On 9/15/2018 11:25 AM, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 09:23:24 UTC, Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 22:56:31 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 22:41:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
>>> (Abscissa) wrote:
On 09/10/2018 11:13 PM, tide wrote:
On 9/12/2018 11:38 AM, Joakim wrote:> On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at
06:41:38 UTC, Gambler wrote:
>> On 9/10/2018 9:43 AM, Joakim wrote:
>>> Yes, I know, these devices won't replace your quad-core Xeon
>>> workstation with 32-64 GBs of RAM anytime soon, but most people don't
>>> need anywhere n
On 9/10/2018 9:43 AM, Joakim wrote:
> Yes, I know, these devices won't replace your quad-core Xeon workstation
> with 32-64 GBs of RAM anytime soon, but most people don't need anywhere
> near that level of compute. That's why PC sales keep dropping while
> mobile sales are now 6-7X that per year:
I
On 9/3/2018 1:55 PM, Gambler wrote:
> There is this VR game called Fantastic Contraption. Its interface is
> light-years ahead of anything else I've seen in VR. The point of the
> game is to design animated 3D structures that solve the problem of
> traversing various obstacles while moving from poi
I have to delete some quoted text to make this manageable.
On 9/2/2018 5:07 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> [...]
> GUI programming has been attempted a lot. (See Scratch for one of the
> latest, possibly most successful attempts). But there are real,
> practical reasons it's never made si
On 9/1/2018 11:42 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> On 09/01/2018 05:06 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>>
>> If you have a specific context (like banking) then you can develop a
>> software method that specifies how to build banking software, and
>> repeat it, assuming that the banks you deve
On 9/1/2018 7:36 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/1/2018 2:15 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 08:19:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 8/31/2018 11:59 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> For example, in any CS program, are there any courses at all about
> this?
Yes, we
On 8/31/2018 3:50 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880722
>
> Typical comments:
>
> "`assertAndContinue` crashes in dev and logs an error and keeps going in
> prod. Each time we want to verify a runtime assumption, we decide which
> type of assert to use. We prefe
