arielb1

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1. 91.▲
   by arielb1 11y ago

   These are compiler errors, not runtime errors. Reporting a traceback to the user is of course bad (through not as bad as some error messages).
2. 92.▲
   by arielb1 11y ago

   New versions of g++ (4.9+) have much better error messages (g++ has better errors than gcc).
3. 93.▲
   by arielb1 11y ago

   I still prefer just-HTML sites to the typical JS-based sites (e.g. the new Google Groups) I see.
4. 94.▲
   by arielb1 11y ago

   In many contexts I would prefer a program to not try to recover (and possibly cause a mess) on unexpected input. Of course if you have a big process it may be a good idea to limit the scope of a failure to a smaller level.
5. 95.▲
   by arielb1 12y ago

   You should first SHA-512 the password (to get a uniformly-64-byte string) and then apply bcrypt to that.
6. 96.▲
   by arielb1 12y ago

   CompCert (compcert.inria.fr) kind-of gives C formal semantics.
7. 97.▲
   by arielb1 12y ago

   Functional languages, along with Rust's linear type-system, can ensure this for single-ownership structures (trees, singly-linked lists), but not for structures with more complex ownership, like doubly-linked lists. The unpopular langu