antirez

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901.
by antirez 4y ago
Don't you want to hug your monitor when it compiles? :D
902.
by antirez 4y ago
Many of us are programmers. Some of us are also trying to be writers. Trust me: writing is like programming. Reading code is very useful to become a better programmer, but you learn programming mostly by writing code. Similarly you mostly
903.
by antirez 4y ago
In Italy is often eaten.
904.
by antirez 4y ago
Model complex to print without good reasons...
905.
by antirez 4y ago
It's not the technology. Voice transcription works great, and from the point of view of extracting meaning, even pattern matching would do better than the embarassing failure of today's voice assistants. It's a matter of prod
906.
by antirez 4y ago
10% of market and wine experts are real. The rest is overpriced wines of doubtful quality, fake prices just to give prestige, and so forth. As a rule of thumb, spending 20-50 euros per bottle you can drink italian top wines (French wines ar
907.
by antirez 4y ago
Haha fair point. What I meant is that images are just kinda accessory: but actaully the client has to fetch them... so indeed I should sum all them.
908.
by antirez 4y ago
My website, http://invece.org , is 5k not compressed. Assuming the linked images don't count.
909.
by antirez 4y ago
The top comment in the gist looks like from "Hacker News Parody Thread".
910.
by antirez 4y ago
Pellican (caching system), Bootstarp, their unique IDs system, a few more.
911.
by antirez 4y ago
The version distributed in Italy in 1983, that is a (good) translation of this one linked in the story: http://www.rsp-italy.it/IT/Computers/Sinclair/_contents/Alla...
912.
by antirez 4y ago
One thing is: you have 30 minutes of time and can compile and test and end with a working implementation. Another thing is write the code on a whiteboard, that is a process nobody ever follows in practice: very easy to make mistakes this wa
913.
by antirez 4y ago
This is a very popolar use case inside kernels implementations.
914.
by antirez 4y ago
So they keep providing updates mostly focusing on people that heavily rely on the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, Mail & Safari, ...), without seriously improving the fundamental features of the OS. Well: very disappointed, again.
915.
by antirez 4y ago
The wall of contributions (with different degrees of green) is also pretty ill conceived, with a 1000 lines of code commit having the same value (one contribution) than opening an issue.
916.
by antirez 4y ago
Documentation one of the most important part of a software project. It must provide a clear and coincise representation of the behavior of the system and should be written by the most expert developers and designers of the software project.
917.
by antirez 4y ago
Oh yeah, QBASIC had functions! Among other things.
918.
by antirez 4y ago
Different ones: mainly the ZX Spectrum BASIC, then GWBasic and QUICK BASIC.
919.
by antirez 4y ago
Sorry I totally got the math wrong! I was 6 in '83. Anyway very similar story to mine. Also for me Slackware 1.2.3 gave me access to GCC...
920.
by antirez 4y ago
In 1983 I was 6 and already starting to write code daily, using BASIC. But because the lack of something like Internet I was so culturally detached from real world IT that I learned C only in 1997: 14 years later.
921.
by antirez 4y ago
I don't know about poetry, but prose? After the first draft, where there is some of this romantic instinct of writing by inspiration, the rest is hard work for months or years, more similar to finding bugs in a program than a divine mu
922.
by antirez 4y ago
Surprised I got all the questions right because I tend to code around those limits, sticking to defining always safe types for the problem at hand, in all the cases I'm not sure about ranges, possibile overflows and so forth. What I
923.
by antirez 4y ago
Great content is often found in pages without their ADs. I don't buy it: they will hardly leave so many dollars on the table.
924.
by antirez 4y ago
In this case it's like if there were centuries of already written code with huge value, all written without comments. You don't want to limit the ability of programmers to read it. However things are very different in their dynami
925.
by antirez 4y ago
How much a better thing it is that we Europeans learned English instead? Now most of us are bilingual.
926.
by antirez 4y ago
What I mean is that book length content has paragraphs longer than single not spaced comments. Thus it is very odd that readers have issues with one but not with the other. Moreover making it too simple to parse comments and social network
927.
by antirez 4y ago
Following your reasoning we should all do efforts to translate all the documentation of all the software available in many languages, a major amount of work, instead of asking developers to learn English. And learning English is a major und
928.
by antirez 4y ago
Most books paragraphs are larger than an HN comment without spacing. Since the ability to read books is crucial, it is better to exercise the skill of reading text without spacing than asking commenters to add them.
929.
by antirez 4y ago
No offence, but I would rather suggest improving your reading skills. Books don't have newlines or spacing, mostly: do you have issues reading a novel as well? That would be a major problem. But I bet you don't have any issues rea
930.
by antirez 4y ago
There is no absolutely "better" algorithm in caching. Depends on the usage pattern of the user. We believe LRU is very simple, predictable and works well for most use cases, so it's a good default . It is unrelated to the fac

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