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by Ragnarork 11y ago
Scott Meyers mentions at the beginning of his books that his advices are important (according to him), but what's even more important is the rationale and why he gives you this advice, and I believe this is also a reason his books are
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
Actually, five voted against, so you may want to revise that number of assholes :)
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
That's still interesting technology-wise. I'm clearly not fond of military-related technology in principle, but that's an interesting piece of equipment nonetheless. What does the context change in this case? That it is (or n
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
That's an incredible advice, it sounds like I could get a lot from doing that. I'll make sure to try. Also, to answer your question, I'd say yes, apart from these mental breakdown where I feel quite bad about me. It depends o
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
Thanks for the advice. Putting things in perspective should be something I should do more often. I'll try to find tricks to make me think of doing it.
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
Thanks. Honestly, I'm starting to consider that possibility, that what I pursue is not what I like, but I don't know for now, I think that's the only thing that keeps me interested. I like to read about 3D rendering, I like
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Ask HN: How to overcome mental weakness?
9 points by Ragnarork 12y ago|8 comments
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
This picture is awesome. Looking at it, I get a deep feeling of loneliness and complete loss in this gigantic space. As someone already said, "We can't be alone in here..." Also, this is a nice reminder of the quality of engi
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
By not using them like in C. Of course this isn't an argument, but this shows that even though C++ doesn't prevent you from falling into the same trap that are present in C, it does give you the tool to at least allow you to do be
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
Pointers aren't even there for supporting a legacy language, they have their use and are distinct from references. Mixing the two and thinking they are equivalent (though they are close in what they do) is a mistake.
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
What exactly do you need to know about C, that is not part of C++, to understand C++? Genuine question.
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
I'm looking forward for the next part, as the last three myths are the ones I'm waiting for their answers, as they should be pretty interesting. C++ has come a long way, and I really feel C++ 11 could very well replace Java as a l
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
It's already useful. See http://augmentedev.com/ (Well, it's not a really funny application of AR, but I wouldn't call it gimmicky)
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
I didn't want to say that but yes, it looks like marketing. Truly looking forward to see what they're developing.
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
It's a bit strange how the CEO claims it's not AR while it looks completely like it. > since it goes well beyond that and provides truly integrated, 3D digital objects that looks as though they were physical objects, alongside
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
I can't see why the test say at the end "You should stay away from C++", when the real test should be "Are you smart enough to use a static analyzer to catch those errors that are truly hard to find just passively[0] rea
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
> The biggest problem are the pre-C++98 codebases or the ones full with C idioms instead of modern C++. Thanks for pointing that out. THIS is the real problem of C++. Not the language spec (though it can and has to be improved with time)
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
Except you may have a conversion and you don't know it.
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
This is still a matter of opinion. My favorite language is still C++. This is of course personal preference, but also mostly because I realized (and it seems to me that some people haven't, just go around and ask what is C/C++, an
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
I don't see how auto is less explicit than a template when it comes to involving implicit interfaces.
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
In fact, with an IDE, this argument is moot. You can have the type anyway. Then, we do use template parameters already, for which we usually don't know the type. I can't see why we'd bitch about 'auto' and not about
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
You should look at "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style" talk from Herb Sutter at CppCon 2014[1]. You'd have a great insight on why 'auto' isn't just some kind of "convenience" keyword
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
As someone who's currently in his second ever job, which is in a startup (first one was in a startup as well), I find most of it is quite accurate, but then there'll always be edge cases. The startup world is really heterogeneous
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by Ragnarork 12y ago
I'm actually happy that it can't "go away" that simply. What strikes me with what's happening with the "Right to forgetten" is how it "shouldn't" work this way IMHO. When something shameful&
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by Ragnarork 13y ago
That was kind of my point. I really think that if anything, C++ cannot be as unsafe as C. You can do crap in C++ just as well as you can do in C, but at least C++ gives you tools to do things way more safely IMO.
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by Ragnarork 13y ago
What do you mean by "Lack of extra safety compared to C"? I'd have imagined the exact opposite, but maybe I'm missing something there.
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What if I wrote a book?(blog.xkcd.com)
21 points by Ragnarork 13y ago|1 comments