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961.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Incredibly accurate.
962.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
I've used QUCS for this purpopse, which allows inclusion of Verilog/VHDL modules via FreeHDL.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> It worked, but remains to this day an unmaintainable mess. The question is: is it a worse mess than if you'd have started without the spec? My intuition says "no", and the experience the users gained regarding formal thi
964.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> His argument that static typing introduces coupling and reduces modularity is convincing. It's absolutely bogus. In Java, C#, C and C++, I can pull in dependencies via scanning a plugin directory that searches for JAR resp. DLL fi
965.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Even when they thought they did, they performed Lean rituals without real understanding. This reminds me of a certain other industry cargo culting a certain other methodology, but I cannot put my finger on it ...
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Rationalization hamstering at full speed.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> "JavaScript can be quite fast, but fundamentally it’s a scripting language with the unavoidable overhead that implies." I don't even ... but better late than never.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
I automated child care by giving my daughter my tablet.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> Granted, the Rust community is typically wrong about nearly everything when comparing their language to C++... Well, where they're right is in having a modest and non-condescending attitude, which is something that C++ pundits sho
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Why do C++ developers make it so, so, so, so hard on themselves and the unfortunate poor souls like me who have to interact with their products?
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Let's focus on the positive things: at least he did not call the people "dumb fucks" again.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> They have higher standards and whatnot Note that "higher standards" in civil engineering usually boils down to a) having standards at all instead of fuzzy process management frameworks b) these standards often boil down to &q
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> You can interweave everything into one long function full of ifs and switches. E.g. procesurally. Not saying it is better. No, you cannot, since you want to dispatch to components that you don't even know of (pulled in via class p
974.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Well, working with Android will tell you one thing: Google is abysmally bad at designing APIs.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
"Filthy Rich Client" only shows how to do it, but it's still much, much harder than in QML (even Qt Widgets supported CSS styling) and WPF. I would say by a factor of at least 5 regarding QML and slightly less for WPF.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
I assume that it's one of very few in-memory databases that are a) in actual production use and b) not already trivially distributed/distributable I.e. just like Azul Systems' system, it's for running bad enterprise appl
977.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
What are typical use cases for direct I/O? I never stumbled upon anything that used it. Intuitively, I would assume specialized logging applications or databases, but even these seem to use other mechanisms.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> What's hard is to provide proper GPU acceleration I'm still looking for a non-commercial BeagleBone Black image that includes the TI HW accelerated GPU drivers.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Agile is the self-fulfilling truism that small, focused teams with a cooperative customer can create good software. If you create software in a contractually or regulatory heavyweight setting and are "doing agile", you're foo
980.
by _pmf_ 9y ago
> but because they deliver on short notice - never mind what they’re delivering is garbage - the sales idiots and execs love them to death. You seem bitter that you cannot treat your workplace as an opportunity to experiment with new tec
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Should this really be considered to be a spec violation? It's a restriction, sure, but S3 is to be considered a specific application with specific constraints.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> The rich can be destroyed by investing more than they can afford as well. They have shell companies that protect them from this.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Android "yes, you gave me 2 GB RAM for Gradle for building a 10 MB APK, but I'd still like more" Studio.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Qt + QML is IMO not just the currently best way, but also some kind of global optimum for me (coming from Swing, SWT and WPF/XAML). The data dependency handling is incredibly well done (it sometimes feels like using a Rx library withou
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> for $20 million, the exact cutoff before the wealth would be shared That requires a special kind of attitude.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
Eclipse's P2 has also been using a SAT solver for quite some time [0]. [0] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_P2_Resolution
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
> OK, obviously it’s not bridges I’m talking about, it’s software. Actually, you're talking about neither but are merely trying to create a narrative.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
I want a tax cut, thank you very much. The fact that this is from a publication owned by an entrepreneur famous for giving his company a billion tax cut is somewhat ironic.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
That's Huffington Post level of reporting.
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by _pmf_ 9y ago
So this is what we're going to do today.

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