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Re:Elm 0.19.1 on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:41PM (#21315032)
> did you actually try Elm for a real world project?

I'm actually writing Elm at work and we have two separate Elm apps in production.

YMMV but Elm with elm-graphql has been the most productive and confident I've ever been writing frontend code.

Re:Elm 0.19.1 on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:05AM (#21312363)
Elm already was the gold standard when it comes to helpful error messages and it's amazing to see that they're still working to make it even better. I hope other languages follow suit.
Re:Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:30AM (#18648549)
I use shairport-sync on my iMac to stream Overcast from the iPhone. There is a huge latency and the connection drops out every once in a while. This should have been a built in feature.
Re:HIP – Convert CUDA to Portable C++ on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:42AM (#16612132)
It has been in the works for a long time but I don't believe that it is in a usable state yet.

https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hiptensorflow

Re:Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:22PM (#12091286)
They can be self hosted as a JSON file and use the open source JS library to embed it
Looks like a HTTP seed
Now we need to plug Compressorhead to this.

https://compressorhead.rocks

Re:FAQ from Guccifer 2.0 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:58AM (#12009417)
This Twitter analysis on the FAQ is worth following: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/74848214296815616...
Re:Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:41AM (#11953387)
Phoenix is hinting that 1.2 might drop too https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/745265003775823872
Sidekiq was recently ported over to crystal and the speedups and memory usage improvements are amazing. There's also an officially supported heroku-buildpack so it can be deployed easily.

But there's a lot of breaking changes in the language (0.18 was released a few days ago with a few breaking changes). I would not use it for a long term project (yet). But for some personal project or prototypes, for example which you'd quickly set using Ruby/Sinatra, I'd choose Crystal/Kemal.

Crystal: Syntax inspired by Ruby, static types and compiled by LLVM. The standard library is mostly similar to Ruby (I'd say it's better. For example it rack-like functionality and websockets built-in). It's getting a lot of traction in the community.
We were shown the TED talk on our first "Professional Communication" class this week. It sounded like placebo from the get-go (like the majority of the most-viewed TED talks). But hey, who am I to question a Harvard professor? Thankfully, someone else did.
Re:Snap: A visual drag-and-drop programming language on Saturday May 23, 2015 @05:25AM (#9592428)
SNAP! considers itself as Scheme disguised as Scratch and rightfully so.

We had our Intro to CS class with SNAP, which I hated at the beginning, but towards the end, the professor used it to explain fundamental CS topics (sorting, data structures, parallelism) that was approachable by all. For the class projects, people that had no prior exposure to programming made some amazing stuffs with it.

Now this is the reason Mozilla built the Public Suffix List. https://publicsuffix.org/list/
Re:Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @12:26AM (#5823690)
There's a different nightly channel for Australis. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
Re:3px of padding makes all the difference in the world on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:35AM (#5778082)
It's happening to me too. Every day something looks broken (read different). The Facebook logo was not centered before the graph search for a couple of days, the height of the chat box was changed and same goes for the padding. All I hope for them is to remove (or shift) the video chat button. I've had lots of accidental clicks on it.
This might be wrong, but from what I've heard, multiple GPU (nVidia Optimus) issue has more to do with GPL than the Kernel itself. I had saved this quote but I forgot the source.

> ...won't let closed source drivers use shared memory with open source code or somesuch out of their belief that it would violate the GPL.

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