adrianmsmith

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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
> You can't tackle the BO issue here, as it is a property of the underlying architecture. I disagree; if you have "littleendian int32 myfield" for example, every time you reference myfield on a big-endian architecture, the compiler inse
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
I wish there were, in C, some equivalent of "struct" but where you could specify - The byte order / endianness - The alignment of variables - The exact width of variables (32-bits, 64-bits) "struct" is great for what it was designed for, st
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
"Never assume, always measure" - Never a truer word spoken!
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
But how can I know if I can trust the information in the article that I don't know (the reason I'm reading it), if the information I do know is wrong? "Maybe the rest of the article is solid, but if I'm reading an article on the details of
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
Agreed. This is Part 2 of Article 11 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a11
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The cycle of programming languages(databasesandlife.com)
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
At least in the start-ups I work at, the team, who should have access to all the version-controlled files, is more than just developers. There are the bosses who want to do a quick wording change, there are the wording guys, there are the d
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Why Subversion is better than Git(databasesandlife.com)
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
IRC. I worked for home for 18 months. What made the most difference for me was having an IRC session open all the time with my 8-9 colleagues. We only talked about work issues there (more-or-less). It gave me what I missed, which was: - the
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that; I mean I use TortoiseSVN and before that TortoiseCVS as my main interface to version control, and have done for the last 10 years. It works perfectly and I don't feel I'm missing the command-line at all. (A g
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
I think git is not easy to use, and the proof of that is that at least once a month there is a "how to use git" tutorial on the front-page of HN. I'm not saying git is a totally bad system, but I disagree with people who think git is easy t
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
I disagree. Unless you are an inexperienced software developer, or it's a completely new domain or technology, or a very experimental problem, you can indeed design the software up-front. Why wouldn't you be able to? And even if it's an exp
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
"To implement the next step you are going to have to go back and dig up all that perfect code you have just finished writing..." "This sounds nice, but nothing has really changed - we have just shifted the problem from the coding to the des
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
This is a good article on the same topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html While there are certainly valid points (re-writes take a long time, one might forget to add features to the existing code while working on
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
Perhaps I've misunderstood the question but surely most people who have a normal job e.g. software development make $100 every day? For example I am self-employed and my hourly rate is $91/hr so today after 8 hrs I'll have made $728 which a
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
I think one would need data to confirm that. I mean I am lazy, but not so much that I would knowingly write insecure code for my customers; I'm can't imagine that many developers are different in that respect?
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
1) It's difficult to know how long a method will be when it's compiled. Basically you have to compile it to find out. The 64k limit is on the generated byte-code, not on the source. 2) Why bother? I mean generating C (in my case) was so muc
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
This is a terrible limit. Code generation is necessary for all sorts of things e.g. parsers. Having to hack in code to the code generation just to split methods to get around this limit is ridiculous. I had to literally abandon months of wo
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by adrianmsmith 15y ago
It's extremely difficult and expensive to transfer money from one country to another. I live in Europe and you can transfer EUR money from one country to another for free; that's progress. But from the UK (in the EU but doesn't use the EUR
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Nuclear Scaremongering(toblog.bryans.org)
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Typography in 8 bits: System fonts(damieng.com)
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Mathematically annoying advertising (xkcd)(xkcd.com)
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