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by ddavis 9y ago
The development was heavily influenced by what particle physics experiments required (developed at CERN and Fermilab so that makes sense), so the field naturally uses it essentially exclusively. It makes it easy to store C++ classes on disk
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by ddavis 9y ago
Burden of proof would hopefully save the day here.
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by ddavis 9y ago
I've used Arch Linux (with Gnome 3, i3, dwm, Xfce, Cinnamon, Mate) for 6 years now and it has (or any of the DE's/WM's have) _never_ bugged out on me (many different laptops and desktops as well). I've only once had
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by ddavis 9y ago
Congratulations to him! I can’t imagine how many people his ideas have reached.
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by ddavis 9y ago
What is offensive about the domain name? Just curious.
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by ddavis 9y ago
Very cool! LHCb continues to put out some really awesome results. Here's to hoping for some more exciting results from the rest of the LHC programme in 2017 and 2018.
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by ddavis 9y ago
I found myself becoming disinterested while watching the keynotes over the past couple of years. They present _so many_ things now. I disagree with author's opinion about the people on stage being on commission. I don't feel a sal
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by ddavis 9y ago
I've sold one thing on eBay ever and I'll never do it again. My buyer tried to do the same thing mentioned in this article to me; luckily I made the item non returnable and I didn't let the buyer's threats of getting a l
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by ddavis 10y ago
I'd for sure consider dropping Beamer if this happened.
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by ddavis 10y ago
This was my commencement address! My best friend and I sat there pretty stunned at how good it was. I've shown this to a lot of friends and family and everyone considers it one of the better commencement addresses out there.
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by ddavis 10y ago
I started with Emacs. Every time I've tried to use an IDE I go right back to my first partner that never lets me down.
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by ddavis 10y ago
> This also reduces the occurrences in that word cloud Ah, yes, very good point.
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by ddavis 10y ago
I agree it's made C++ a bit verbose, though something like the using keyword helps (which is 30 spots below typedef!)
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by ddavis 10y ago
The slow adoption of modern C++ is very apparent. Some things not event listed: forward, unique_ptr, shared_ptr, tuple, constexptr. nullptr is much lower than NULL and move is quite low. These features are now 6+ years old! ;)
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by ddavis 10y ago
Also a physics PhD student. I never touched CS as un undergrad, but I got very interested in writing software as an undergrad when I started in an experimental HEP group (I've never taken any formal programming courses). I don't c
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by ddavis 10y ago
An HN post on software I actually use ;) Those of us in the particle physics world use ROOT quite often. ROOT is pretty old (for me at least, started in the mid 90's) The most recent version (ROOT 6) is a great step forward for modern