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by CrLf 14y ago
I wasn't saying that C++ had no use. I'm saying that its domain is narrower that what's commonly believed. It is false that C "will make everything MUCH harder". How hard something is to implement in a particular language depends on the pro
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by CrLf 14y ago
Like the old saying, "you can write cobol in any language". Polymorphism and "good generic data structures" (in the sense you are implying) are not a necessary requirement of elegant and maintainable code. It is part of the problem that pro
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by CrLf 14y ago
What I would like to see is a (convincing) list of why use C++ (in new projects) at all. In my opinion (and experience) when you need the performance advantages of C++, you are usually within the domain where C is good enough (and perhaps a
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by CrLf 14y ago
You would never be able to predict future states of the universe, simply because you cannot represent such states within the universe they represent. Without the ability to predict, the universe is effectively non-deterministic (literally,
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by CrLf 15y ago
There's something to be said about ".com" addresses... When you place "pepsi.com" in a can , people know it's a web address. Now, if pepsi has its own TLD, how should they refer to their web site? Just "pepsi"? "www.pepsi"? "web: pepsi"? I
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by CrLf 15y ago
Ball-point pens actually work in space. The ink does now flow because of gravity, it flows because of ink viscosity.
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by CrLf 15y ago
Right, you used to be able to. Some people bought their PS3's over the competition because it could run Linux. Then comes a firmware update and that feature is gone. Sorry about that.
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by CrLf 15y ago
When you only make a kind of movie, it's expected that's the only kind that will make you money. Actually, it's the distribution channels that block other kinds of movies from catching audiences. They only want "safe" blockbusters. Eventual
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by CrLf 15y ago
Sequels, remakes, remakes of sequels, remakes of remakes. No need to go any further.
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by CrLf 15y ago
I often find myself troubleshooting applications for which I know little about, or that I don't have to troubleshoot often enough (fortunately). I don't want to have to look what fields are available in the log to prepare the proper format
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by CrLf 15y ago
In what format should that filter output? Which fields should it show? Should it be specific for the application or should it be generic? What parameters should it accept in this case? Do you see where I'm going with this? We have been usin
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by CrLf 15y ago
Not this again... * The first level consumer of a log message is a human. * The programer knows what information is needed to debug an issue. I believe these presumptions are no longer correct in server side software. The au
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by CrLf 15y ago
I find these statements amusing... As it happens, neither is ext3 an obsolete filesystem (I have many machines using it just fine, thank you, with no intention to migrate to less tested filesystems just because they're "new"), nor "data=ord
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by CrLf 15y ago
"using a regex to try and match bad things" And that's the core failure, not the use of regexes. Whatever you are using to filter user input, you always filter the good things in, and not the bad things out.
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by CrLf 15y ago
"But if you go to the man page for something like awk or bash or grep [...]" And this is where you are doing it wrong. For GNU tools, the man page is just a stub. The official documentation is maintained in the form of "info" pages. Now, yo
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by CrLf 15y ago
The "ip" command has been the preferred way to configure network interfaces in Linux for a few years now. Most functionality isn't available through "ifconfig" at all.
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by CrLf 15y ago
I think it is agreed that recursion is the best approach in many cases. Many problems have a simple recursive solution, but become very complicated if solved by iteration. But I'm under the impression that this is seldom (if ever) the case
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by CrLf 15y ago
Having a deep understanding of the environment in which your program runs (be it the language runtime, or the machine itself) is always an advantage. It doesn't necessarily follow that you will use that knowledge to be "clever". It helps yo
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by CrLf 15y ago
Frankly, I dislike "promise". You do not remove features from users without a significant reason, you work within the constrains of what you have and build upon that. The tag list isn't even ordered alphabetically anymore, for $DEITY's sake
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by CrLf 15y ago
Whenever there's change, there's always some degree of resistance. That being said... Why the obsession with sparse layouts? Too much information can be negative, yes, but the old layout was compact yet not overwhelming. Where's the tag clo
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by CrLf 15y ago
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true It is interesting how many people don't like the 3D dock. Maybe Apple should think about this.
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by CrLf 15y ago
No, it's like McDonalds getting out of the McFlurry business. HP has a large enterprise hardware business with much bigger profit margins. This includes servers, storage, ethernet switches, etc. Everybody seems to forget this. Given the ons
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by CrLf 15y ago
I say that corporate apps are boring whatever you do to make them less so. Corporate users don't use those apps because they want to, they use them because they must use them to perform their work. It's the obligation that's the killer.
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by CrLf 15y ago
Let me start by stating that you reply is somewhat of an example of HN-bias... The world of programming is vast. Larger than "America", larger than Sillicon Valley, larger than the world of startups, and certainly much larger than the "elit
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by CrLf 15y ago
You are forgetting HP's server business.
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by CrLf 15y ago
Maybe not. Trees have to keep their leaves clean, and perhaps the Fibonacci placement doesn't only improve sunlight collection, but also rain collection for cleaning.
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by CrLf 15y ago
No, he asked _why_ the Fibonacci sequence and not another arrangement altogether.
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by CrLf 15y ago
Single-window mode has been one of the most requested features for GIMP. Fact: when it finally comes, no one will care (they never did). Actually, the multi-window interface is much better when you have virtual-desktops (everywhere but Wind
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by CrLf 15y ago
Yes, because machines fix themselves...
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by CrLf 15y ago
When looking out for libraries I need to have answers to the following questions: 1. Is the library stable/complete? 2. Is the API stable? 3. If not, how frequently/how much does it change? With a decent project page, I can have these quest

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