antiquark

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by antiquark 10y ago
I figured it would print 2, 1, 0, and was right, yay for me I guess. However my confidence was low. I agree that you can write confusing code with ++, but that doesn't mean it should be banned! (Like they did with Swift). The ++ opera
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by antiquark 10y ago
Are people actually boggled by the "++" operator? If they can barely wrap their minds around that, why are they even in programming? Seriously!
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by antiquark 10y ago
Yeah but why would Musk want to discover that he isn't really a billionaire, but in fact an unconscious hairless dude living in a pod of goo and wired into a giant computer? Anyways he better be careful or he'll be flushed into th
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by antiquark 10y ago
But how can anybody take a language seriously if it doesn't have ++ and -- operators?
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by antiquark 10y ago
Cool, it's like COBOL for regexes. Now even managers can write them!
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by antiquark 10y ago
Maybe it's because the millennials are less likely to own a car, more likely to live with their parents, more likely to have a huge debt (student loans), and less likely to have a job. I can see how all those facts could put a damper o
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by antiquark 10y ago
Finally there's a way for the millennials to pay off their student loans.
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by antiquark 10y ago
Probably has something to do with the theory of natural selection.
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by antiquark 11y ago
DDT is still used in the third world, and mosquitoes are evolving resistance to it. So choosing DDT will eventually end with extinct ospreys, and DDT-resistant mosquitoes.
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by antiquark 11y ago
Although he forgot about satellite and launch vehicle contamination bringing particles into orbit.
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by antiquark 11y ago
Yes, but I thought I would try one that takes 4 bytes like a float, just to see how it compares.
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by antiquark 11y ago
Prolly an etiquette violation to crosspost to reddit, but I wrote a little "bootleg" version of unums in C++. There seems to be some inherent problems with the unum2 concept though: * The smallest non-zero value is 1e-9. * The big
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by antiquark 11y ago
Nice idea! Might I suggest using HTML for the escape codes? The terminal would be basically unlimited if there was a built-in HTML renderer. Maybe you would need some high level "EnterHtml" and "ExitHtml" functions to si
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by antiquark 11y ago
He has a some good points, but the "switch" statement needs an integer for a reason... a switch can be converted a jump table in assembly language, so that the "case" can be arithmetically determined and instantly jumped
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by antiquark 11y ago
It depends on the context though. Code like vector<int> years; list<string> names; is pretty easy to wrap your brain around.
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by antiquark 11y ago
Yeah C++ is annoying at the beginning... but just dedicate yourself for 10-15 years, it'll become a piece of cake!
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by antiquark 11y ago
Somehow, I think she has different wage expectations than the average person: "I made over $2000 last year at freelance writing. Nearly half of it was earned in the last quarter of the year."
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by antiquark 11y ago
How is "subtract a, 3" better than "a-3"? I can already feel my carpal tunnel acting up!