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vbit··on If-statements in Smalltalk (2008)
I'm no expert (not even close), but I believe they'd have to run Pharo itself, yes. So you could redistribute the Pharo runtime along with your app code (similar to, say, Python).

You may be able to build web applications too (http://seaside.st/).

vbit··on If-statements in Smalltalk (2008)
This applies to loops as well. Numbers are objects that accept the `timesRepeat:` message:

    10 timesRepeat: [ n := n*2 ].
Not only that, you can send messages to blocks, to implement loops.

    [ n < 10 ] whileTrue: [ n := n + 1 ]
vbit··on If-statements in Smalltalk (2008)
Anyone interested in playing around with Smalltalk can use https://pharo.org - I recently tried it and was pretty amazed with the quality of documentation available. It is quite a different experience working in an interactive live environment.
vbit··on Problems with Android Studio
There's also Kivy (http://kivy.org). Not with a sizeable sponsor like React or Xamarin, but it's Python :D
vbit··on Dafny – A programming language with a program verifier
Would be nice to have a screenshot without the red squiggly underlines.
vbit··on Vue.js 2.1 Released
I have some projects in Mithril - is it worth it port to Vue?
vbit··on Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer
> SMSs written to appear they are from someone that knows the recipient

I don't think this means they are sent from numbers known to the recipient. Only that the content is written such that it appears to be from someone who knows the recipient.

I don't know if actual spoofing is possible.

vbit··on How to make e-mail encrypted for everyone
> When you send an e-mail today it’s sent in plaintext. This means that when you connect to your local coffee shop’s WiFi they can intercept all e-mail that is sent through their router. This is probably not the relationship you have with your barista…

Um, how many users use native clients on unencrypted ports as opposed to https based web-clients or TLS?

vbit··on Why we chose Vue.js
Could you please elaborate more on mithril vs. vue? Was it ease-of-use, performance or something else that pulled you over?
vbit··on FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
Often gets lost in the release notes - deploying on Google cloud is super easy:

    % gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE --image freebsd-11-0-release-p1-amd64 --image-project=freebsd-org-cloud-dev
    % gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE
vbit··on Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization
If you're familiar with Python, try the Jupyter notebook (jupyter.org) - very useful for quick visualizations while also allowing you to quickly transform the data when necessary. The big advantage is your interactive 'repl' session is persisted as well as editable so you can resume anytime.

You can use any one of a number of visualization libraries such as matplotlib, bokeh, and more. Here's a quick start for an idea of the code needed: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/bokeh/bokeh-notebooks/blo...

vbit··on Python Lists vs. Tuples
The article mentions this.

Also you can write this as `grid[1, 1] = True`

vbit··on LLVM Programmer’s Manual
Do LLVM have any support for coroutines?

If I wanted to implement a language with Lua-style coroutines, could I target LLVM?

vbit··on Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux
With this you can encrypt one dataset and leave another unencrypted, on the same block device, paying the cost only or the encrypted one.
vbit··on Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps
Oh absolutely, I think Kivy is fantastic and the best option for UI in Python currently. I just wish the community was bigger.
vbit··on Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps
Kivy seems well designed and easy to use - not just for multi-touch but general cross platform UI apps, and phone apps.

My only concern is that the community seems small and the site a little dated?

vbit··on HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal
Heh yes.

There was also a mozilla XUL based terminal many years ago - can't remember the name though.

vbit··on Consciousness: The Mind Messing with the Mind
The argument that we are machines made of meat and so machines made of any other substance may be conscious too is a remarkably weak one to me (a lay person, not a consciousness or AI researcher).

Isn't any arbitrary region in space a machine? Because it has physical inputs, physical outputs can some kind of physical computation within? An elevator is a machine but so is the building with many elevators. A city with many buildings, cars, people etc. (all the physical space and things in it withing the bounds of the city) is another machine. Is a city conscious? Clearly it is more complex than an individual brain?

From a slightly different angle - why does my consciousness stop at the limits of my body while the physical chain of reactions extends smoothly well beyond it, and infinitely into the universe?

vbit··on LuaRadio: a lightweight software-defined radio framework built on LuaJIT
Do you know if there are any updated benchmark results since the quoted ones are a bit outdated now.
vbit··on Ask HN: Where is the next Shenzhen?
> That will be tough since India is missing some absolutely fundamental pre-requisites to the kind of growth China has had.

Interested to hear what you think these are?

vbit··on Komodo X released – new version of Komodo IDE
There is also the reduced feature free version called Komodo Edit: http://komodoide.com/komodo-edit/
vbit··on HARC
Very exciting! How can I join? :D
vbit··on Introducing Citus Cloud
+1

Or you may want to allow a one-click solution that I can deploy on my resources now and later seamlessly move to your hosted solution, when I need to scale.

vbit··on Visual Studio Code 1.0
Very cool, thanks!
vbit··on Visual Studio Code 1.0
Having tried it briefly, looked much better than Atom!

I would use it at work if I could turn off the phone home feature.

vbit··on Announcing Rust 1.8
BTW, does rust come with some kind of ide support tools, e.g. a commandline tool for autocomplete?
vbit··on Vim 8.0 is coming
I agree with you that session persistence is generally lacking in a most of these tools.

I there an editor/IDE you use that gives you the persistence?

vbit··on FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS
Whoa - thanks! I did not know this.

Do you use this and can you say something about production readiness/stability?

vbit··on FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS
How stable is FreeBSD on AWS?

Would you recommend it for production use?

Is there a suite of compatibility/performance tests that is run on AWS for each release?

vbit··on FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS
DigitalOcean is FreeBSD friendly too.
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