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by blub 4y ago
Have a gut feeling that polyglots can’t handle C++ so well because their strategies for using several languages fail: one has to know C++ well in order to be able to use it successfully. I know C++ memory management like the back of my hand
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by blub 4y ago
The pro remote work viewpoints on HN seem like experienced developers, probably with families, often with terrible commutes externalizing the costs of what’s apparently good for them personally to their colleagues and peers: * removing an o
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by blub 4y ago
I thought you switched to managed because there were not enough low-level jobs available…
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by blub 4y ago
The problem is not the brackets, and the colons and so on, but rather the cultural habit of wanting to cram as many concepts as possible into as few lines as possible. A Rust function has to be generic and fast, it should absolutely use ref
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by blub 4y ago
By all means, bother with that and implement it. Then publish a proper study, so others could learn from it.
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by blub 4y ago
Google is too big, working on too many projects which are released too often for the tools and processes to keep pace. They additionally have high turnover. Under these circumstances, using C++ over decades has the results that can be seen
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by blub 4y ago
If you want to use statistics to support your assertion that C++ hasn’t gotten better, safer and more efficient over the decades then your statistics must compare different versions of C++, not C++ and Rust. The blog you linked to is a PR p
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by blub 4y ago
Your link doesn’t reference any poisonings and the event you’re referring to is old history at this point, I’m not sure why you’re bringing it up. I thought you were talking about Yanukovich in your original comment, since you kept mentioni
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by blub 4y ago
Many of those web APIs are things Google forces down everyone’s throats to have something at least on paper resembling feature parity with native applications.
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by blub 4y ago
1. Google strangles Firefox through advertising for Chrome as a better browser on their web properties, breaking Firefox on their web properties (the famous oopsies) and bundling the Chrome installer with installers for other software. 2. G
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by blub 4y ago
What do you mean by “failing to install a pro-Russian administration in Kiev”? The Maidan revolution (some call it coup) forced out the elected president which was perhaps pro-Russia but mostly just corrupt, as were most Ukrainian politicia
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by blub 4y ago
The Piano seems to be Android-powered and is connected to the internet. Wouldn’t use this even if Roland paid me to. It’s startling how much things have changed from when I first started using computers, when it seemed that nearly anything
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by blub 4y ago
A strange moment, when the Pentagon shows more self-restraint than allegedly intelligent hackers.
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by blub 4y ago
Most Rust stuff is just rewrites, crypto or some specific tool that some corporation or start-up needs. C++ is one of those languages that people write anything and everything in. Whatever you need, whatever you’re curious about, it’s likel
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by blub 4y ago
People grow by challenging themselves and this certainly applies to programming. One can’t use training wheels and expect to become skilled at system programming. I learned C++ as an absolute beginner in school back when most memory debuggi
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by blub 4y ago
In evolution, most branches are dead-ends (just like in programming languages). Carbon for example is by design an evolutionary dead-end designed to solve some problems for Google. They’re trying to sell it as a generic tool, but knowing Go
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by blub 4y ago
Several reasons: 1. Lack of skills. Front-end has evolved from web design. If people like to criticize software engineering as “not real engineering” then front-end is the farthest thing from engineering that exists in software engineering.
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by blub 4y ago
Exceptions have their uses, including in system programming. There’s in fact nothing about system programming which makes a particular error handling method better or worse. These are the kind of minor points some programmers like to fixate
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by blub 4y ago
What is needed by whom? Google are essentially an ad-sales corporation . Microsoft are a former OS development corpo which wants to be Google. Amazon are an online store. It’s sad how all these corporations which have repeatedly shown they
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by blub 4y ago
Are you writing this because it’s really interesting or because you’re a Rust promoter? Sneaking in comments about Rust in discussions about other languages is a classic guerrilla marketing move that the Rust community is known for. Assumin
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by blub 4y ago
I find it strange how you’re so proud that you’re teaching them a very niche - and outside system administration and programming obsolete - way of interacting with computers. There are excellent GUIs to learn that will make them more produc
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by blub 4y ago
You naughtily cut my quote and removed “supported by the competent health organizations ”. I added that back for you. Allow me to expand on that: the parents which didn’t vaccinate their children (<12) are the ones who are in agreement
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by blub 4y ago
I think most people would agree that getting hospitalized beats brain surgery. The only comparable Covid outcome is the ICU and that’s very rare for people below 40. It probably makes sense to get a vaccine for younger people, just not th
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by blub 4y ago
Fortunately there were a couple of heuristics one could use: 1. If one of the vaccines causes horrible blood clots in the brain, get the other one. 2. If a bunch of self-important dilettantes claim that said vaccine is safe, but can’t compr
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by blub 4y ago
The European Medicines Agency did a risk calculation with various transmission levels and segmented by age: https://www.ema.europa.eu/documents/chmp-annex/annex-vaxzevr... As can be seen, getting infected is actua
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by blub 4y ago
Corporations typically provide actual value. Think machinery, chemicals, food production, etc. It’s the bullshit software startup jobs that typically serve no purpose besides shuffling investor money from one place to another. Yes dear read
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by blub 4y ago
The article is about refugees, but the situation’s still bad even for EU citizens: Germany has proven that it can integrate software developers, engineers and some unqualified workers in the job market. But if it magically got the missing w
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by blub 4y ago
You sound like somebody that likes to crunch numbers, but doesn’t understand how most parents decide on these things. Or if you happen to have children, you’re unusually clinical about their health… Anyway, the children’s vaccine was author
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by blub 4y ago
In that sense nothing is ever a settled matter. The same kind of technical gotcha like “there’s no evidence masks prevent infection”.
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by blub 4y ago
The association between heart problems and mRNA vaccines is a settled matter - outside social media at least. The Paul Ehrlich institute which is monitoring vaccine side-effects has a nice detailed report on vaccine safety with details on h

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