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by cjfd 5y ago
This title makes it sound like these two developments would be unrelated. The thing is that giving a group of people more power generally worsens their behavior.
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by cjfd 5y ago
Both the worst-case and the best-case scenario are on the table. Only time will tell what happens. As you seem to be focusing on the worst-case scenario I will talk about the best-case scenario. The best-case scenario is that the human immu
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by cjfd 5y ago
Is it actually true that endless loops are undefined behavior? This statement does not make sense at face value. I am aware that sometimes UB is used to throw away code, but is an endless loop really UB? Anyway, compiling while(true); in g+
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by cjfd 5y ago
And every single refactoring that leads ever so slightly towards (3) will be an obvious improvement in performance and reliablity...
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by cjfd 5y ago
Yes that is true. One really should not start throwing integers in code that one hopes to reuse someplace else.
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by cjfd 5y ago
"the mean IQ score on standardised tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78" This effect is so ridiculously large,
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by cjfd 5y ago
"has anyone yet found a legitimate use for throwing an `int`?" I could image throwing an int when writing a shell utility and throwing the return value of main as an int but I suppose doing that usefully would be pretty rare. Usua
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by cjfd 5y ago
This is the/a main reason why frequent changes in who maintains/develops a program is bad for the quality of the software.
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by cjfd 5y ago
I think the most important mistake is writing needlessly complicated algorithms. I.e., creating more auxiliary variables than needed. Also 'if (condition == true)' tends to happen quite a lot.
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by cjfd 5y ago
The EU parliament has far too little power to come anywhere close to the EU being a democracy. The problem being that in second reading there has to be a 2/3 majority to approve amendments.
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by cjfd 5y ago
Well, the day has only 24 hours so every hour that you spend on dealing with people is an hour you do not spend on dealing with computers and vice versa. And one has a shot at getting good at what one does often.
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by cjfd 5y ago
"Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games". Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....?
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by cjfd 5y ago
I would say it is best to do both TDD and have a statically typed language with explicit types written down for every variable. The latter mainly for readability. Let us look for a minute at how mathematicians write things. It is like &#x27
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by cjfd 5y ago
The article does not seem to be telling us what is the cause of this difficulty to change anything. Is it maybe the quality of the existing solutions that makes it very difficult to change them? I, personally, am inclined to blame the &#x27
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by cjfd 5y ago
The most important rules seem to be missing here. Most important is that most Italian words have emphasis on the second-to-last syllable. Some Italian words have emphasis on the third-to-last syllable, e.g. 'il semAforo' (the traf
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by cjfd 5y ago
guideline: description of what should happen in a certain case and which may or may not be in any way related to actually happens.
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by cjfd 5y ago
I think intelligence is hardly the problem. It is something far more intangible that perhaps should be called 'wisdom'. Your statement sounds a bit hard to believe, though. If you had met one physics PhD who was 'completely i
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by cjfd 5y ago
Other comments are going off on this article because it would require our poor senior programmer to understand in detail every piece of the code. Of course, they have a point.... However, as a test of CCP it is not that bad. But I would res
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by cjfd 5y ago
The arguments seem exceedingly weak here. Having a monorepo does not prevent a workflow like (1) add new function signature; (2) let all calls use the new function signature; (3) remove old function signature. However, in some cases a multi
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by cjfd 5y ago
What you state about subtypes is not really true. HOL Light has subtypes baked into the kernel of the system. See https://github.com/jrh13/hol-light/blob/master/fusion.ml lines 600-637. Coq has sig in th
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by cjfd 5y ago
presence -> pretence
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by cjfd 5y ago
This isn't particularly strange. Give one group of people power over another group of people and they will find a way to abuse it. The solution is that it should always be possible to install a new OS on any computing device that you b
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by cjfd 5y ago
I tend to think that every programming project has its own charm. For some projects one has to look a bit longer to find it.
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by cjfd 5y ago
Nonsense. This will make your project take at least 50% more time, if not more. The dialogue that one could have with developers will bring out ideas on how to do things simpler. Also, sometimes a requirement that you have now conflicts wit
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by cjfd 5y ago
Actually, this is the case with any kind of process. Sound judgement and taste have to be applied in any kind of process or it just becomes mindless paper pushing. Bureaucracies always are in danger of valuing process over judgement and tha
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by cjfd 5y ago
You talk about 'long running branch'. I would say that as soon as you have a 'long running branch' you have already lost. Good git practices or bad git practices don't really matter. You will suffer anyway. The only
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by cjfd 5y ago
O and don't forget the many events that are being held here. Or at least were, before corona. There is a jazz festival, a photography festival, an event in the castle every year. More or less some kind of event about every two weeks du
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by cjfd 5y ago
Perhaps London, Paris, and Barcelona are like that because there are so many tourists there. Many houses are rent out by airbnb. Living in a smaller European city I have to say that it is well-kept and charming and beautiful and I live in w
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by cjfd 5y ago
I kind of feel that this kind of git advice is way beyond the point of diminishing returns. As a conscientious developer we have a lot of work. We write code of good quality. We refactor that code regularly. We write automated tests. We tes
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by cjfd 5y ago
No, compilers cannot do that. Who says that it is not the case that in one cpp file the data access pattern is completely different than in another cpp file? Hence, it may be that for one ccp file the most efficient way would be to have an

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