dorinlazar

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by dorinlazar 2y ago
The author here. The point there is not a critique of Rust. I'll offer a bit of context - I started my „from scratch” utility library with a std::string-like type that operates on reference counted buffers. In the end, any operations I
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by dorinlazar 3y ago
SCRUM solves a problem the X poster is too young to know. I'm mildly amused, he has no idea what SCRUM is about and why the ceremony is a lot better than the sleepless nights and the crunch time spent rewriting the application in the l
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by dorinlazar 3y ago
Oh, I so much agree with this!
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
Like any TDD proponent (and most cultists, really), the author insists that „you're not doing it right”, despite reading the scriptures. You're always misunderstanding, YOU are the reason TDD doesn't work, no, TDD is itself
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
I agree; of course, both clang and gcc extend C++ with __restrict__ if I remember correctly; from what I know, there are more things that can be done in C++ to improve over C than the other way around.
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
C++ is just a stricter C - if you write proper C, it will be a correct C++ program, therefore it would run at the same speed. There's no way C can be other than marginally faster than C++ - if you write C and compile it with a C++ comp
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
My thought about this is that patterns are something I recognize in the completed code, not something I bake into my code. A useful tool for refactoring at best. But re-factoring, not factoring. :)
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
It's not a judgment of GoF per se, although I have some critique on the book as well, but of the impact it had. Unfortunately, a lot of people (mis)took it to heart, and GoF became just another book to learn by rote when interviewing.
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
I learned many things from that experience, but later, when I actually got smarter about career and interviews; being introverted didn't help much either. But I'm glad I didn't make this mistake on my end, when I was at the o
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
I have a terrible problem with people recommending books that „changed their whatever”. And sometimes I think that it comes from an arrogant place where people being „influenced” by books is a bad place. But I do understand that sometimes b
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
That's not for physicists to know, more for mechanical engineers :D
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
I took a very long break, about one year (but realistically, 6 months, the other 6 months I was busy renovating my apartment). I then eased into work; started with 4 hours a day, and didn't go to full time until I didn't feel read
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
Not for mainstream projects - plus those places tend to become political mudwaters, because freedom in tech has become political the past few years.
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by dorinlazar 5y ago
The Discord chat room is very little different from the (RIP) freenode channel. Sure, you need to create an account, but that's where communities are built nowadays - in closed groups that can be controlled, moderated properly, and aut
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by dorinlazar 6y ago
It's not about the ability to write programs, but the ability to write programs that influence your base system in a meaningful way. Yes, you can write programs, but can you write a different /bin/init for your system? I&#x27
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by dorinlazar 11y ago
In my post I suggested to watch a presentation. Watch it, you'll understand what Kate Gregory argues, and I completely agree with her point of view.
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by dorinlazar 11y ago
I can confirm that absolutely nothing of import. I think that the attention shown to my rant is overblown, although I do enjoy the good points made by a lot of commentators here.
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by dorinlazar 11y ago
Yes and no. std::endl is not an alias for '\n', for good reason.
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by dorinlazar 11y ago
Yes, and that's a pity. And I will fix that as soon as I get my hands on it - I never knew that I needed to write that web backend myself. This site proved me wrong :D