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by alecthomas 14y ago
Variadic templates and auto, definitely. The former gives you the flexibility of macros with type safety, and the latter just saves time :)
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by alecthomas 14y ago
Sorry, rereading my post I realise I omitted some text (I was on my phone), and shouldn't have said "ABI incompatible". What I meant to say was that the C++11 versions of both libstdc++ [1] and libc++ [2] are effectively incompatible with t
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by alecthomas 14y ago
I recently wrote an entity-component framework [1] for C++ using a bunch of C++11 and it was really quite enjoyable. At the time, VC++ didn't support variadic templates which was a bummer, but they've since released a feature pack with it.
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by alecthomas 14y ago
I can't be sure, but the fact that libstdc++ is ABI incompatible with the current stdlib probably doesn't help adoption and thus usage and testing. If you want to use libstdc++ every dependency must also be compiled against it, including
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by alecthomas 14y ago
I recently wrote PAWK ( https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk ) in order to give me Python at the command line. It's exactly what you think it is: Python AWK. It's served me well so far.
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by alecthomas 14y ago
Australian law explicitly allows for consumers to circumvent region locking. Of course, this doesn't mean this can't change, but at least there's explicit precedent allowing it. Quote from the Attorney General's department: “An access contr
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by alecthomas 14y ago
Try completely clearing your cookies perhaps? I think G+ sees the cookie and forces a login. Google Groups does the same thing, and it drives me insane.
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by alecthomas 14y ago
It generates Go code which is compiled in to the package.
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by alecthomas 14y ago
I wrote gobundle[1] as one solution to this. [1] https://github.com/alecthomas/gobundle
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by alecthomas 14y ago
Once upon a time I wrote Oink, which generates JS from Python on the server: https://github.com/alecthomas/oink It has support for many of the Python niceties: classes, list comprehensions, positional arguments, and so on. Interesting exp
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by alecthomas 14y ago
Congratulations. You should now update your HN profile with pride, to read "Founder @ Tindie" rather than "Engineer @ UrbanAirship" :)
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by alecthomas 14y ago
I am a xoogler. Google is the best "Big Company" I have ever worked for. They're well organized for the size, very engineering centric, pay well, good perks, lots of travel opportunities. The engineering infrastructure and culture is the be
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by alecthomas 14y ago
This is true IIRC, or at least, was. Chrome extensions can only hook in to the DOM after it has been evaluated. You can see this occasionally with Adblock when ads flicker in briefly.
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by alecthomas 14y ago
Regarding lack of funding, one of the founders of Shoes of Prey wrote an in depth blog post on raising a $3M series A round: http://www.22michaels.com/2012/06/how-we-raised-3m-round-of-... It's a good read, and to me it highlights just ho
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by alecthomas 15y ago
Culture fit is judged by the candidates personality. Some of the signs of bad culture fit are arrogance, lack of curiosity, or a combative attitude. These kinds of traits usually becomes apparent during general conversation in the interview
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by alecthomas 15y ago
I have a four month old baby. I'm lucky if I get five hours.
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by alecthomas 15y ago
You might want to check out Riak. It is brain dead simple to deploy on one to many machines, very fault tolerant, and the API is simple HTTP.
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by alecthomas 15y ago
I've never seriously used C# before, but the desire to build an iPhone application, combined with my unfortunate distaste for Objective-C, recently led me to MonoTouch. MonoDevelop, MonoTouch, and C# have been an absolute pleasure to work w
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by alecthomas 15y ago
This is the best reply I have ever seen to a grammar nazi comment. Kudos.
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by alecthomas 15y ago
Good points. Re. 2, we decided to only use auto for iterators, which eradicated a large amount of boilerplate without being too confusing.
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by alecthomas 15y ago
I think the parent is mistaken. I have been looking for the equivalent of CommandT for buffers for a while, and the closest I've found is this: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890 Unfortunately it's fuzzy file matcher is
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by alecthomas 16y ago
Check out SimpleNote.
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by alecthomas 16y ago
Yes, Google code search: http://codesearch.google.com
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by alecthomas 16y ago
We're using Redis because it's zero-configuration-required. This makes deploying on end-user networks much much easier.
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by alecthomas 16y ago
I agree with a lot of what he wrote, but his own list of reasons why Google can't innovate refutes his assertion that they can "...by buying companies like Instagram". Once a company is acquired, all of the same constraints that apply to in
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by alecthomas 16y ago
Hardware Desktop: Hackintosh, Core 2 Quad @ 2.83GHz with 8GB RAM and a GeForce 8800 GTS. Laptop: Core 2 Duo MBP @ 2.26GHz with 4GB RAM Server(s): Arch Linux Software MacVim, Python, Go, Chrome, Adium, Tweetie, Homebrew, Fabric, Git, git-flo
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by alecthomas 16y ago
You core complaint seems to be that maintainers don't maintain their software. This is sadly true in many cases, but I would argue that GitHub has actually improved the situation. First, by making it trivial to get patches to the maintainer
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by alecthomas 16y ago
> So, I'm curious if plannr will be shut down or will be allowed to continue and develop. According to a screenshot in the Reddit thread of a mail allegedly sent by Plannr, it will be shut down.
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by alecthomas 16y ago
From reading your about page, it sounds like you guys should buy these guys: http://www.xmarks.com (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733941 ) :)

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