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by civility 10y ago
I would've liked that comic illustration much more if he had gone back 400,000 years instead of only 20,000.
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by civility 10y ago
Consider BBC, Al Jazeera, MIT News, and many many others. I won't say those are all gold, but they aren't lead.
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by civility 10y ago
Those new examples work nicely. I'll have to remember the word "turbofish" :-) > (I'm not sure if this discussion is over, but if it isn't I think it makes more sense to continue over email. username@gmail.com.
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by civility 10y ago
I'll put together a post on the users forum about num crate traits, but it'll probably be a day or two. In the mean time, a few replies to some of the other items above: > I wish we could get type level integers so that you ca
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by civility 10y ago
I'm glad you replied. I was beginning to worry we were going too far into "agree to disagree" territory. I'm at work now, but I'd like to respond to a few of your items above this weekend. We're getting prett
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by civility 10y ago
I was pretty tired last night when I wrote that previous reply to you, and I don't think I stated my complaints very clearly. In several of the places where I quote you below, it's not your fault you didn't understand what I
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by civility 10y ago
> Yes, I guessed (correctly!) that others would inquire about the rest of the comment Fair enough. > Your argument is something along the lines "a lot of code doesn't have particularly high security requirements" and &q
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by civility 10y ago
>> It was a weekend learning project, and all I wanted to do was create a freshman level data structure from scratch. > I'm very interested in making such things more accessible At that point, I simply wanted to implement my
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by civility 10y ago
> I do believe that a C++ regex library written in reasonable time using normal development practices will have memory safety problems in it. This is based on the real-world experience we have with C++ projects. Me too. I'm guessin
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by civility 10y ago
> This is Poe's law territory Heh, I think that's possibly the only virtue to sarcasm: it confuses the pedants. I use friendly smileys or the word "heh" when I'm trying to be jovial, and I'm willing to give
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by civility 10y ago
> I'm genuinely curious [how] you say this with any sort of surety. Of all the things I said, is that really the only one you want to address? In the future, I'll try harder to qualify my statements with a "to the best of
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by civility 10y ago
What you were doing is advocating Rust in a C++ thread, again. Safety first, and all that. Congratulations on getting voted to the top of this topic, but it's tiresome. Let's pretend C++ is a car. I get in my car, and I drive s
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by civility 10y ago
Turning off your computer is the only way to avoid bugs. All software has bugs.
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by civility 10y ago
> That statement is dangerously close to a No True Scotsman It also had a smiley in it. I'm pretty sure you missed the joke and don't realize you're preaching to the choir.
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by civility 10y ago
> Unless I'm missing something that graph's all time Yeah, I missed that. I thought it was recent history. If we normalized by years available, Swift seems like an outlier with Go lesser so.
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by civility 10y ago
This chart was not what I expected: http://www.arepeopletalkingaboutit.com/tags/ocaml,scheme,rus...
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by civility 10y ago
That is useful. Thank you.
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by civility 10y ago
> So in what way did [Rust] break for you? For me personally, a few things seem broken, but there are work-arounds. Some things are very confusing for me, and I might get past those. However, I work with some really smart people (Master
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by civility 10y ago
Have you found such a language? I've looked hard, and I'm still looking. In my opinion, no existing language satisfies these two simultaneously: > - Let a large group of devs of varying skills produce a high quality code base
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by civility 10y ago
> Probably people who are having more complex data than a single tree. Reference counting is safe with a DAG (not just a tree), but I get your point. For the times I've needed an arbitrary graph data structure, I used an adjacency
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by civility 10y ago
You could implement something comparable: int main() { with_open_file_for_writing("foo.dat", [](FILE* fp) { fprintf(fp, "old style I/O, automatically closed\n"); }); return
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by civility 10y ago
> Firstly, what exactly is the difference between make_unique and plain old unique_ptr? The make_unique function uses variadic templates to take the arguments to your constructor: auto oldway = std::unique_ptr<Foo>(new Foo(1,
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by civility 10y ago
> You don't want to work with people who type slowly? Pretty sure he meant it the other way. He doesn't want to work with people who would judge him for typing slowly.
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by civility 10y ago
Store your graph as an adjacency matrix, using either a 2D array of edges (if your problem is small enough), or as a sparse matrix (hash table or similar).
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by civility 10y ago
> I fail to see the downside of learning social and communication skills for people not like yourself. That just sounds like a recipe for a well rounded individual. You might also have failed to see all the bright kids who dumbed themsel
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by civility 10y ago
> even the "median" ones are far better at diagnosing things than lay people We aren't comparing doctors to "lay people" - we're comparing them to machine learning algorithms. I'd prefer the machine to
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by civility 10y ago
> Maybe, maybe not. Sounds like a good RFC :) I'll think about it, but honestly, that sounds super unpleasant. I've seen the bike shedding that happens in those kinds of discussions, and I think it would be difficult to convin
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by civility 10y ago
> Yeah, that might work, but then it leads to an explosion of traits... Yes, there are a lot of common math functions, but why is that bad? The alternatives are worse. > The examples are cut and paste errors in a sense; as it says at
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by civility 10y ago
I wouldn't use the word "missing". I believe several of the Rust language designers are very familiar with C++, and to say that something is missing implies it was an oversight or an accident, or maybe they'll get to it
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by civility 10y ago
> We tried to get a trait hierarchy for numerical right four or five times; it's really hard. I'm clearly not an expert in Rust, and as such I realize my opinion isn't worth much, but it seems to me any attempt to build a

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