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by dreta 9y ago
I was mostly talking about the odd re-declaration of argv. Everything else is quite clear.
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by dreta 9y ago
Can anybody explain to me what's this syntax? This is the first time i see anything like it, and i've been programming in C since i was a teenager. main(argc, argv) char **argv; { }
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by dreta 9y ago
We started using Swift on new projects. I don't hate it per-se, but as with most new languages like Rust, or Kotlin, they have some neat, modern ideas, but mostly they help solving none of the problems you have on a day-to-day basis, a
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by dreta 9y ago
Articles by fedora-tipping allies gracing us with their superior moral values while providing biting commentary on current pop-culture events is exactly why i visit Hacker News.
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by dreta 9y ago
Even if that’s true, i don’t see how articles like these belong on this site.
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by dreta 9y ago
It’s sexual assault, not rape, and „1 in 5” studies like these have consistently failed to stand up to scrutiny, mainly due to unclear definition of what constitutes sexual assault. This whole article was written from the perspective of an
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by dreta 9y ago
I'd ask what constitutes "same level", and what's the overtime gap between genders, if there is one, but why do that when we can have a good ol' laugh at how Google made their own bed, and now we can watch them use
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by dreta 9y ago
Immediate mode is simply a way of designing your API so that there's no creation, destruction, callbacks, etc. It's a convenience to the programmer, because they can explicitly express what they want to happen at a given moment, a
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by dreta 9y ago
The rate at which you have to update, and what you have to update doesn't change between retained and immediate mode. The only difference is that, with retained mode, the library you're using has, by design, all the knowledge it n
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by dreta 9y ago
I'd be interested in learning more about how a blind person does software development. I already do most of my coding work in the terminal with keyboard only where possible, and it'd be an interesting exercise to try and get rid o
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by dreta 9y ago
The speech becomes surprisingly clear if you listen to it and read the paragraph at the same time.
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by dreta 9y ago
It's worrying how sometimes the most basic programming concepts can appear revolutionary to web developers. So much so, they've recently stumbled across the concept of a read input-update-render loop, and are now trying, with fram
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by dreta 9y ago
An interesting read. Though, for me, VC in general is not the kind of job that favors people who are nice. When people are rude to you, or try to use you, there's a multitude of ways you can interpret that. For Ellen, it's sexism.
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by dreta 9y ago
Xamarin is given as an example of a better alternative why exactly? You develop a single layout in React Native, while in Xamarin you just share the C# code, so separate platforms need separate UI code (unless you want to rely on their weak
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by dreta 9y ago
All i got from the memo, besides the echo chamber part, which google, and others managed to prove almost immediately, was that the author thinks there are biological differences between men and women, which lead to women being less interest
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by dreta 9y ago
Not getting into "guilty until proven innocent"; all this is going to accomplish is attach a huge risk factor to women who are seeking investors making their life harder than it already is. Hell is paved with good intentions.
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by dreta 9y ago
I'm talking standard of living, not how much they earned. If you think you have it worse or as bad, you don't know anything.
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by dreta 9y ago
Yes, it does afford you healthcare the way US works right now, if it doesn't, that's a failing of Obamacare. Also, you want to be able to afford a car and a home by working at McDonald's? What are you talking about? And your
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by dreta 9y ago
>Everyone working 40 hours per week deserves a living wage (...) You can earn a living wage for 40 hours a week doing anything in the US. You just can't afford a new iPhone. All the minimum wage does is makes it impossible to employ
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by dreta 9y ago
I'd say this is an Orwellian statement, but at this point i got so used to Twitter silencing voices they disagree with i'm shocked they didn't just ban Trump long ago, since they banned people for pettier reasons multiple tim
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by dreta 9y ago
It's just Java with a few Swift features. The only thing Kotlin does is help you to be more efficient at writing terrible OO code. This is even less of a reason to to be excited than when C++ came out, and solved none of the issues C h
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by dreta 10y ago
This post is an example of armchair programming, so your armchair experience is more than enough. On a more serious note, it's software architecture done on paper. Any experienced programmer will tell you it's close to worthless.
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by dreta 10y ago
Languages like Java and JavaScript don't let you lay data out in memory directly, nor do they give you much on control over how memory is accessed, so any performance benchmark involving C is entirely superficial. I can write 2 program
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by dreta 10y ago
It's not that people aren't willing to put in the effort to optimize games for Linux, it's the reality of graphics drivers being effectively a massive collection of bugs and special cases for specific titles or common program
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by dreta 10y ago
I remember Valve articles from that period when the Windows 8 Store was being introduced, and Valve started pushing Linux. I remember reading a similar article from them on the subject, but that one mentioned DirectX 9 Source Engine on Wind
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by dreta 10y ago
If Rust solves the kinds of problems you have, then by all means use it. I don't think there exists a language that's in all aspects better than any other. For me personally, C is the language that gets in my way the least without
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by dreta 10y ago
I agree that having to remember is a problem, it's one of the many shortcomings of C that it doesn't let you differentiate between types at compile time. Pointing into subsections works fine. You just have to create a type for it.
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by dreta 10y ago
No, you just allocate enough space to store an extra int at the start for the length, and return a typed pointer to the actual data. Then you need an accessor that checks bounds, if you want safe access. Both of these problems are solved by
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by dreta 10y ago
No language you use can get around syscalls, so i have no clue as to why this is a case against C.
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by dreta 10y ago
Can anybody make a strong case to me as to why are buffer overflows considered an issue in C when it takes like 10 minutes to write and test an array implementation that prevents that from ever happening? I do agree that C has issues (thoug

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