Net forbade one from building things like GPL software. I'm sure the Visual Studio .Net EULA is available somewhere to dig this up. Maybe I miss something, but y…
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I never heard of such a thing as VS prohibiting the compilation of GPL code.
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The math courses from my first university year where 90% a redo of the math from my last two years of high school. The difference was that in university they emphasized the theory over exercises, basi…
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> I suppose this is the result of deadlines and lax code reviews. This is usually the result of years of changing/updating the code. Any living code base tends to grow and accumulates cruft ov…
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> I wish they were taught in high school, because they would motivate kids to learn graphics and programming. Learned Linear Algebra (matrix calculations and some analytical geometry) + Calculus in…
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> Since when do programmers give a shit if people's precious fee-fees contradict what is technically correct? Programmers at least the ones I've seen in my life are not from Vulcan :). In…
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The answer is obvious: Swift if you target iOS. Otherwise, use what is best for you.
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A nice example of Common Lisp is Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ a Computer Algebra System
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I was talking about the average cost of life in North America, I think Montreal and Toronto can be considered about average. The cost of living in the Valley is not representative for medium to large …
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From my traveling experience the cost of food in large cities in Bulgaria and Romania is about the same as the cost of food in Canada. Yes, they have (much) lower wages there and they will accept your…
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Taking your own life is seen as a mortal sin by most Christian traditions, mortal sin as in there is no forgiveness for this and you go straight to Hell. Not sure about other traditions but in the cas…
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You seem to completely miss the point of what they did. It is not a simple Bash recompilation for Windows. It is a way to run Linux (Ubuntu) binaries on Windows.