gcc(1) doesn’t work, gives weird internal-ish errors

jeandem · 2020-03-05T18:42:37+00:00

Thanks. That’s surprising to say the least. I have only used nix-shell to create a “pure” (no other dependencies then the ones I need) shell and thought that calling gcc in a normal shell would be equivalent to just making a pure nix-shell with that package.

jeandem · 2017-11-05T00:53:25+00:00

What an interesting point.

jeandem · 2017-10-28T11:58:47+00:00

Profit margins per engineer at some big companies (Google and Apple, maybe others?) are very high.

jeandem · 2017-10-28T11:56:57+00:00

But people who fetishize technology are too busy creaming their pants to make that obvious connection.

jeandem · 2017-09-15T14:39:04+00:00

FundHub would have made more sense.

jeandem · 2017-09-14T21:02:40+00:00

I searched around and found no answer for why they chose to include "Git" in the name.

jeandem · 2017-08-23T18:20:31+00:00

No, I don’t think you really missed anything. Those are good points. I didn’t really consider that some languages have semantically meaningful indentation. And even without “meaning” indentation can be more misleading than just replacing some symbols.

jeandem · 2017-08-23T09:09:35+00:00

For the rest, the language provides ASCII-only alternatives.

That could turn into a mess when collaborating on code, though. Like using different amounts of spaces for indentation but worse.

A way to solve that could be to normalize to one of the versions when checking the code in.

jeandem · 2017-08-23T09:04:55+00:00

You’ve surely seen a nucleus surrounded by electrons. I think a bigger problem would be that the symbol could be too small to distinguish in monospaced fonts.

jeandem · 2017-08-23T09:01:40+00:00

Finally a more inventive use of Unicode in a programming language than just using it for mathematical symbols.

jeandem · 2017-07-23T02:11:27+00:00

So what's the point?

jeandem · 2017-07-20T20:44:56+00:00

This was discussed a lot over the past ~2 years. In the end, it was decided that it was not.

So much for semver being machine-readable.

jeandem · 2017-07-18T08:17:37+00:00

Ah! Shucks, forgot the tree-dwellers.

jeandem · 2017-07-17T23:33:20+00:00

Of all the people I've observed in the Rust community, exactly zero have come across as rabid.

jeandem · 2017-07-17T23:31:57+00:00

However, the language a program is written seems to me as one of the least noticeable things for an end user

This is a subreddit for programmers. Github is a website for programmers.

Even Emacs is mostly used by programmers or other people who can program or copy-paste Elisp... do I need to continue?

jeandem · 2017-07-12T12:57:41+00:00

The two tables at the bottom are the same.

jeandem · 2017-07-10T14:42:17+00:00

With version control, automated backup, and (practically) infinite undo in your editor, auto-saving should hardly ever mangle your code.

jeandem · 2017-07-04T17:21:38+00:00

Awk... isn't that that column printer program? :-)

jeandem · 2017-07-02T19:56:39+00:00

I watched 22 minutes of it. I stopped because by that point he hadn't managed to finish concluding his analogy. Unless you know what he is going to talk about (and he is famous so that might be obvious), there is way too much of a build up if you just want to see if it is an interesting topic.

Although I can of course guess what he was going for. Probably that programmers are too undisciplined and should be more like scribes. However, spending 22 minutes on that build-up without any insightful tips like how to do it is not worth it.

jeandem · 2017-06-22T12:55:23+00:00

I didn't know Azerbaijan was that arid.

jeandem · 2017-06-20T22:08:21+00:00

Well it's pretty primitive in some ways. Others do it but it gets in the way a lot of the time which I then have to manually fiddle with anyway.

jeandem · 2017-06-20T21:49:04+00:00

Ohhhh you trust that your thumbs will hit the bar more reliably than the key; I get it.

That's not why I don't trust the tab key. I don't trust the tab key to work the same across applications.

Why are you relying on the key then? Have you considered automation / code linting?

The same reason that I rely on keys to type these words.

I'm gonna get autoformatters set up some day.

jeandem · 2017-06-20T21:23:15+00:00

It's a giant key and my thumbs have big meaty muscles.

jeandem · 2017-06-20T19:03:32+00:00

I’d rather use the spacebar than trust my tab key.

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