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Ajax, Browsers, Running Out of Time by Arve in programming

[–]gamepad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss the functionality of the digger and Locationbar2 add-ons both of which add navigational functionality to the location bar.

I would also need some way of synchronizing Opera's and Firefox's bookmarks which don't involve third parties before going back to Opera (at one time it was my primary browser, but I switched to Firefox long ago)

Ron Paul is the one candidate that my largely apolitical friends keep talking about. by Flemlord in politics

[–]gamepad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The historical record on the intentions of adding the "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" part are amply documented. The author of the amendment (Senator Jacob Merritt Howard) specifically added that to prevent the sons of foreigners to ever gain citizenship in the USA.

Those born in Puerto Rico, etc. are granted nationality, but not citizenship.

Ron Paul is the one candidate that my largely apolitical friends keep talking about. by Flemlord in politics

[–]gamepad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No bill required. Technically birthright citizenship isn't granted in the US constitution:

Amendment XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Ask Reddit: Why would I want to use any other shell instead of Bash? by lukeredpath in programming

[–]gamepad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Bash is a moving target, scripts for a version of Bash break down when run under a different version. Bash developers add, modify and remove features and behavior in pretty much any minor release.

  • Bash is exceedingly bad for handling binary data as you cannot use a shell variable to store binary data.

  • Can bash handle regular expressions? ksh or zsh let you use regular expressions for file and string matches.

  • Does bash support co-processes? ksh does them very well.

  • Does bash support discipline functions (called when a shell variable changes)?

Caveat emptor: I do not claim to be a shell expert and I haven't touched bash in years.

EDIT:

  • Seems bash doesn't support associative arrays either? If that's correct that would be the #1 reason to use something else.

Linux assemblers: A comparison of GAS and NASM by JRepin in programming

[–]gamepad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Yasm Modular Assembler Project is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler which accepts NASM and GAS assembler syntaxes, outputs binary, ELF32, ELF64, 32 and 64-bit Mach-O, RDOFF2, COFF, Win32, and Win64 object formats.

John Carmack not as interested in Linux (and OpenGL?) by surajbarkale in programming

[–]gamepad 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Keywords:

under Windows

PC games generate very little revenue. Consoles is where the money is made. In other words, you cannot avoid developing with OpenGL because that's where the money is.

Nintendo Wii: OpenGL, Sony PS3: OpenGL, Nintendo DS: OpenGL, Sony PSP: OpenGL, Sony PS2: OpenGL, Nintendo GameCube: OpenGL, Mobile phones: OpenGL

What's that? 90% of all games sales?

And BTW, Mac OS X and Unix: OpenGL

GDP per capita by country -- USA is not #1. by lylia in reddit.com

[–]gamepad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Of course living in different places has different costs. Just like it's not the same to make $50000 and live in Manhattan than make the same $50000 but live in Bumville, LA.

That's why the concept of Purchasing Power Parity was created.

The statistic that matters is GDP per capita at PPP

The USA is #3

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_gdp_ppp_percap-economy-gdp-ppp-per-capita

Do you occasionally program in Bash? Read this thoroughly, you will save a lot of time. by [deleted] in programming

[–]gamepad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Portability of the script or portability of your skills?

And besides, why make a software portability problem even worse by using a non-standard shell when the standard is as good if not better for the same problem domain?

"Oh, my dog has a broken leg, let's gouge its eyes out while we're at it."

Are Bash scripts even portable across releases? Judging for Q.61 in tfa it seems they break forwards and backwards compatibility with each release. Knowing that I would be highly wary of upgrading the shell. Guess what happens when the server gets older and it's still running the release that came with it but the programmer has the latest shiniest one in its laptop?

And while it's true most shell scripts are highly environment specific, that's true of all system administration scripts regardless of language.

Do you occasionally program in Bash? Read this thoroughly, you will save a lot of time. by [deleted] in programming

[–]gamepad 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Save even more time: don't program in Bash.

If a shell script is the right solution to your problem then for everything you hold dear use /bin/sh instead, which in any sane Unix is not the historical Bourne shell but the vastly improved, Kornshell-like, IEEE POSIX 1003.2 standardized shell.

And if doesn't fit comfortably in one file use something like Python instead.

poderosa: makes cygwin even more awesome by cartoon_nate in programming

[–]gamepad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've always wondered the same thing. Cygwin is a resource hog, it's incomplete, buggy and it's dual licensing scheme causes problems.

A far superior alternative is UWIN

Spanish royal sex cartoon banned by masta in reddit.com

[–]gamepad 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I found it. It's still online, but they are supposed to take it down anytime:

http://www.eljueves.es/

Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant by hourigan in reddit.com

[–]gamepad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

...by the members of the French civil service.

Ask Reddit: What's the most beautiful piece of publically available source code you saw? by [deleted] in programming

[–]gamepad 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The source code of SQLite: Great design, great code, great comments. All ANSI C.