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languages that used brackets looked like voodoo to me at the time

Hah, exact same here. I started with VB5/6 and it was so much easier to build a graphical Windows app than using scary C++ MFC. In VB6 you could just drag your "Winsock1" over to your "Form1" and start writing networking code quite easily.

Honestly though, to add some sneering hipsterism, Visual Studio is light-years better these days if you're just trying to crank out a basic app. So it does confuse me why anyone would choose VB.NET now over C#.
I like the principles behind its design, but not supporting scrollback and saying "that functionality should be provided by tmux or something similar" is baffling when it's done in the name of removing bloat and complexity.

Not everybody wishes to use a terminal multiplexer in all cases, either.
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The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump
What do you use now? Keyboard shortcut for font size change is a must for me.
Isn't it great to note that we're now in an atmosphere where you can just... download Visual Studio... no piracy required?
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Can someone shed some light? Wheeled Robot from Boston Dynamics [video]
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> ...it is unlikely to become part of a pattern...

And that's where we disagree. I think this is the first of many.
> I ended up with a crushed wrist and internal bruising, and I was lucky I even lived.

And I bet you wear a seat belt every day in your car as an adult.

Invincibility is one of those myths you want to dispel when kids are young and the stakes aren't as high.
I thought that deal goes both ways, AMD also licensing important parts of AMD64/x86_64 to Intel, so both sides would have a strong interest in keeping it alive in some form.
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The thing is... VB, PHP, and JS have all enabled an incredible amount of creations that never would've happened without them. It's honestly hard to imagine where we'd be without these ecosystems, and the casual slapping things together that these enable.
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This is exactly the reason we started the site. We figured that being able to filter by educational background helps both create better apples to apples comparisons and also allows for career exploration based on your background in addition to just showing compensation. Thanks for checking it out and glad you enjoyed it!
Yes. In fact, the Newton was the reason ARM was formed as a separate company. The chip design was originally done by Acorn (using VTI tools). When the ARM operation was spun out of Acorn under joint ownership (Acorn, Apple and VTI), they changed the A from Acorn to Advanced.
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The murder rate has decreased since the 60s, 70s and 80s, but that does not invalidate my thesis. Also, interpreting the data is only wrong if the data does not support it. I did say that it was higher in some parts

It is true though that during many years of comparable peace and without economic hardship the rate in the USA had gone down to below what it is today. For example, estimated at 1/100,000 in year 1800.
I take your point, and I agree with it.
Sources are one thing. Then they go and draw perverse or completely contradictory conclusions from them.
"Keyboard shortcut for font size change is a must for me."

From the st man page:

Alt-Shift-Page Up
Increase font size.

Alt-Shift-Page Down
Decrease font size.

Alt-Shift-Home
Reset to default font size.
>I think I've been conditioned to think that I would be a negligent parent if I did this.

>The media is part of the problem. 24/7 news, social media, and channels like ID (real life murder 24/7) scare the bejeezus out of people. But besides that, we have an acceptance of nanny-state government - that the government should be a much closer "partner" in child rearing than 40 years ago.

The whole intent is to condition you to normality. Not unlike civil forfeiture and intrusive security checks when travelling.
Article's title has been improved. It was baaaad in its first version.
Performance per watt is pretty good on ARM. Most performance these days is about IO. How fast is the memory subsystem?

There are intel chips with 400 gigs per second memory subsystems. But the cores run at around 1.4ghz. Even a single thread with that much memory bandwidth can be much faster. Likewise with cache. If you have 32MB of cache, you can do quite a lot more processing in cache, and be lots faster for many things.

Considering that macbookpro laptops haven't really gotten better single thread performance in years - the things that really matter are IO, and performance within the power/heat budget.

ARM is competitive now within the macbook power requirements. The A10 chip is 75% as fast as the i7-6600U in some single core benchmarks. At a much lower power budget.

Within the chromebook space, where ARM and Intel laptops are currently competing - Intel often produces faster laptops. However, they are also often more expensive. Lots of people in many-many reviews say their ARM based chomebooks are too slow.

Having been through the raspberrypi 1,2,3 performance leaps, I can say that the latest one is quite usable as a desktop machine for word processing, web browsing and media playing.

The Samsung Chromebook plus with ARM is shipping, and the one with Intel isn't yet. The ARM one is cheaper, and the intel one is apparently more performant. Both have a similar battery life. The ARM one has better support of android apps. GUI app development is now 10x more active on ARM compared to intel, and the apps are optimized more for ARM.

GPU performance is improving faster on mobile chipsets than Intel is improving. Because of the demand from mobile VR applications. Some are predicting performance will be faster than laptops in a mobile power budget this year (see ARM Mali-G71). It's even faster than some nvidia discrete mobile chipsets. Since many apps are performance limited by the GPU, and not the CPU, I'd say ARM chipsets will win for many users low-mid users this year.

ARM is already taking over the low end laptop market. I won't be at all surprised if they take the mid range market by the end of the year. Especially as the market for chromebooks, and the low end laptops picks up. Because then more laptop class ARM based chips will go into production.

I think the demand will be there, as the android using market also want to use laptops that sync better with their apps.

[ED: add note about high performance ARM chips coming]
High performance ARM chips are coming to super computers. The Post-K super computer by Fujitsu is expected to be one of the fastest computers in the entire world. If not the fastest. Will ARM take the super computer performance crown? I think so.
Ive observed this already in off-grid situation where the priorities are different (no net metering, power not used/stored is power abandoned) but when it hits the mainstream it could make a real dent in home construction/insulation biz.
Is Multidimensional live going to add microcontroller simulation, like Proteus?
Brigading is banned but SRS still exists. I hope they don't get rid of it though, it's like the find all the funniest reddit comments for me.
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A lot of the anecdotes in this thread seem to be from more rural areas or out in a small town. I grew up in Minneapolis (born in the 80s) and could do all these things in our neighborhood in the summers (except for shooting guns, but I'd get that in the summer with my cousins in South Dakota). I'd meet up with the neighborhood kids around 11 and my mom (or one of their moms) would have lunch and snacks ready for us around 1 or so. We'd just roam around the neighborhood all day playing street hockey or basketball or whatever.

...none of this goes on in my neighborhood anymore. One proximate cause that I think we're missing is that a lot of us moved away, and housing costs are so high that I'm putting off buying a home and my friends are too - or are doing so out in the suburbs. Demographic changeover could be a contributing factor.
Different people want different features. There's no way they're going to remain minimal and please everyone.

They have to choose the feature set, and if other programs can provide a feature that some users want, that seems like a feature ripe for pruning. I think they made the right choice.
what kind of platform was used to develop this? Cool to see it running in the browser and on mobile.
Proof of concept Terminal for iOS
It's really easy to use
I've also seen lots of hand-made signs like "Attention! Kids! Voluntary 30km/h!" in Switzerland.
Don't. Just don't! This complete homepage is a mess and is clearly made by someone who doesn't seem to have any real knowledge about how you seriously put a PC/Hackintosh togehter.

The PSU is WAY to oversized.
The Mainboard is also absolut nuts ..
etc.

If you don't point out why you choose a specific component then your whole article is obsolete. There is also no comparsion with other components...

Don't buy anything on that list cause this guy has no knowledge at all. It's a shame to see people making homepages like this...

If you really need a real good starting point/advice:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/january/2017#CustoMac...
>Rural
>barren wasteland

If you're a glass half empty person. Many people see it as freedom to do close to whatever you want without anyone caring.
Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25% share
Remember when apple was tied to the power pc chips? This would likely end up the same.
You don't have to recompile st in order to change fonts. You can just pass it the -f flag with the font you want to use.
Simpler names is certainly less idiomatic (sibling comments have already mentioned why), so it's a fair complaint.

Note that the lisp equivalent of foo.bar(x).baz(y) would be something like:

(send (send foo :bar x) :baz y)) which can be made even more terse with a macro, doing something like (@ foo (:bar x) (:baz y)). This was how most pre-CLOS object systems in lisp worked, and CLOS supplanted this.

Implementing SEND in CLOS is trivial.

There are many people who experienced SEND style object systems and CLOS but I haven't found any of them to be detractors of CLOS, which is what prompted my original question; lisp had something much closer to smalltalk before switching to CLOS and if there is a group of lispers who want to go back to that, they are in a small minority.
Should not be excessively hard to add (at least with cathode already fully heated).
Ditto - early 90s, suburbia, Great Lakes region.

Latchkey kid, summers spent biking around a couple mile radius, walked to the mall to play arcade games and eat McDonalds... magical times.
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I read this as "we don't really care about VB anymore, but we're contractually obliged to say that we do".
TFA has long history, and the OP should be right to use it without anyone getting hurt.
> We love GitLab, but this has absolutely got us looking elsewhere.

If you love GitLab and don't want to self host you can pay them for GitLab Hosted (paid customers had no troubles today).
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Have you considered using neovim?
See my other comment; keywords allow for short names and there is no concern about GF collisions if methods are namespaced to the class anyways.
Because kids playing in the street, cyclist and other hazards were more common, road markings were less obvious and road surfaces were rougher.
I personally just found the C# syntax more straightforward than VB.NET, C# was new and VB seemed to have a bit of baggage. I never had much in the way of problems, even as a beginner, translating from VB.NET to C# examples though.
It wasn't intended to be a niche product. That was just how it ended up....
>It's popular because you can install your own instance for free practically anywhere with minimal effort.

If that is the reason why you use Gitlab, then why not try gitea or gogs? gogs is written in Go and provides a docker image or a drop in binary
No, he's saying that "there's more roads so people drive everywhere" is not the blanket scapegoat that many around here make it out out to be.
In the US popular opinion says that Congress should raise domestic spending, lower taxes, decrease the deficit, and pay for this by lowering foreign aid to 10% of the budget. Foreign aid is actually 1% of the budget.

Politicians should ideally do the right thing or failing that do things that will get them reelected. Roughly 50% of the popular vote supported both the "leave" and stay options and the fraction of the electorate that votes based on "Has my life gotten better or worse since the last election" is much larger than the difference between the two sides so to get reelected MPs should vote as they think will most benefit the country.
True, but I've also seen millions of dollars flushed down the toilet on failed projects. The culture around these languages have been the primary reason for many of these failures. I've seen millions more wasted on workarounds and attempts to fix the spaghetti code they contain.

So while the world has some cool stuff that it might not otherwise I'm not sure the world is better off for it.
I think you misspelled Assange.
It's the same model as GitHub. It costs money for private repos. So it is free if that's what you want.
Wow... Very damn compelling and puts the $500m in perspective.

I always wonder when they are able to show someone made a particular Google search months after the fact, where are they pulling that data from? Surely the browser history is long gone...
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Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of code
Stand in Redmond. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered language lies, whose IDE,
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and you would uses this instead of..
>Doors and cars are also typically unlocked, sometimes the keys are left in the car too. I have always mused that if you wanted to steal a bunch of cars you would just take a trailer to a country town and load them right up.

>It all worked out fine because it was a small community and people would know who did what. Steal a car? Where are you gonna drive it? Everyone will know it's not yours.

>The other thing I imagine helps is that there are fewer mentally unstable people just thanks to there being fewer people. So someone "a bit off" would be known to the community. That can be good and bad.

Congratulations on describing a small town pretty much anywhere in the western world.
You can't restore local copies of apps that you backed up using iTunes in iOS 9? But you can download older copies of apps on a first gen iPad? That's weird if that's what you are saying. I was able to download older apps on my 1st gen iPad about a month ago.

Edit:

Are you sure it stopped working? You can't download an older version of an app on a non supported OS unless you either previously downloaded a version before on a compatible device or used iTunes and bought the app on a computer.

Edit 2:

Apparently you still can download the app to your computer directly using iTunes but you can't back it up to your device.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.macworld.com/article/3125509/...
They use patches of the source code for plugin style functionality so it remains as minimal as they want and we can add features at will. There is one for scrollback
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Hadn't heard that, but I can believe it. It is also entirely different than users running Infinity Blade or whatever.
I wore my seat belt every day before that anyway, not even because I had to but because I wanted to. The only thing that really changed after that point was I didn't want to ride bikes anymore.

I really can't be the only one who thinks brushes with death are not a good thing to have just because they can teach you a lesson when you're fortunate enough to walk away from them. Would you also say Russian Roulette is a good thing to try out because you might learn to value life more afterwards?
Correct. Nash equilibrium exists only if everyone takes the equilibrium-seeking strategy.
I have no doubt ARM will be in mid to high end laptops. I doubt though that the transition will be made emulating x86 apps for most users like it was with rosetta. 75% of Single core benchmarks is likely to become 40% even with a highly efficient emulating layer.

It makes sense to simply make vendors rebuild the app for the new platform then to use an emulating layer.

An emulator may be used for legacy apps, where performance doesn't matter, but apple has never worried too much about legacy in the past, so the mac community won't expect it. All the laptop needs to have is some other killer feature and the community will put enough pressure on the vendors to produce an OSX/arm build of their products.
I can't believe they added serial line support and not scrollback. If you're going to claim bloat, serial line support definitely ranks lower on priority than scrollback.
Who is definitely going to notice the that you rung up something expensive as something cheap...
I am curious whether you think F# is poor as a language for web/mobile development, or is it the F# tooling for such development that is lacking?
Is it a new idea? It sounds pretty similar to dark energy.
I don't use C for a couple of years and I see this:

void (handler[LASTEvent]) (XEvent ) = {
[ButtonPress] = buttonpress,
[ConfigureRequest] = configurerequest,
[DestroyNotify] = destroynotify,
[EnterNotify] = enternotify,
[LeaveNotify] = leavenotify,
[KeyPress] = keypress,
[MappingNotify] = mappingnotify,
[MapRequest] = maprequest,
[PropertyNotify] = propertynotify,
[UnmapNotify] = unmapnotify
};

What's this feature called?
Odd, works for me. Hmm
"My proposed alternative is good video games with open exploration"

I don't even know what to say to that. Seriously?
Designated initializers. It's in C99.
Apple has done many, many things to eke out a couple more hours of battery life. And there has always been a market for those improvements. Same with making thinner cases. it doesn't seem like much, but it sells.
It is explained in the info that scrollback is implemented in dvtm. Duplicating the functionality would probably go against the general minimalist Suckless design philosophy.

Non-goals:
unlimited scrollback buffer (done by dvtm)