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by Ace17 10y ago
Some usage examples on the front page would have been nice.
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by Ace17 10y ago
In case you haven't read it: The Trouble With Checked Exceptions ( http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html )
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Like the D programming language? :-)
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by Ace17 10y ago
> "who wants to be a normal and productive member of modern society" Maybe it's just me, but being a "normal" member of any society isn't very appealing.
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by Ace17 10y ago
I think cripytx might be suggesting that the negativity of one's work might be subjective. In software development, this idea has proven to be a very dangerous one. And it's false. Take a perfectly well-written module, it's a
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by Ace17 10y ago
I totally agree with the need for eliminating tearing from games (and every other application, and increasing the overall smoothness of desktop displays). However, from the article itself, the list of regressions associated with the switch
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Interactive debugger considered harmful(linkedin.com)
1 points by Ace17 10y ago|2 comments
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by Ace17 10y ago
Wow, there are actually people using any of these?
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by Ace17 10y ago
> There are certainly licenses offering more freedom than GPL v3. More freedom to who? Users, distributors, maintainers, vendors, service providers? You can't guarantee complete freedom to each of them simultaneously. For example, a
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by Ace17 10y ago
> GNU Linux does dominate the computing world: servers, phones, and IoT, by far the majority of all hardware runs it. Android contains Linux, but not GNU; thus, Android and GNU/Linux are mostly different, because all they have in co
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by Ace17 10y ago
Is TLS actually needed for anything else than errno/GetLastError/SDL_GetError/etc. ?
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by Ace17 10y ago
also called "Soundgoodizer" in some DAW :-)
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by Ace17 10y ago
> A good DJ can make the difference between a mediocre party and a really amazing party. I hear this a lot. However, this sounds like rationalization of DJing competences. Are there ways to check such a statement?
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by Ace17 10y ago
Minority report scenario hinges on the fact that the crime predictions are not completely reliable. But if we had a 100% sure way of detecting that someone's going to commit a crime, should we use it? This would be a dangerous change o
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by Ace17 10y ago
More generally, stop reyling on any single platform for your news.
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by Ace17 10y ago
Can the same effect be achieved via GNU screen (potentially combined with an SSH tunnel)?
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by Ace17 10y ago
Because when this software/music, in its final form, only consist in pure information, it's nearly impossible to guarantee your compensation without giving companies the tools to interfer with essential freedoms.
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by Ace17 10y ago
> That said, I respectfully don't see the relationship between the source code license and, perhaps, what the software is used for, in particular, the social ramifications of technology that Black Mirror often addresses. Because you
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by Ace17 10y ago
From the article: The "Land of purity" lies above the "Dirty sea of data" . Wouldn't "Dirty sea of state" be more appropriate?
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by Ace17 10y ago
Does HTML allow you to define your own abstractions? (CSS doesn't count)
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by Ace17 10y ago
If my repo contains modifications I don't want to commit, I git-stash those modifications. I find it to be a lot safer: at least I can run the build + testsuite on what I'm actually going to commit, allowing the prevention of an i
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by Ace17 10y ago
The goal of software design practices precisely is to increase productivity. Dependency injection (not talking about DI frameworks here) seems to be one of those practices that get ditched too easily, often by people who don't understa
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by Ace17 10y ago
Do we actually have numbers that shows death penalty actually impacts criminality rates? Why put any emotional stuff (revenge, punishment, suffering) in the equation?
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by Ace17 10y ago
Should a well-designed codebase contain special places where "things really happen"? What about the other places then?
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by Ace17 10y ago
How many engineers with a similar position are there in the car industry? Does clean air depends on none of them misbehaving? Either this guy is the "fall guy", or the whole system is very fragile.
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by Ace17 10y ago
> So is trial-and-error bad or not? It depends. Efficient trial-and-error should help you acquire a good understanding of the solution. When your program finally works, are you really sure why? If not, you might be doing it wrong. You mi
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by Ace17 10y ago
Joel Spolsky has a very nice writeup about the subject, "Things You Should Never Do, part 1": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by Ace17 10y ago
Come! Join us before it's too late ... :-)
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by Ace17 10y ago
My experience is that in lots of situations, the Intel C++ compiler generates slightly faster code than gcc (Intel C++ compilation times are slow as hell, though). So it might boil down to: what price are you ready to pay to get a 5% throug
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by Ace17 10y ago
You're not doing justice to the open/closed principle. The open/closed principle is a lot more subtle than just "inherit from existing classes instead of modifying them". Actually, you can write open/closed com

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