braveo

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by braveo 10y ago
"shit code" is in the vast minority of code written, most of it ranges from merely crappy to so beautiful you'd auction off your own mother just to bask in its presence a little longer The reason architecture starts mattering
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Empathy is the just the newest word for certain people to feel that they're better than everyone else (who lacks empathy?). After a while it gets tiring keeping up with it all, I sometimes think I should try and identify the newest wor
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by braveo 10y ago
> The real value of good code is way, way less than developers would like to believe Soooo much this. But it's also important to note the difference between code and system design. The vast majority of code that's written is s
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by braveo 10y ago
No, everyone understand privacy and it's value, they don't understand privacy ONLINE.
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The problem is that tech is always built with hidden assumptions. ALWAYS. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar or naive. Not everyone can work with the assumptions that this tech demands, and not all of the assumptions are apparent (b
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SpaceX also doesn't have the track record NASA does, and cannot be compared. In 50 years when they've been working alongside each other, maybe, but not right now.
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PHP is a bad example, it was designed around the idea of the OS doing the cleanup for you when the process exited at the end of the request.
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by braveo 10y ago
I agree with you, when people start trying to make these sorts of arguments I like to link the following video from Richard Feynman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45trtAfWhYg
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by braveo 10y ago
C# doesn't have unified call syntax, it has extension methods. You're right in that they do allow you to write a function that takes an argument and call it as if it wasn't on that argument, but it doesn't have UCS gene
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by braveo 10y ago
What does that have to do with you feeling disgust?
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I would agree with that, but I think a large reason for it is because people don't pay attention to local as much as federal anymore, so it slips under the radar a lot.
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by braveo 10y ago
You're purposefully misrepresenting what was said, if anyone in this thread needs to get Dang's attention it's you.
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by braveo 10y ago
I'd give a name to my opinion of Dang, but he'd just mod it. When it's all said and done, you won't win so you may as well drop it or leave HN. Dang considers himself the adult, with people like you as the children. He
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by braveo 10y ago
you can install win10 directly using your win7 license key if you've already upgraded. I would definitely try that. It's what I did specifically because I've never trusted an OS upgrade. OS's are too complex for that t
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That's specifically why I said documentation gives the context. Why the API uses a hash table instead of an array is something for the documentation of said API, not code comments.
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by braveo 10y ago
In languages that allow you to do things like set the value of enumerations, I always start with 1. The reason being that an uninitialized variable, bad outside input, etc, is more likely to get caught as bad input rather than whatever hap
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by braveo 10y ago
I read code the way you would a book, constructing this model in my head. Comments to me are a big flashing warning sign saying "this is so important, we added extra comments". If the comments aren't really that important it
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by braveo 10y ago
I'm not a junior developer and I rarely ask for anything on SO. I've just found it to be a shitty experience all around, and as someone else mentioned in this thread, people on that site are bullies.
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by braveo 10y ago
Why feel something as strong as disgust for a person doing what he can to keep his question alive on a website on the internet? If this person has found a reasonable way to keep his questions alive he should be applauded.
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by braveo 10y ago
You nailed my issues with the steamlink. There currently isn't enough explicit support, and when you run into a game that runs as a win32 executable with menus, etc, it completely rips you out of the experience. I think it does a pret
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by braveo 10y ago
I had the same experience, the best manager I ever had was clueless about software development and instead trusted us to do what was asked. A part of that trust was believing when we told him something rather than having him tell us. It
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by braveo 10y ago
new/new[], delete/delete[] are abstractions around *alloc/free. That's not really under discussion, that's what they are. So when you talk about the ability to build abstractions around malloc, you're also ta
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by braveo 10y ago
like I said, that's a strawman. C++ has had new/new[]/auto_ptr since C++ 98, so almost 20 years. The ideas of smart pointers have been around for a really long time as well. Then there's the C constructor convention th
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by braveo 10y ago
I think that says more about your idea of production ready code than it does the issue under discussion.
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by braveo 10y ago
I find that unfair. C++ has new as well as other mechanisms such as perfect forwarding into smart objects, but no one seems to think C++ qualifies for the "you can do systems programming without malloc and pointers"? You can&#x2
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by braveo 10y ago
the idea of cost-free came from C++ where the belief is that you don't pay for what you don't use. The underlying meaning there is that you don't pay the cost of virtualized function calls if you're not using polymorphi
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by braveo 10y ago
> Do you really need to use malloc to allocate memory in a systems language? Do you really need to use pointer arithmetic to deal with things in a systems language? Sometimes, but not necessarily often. Even the Rust operating systems ha
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by braveo 10y ago
> I would much rather be able to grep for `unsafe {}` and audit parts of a trie-map for memory safety, as opposed to auditing my entire program for memory safety violations. you mean auditing the entire implementation of the trie data st
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by braveo 10y ago
No student in any language learns by writing production ready code. Anyone who thinks this is what it means to learn a language is attacking a strawman.
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by braveo 10y ago
using != learning.

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