Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Other than being Internet harassers, trolls have their origin as a name for several different (depending on region, time) humanoid creatures, inspired by and originating in Norse mythology. Troll may have originated as a negative synonym
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Going to college/university with the primary motivation of getting a job/career in some field seems like the more pragmatic attitude[1]. Going to college/university solely in order to learn and broaden your horizons seems
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by Dewie 12y ago
At least Rob Pike seems to be using it. https://github.com/robpike/ivy
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I bookmark every website that I want to read/watch at some point with "todo". It's getting a bit large now.
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If you were making a general point and not about WMs in particular, why didn't you say that to begin with?
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by Dewie 12y ago
Rust doesn't have C++98, C++ version "C with classes", and so on. Less flippant answer; the usual arguments are that Rust is more memory safe, and hopefully less complex and with fewer gotchas compared to C++. It's still
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by Dewie 12y ago
Last I checked the memory consumption of running xmonad (you know, written in Haskell) on my computer was a pittance; doesn't hog memory, and probably doesn't use enough memory to cause user-noticeable GC pauses. Though if you&#x2
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Your incantation of the logical fallacy is how it often appears in what could best be described as ignorant conversations. Like I said; I didn't mean that you, or necessarily people in general, use the appeal in a fallacious way.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I think I'd rather have that problem than this problem: if (cond); //oops, a semicolon alwaysHappens(); , thank you very much.
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What are you even trying to say? The appeals to authority are not always used in a fallacious way (like the informal logical fallacy). But I don't personally like it, and I think it is intellectually lazy. It's better to let the p
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by Dewie 12y ago
> , and it is at odds with the actual people creating the language and tools (among whom are some of the most respected names in this industry) I hope to one day experience a Go thread with no appeals to authority with regards to the lan
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I think he has moved on in the sense that he doesn't develop in Go anymore.
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> I don't believe I've heard of a single significant solution with Rust. Servo is pretty much the motivating application for the Rust language. So you should keep your eye on that if you're interested.
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by Dewie 12y ago
In addition to the points already brought up by sibling comments: Go is centred around automatic memory management. The downside to that is that Go might not ever be suited for certain domains: the upside is that automatic memory management
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by Dewie 12y ago
I think you're interpreting that sentence a bit too literally. Clearly the developers of Go are interested in very carefully balancing language features with language complexity (seemingly both for language users and language implement
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> Object pools at the language level would be an alternative. (I.e. every object is allocated in a "pool", including pools. When a pool falls out of scope the entire pool is "freed". You can copy objects between pools
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by Dewie 12y ago
If you put an "extra" (unintended) semicolon on the last expression, the function will return Void/Unit: if this doesn't agree with the given type of the function, then there will be a compiler error. If you forget a sem
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Isn't C simpler than C++ and doesn't waste cycles? I should have added "and also high level". I did that now.
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The proposition is so far-fetched that I suspected that he was being facetious.
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> Depends on how strongly you mean "no other option". For example, is Rust another option? What I tend to think people mean when they say that, is that you have some cycles to "waste" on a simpler - while also being
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by Dewie 12y ago
If anything, the Rust community seems more concerned with only showing the good sides of its community than it is with only showing the good sides of Rust. That of course has its social/"political" advantages.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Our philosophy in the office is that alt-tab is for suckers. Which is why I've partly switched from Unity to xmonad (a tiling window manager). Dual monitors is nice to have for me, but the real boon was to have 9 (or 10?) easily a
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by Dewie 12y ago
It feels like time goes faster as I get older (I'm mid-twenties).
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> Perhaps that's a bias from being in the USA? That can't be the case for me.
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"The best" sounds like a status and validation thing in this case.
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> Sure, the European Union is not Europe, but that's like saying "America is not the US, it's the whole continent" (that is, correct, but nobody cares, people will still use the name). I think that is a bad comparison
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by Dewie 12y ago
Exactly ;)
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Of course they don't need to hear that; it's pretty much a given. Their superiority is well-established at this point.
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> Aren't women more comfortable with women than they are with men? Sure, why not. She also gave the example of having a drink with her CTO - the point was more about people who are more alike are more comfortable with each other.
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> Women are just all round better. Or what was meant was that the outcome was overall better; the outcome of a more diverse set of people, with different set of strengths and weaknesses etc. Maybe something that was implicit is that me

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