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by agazso 16y ago
I would say that the most common errors are because there is no built-in string type (at least in C) and lot of library function expects null terminated strings. And these are hard to get right, because they are very prone to off-by-one err
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by agazso 16y ago
But the probability of discontinuing a project is higher when the language is a less popular one.
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by agazso 16y ago
In C or C++ you can even allocate objects on the stack, which has only the cost of increasing the stack pointer (meaning it is very cheap), and also you have precise control over the object's lifetime.
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by agazso 16y ago
Found a great comparison between the answers: http://zi.fi/shootout/ It is basically the great programming language shootout at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ redone with different GCC optimization levels. It is clearly visible wher
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by agazso 16y ago
Try Foobar2000! It is open-source, actively developed, has tons of features and plugins but still lightweight, plays numerous formats and the best, works out-of-the box. http://www.foobar2000.org/ I also changed from Winamp, when it becam
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by agazso 16y ago
(Another author here) The basic issue is that we didn't want to include external libraries, because it's a pain to debug, pain to build on multiple platforms and there are licensing issues. Also we don't use so many datastructures, so we ro
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by agazso 16y ago
Also don't forget licensing issues. It becomes important when you make a living of selling software.
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by agazso 16y ago
Eclipse and CDT for C++ coding sucks. However this doesn't mean there aren't any good tools. Both Visual Studio and XCode are very good for working with C++.
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by agazso 16y ago
In practice there is a certain kind of minhashing that is used in key-value stores, which is called a Bloom-filter. Basically it is a probabilistic bitmap index for quickly telling if a certain elem is in a set. It is used in BigTable, Hbas
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HP Acquires Vertica(techcrunch.com)
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by agazso 16y ago
Since 1991 :) Seriously, it is one of the biggest open-source C codebases out there, with thousands of hackers working on it. And the result is very good, as the majority of the internet is running on it.
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by agazso 16y ago
In most recent C compilers you can turn on warnings for at least missing return values from functions and not having a default: in a switch. It is good practice to compile C/C++ programs with high warning level, and fix all the warnings bef
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by agazso 16y ago
I wouldn't call it `cleaner and more modern' either but I really don't care. The best thing in Debian is that you don't have to visit their website often (or at all), because everything works in it, and everything works from command line.
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by agazso 16y ago
Hi, very cool editor, currently I'm thinking about making it my default editor instead of TextMate. However there are few issues: * The default theme looks too dark (at least on OSX). It's hard to see which tab is active atm. Simple gray wo
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by agazso 16y ago
This is exactly how all databases work. Well, except for MongoDB ;)
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by agazso 16y ago
For me the main raison holding back is that I don't like to register to new websites. I like for example Hacker News' Clickpass authentication, because it's easy to use and I don't have to remember another password. But on your site Faceboo
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by agazso 16y ago
Checked out your site and as an avid backpacker found the idea pretty cool, but yes, it feels empty. My experience is that backpackers tend to use Facebook a lot, so integrate your login with Facebook Connect for starters. Make it more soci
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by agazso 16y ago
The bigger an UDP packet the less the probability it arrives. 1400 is probably chosen because it is less than the usual MTU of ethernet which is 1500.
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by agazso 16y ago
With the latest Chrome you can try the --enable-vertical-tabs command line option. See: http://www.howtonew.com/how-to-move-chrome-tabs-to-the-left-... http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-chrome-labs....
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by agazso 16y ago
It is not a performance evaluation, but there is a comment from Niall (the author of nedmalloc) in Jason Evans' blog that might give you a hint. http://t-t-travails.blogspot.com/2010/04/red-black-trees-rev...
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by agazso 16y ago
Keep in mind that copyright is also a form of intellectual property. Do you really want it to die as well?
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What Facebook Can Give Back To The Web(techcrunch.com)
1 points by agazso 16y ago|0 comments
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by agazso 16y ago
This is cool for porting existing C/C++ libraries to the web without actually having to rewrite it in Javascript. Similar project for Flash is Alchemy: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/
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by agazso 16y ago
I'm nitpicking, but actually any C or C++ program can be written in one line, but otherwise it's a great experiment.
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by agazso 16y ago
In Unix it is rather "everything has a file descriptor at API level" while in Plan9 it is really "everything is a file" from the system standpoint. It is not surprising since Plan9 also came from Bell Labs, and they learned the lessons of U
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by agazso 16y ago
Scribd link does not work. I think this is the result the recent Facebook Connect integration...
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by agazso 16y ago
It is not a new system, it is an already existing technology called Apache HBase that is part of the Hadoop ecosystem. Here is a video from the recent Hadoop World conference, where Jonathan Gray from Facebook speaks about their experiences
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Google – A Study In Scalability And A Little Systems Horse Sense (doubleclix.wordpress.com)
10 points by agazso 16y ago|0 comments
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by agazso 16y ago
Coders at Work by Peter Seibel. Very interesting interviews with hackers and/or computer language inventors.
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by agazso 16y ago
Budapest Rent for a two rooms flat in a good part of the city is about 300-400€. Internet is 40€ (15Mb). You can get a meal for 3-4€. Monthly pass for tram/bus/underground is 40€. A pint of beer is around 1.5-2€ in clubs. The average IT wor

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