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by benschulz 7y ago
The biggest downside for me is that from time to time (rarely) the compiler really lets you down. Right now I'm debugging the equivalent of #64650[1] but the cause appears to be distant from where the error is reported, triggered by mo
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by benschulz 7y ago
I'll take any opportunity to mention John Browne's "The Bug Count Also Rises"[1], which contains the line "The RAID is huge with bugs", referring to Microsoft's bug tracker. It was previously submitted to
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by benschulz 7y ago
If it was absolutely necessary you could even have the JIT remove the code and then de-optimize when you enable tracing[1]. That would solve the tight-loop issue.. [1]: https://community.oracle.com/blogs/forax/2011
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by benschulz 7y ago
Giving this advice has almost no cost and, at least arguably, it is better for staff to use Signal than other messengers. So, IMHO, this is good advice.
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by benschulz 7y ago
I believe many posts here miss the core point. The article is talking about _liveness_, i.e. modifying the program while it is running. One example of this would be Squeak[1]. Another perhaps more relatable one is modifying your HTML5 app f
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by benschulz 7y ago
Lots of things make economic sense. That does not make them possible, let alone probable. What makes you so confident in our ability to find solutions that you predict we will look back on global warming as similar to Y2K?
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by benschulz 7y ago
You may enjoy [1].. or not. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... edit: english version
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by benschulz 7y ago
You can get a verbal explanation by toggling "show video" at the top.
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by benschulz 7y ago
That updating the nightly toolchain gets more convenient is fantastic. It was oftentimes a struggle, especially when there was no build with all required components listed as present in the toolchain status history[1]. [1]: https:/&#x
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by benschulz 7y ago
Really? To mine it sounds like a compound describing how someone with a Java EE certification just defecated all over our code base. ;)
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by benschulz 7y ago
I actually thought it was the worst part of the article because it fails to put the statements into context. Let me quote from "0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities"[1]. > In probabilities, 0.9999 and 0.99999 seem to be only 0.00009 a
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by benschulz 7y ago
The example given is taken from Rust. Rust does not allow overloading (even in terms of optional parameters, I believe). Well, Rust allows overloading by implementing different traits but then forces you to disambiguate where necessary.
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by benschulz 7y ago
> you cannot make life with simple software, because there are a lot of players around who will take your simple software and make it into more profitable complex software. I believe you are conflating simplicity and value. Someone may t
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by benschulz 7y ago
Woups. Thanks for the correction. I think it's too late to edit my original post. :/
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by benschulz 7y ago
My assumption was also that performance is the reason we aren't getting more esthetically pleasing line breaking. Until I read a comment[1] by Philip Walton, who works on WebRender at Mozilla, that is. [1]: https://news.ycom
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by benschulz 8y ago
This attitude makes me so off the charts angry, I struggle to put it into words. I think Jews in Germany in the 1920s didn't think they were doing anything wrong, or feel a need to actively hide it.
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by benschulz 8y ago
Yes, I really wish that simple arrow functions were inferred for that reason. I've implemented a proof-of-concept[1], but I don't see it being added to the compiler any time soon. It's a shame because it would make a lot of m
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by benschulz 8y ago
Apparently the study could be replicated (with a neutral expression as shown in the example). Given that, I think it's unlikely that anyone is unaffected. I have two hypotheses: a) It may be a kind of hindsight bias. You watched the vi
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by benschulz 8y ago
From "Guardians of Truth"[0]: > This is why I've always insisted, for example, that if you're going to start talking about "AI ethics", you had better be talking about how you are going to improve on the cur
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by benschulz 8y ago
I—a native German speaker—suffer the same tick. Therefore my guess would be German. Sentences like the one you quoted have a similar structure as those deconstructed in ReadsLikeGerman[1]. The "that" feels like the equivalent of &