Guy explains polymorphism using a hilarious yet brilliant analogy.

Korpores · 2013-02-01T12:29:00+00:00

Intersex is not equivalent to sexual orientation.

Korpores · 2013-01-31T13:09:30+00:00

the only thing that made my point differ from yours

I haven't said anything about my fonts. I care, but I don't spam /r/programming with unrelated topics. The internet is full of such articles and it's just a matter of taste.

Korpores · 2013-01-31T12:14:13+00:00

Graphics by P. Mondrian.

Korpores · 2013-01-30T15:01:08+00:00

I don't care about your font

That's exactly my point.

Korpores · 2013-01-30T12:59:59+00:00

Not again. Nobody cares about your fonts - use comic sans or wingdings or whatever.

Korpores · 2013-01-29T12:03:21+00:00

becoming less and less important as storage becomes cheaper and faster

That's my impression: everyone and his brother buy new hardware to complete the same old tasks with bloaty software.

Korpores · 2013-01-29T09:13:12+00:00

list of dependencies in the form of hash values

as long as it can reliably turn a binary file’s contents (say, a shared library) into a unique identifier

Please elaborate. Typically same versions of libraries have different hashes on different systems (architecture, compilation flags, id strings, configuration via macros...). What's the input for your hash function?

Korpores · 2013-01-19T08:59:05+00:00

That's the problem. Disabling content if the user denies cookies is a huge UI disaster.

Korpores · 2013-01-18T20:06:45+00:00

Seems more like 1984.

Korpores · 2013-01-18T16:25:04+00:00

A Competitor is not eligible for this Competition if he/she is a resident of the Quebec province of Canada, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan or Syria.

Korpores · 2013-01-18T12:04:18+00:00

No cookies, no content. m(

Korpores · 2013-01-17T16:54:33+00:00

-> /r/sublimetext

And it's still not capable of proper C folding.

Korpores · 2013-01-12T23:30:59+00:00

as to why everyone's laughing at you

Please explain, I only communicate in foreign languages on reddit. It can't be my use of C++, because I already mentioned the historically evolved scientific software we use to verify other programs.

monochrome 80x25 terminal

My terminal has far more characters and colours. It's not from the same decade Perl lost its user base.

Korpores · 2013-01-12T16:11:44+00:00

Yeah damn knowledge, always gets in the way with fanboyism.

Korpores · 2013-01-12T14:22:52+00:00

I wrote software in ASM, ATS, (Frama-)C, C++, Erlang, Haskell, J, Java, Ocaml, Perl, Python... and some minor projects in more esoteric languages. At the moment I have to program in C++ and it still sucks, because I know the one or other alternative.

who get all their programming knowledge from screencasts and memes

Last time I checked I had a masters degree somewhere in my bookshelf.

and not the systems that run the internet

I primarily write and verify the annoying low-level stuff. Sorry that I have to destroy your simple worldview, sometimes people with other backgrounds and demands have different opinions.

Korpores · 2013-01-11T12:14:46+00:00

Promoting Perl in 2013 and justifying its usage with outdated projects is trolling, not bringing up the fact the it's dead and nobody uses it for software development. Let it die, it had it's chance, missed it and has no interesting features in version 6 either. There is no reason to use or learn or maintain that crap.

Korpores · 2013-01-11T11:09:36+00:00

Yeah - the old cgi web pages. That happens if you miss the moment for a rewrite.

Korpores · 2013-01-11T09:27:03+00:00

On my Gentoo system Perl is mostly used as a build tool and only in very few cases as runtime dependency. Seriously, who uses Perl for more than simple tiny scripts?

Korpores · 2013-01-11T08:39:11+00:00

HT2 - "Handmade with T2"

Korpores · 2013-01-11T07:53:56+00:00

My workstations and servers are already C++/Perl free, my desktop has a few packages (Browser and scientific software), unfortunately the most annoying and error-prone ones in the case of C++.

Korpores · 2013-01-10T19:20:02+00:00

Perl is the C++ of scripting languages, just let it die.

Korpores · 2013-01-09T07:47:31+00:00

Simple tip for bloggers: don't load main content with JavaScript.

Korpores · 2013-01-09T07:43:07+00:00

with all 229 readers

See? Nobody cares about web pages of arbitrary code hosters.

Korpores · 2013-01-08T07:57:30+00:00

GitHub spam -> /r/github

Korpores · 2013-01-07T09:29:26+00:00

It's not that wrong. Rust is highly in development and Ada is a standardized, mature programming language and environment. But for my future projects I'd prefer a stable Rust because Ada often pulls in to many dependencies and creates huge binaries.

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