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dochtman
8,644karma·837submissions·August 2, 2010
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Professional Rust maintainer.
https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/ https://github.com/djc https://xavamedia.nl/
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/djc; my proof: https://keybase.io/djc/sigs/8IkleSSBN9hhCZWqkfDndLYhEEfanUDBVDQdS_hqH9U ]
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Also, more readable. Personally, I think it's sad that Rust (along other systems-oriented languages like D and Go) haven't taken more of the syntax from Python, which I find to be superior to the worl…
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None of these have to go through Mozilla if you don't want them to. You can host your own copy of the JavaScript shim and setup your own identity provider to authenticate against and it will Just Work…
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Persona, the protocol, doesn't actually rely on your email account's password. It uses the domain from your email account to figure out how to authenticate you; if you want to use some other way than …
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Why not? They've done ppc to x86 before.
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Err, yeah. I mean in 2.7, as in, 2.7.1+. I've updated my post to make that more clear.
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Yeah, I think the "no new features in 2.7.1+" has been making Python less exciting to use for the past few years, as libraries have slowly started to support Python 3. I think the future might feel le…
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djb thought in March it was going to be Keccak: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/183552364953878528
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Did you find http://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja before building this? If not, where do you think I should advertise it?
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The compiler output looks roughly like this: var Jasinja = {
"filters": {
"attr": function(obj, name) { return obj[name]; }
},
"tests": {
"lower": function(val) { return va…
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I've written a Jinja-to-JavaScript compiler: https://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja It reuses the Jinja front-end, it really only replaces Jinja's code generator and supports a pretty large subset of Jin…
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I really want a cheap test device so I can start hacking on B2G. Sure, I guess I could get a second-hand SGS2, but those are still pretty expensive to use a test device.
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SpiderMonkey should hopefully get a generational GC soonish: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619558 . (Incremental GC was completed recently, for Fx 16: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sho…
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+1. I recently tried to get a little bit of file I/O going and it was a PITA.
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Is it just me, or does it seem inspired by MS' Metro/Modern UI looks?
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A Coursera course on Human-Computer Interaction? https://www.coursera.org/course/hci
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Also, Ericsson, in a different thread. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg04938... No other companies so far, apparently.…
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He uses a metric for importance other than just size. That said, his points that there were 600000 software developers in the US 10 years ago and more than a million GitHub members now, SO there must …
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I find B2G very cool, I just hope the underlying stuff for the hardware (drivers; what's called a device tree in the Android world) is all open source or at the very least easily available so that peo…
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Seems to me that that's what static typing proponents have been saying for years (if not decades), and it still isn't true. That said, I'm currently hacking on a compiler to see if I can come up with …
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They're saying they did something to the glass to make it less reflective.
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Ah, you're right. I stared at the URL for a bit, but not closely enough, obviously.
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So why did HN allow this to become a new post when I posted it just a few days ago? http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/fear-and-loathi... …
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That also explains why it references LLVM 2.8, while the dateline says it's from May 29, 2012.
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It's a bit silly that this piece is dated June 4, 2012.
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Thanks! InfoQ "presentations" are so crappy...