axilmar

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by axilmar 7y ago
No one should be held responsible for accessing something that is public. If a person puts a personal event in a calendar and leaves the event as public, it's their fault, not mine if I access it. If I leave the door of my house open,
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by axilmar 7y ago
Was there a reason for XUL in the first place? Why wasn't Firefox built using some GUI library? I've read what the posted page said, and the comments in here, and the first results from Google don't give any reason why XUL wa
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by axilmar 7y ago
I've recently started working in DevOps and I am amazed by the lack of foresight. If it was me, I'd dump everything the article describes (CUE as well, which the article advertises), and use Python everywhere. Really, we do you ne
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by axilmar 7y ago
While it's certainly possible to introduce huge memory safety issues in C++, those usually stem from using C++ as C, i.e. directly allocating and freeing memory, or using plain integers as index variables, or messing with raw pointers
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by axilmar 7y ago
I write the tests before the implementation only when I need to design an API, in order to get a feeling of what I want the API to be like. Otherwise, no.
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by axilmar 7y ago
Do we really need all this complexity? how about if having, let's say, N chips to emulate, do a simple loop and call 'emulate' for each of the chips? for(EmulatedChip &chip : chips) { chip.emulate(time);
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by axilmar 7y ago
Exactly this, and I really don't see what the fuss is all about in the above comments.
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by axilmar 7y ago
Wouldn't a Rust interface to Qt be possible or desired?
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by axilmar 7y ago
Telling the truth is more important than being kind. We live in a reality that truth matters a lot more in the long run than not hurting someone's feelings. If one cannot stomach the truth, they are in for a nasty surprise when reality
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by axilmar 7y ago
It would be nice if this worked: template <class T = char> class string { ... }; string s = "a";
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by axilmar 7y ago
> There is of course a reason which is well documented in the papers. Constructors, and initialization expressions can have side effects in C++. An invariant of the language is that member constructors are always invoked in declaration o
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by axilmar 7y ago
Why weren't you using smart pointers before c++11? boost had them, and rolling your own is very easy. I did the latter for a project that started around 2000 and never looked back.
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by axilmar 7y ago
My hardest bug ever was the following: A weapon's camera tracked the simulated target perfectly, but there were occasional hiccups, where the camera jumped randomly. The camera rotation data were confirmed, through Wireshark, to be val
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by axilmar 7y ago
Win32, especially when it comes to GUI programming, is one of the worst APIs out there. MFC is also quite bad because of huge abstraction leakages; it fills like Win32 with bolted on classes. It seems like Win32 happened a bit by accident,
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by axilmar 7y ago
'Random github page' means there is a plethora of new programming languages to chose from (due to easiness of sharing projects that github allows) and studying of them all to see if they solve any new issues or improve things so m
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by axilmar 7y ago
Anyone care to explain why, in the presented example, the resource www.forum.example/moderators/header.css is accessible to anyone and not only to clients with moderator access?
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by axilmar 7y ago
"Nothing to hide" does not mean "nothing private". "Nothing to hide" means "no unlawful action". It's another thing alltogether from having private things.
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by axilmar 7y ago
What you did there is very cool! I am speaking for both LX as presented in the old link and the new work that you are doing. Personally I have given up creating a new programming language about a decade ago because I realized no matter what
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by axilmar 7y ago
Most of the actions referred to in the article are mundane: you left your home, you got cash from the ATM, you used the subway, etc. I can't see how that can be used for anything against us. The real problem is the internet: when we ex
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by axilmar 7y ago
I recently entered DevOps (not my choice), and I would like to take your request further: replace everything with a regular language. Having to use a gazillion declarative languages to achieve what a regular programming language does is sim
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by axilmar 7y ago
The AI part of autonomous driving could have easily been handled by creating a network of roads (that is, converting existing roads) that has the appropriate markings and that is easy navigable by machines. But that requires cooperation bet
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by axilmar 7y ago
As a user, I avoid Apple products as much as I can. I never liked MacOS; Macintosh's charm, which was its UI, went away when I got my Amiga. I also never liked the iPhone, because a) it's terribly overpriced, b) I don't want
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by axilmar 7y ago
If everything is subjective and we don't bring counter arguments to one's arguments, then science cannot go on. In programming, we need to know if objectively one programming language is better than the others, so as that we use i
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by axilmar 7y ago
I don't see the above better than print(even(4*2))
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by axilmar 7y ago
The amount of knowledge required just to have a clean design o the simplest of things, i.e. a few functions that add and delete users is very big; almost all of Haskell's important parts need to be known. Is that good? for me, it'
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by axilmar 7y ago
My daughter is in 3rd grade (in Greece) and she is the only kid in her class getting packaged food everyday with her without any money in her pocket. All the other kids have money, which use regularly to buy potato chips, beverages, sweets,
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by axilmar 7y ago
I don't think there is a right or wrong approach in this one. In my opinion, each organization shall be left to do whatever they want: if they want sensorship, so be it, if they don't want sensorship, so be it. Let the market deci
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by axilmar 7y ago
Functional programming? absolutely 100% yes. Functional programming languages? well, it depends on the problem. If performance is an important issue, most of the time functional programming languages are a big 'no'.
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by axilmar 7y ago
I don't like D mainly because of the whole dichotomy between structs and classes (and also because of many other smaller things). But I don't think D hasn't succeeded in replacing C++ for this reason; the reason D hasn't
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by axilmar 7y ago
Program running with multiple threads beats program running without multiple threads. News at 11.

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