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Re: London Stock Exchange hires 81 C++ developers for delayed Linux system

Hunter Morris — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:59:34 -0000

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Re: Cubicle Muses - Emacs and OS X launchd

Hunter Morris — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:42:32 -0000

I used to use the AppleScript method (which worked perfectly well) and decided to give the launchd alternative a go. Unfortunately, yank doesn't work at all. I get the following error:

Quit: "empty or unsupported pasteboard type"

It wasn't present when using the AppleScript method before. Any ideas?

Re: On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J

Hunter Morris — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:11:12 -0000

Bret, I would say that's a slightly unfair comparison. C compilers tend to be far more mature than projects like Cappuccino. Also, web developers are faced with a largely different set of problems than C programmers. For example, knowing how to progressively enhance an interface is crucial to developing an accessible website. C programmers may worry about locality of reference where a web developer doesn't.

For what it's worth, I've encountered many cases where I have had to write inline assembly and/or read C compiler output.