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   by 10098 13y ago

   I think it's the opposite, i.e. the reddit post was inspired by the paper, which I read yesterday... but I couldn't have found the link on HN, because it has only appeared today, so it must mean that I orginally found it on reddit
2. 182.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   I know Dijkstra's genius and all, but his papers are just so unpleasant. First, I hate his verbose style and second, I hate his attitude. "The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly.
3. 183.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   sorry, my bad for not reading all the way through
4. 184.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   Found that guy's facebook. It does seem real, I mean the person seems real, but I still really hope they're doing this as a joke or something.
5. 185.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   Haiku (BeOS' descendant) is written in C++ as well
6. 186.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   Yes, but the fact that most websites these days have to load seven dozen javascripts and CSS stylesheets to become usable probably doesn't help either
7. 187.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   > whenever you have a reference to your own object, you cannot do any of the linked list operations without an O(N) penalty to go and re-find your element in the list! Can you show an example of when you actually need to do this? Because
8. 188.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   please tell me it was some kind of joke
9. 189.▲
   by 10098 13y ago

   >Unity > best UX on Linux so far surely you jest
10. 190.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    > if you [...] don’t mind having a really bad sense of work-life balance, this is the job for you. wtf, they're not even trying
11. 191.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    Yes. Makes me smile when I hear the word "demo" being thrown around. I always thought the point of a demo was to come up with something impressive with very limited resources. Remember 64k demos? http://www.youtube.com&
12. 192.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    > Person B dies, company/idea dies, world loses something. Well, actually, world loses nothing. It doesn't care. Humans care, maybe, but you only think they matter because you are one.
13. 193.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    I think the issue is that you don't know what's going to happen when you call an arbitrary function.
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    by 10098 13y ago

    It's weird to me that a post like this even needs to be written. Isn't it kind of obvious that it's highly problematic for the compiler to do this optimization because the function, generally speaking, may have side effects?
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    by 10098 13y ago

    Sure, and if you have a variable being accessed from different threads, just slap a comment on it: /* SHARED BETWEEN THREADS! careful. */ I'm sure people will read it. And then write safe, reliable code.
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    by 10098 13y ago

    Correction: the default access level in C# I think is that the name is visible to all the members of the given assembly, but not outside of the assembly. I don't remember what it's called though.
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    by 10098 13y ago

    Define "powerful". Do you mean expressive power? If yes, I'm calling bullshit because C++ has all of the following (off the top of my head, and I won't even mention any OOP-y features): 1. Templates 2. Template-based sta
18. 198.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    > Members of a class in C++ are private by default, but members of a struct are public by default. It's not a bug, it's a feature. The idea is, you should always prefer private to protected and protected to public (by transitiv
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    by 10098 13y ago

    Good article! Especially this advice: > If you are in high school or college, I would highly recommend using free/cheap online resources to get comfortable with programming languages and concepts, and then take some Computer Science
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    by 10098 13y ago

    I'm not sure how to feel about this... He's always been an inspiration to me. But I don't really care about VR tech, and would much rather see Carmack working on games (at id or any other company). But I wish him success anyw
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    by 10098 13y ago

    Depends on the person... Courier "old" is fixed size, I happen to prefer the "new" version.
22. 202.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    What's wrong with good old Courier New?
23. 203.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    i can't understand how anyone can look at this and think "hey, this is nice!". I'm not sure if it's because of using a proportional font or if it's because of the serifs, but this makes me want to do this: htt
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    by 10098 13y ago

    WebGL is just a JavaScript API specification that exposes an OpenGL-like interface to scripts running within a webpage. The calls that your JavaScript makes to WebGL functions are translated behind the scenes to actual OpenGL calls (althoug
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    by 10098 13y ago

    You're right, but I'd rather buy a kid this than an iPad. At least it's somewhat educational.
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    by 10098 13y ago

    amazingly, something similar can be observed in Russian language as well. In casual speech, one can explain the reason for something using потому что (because) followed by a noun (e.g. "потому что политика! - "because politics!&qu
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    by 10098 13y ago

    and you find a blog with 1.5 semi-coherent posts and a shitty sidescroller? :-) I'm not criticizing the author or his work, I'm just saying that writing a recursive function that does p + kv recursively shouldn't take a lot o
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    by 10098 13y ago

    Well, to answer that question, let me make an analogy. There's no required set of features for calculators either. Technically a tiny box that can only add two numbers can be considered a calculator, since it calculates . I guess we
29. 209.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    Was expecting a picture of LSP somewhere in the post, left disappointed :(
30. 210.▲
    by 10098 13y ago

    pretty sure it's using standard blinn-phong shading. however, with the added shadows and reflections it becomes much more interesting, doesn't it? :)