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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I typically don't mind if there's small grammatical errors every few pages. But if the sentence structure is consistently confusing, and there are several glaring mistakes, it usually signals to me that the author didn't care
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> Is it a strawman if it appears (among other places) in the 2008 launch blog post of one of the two cofounders[1]? Yes. As you mentioned the blog post is from 2008, that's 15 years ago now. Jeff hasn't had any input on the dir
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I hear this strawman all the time. The first thing you read when you go to stackoverflow.com is: > Find the best answer to your technical question, help others answer theirs And here's one of the first snippets on their about page:
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I'm thinking the exact same thing. It also makes me wonder why professors still have mandatory homework when they know students will cheat. Why not give optional homework, and allow students to have their work reviewed by the professor
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> goaccess is pretty neat for a C project, and it’s a demonstration why you shouldn’t use C to write complex projects Or , it's an example of how not to write a complex project in C. None of the issues the author points out are is
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> People impersonate channel owners and reply to comments on their videos with phishing links Not only this, YouTube literally allows scammers to run ads and you can't report it. I saw an ad with Mr. Beast pop up offering $1,000 to
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> The problem with Carmack and many like him, is that they think of themselves as purely rational beings operating within scientific frameworks and based purely on scientific results, but whenever they step outside the technical fields i
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> also apparently NYT and CNN are fucking leftist lmfao I can't tell if this is part of the sarcasm or not. Do people genuinely believe that CNN is not a leftist organization? According to Pewresearch, 50% of CNN viewers consider th
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> But while it is present almost everywhere, it is not pervasive everywhere. "Present almost everywhere" is in fact what pervasive means :) The thesaurus lists these words as some synonyms of pervasive: Widespread, prevalent, c
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I live in the rural south and went to a private Christian university. They painted the statue of the school mascot a rainbow on pride month. My biblical ethics classes taught the opposite of what the Bible teaches. The students couldn&#x2
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Tbf I don't think C copies the whole flexible array member either[0]. So the care you would normally take while using a flexible array member in C should also be taken in C++ :) [0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions&
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I think you need to really begin to critically question your sources. Every single link on that source you posted links to other articles on the same website. Talk about circular logic. At the end of the article, they finally show the actua
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> "Folks" is not a new word, but an old one that has been reclaimed by social justice, queer and academic communities. I'm from the south, in the US. Folks is just another way to say people. End of story. The people I&#x27
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I love how in the link to the Linus Torvalds flamed rebuttal about Minix, one of the arguments they were having was whether a micro-kernel or monolithic kernel was better... This was in 1992! It's funny how some things never change :)
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> This makes it annoying to design a state machine. Annoying sure, but necessary right? With or without a state machine you have to handle all the states, and if you don't bother quantifying all possible states of your model and jus
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Valve would like to disagree with this sentiment ;) Sure valve isn't making GPUs or CPUs, but they did make the steam deck, in addition to the largest online game store, and several high quality AAA games, and the valve index. They app
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I really hate Apple, but had to switch because that's the predominant laptop at my company. The HP trackpad sucked, and I had an actual mouse because there was no way I would use that trackpad. I mean seriously, who thought it was a go
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> For one “start” was never actually how most people started using the computer - it is through desktop shortcuts This is just wrong haha. Here's a raymond chen post: > But one thing kept getting kicked up by usability tests: Peo
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> People are (and should be) questioning the use of the word addiction. One of the components of addiction is: is it causing a harmful, unwanted effect on one's life? Meriam Webster's second definition doesn't mention caus
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It seems like we've come full circle. > C is not simple to use. It's full of non-obvious gotchas with little to no tooling support to aid with handling the vast complexity that the problem space actually contains Once again, C+
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
You're shifting the goalpost here. You said: > C is not a simple language In response to the claim that: > I’m not trying to crap on C++, but for a low-level language, the simplicity of C is simply unmatched! C is simpler than C
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> C is not a simple language In comparison to C++ it is. C++ isn't a strict superset of C, but for all intents and purposes, it supports all the nasty warts of C PLUS a million other foot guns added on with no guidance whatsoever on
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For ii.) Typescript is a superset of javascript. If it annoys you to try to translate JS documentation into TS, then don't. Just use the JS example and use ts-ignore or something similar. Why throw out TS when you can literally suppres
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You seem to be missing my point. Every time you inject a dependency, you are adding another node in the graph of object interactions in your codebase. What's more, DI frameworks only specify the lifetime of injected classes in the conf
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And this is how we end up with spaghetti code. Dependency management is a critical design decision . If you're polluting your global namespace with random classes that get injected everywhere, you end up with a massive tree of intertw
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> I interviewed several Uber/Amazon engineers and they couldn't solve a simple problem (very easy problem that most bootcamp grads could do). That's probably why you're interviewing them. I doubt the ones who are good
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/70826647
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I have a PC with 48GB of RAM, RTX 2080, Intel i7-9700K, and Visual Studio still lags a lot of the time for me. Also, Visual Studio doesn't support renaming by reference out of the box. You can install ReSharper, but then it slows thi
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I just so happen to be working on a real-time gui-focused replacement for manim :) It still has a ways to go, but I was able to create one video with it so far and I'm working on all the pain points I ran into while using it. Feel free
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I had something similar happen on Amazon. I bought a pair of winter gloves then got a letter a week later in the mail offering me $30 (twice what I paid) if I left a 5 star reviews. The letter even left a message at the bottom saying not to

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