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by alexeiz 10y ago
My understanding is that WTF::Lock works best when there is no lock contention or contention can be resolved with spinning (microcontention). Otherwise WTF::Lock ends up blocking on pthread_mutex (std::mutex) inside ParkingLot::parkConditi
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by alexeiz 11y ago
On the contrary, I'm currently implementing LTO in our project because it allows to uncover and fix the whole slew of latent problems related to ODR violations. At the same time I'm enabling UB sanitizers, so I'm confident th
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by alexeiz 11y ago
Ah, Renaissance. Yes, they do seem to have some secret sauce that allows them to stay profitable. But I doubt that technology is their strong suite.
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by alexeiz 11y ago
> But at companies who are employing the top 5% of the top 5% you will probably won't even make the first round of phone screens. What are those mythical companies? Really, I'd like to know. Name a few.
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by alexeiz 11y ago
Would somebody explain why this is being done?
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by alexeiz 11y ago
"Say goodbye to the command line" - urgh! Should command line users stay away from this app?
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by alexeiz 11y ago
A huge post. He just keeps piling on one thing on top of another and another and another. Many topics should be discussed separately. There is a lot of information. And yet, I feel that critical topics are misunderstood.
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by alexeiz 11y ago
The main reason C++ is still in use is not the zillions lines of existing code. It's the lack of alternative. Other languages may excel in one or two areas, but if you consider the whole ecosystem, C++ is still the best. The availabili
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by alexeiz 11y ago
There is no documentation whatsoever.
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by alexeiz 11y ago
> This is why it's time to move to Rust. Really? Rust has problems of its own. For example, I don't like that it moves (on assign or parameter pass) by default (versus copying in C++). My feeling that you'd end up expl
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by alexeiz 13y ago
It's a really poor hash function. The only possible values are: 0,3,6,10,13,17,19. You can quickly see that only 7 distinct values are possible because of the initial $number % 7.
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by alexeiz 13y ago
Russian authorities are either mocking the Obama administration or learning from it: > ... Mr Lavrov said. "He chose his itinerary on his own. We learnt about it... from the media.
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by alexeiz 13y ago
And I have a very cute puppy.
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by alexeiz 14y ago
There is nothing wrong with that code. The comment is strange, but the code is fine. 'swap' function call has to be resolved via ADL and this is how it's done correctly. It's unfortunate that the C++ Standard essentially requires swap to
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by alexeiz 14y ago
It's too hard to figure out. Nobody at Google can do it.
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by alexeiz 14y ago
Great article. The programming practice "drills" come a little short though. You'd be better off reading the article and then deciding for yourself the way you should practice. My favorite ways of practicing and keeping my programming sk
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by alexeiz 14y ago
This document reinforces my opinion that most coding standard documents suck. I’ve seen a countless number of coding standards from different companies (some of the companies I even worked for) and they all sucked. No exception. Even tho
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by alexeiz 14y ago
While Apple wasting money on lawyers and law suites trying to ban sales of old Samsung devices, Samsung is spending money on innovation, production of new and increasingly better devices. And surprise surprise - Samsung is capturing more ma
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by alexeiz 14y ago
What's "Windows Phone" and why should anyone care?
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by alexeiz 15y ago
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ - "Franz received a Dr. sc. techn. degree in Computer Science (advisor: Niklaus Wirth) and a Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH degree, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich." So Michael Fra
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by alexeiz 15y ago
> From what I've read, Windows memory manager does the same thing - after a while, it swaps out unused pages, even if plenty of free memory is available. Windows XP does that. It was a common source of grief. I remember it being menti
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by alexeiz 15y ago
I'll take a wild guess. The reason can be Objective C. The language and its framework is fully dynamic. Your program can compile, but without extensive testing you won't know if it works. Checks that statically typed languages do at com
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by alexeiz 15y ago
> is also based on Apple code for the core engine. Apple Safari uses WebKit - a free open source web browser engine. It's not Apple's code, it existed way before Apple got into browser business.
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by alexeiz 15y ago
If Bill Gates need energy miracles why doesn't he spend his own money on that? Stay away from taxpayer money!
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by alexeiz 15y ago
Indeed they don't. There are no iostreams in FORTRAN.
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by alexeiz 15y ago
Raw number of years of experience doesn't mean much. I've seen developers who started using C++ in the early nineties, but haven't bothered to update their knowledge of C++ since then. If I have more years of experience than you, does it
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by alexeiz 15y ago
> I once wrote reviews for Amazon until I thought better of it. I don't write reviews on Amazon to make Amazon better. I do that to let other people know of a good or bad product, so they can make a better buying decision than me. And
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by alexeiz 15y ago
Dude, you don't get it. Lebowski is "The Dude". And you're just a dude.
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by alexeiz 15y ago
http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/stxxl/trunk/FAQ.html "STXXL container types like stxxl::vector can be parameterized only with a value type that is a POD" Unfortunately this is a significant constraint that limits the usefulness of this library.
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by alexeiz 15y ago
Rebirth of Microsoft is certainly not happening as talented developers and managers are leaving Microsoft and being replaced by mediocre people. This is obvious once you see that the number of innovative products that Microsoft produces is

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