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psr
psr
12:08 AM
@amon Oh monads! You may call bind, but you will never posses them. They will make baskets of apples for you, and perhaps you will throw them, eat them, bake with them, but eventually you will come to realize that they aren't your apples any more, they belong to the monad, they always did, from the moment you passed them to her they were gone, and it wasn't you that baked them at all.
It's in the type signature.
 
 
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user41796
1:25 AM
That's a good idea.
 
psr
psr
We need the Whiteoutboard. For room owners only -all messages are immediately deleted.
 
user41796
@psr Actually, I wouldn't mind having access to that... Would make some aspects of hunting trolls easier.
 
user41796
Even I'll admit that some of the removed messages get a bit out of hand. But it's hard to balance a degree of respect for the persons privacy versus collaborating evidence in identifying what's really going on.
 
psr
psr
1:57 AM
Troll hunting is a good reason though.
 
user55340
2:08 AM
@amon (and @RobertHarvey from unix.SE an older post, but still an important one on the gcc and clang thing)
 
user55340
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A: Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?

ire_and_cursesSummary: The primary reason for switching from GCC to Clang is the incompatibility of GCC's GPL v3 license with the goals of the FreeBSD project. There are also political issues to do with corporate investment, as well as user base requirements. Finally, there are expected technical advantages to...

 
user55340
From what I understand, clang is also much more versatile in its modularity. While gcc does have other compiler front ends, once you're in the compiler its a giant single thing that doesn't allow introspection from other tools.
 
user55340
Part of that can be seen in the diagnostics that it produces: clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html
 
user55340
  $ clang -fsyntax-only t.c
  t.c:7:39: error: invalid operands to binary expression ('int' and 'struct A')
    return y + func(y ? ((SomeA.X + 40) + SomeA) / 42 + SomeA.X : SomeA.X);
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~
 
user55340
Or interfaces for IDEs to be able to hook into the compiler more easily than gcc allows ( clang.llvm.org/doxygen/group__CINDEX.html )
 
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
3:08 AM
Huh, that tree answer got me some follow-on rep, got a bump across 3 other posts of mine on P.SE woot
171 rep to go
 
psr
psr
3:19 AM
@JimmyHoffa Still need 618. This whole "answering questions" thing seems to be working for you.
 
 
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Ampt
Ampt
4:35 PM
@MichaelT Quit bringing it up :P
 
Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
4:59 PM
Ars Technica » Stack Exchange: Why follow defensive programming best practice when code will never be public?
posted on March 08, 2014 by Stack Exchange

If you're designing a card game that only you will see, maybe it's ok to be lenient.

 
 
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Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters
6:46 PM
Any point in flagging this post for migration to Programmers?
It's a question asking what advantages a add-on library has (defining Contracts for Python code) over the native assert functionality of the language.
Nvm; we're just closing it as too broad.
 
 
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gnat
gnat
8:27 PM
 
MetaFight
MetaFight
8:48 PM
Damn, I missed it.
Was it an incredibly cut remark?
 
user41796
Not really
 
user41796
I mean, the question is cut, sure. But it still lives
 
user41796
the remark? not so much.
 
user41796
Just a courtesy props amongst the troll hunters.
 
user41796
And now I'm curious to see if my answer will draw any up votes before we nuke the question & user
 
MetaFight
MetaFight
9:00 PM
"But you're sharp (or so you've said in your profile)" nice.
 
user41796
I was hoping for a lot more snark in putting that answer together, but I kinda gave up as I realized it wasn't going to be worth the effort.
 
MetaFight
MetaFight
heh, yeah. I wanted to be snarky too, until noticed his age.
 
user41796
I nuked the answer - it didn't come close to having the effect I wanted.
 
user41796
Please note that he's claimed that age for years now
 
MetaFight
MetaFight
ah.
 
user41796
9:03 PM
Now, his emotional maturity or age ... that's a different question.
 
MetaFight
MetaFight
his profile here is pretty funny. physics.stackexchange.com/users/29771/…
 
barlop
barlop
the windows 7 taskbar is quite cluttered. how many programs do people here tend to have open.. e.g. I often have a text editor, browser, IDE, cmd.exe, keepass, VNC, as a minimum.. but my taskbar gets quite cluttered i'm wondering what you guys have open in the taskbar when programming or generally?
 
enderland
enderland
 
barlop
barlop
@enderland though then restarting could become a huge chore and I might end up with 60 things open! rather than the 27 that I have
 
enderland
enderland
I have a .bat file I run on startup :)
 
barlop
barlop
9:13 PM
to do what?
oh..
I don't mean a chore in terms of time
I mean, like if I have unsaved files
I suppose there's no excuse for multiple unsaved files
 
enderland
enderland
I guess I dont' use the taskbar at all
mine is hidden
and I have workspaces (four, total) which are designated for different things
 
barlop
barlop
that makes sense.
i just checked out virtuawin.. it looks far more efficient than the taskbar
even for flicking between windows even if just using one screen
 
enderland
enderland
it basically gives you multiple desktops
it's not as seamless as mac/linux is
but it's nice
 
barlop
barlop
more than just giving you multiple desktops
it lets you switch easily between windows in a way less cluttered than the taskbar
though it doesn't group items..
afaict
 
enderland
enderland
yeah, I've yet to find as good of Windows windows manager as Mac has
 
barlop
barlop
9:18 PM
i used a mac once.. what's the way you switch beteen windows (not desktops, i mean just windows).. ?
it has a thing on the bottom where you can see a bunch of programs in a row
 
enderland
enderland
I guess I should say - I'm a serial alt+tab user
I almost NEVER use the task bar (or launcher, on mac) for opening applications, either
 
barlop
barlop
oh, i hate alt+tab in win7 . vistaswitcher has a better one.
but it's still cluttered
 
enderland
enderland
I alwyas use launchy - launchy.net
 
barlop
barlop
I tried launchy once but i foudn it wasn't indexing some things
 
enderland
enderland
it misses a few for me too but I just use the windows+instant search for those
 
user41796
9:20 PM
@MetaFight, @gnat the recent annoyance is gone
 
barlop
barlop
though the win7 instant search can miss things too can't it?
or it can find things that I haven't told it about, that aren't meant to be indexed
so it seems unreliable too
 
 
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user55340
11:54 PM
(I owe @Ampt $0.05) @amon check out blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2014/03/… - how about a 'step backwards' debugger? And recording of all of the values a particular variable has had?
 

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