Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
"meritocracy" is a pompous and politically charged word to use in this context, but ok.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I think OP dismissed his own privacy concerns when he walked bare-assed in front of the camera he set up to email him pictures of whatever moves in front of it. And he owns up to that fact. He knows that he was acting carelessly. And t
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Of course, with Go, it's a lot more ad-hoc and less boilerplate, How is it less boilerplate?
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by Dewie 12y ago
This might be my favourite dismissal of privacy concerns right after If You Are Not A Criminal You Have Nothing To Worry About.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I wonder if it says something about how brittle software and their interactions tend to be: many very experienced computer users tend to promote a certain minimalism . Not for minimalism's sake, but apparently because their computers
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by Dewie 12y ago
With Powerful Software comes ever-tempting Yak Shaving.
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by Dewie 12y ago
You take a few minutes to get used to/remember how to use that terminal? Not all of us are system administrators who need to be able to work on any Unix system at any times notice, and can only rely on things like ed being installed on
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Why is it the government's responsibility to fix your vacation for you? Yeah, I guess something like unions could work for that. Oh wait, apparently those are bad, too. Well I guess "just earn enough money" is the best
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by Dewie 12y ago
> You may have to work more for it, but that's it. Fortunately getting a doctorate doesn't have a hard deadline, or at least that's my impression (of course it may vary).
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Easy to say for us straight, white men. Coffeemug is that? Sorry but I couldn't find any racial/sex/sexuality info on his(?) profile.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Woe be the tortured genius.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It isn't necessarily a power of two, since the initial capacity might not be a power of two.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Chances are that this scheme will be used to implement your language's dynamic array (or the standard library for that). So unless many people tend to use different dynamic array implementations, or fiddle with their regrowth-factor, t
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by Dewie 12y ago
I think that the point is that it is the new status-symbol. In my experience (not Silicon Valley), status symbols in the form of material possessions have taken a back seat to status symbols in the form of fitness and "experiential mat
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by Dewie 12y ago
As can be seen from his Github account, he also seems to have been the primary developer on the Clay programming language.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> If you want a scripting language, use python. You know, that's what some people's attitude is towards high-level languages and performance: 'who needs a better C? Just write the performance-critical code in C and the res
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by Dewie 12y ago
> where I can directly allocate memory in the heap Doesn't the "new" keyword always heap-allocate? I guess modulo optimizations like "this is a value-class that won't escape the scope of the method: "in-line
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by Dewie 12y ago
Yeah, I hope evincarofautumn keeps chugging along with it. Last I saw I liked the ideas/philosophy behind it. Nice to see that the front page has a more interesting code example than last time I checked the website out. Readable use of
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by Dewie 12y ago
Factor seems to be the only modern[1], mature, actively developed concatenative language right now. But I'm not really a concatenator so I can't tell for sure. [1] Though maybe some Forths can be considered modern.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Not to mention this might be an easier introduction to low-level OS hacking than having to deal with all the cognitive overhead of contributing to larger projects like Linux and the BSDs Do you have an opinion on Minix, in this respect
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by Dewie 12y ago
If you'd like to call that a form of GC, I'd prefer to call it "compile-time GC" to avoid confusion. I rarely see "garbage collection" being used to refer to anything other than dynamic garbage collection.
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by Dewie 12y ago
IDEs are great for development. All they need now is decent editors.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's idiomatic in rust to use iterators rather than loops. When it comes to iterators that for example iterate over a vector/array, there is no bounds-checking. I don't know if that is implemented by explicitly opting out of
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by Dewie 12y ago
I received a tip from tip4commit for a merged pull request to some github repository. The tip was too small to "cash out" on though, and I think I might have needed 40 or more tips like that in order to get a sum that was redeemab
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by Dewie 12y ago
And us who were born later than that get taught that C was the only viable and logical option at that time, from a technical standpoint.
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by Dewie 12y ago
How is C++ good for writing compilers?
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by Dewie 12y ago
Wouldn't a better test be to see if you can implement something which the language is meant to be good at implementing ? Even though a language might be a good fit for writing compilers (shown by being implemented "in itself&quot
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by Dewie 12y ago
Because that's the convention in lisp?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Your assumption, which I think is wrong, is that WPM (or maybe APM) is the bottleneck for most work. I don't care if it's a bottle neck. I want an efficient means of typing, so that I can keep my focus on other stuff. Maybe I
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by Dewie 12y ago
I swear this is HN's favourite bias to bring up on any topic relating to intelligence and aptitude.

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