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by _dcwr 8y ago
PSA for anyone playing around with that haveibeenpwned file: the text list is 30 GB after un7zipping but every line is padded with many trailing spaces (up to 61 chars I think, making all lines equal in length) and the line endings are th
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by _dcwr 9y ago
You have answered to: > I really do not understand why 'single header' is considered a good thing, but I see this more and more often on libraries. What is the reason all the code is put in the header file? With: > I have mo
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by _dcwr 9y ago
I have not heard this 'criticism' ever before and it's absolutely ridiculous on so many levels to me as a person tangentially interested in gamedev, C, C++, runtimes, system programming, retro stuff, history of gaemdev, etc.
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by _dcwr 9y ago
A devil's advocate is not an annoying person but someone who argues against something he truly believes in or hopes to be true in order to provide a debate and help prove the point in stronger ways and show onlookers that contrary opin
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by _dcwr 9y ago
It's 5.1 compatible plus some nice-to-haves from 5.2: http://luajit.org/extensions.html I wouldn't call it 'not in development' and even if, then 5.1 is a fine version of Lua and LuaJIT is battle tested
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by _dcwr 9y ago
I like the article and the tricks. I recall seeing a presentation by a game developer who mentioned something similar, something about intermixing actual data pages with something else (read only ones or even unusable ones?) to trigger an e
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by _dcwr 9y ago
My first language in high school was actually Pascal (as in - Delphi) but now I love C, C++, Lua and Python and barely can write Pascal at all, especially since it's so separate from the C inspired syntaxes and semantics. For job reaso
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by _dcwr 9y ago
C++ with Doxygen and Java with Javadoc are much saner formats for this purpose. What's even worse is that Visual Studio 2015 just vomits out that the XML is malformed when I have C++ headers with Doxygen style comments in them. It dete
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by _dcwr 9y ago
It isn't legal but USA has an interesting (as in the curse "may you live in interesting times") legal system where this is rampant and no one will ever be punished for it. Companies use it to hide criticism (VW with emission,
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by _dcwr 9y ago
I'm talking more of PSX and PS2 era. Some games on PS2 like Fatal Frame or Haunting Grounds are impressive even by today standards and could pass for double A games nowdays (entire 17 years later). That's just impressive. And thei
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by _dcwr 9y ago
Call me old fashioned or stupid (just not nostalgic, the best I ever owned was Pegasus, a hardware clone of a NES/Famicon) but whenever I see these issues with older Sony or Nintendo stuff I a in awe. Today's consoles seem like re
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by _dcwr 9y ago
I've never seen Haskell people (I'm relatively fresh here, 2 weeks, as evident in my lack of fitting into echo chambers) and Haskell is entirely different beast so that's different, especially if they were okay with F#. Rust
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by _dcwr 9y ago
I'm an outsider and there is a war every damn time the word Rust comes up on HN. I've yet to see bashing any language to that degree in Erlang threads, Python threads, etc. Something has to be up with that. I'm not using C an
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by _dcwr 9y ago
The garbage I was referring to was in the comments "below". Namely: "Some people may reasonably, with some extreme care and diligence, maybe try to claim they can write safe and UB-free C code. If stars align properly" a
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by _dcwr 9y ago
As someone who really likes C and C++ I feel like the biggest reason for me not even thinking of Rust as a viable language right now is the community attitude. It seems so damn hostile to C and C++. Anyone who thinks C and C++ is viable is