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by dktoao 6y ago
This is really the only thing that I really want from C++. It would be amazing if this could make the cut for a future spec. EDIT: I work on embedded systems, where C is king, and it seems like a spend an inordinate amount of time working w
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by dktoao 7y ago
Ummm, guys. Unsubstantiated claims along with a website clearly designed to sell... Screams scam to me. If it is real, wait to hear about it from the CDC or other reputable source.
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by dktoao 7y ago
How does one go about measuring productivity in software? Because you can't have a meritocracy without an objective measure of performance. I think we all know by now that number of features shipped / commits / lines of code
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by dktoao 7y ago
Read a little bit of the introduction. If you are familiar with using complex numbers and vector cross products, you will see the advantage pretty quickly
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by dktoao 7y ago
Kinda makes me want to go back to college (I'm an EE) just to re-learn all the stuff I remember being so mind bending with this elegant new framework. Also, just so I can be THAT guy who always argues with the professor. Anyone know o
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by dktoao 7y ago
"System programming differs from application programming in that system programming emphasizes performance over reusable and maintainable code" Maybe for sufficiently small systems. But on a large scale product (reusable and maint
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by dktoao 7y ago
Creator here. This is a Google Sheets add-on that allows you to perform some basic arithmetic on numbers with units (like "2 lbf / in") along with automatic unit tracking, errors for mismatched units and conversions. I have a
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Show HN: Better Support for Units in Google Sheets(ghostwrench.net)
1 points by dktoao 7y ago|1 comments
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by dktoao 7y ago
I think this is awesome and the path forward. After reading a lot of the comments I think one thing that could help very much with the pain of this transition is encouraging a culture shift in how computer laborers are required to drive to
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by dktoao 7y ago
Even for non-Gmail apps, this process is incredibly painful. I have an app that has been stuck in the process for weeks. Once you have read through the incredibly confusing and out of date documentation and submit what you think is the corr
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by dktoao 7y ago
The company that makes many of the Google Sheets add-ons ( https://www.ghostwrench.net/ ) that I use at work has made this their bread and butter. Google Sheets IS the interface to their software.
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by dktoao 8y ago
Multi-actuator drives are also coming in the next few years: https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-techn... That will close the performance gap a bit too I suspect. I have to wonder about power consump
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by dktoao 8y ago
I was in the same boat until I stumbled across this yc podcast from a few weeks ago with Joan Lasenby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikCIUzX9myY She described an algebra called "Geometric Algebra" that has both
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by dktoao 8y ago
Funny, I have those exact two comics sitting right outside my cubicle. #1319 was put there because my team lead thought I wrote too many scripts to automate silly stuff. I put #1205 there beside it so that I could rationalize all the automa
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by dktoao 9y ago
Why is this being down-voted? This was the first thought I had. Their history as a company does suggest that they would do exactly this and try to get away with it.