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by dman 9y ago
As far as I know yes for C/C++ this was the only viable toolchain that is publicly available.
692.
by dman 9y ago
Offtopic :)
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by dman 9y ago
I wrote the C++ part of this codebase, would be happy to answer any questions about it here.
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Intel notifies Chinese companies about security flaw ahead of US govt(techcrunch.com)
3 points by dman 9y ago|0 comments
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by dman 9y ago
Dell Precision 5520 - you can get it with a quad core cpu, 32 gigs of ram, can come with or without discrete graphics and you have a good choice of fast ssds.
696.
by dman 9y ago
Outside a couple of key sites I now run my browser with javascript disabled. Battery life and thermals are both much improved.
697.
by dman 9y ago
I dont think we will get better tools until we as an industry get ready to pay for them.
698.
by dman 9y ago
+1 - Watching from the sidelines I admire the work both from you and Chris. It is incredibly hard to move away from the current local maximum because of network effects.
699.
by dman 9y ago
It will be interesting to watch the proportion of safe/unsafe code in large Rust codebases over time.
700.
by dman 9y ago
What problem domains do you think are the best targets for this way of programming?
701.
by dman 9y ago
Why are we forgetting the amount of money spent developing fast JITs for Javascript here?
702.
by dman 9y ago
Why arent people making such demands from their hardware vendors yet?
703.
by dman 9y ago
Get this - https://www.amazon.com/Tour-C-Depth/dp/0321958314 . If you are stuck at any point ask on /r/cpp, people there are very friendly and knowledgeable.
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by dman 9y ago
I fully agree with what you said above. Please also note that I did not criticize the compensation philosophy, I just wished that it was transparent to the employees. If the deal is well understood by both parties the likelihood of heartbur
705.
by dman 9y ago
There is a subtle issue that comes into play here a. High performance employee who works at employer A has already given ample evidence of going over and above usual metrics of efficiency. b. High performance employee decides to go into the
706.
by dman 9y ago
I hope that your philosophy of compensation is well understood by your employees. I would hate to be an employee who goes over and above work wise in such a setup.
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by dman 9y ago
OSX admittedly is a lot more seamless than linux - if you happen to be on a clients site and find your self stuck without admin privileges you do not need to worry - just enter root and all will be fine.
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by dman 9y ago
For those looking for an alternative - look at the Dell 5520, am really happy with this machine.
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by dman 9y ago
Opengrok implements hyperlinking for C/C++ code which is the primary productivity multiplier since it allows you to easily jump around callgraphs. That functionality is sorely missing here (unless i am missing this feature somehow).
710.
by dman 9y ago
Opengrok supports C/C++.
711.
by dman 9y ago
Google?
712.
by dman 9y ago
Look at Microsoft for an example of how you can ignore quality for a long while before it catches up to you. (To their credit Microsoft did a stellar job of climbing out of that hole).
713.
by dman 9y ago
I think the issue is that in software you can only get promoted by writing whizbang new features. Until the time companies figure out an incentive system that properly rewards responsible stewardship of an existing product we will be stuck
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by dman 9y ago
Thanks!
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by dman 9y ago
As an industry we dont take maintainability very seriously. You think it would be easy to maintain web apps written in more "mainstream" languages from a couple of years ago?
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by dman 9y ago
Sadly I never got to use either of those, so cant fully get the gist of your comment. Could you elaborate?
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by dman 9y ago
Intel did a self goal here by limiting availability of AVX512 to select Xeon SKUs.
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by dman 9y ago
From a workstation point of view this whole thing looks completely inverted. All the polished commercial offerings are moving farther and farther away from the power user. For those linux/freebsd/openbsd seem much better.
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by dman 9y ago
I was trying to use sarcasm to vent my frustration at the death cult of simplicity and minimalism that seems to have taken root at Apple. The bicycle for the mind is missing its wheels and chain by now. Wheels were removed in a release to r
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by dman 9y ago
You are not giving Apple enough credit here. Removing buttons, ports and features is hard and requires courage. The fewer bits there are remaining, the harder the challenge to take something out. This is what made the IphoneX a moonshot, sa

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