MaulingMonkey

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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> who will trust their compilers anymore? Me. Microsoft has some real issues with regards to privacy, security, and performance. An ETW event on main entry/exit is none of the above. It's worth yanking from Microsoft's POV
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
I suspect that it's the kind of thing that pays off... sometimes . There are times when the machine is the bottleneck. Multiple monitors, SSDs, many cores, multiple machines ... and I still end up waiting for (re)builds because I to
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> However, giving you the benefit of the doubt I appreciate that. > There tens of thousands of programmers out there (myself included) who write software to analyze data. We don't make "apps" for users, and we don'
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> You really don't get it Then point out what I'm missing.
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> So really, your argument only applies to public facing servers or web browsers. Or, you know, literally anything touching a file format that might be downloaded. PDFs, word documents, images, zip files, movies, music, sounds, icons th
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
How do you differentiate between legitimate new users with no record, and a returning shitposter's 10000th spam account with no record? How do you differentiate between legitimate new users with a bunch of existing users vouching for t
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
Cash? Those bills have serial numbers on them! I'm not sure exactly how frequently they're checked or scanned by banks, but a scanner in the ATM you withdrew from + scanning the daily deposits by the gas station would paint a pr
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
I always go with strcmp(...) == 0 instead of !strcmp(...). This better reinforces my mental model of it (like many comparison functions) having 3 possible return values: <0, =0, or >0. !strcmp(...) may be terser, but it is illogica
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
There are fewer issues that scare me more than undefined behavior that usually works. "Works" enough for programmers to add it, knowingly or unknowingly, even to defend it as "working in practice"... only to leave a nee
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
If you're trying to avoid making your email public via GitHub, you should also ensure: 1) "Public email" is set to "Don't show my email address" under https://github.com/settings/profile 2
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> If I have to decide between a company which is guaranteed to not be motivated by my well-being False premise. The dead can't buy their products, and the so much as merely pissed off will be motivated to take their business to the
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
How does shifting the burden from a profit-motivated company to a hell-if-I-know-by-what-motivated government bureaucracy guarantee anything?
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
My understanding is that programs which don't call pledge don't break under openbsd, they just don't get the corresponding security improvements.
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
tmux is able to contain the platform specific code to a single file per kernel? How quaint. They must really care about reusing existing platform abstractions such as daemon() from glib instead of bloating their codebase pointlessly. G
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> I've had this feeling for a while that unit testing tools are ripe for 'disruption'. The main problem I see is relating the test cases "back" to features and broken/flaky tests. This is part of my interest
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
Electronics: "Object in Space" baited me into thinking "Huh, I could do that" - bought an Arduino, assembled some basic circuits, and plan to make at least one USB controller. "Proper" Woodcrafting: All the b
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
The problem is that in some languages, good programmers cannot help but write bad code, and will review bad code without catching all the bad.
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> Another was the not-clearly-defined term strong work ethic, by which I think he means someone who will strive to make the program work properly, not have horrible kludges, will avoid known problematic aspects of the language, etc. Inde
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> Surely that would just defer the problem? Plus, the airlines now have to buy all their own equipment, train their own staff. At the moment, they are 'outsourcing' their airport security to the TSA. An obvious solution: outso
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
The problem I find is that squashing those commits together will mean I can't easily figure out what typo was fixed in commit 2, because of the diff-spam reformatting of commit 5. This makes it that much harder to figure out that the
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
Missing capitalization, and terminating semicolon. I mean period . Terminating period .
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
Debugging. I've sunk a lot of time into trying to change this. Among other changes, I've: - Improved crash dump collection, to spend less time reproducing bugs and be more thorough in addressing them. - Improved code debuggabilit
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
ccache won't help much if every TU changes with every typo fix - nothing but cache misses. But yes, use ccache or similar to accomplish proper incremental builds. As for link times: switch from bfd to gold. And maybe play with --incr
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> Put all your #includes in one include.h file RIP incremental build times. > Then make a precompiled header for include.h (gcc, clang, and even msvc can do this), which will vastly speed up compile times, and compensate for the overh
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by MaulingMonkey 10y ago
> I don't know what you mean exactly by "expensive", but the time spent in profiling code should obviously not be counted, and it is quite simple to do so. Only for the exceedingly trivial case where you exclude profiling
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
I'd be inclined not to believe even myself, had I wrote such a thing, without hard data. Even if I was right then, things may have changed. And just what constitutes significant , anyways?
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
I'd be interested in how significant the actual performance hit is - I see no measurements. There are plenty of times you'd want to enable various debug features, even in production, even if it means leaving them always on. The o
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
What's the net economic difference between giving someone $5, which they then spend on soup, and spending $5 to buy soup on their behalf? None. Same for spending $10000 on someone's behalf via services, versus simply giving them
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Performant is totally a word! In french. What do you have against french?
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by MaulingMonkey 11y ago
20.2.2 Pairs ¶ 1 (ISO/IEC 14882:2003): The library provides a template for heterogeneous pairs of values. The library also provides a matching function template to simplify their construction. template <class T

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