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by Demiurge 12y ago
Wow, I guess I must have filled in some blanks... when he said 'other languages' or something...
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by Demiurge 12y ago
And I can't really rewatch the first half hour, but I distinctly remember he mentioned C at least two times at the begging, slightly before and during "Why C++" part. The examples of template usage also imply things not possi
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by Demiurge 12y ago
He did not ignore C, he said C++ is much easier to maintain and lets you use friendly features when it's not performance expensive. They use template as much as possible over macros, C++ debuggers, lambdas, ref counting.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
What if we live in a universe that is of Type C, in which the market favors complicated combination of factors of which 'open source' is a very minor one, and market positioning with technical prowess of software is the major one,
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Very piercing commentary.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
In related news: sex associated with 100% boost in sexually transmitted diseases.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
By 'aluminum' do you mean 'duralumin' or just aluminum? My uncle had a few tiles of duralumin in garage, and I remember it was definitely a lot harder than plain aluminum.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
I should mention, I also use mine with Yamaha HS-80 monitors most of the time, which takes a lot out of the equation.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Yeah, one of the biggest advantages of Axe-FX is just how much equipment is packed into a small box. That is one biggest reasons I read for Metallica to use it, they used to drive around tons of equipment. From what I've seen on youtub
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by Demiurge 12y ago
I have Axe-Fx II, it is amazing, and from my understanding no one can tell the difference anymore, which is why so many big and small names have switched over, like Steve Vai and Metallica: http://www.fractalaudio.com/artist
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Probably depends on what you're doing with the data?
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by Demiurge 12y ago
working with ~1PB of remote sensing data and station derived data. never used the word 'Big Data' in any work context.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Looks like there is some sort of school of thought that differentiates 'programming' from Computer Science. This seems wrong, because you're not teaching 'how' you're teaching 'what'. The time student
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by Demiurge 12y ago
I'm sorry, your comment isn't making clear what teaching programming has to do with distributing graphical applications. Could you clarify what 'these reasons' are?
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Right, in US, the government will never force anyone to perform unethical work. That's an interesting assumption. What if a skilled programmer in North Korea volunteers to perform unethical work? What if a skilled programmer in US volu
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by Demiurge 12y ago
As long as I'm not using C++ I don't feel harmed by any OOP features I don't have to use. I don't feel being restricted. I'm curious, what are these commonly harmful things you're talking about? On the other ha
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Most of the time downvoting stands for 'Your comment hurts my feelings.' This comment will be very light gray ;D
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by Demiurge 12y ago
>FP as I understand it doesn't much oppose imperative or even most of OO I think this is definitely true, if you take 'oppose' as 'incompatible'. If we look the design concept and plot them, there will be axes, a
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Just because it's possible to write a program without a tool, doesn't mean it's more productive. Functional programming doesn't even directly oppose OOP, it opposes imperative. It is absolute basics of CS that there is d
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Why do we see so many more posts about Django compared to 'modern Perl framework'? Python has killer features like simple syntax and developer familiarity. Django has GeoDjango. This isn't even a question to me, but to the b
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Doing it incrementally is definitely the best. However, in your scenario, the problem of a 'weird' codebase people have a hard time using is not addressed by requiring further development in it. Database layout is usually not the
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by Demiurge 12y ago
What I always wanted to know is, why doesn't OSX have the option to disable mouse acceleration?
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by Demiurge 12y ago
apt-get requires root and can set up an http service as part of the installation. uploading it doesn't do that.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
I think what might work is a free shell version, that can only run custom apps and which can be admined from a purchased Windows Server.
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by Demiurge 12y ago
As I'm sure everyone, I was wondering, why... If you follow through from the top to the blog, there is authors reasoning: Introducing Rusthon Rust is a systems programming language, and too low level for quick prototyping, or simple w
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Yosemite, mine is not
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by Demiurge 12y ago
I was one of the early users of it in 2009: http://hmap.unh.edu/atlas/ and it seemed they stopped developing it very shortly after it came out, as there were 'known bugs' with ugly hackarounds that never went
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by Demiurge 12y ago
This looks like something I really wish was just baked into the language. I think there is a reason it isn't, like in JavaScript, and that is because Python isn't as weakly typed, and encourages explicitness. So, I wouldn't u
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by Demiurge 12y ago
Thank god, I was just about to run out of newlines!
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by Demiurge 12y ago
I learned more from this about digital/analogue conversion than from my EE class that covered this topic!

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