Posts by Heya

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Re: Rather a lot of it is

Right... What you're describing there would be "software jump tables". They're not implemented in hardware - they're software.

Rust's match statement is compiled to a jump table by LLVM when a jump table would be the most efficient implementation.

So... What is it you can't do with rust?

Goldman Sachs reportedly set to head up $60bn Arm IPO

Re: I don't understand capitalism

If you look at the actual filing, on page 26 (which is about page 29 in the PDF), you'll see the ARM division reported pre tax profits of 31,088 million yen, not 31.088 million yen.

El Reg is off by a factor of 1,000 because someone misunderstood the meaning of the humble comma.

Profits are in the region of 260 million, not 260 thousand.

Miguel de Icaza on his journey from open source to Microsoft: 'It's a different company'

Re: open source people universally hate Miguel.

Can you provide some evidence of the Xamarin sponsored collective attack on KDE? Google can't seem to find anything of the magnitude you're describing. Xamarin has somewhere between 300 and 400 ish employees, if there were a collective attack on KDE surely it'd have made the news somewhere?

https://www.google.com/search?q=xamarin+attack+kde

Xamarin releases version 4.0 of its cross-platform mobile developer suite

Small business with fewer than 20 employees can get a discounted rate if they inquire. It's written on the store page :P

EU move to standardise phone chargers is bad news for Apple

Re: Standardised connector

The phones just have to be power-pin compatible with micro-usb [0]. They don't have to use micro-usb for data. People are still free to innovate if they want, it's just their devices will always be able to fit a standard micro-usb for charging purposes.

[0] Or whatever design the deign to accept as the standard.

NASA's nuclear Mars tank REBELS against human control

Re: next update

Worst case scenario is that we take a peak through our telescopes (or if you want to get fancy, our satellites) and shout at it (via satellite) to correct course ;)

Windows 8.1: So it's, er, half-speed ahead for Microsoft's Plan A

Re: Search as primary means of navigation?

It's a pity the option you're choosing is just so much slower than using 'search'.

If i want to launch an application on my Mac I have a few options. I can put it in the Dock so i can just move the mouse and click on the icon. I can open a Finder window, navigate to /Applications, scroll to find the application and double click on it.

Or i can use 'Search'. I press apple-space, type the first 2-3 characters of the applications name and hit enter. I can launch any application on my system in a few simple keypresses.

Similarly if I want to listen to an album I could navigate to my Music directory, go through my neatly organised hierarchy of <Artist>/<album>/<tracks...> and then play the album *or* i could just apple-space, type the first few letters of the album name and directly open the associated playlist or just jump right to that directory.

Sure, this feature falls under the 'search' category which you seem to hate so much, but for me it falls under the 'fastest way imaginable to open something' category, which is pretty awesome!