DrBazza

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by DrBazza 10y ago
Given some of the comments, I'll make the same comment I've made before: Stroustrup is right, there are languages that people complain about, and languages that no-one uses. Go is now firmly in the former camp. I'm a C++ dev
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by DrBazza 10y ago
We run an algo trading system using 10-20 JVMs depending on exchange. It's not so bad.
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by DrBazza 10y ago
Stroustrup is right, there are languages that people complain about, and languages that no-one uses. Go is now firmly in the former camp. Even if the complaints are always generics and error handling.
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by DrBazza 10y ago
Narrow product? Version 1, perhaps. But any of the millions of companies in the world could use this. It's a huge market. And a huge percentage of that market are entrenched Office users. Embrace, extend, and extinguish...
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by DrBazza 10y ago
For one thing, traders have knowledge of multiple markets and real-world events (hurricanes, elections, etc.) can infer correlation between those and place trades accordingly. AI is completely unaware of these things and can only train its
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by DrBazza 10y ago
There are various solutions to compile times in C++ that have been talked about at length over the years. Lakos' book from 1996 talks about this. In fact, a lot of modern software engineering guidelines come from working around C++&#x
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by DrBazza 10y ago
Report it to Jetbrains. They're actually pretty good at responding to bugs.
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by DrBazza 10y ago
I'm working in the industry, and came from astrophysics, and intend to return to it one day. I would have stayed, but when the salary is 10x or more and you have a family, it's an easy decision. A part of me always feels dirty d
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by DrBazza 10y ago
Reminds me of the amusingly named 'expertsexchange' site, and the stackoverflow copies. Google shoved them down the ranking pretty quickly. Shame they don't do that to pinterest.
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by DrBazza 10y ago
And of course, Hetfield the Cat, http://hetfield-the-cat.tumblr.com/
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by DrBazza 10y ago
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” - Stroustrup. C++30, might end up being D, today.
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by DrBazza 10y ago
I'm old enough to remember gopher, then mosaic, then netscape navigator, and a web that had only a few dozen sites. Then there was altavista and metacrawler, and of course yahoo. In our (physics) department of 20 people back in the 9
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by DrBazza 11y ago
Great article. Doesn't Musk/Space-X now review any launch if anyone has a concern? What does NASA now do?
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by DrBazza 11y ago
From the jetbrains site: http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/11/the-kotlin-language... JetBrains has been using Kotlin in production of IntelliJ IDEA, YouTrack and other products for quite a long time now.
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by DrBazza 11y ago
My friends' fathers (plural) worked on the "SFX" in Dr Who in the 70s and Blake's 7. The ray guns were from an old chandelier they had in their living room. Good times.
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by DrBazza 11y ago
Someone posted this the other day (apologies, I can't remember who). http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg The image appears to be from 2012. The current funding is 'fusion never'. I hope that's not true.
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by DrBazza 11y ago
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week." General Patton. Because software development is so much like dropping as many bombs onto a bunch of people as possible. "I’ve long believed that
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by DrBazza 11y ago
HS1 with the £6600 per annum travel card? :)
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by DrBazza 12y ago
Competition scrabble games are typically more open, where players lay out longer words to allow more opportunities to play more words and larger scores to develop. After that it's vocabulary and experience.
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by DrBazza 13y ago
This is annoyingly addictive.
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by DrBazza 13y ago
Obligatory xkcd - https://xkcd.com/927/