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by eliben 11y ago
> Very interesting. I sometimes wonder why Detroit, with all that available, inexpensive facilities and infrastructure, doesn't advertise itself as a center for engineering talent. Why aren't people who need such things doing i
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by eliben 11y ago
System header files usually employ platform-specific extensions not only on the preprocessor side, but in preprocessed code as well AFAIK. That is, the compiler has to support them too. My comment was not to say that coding cpp is easy -
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by eliben 11y ago
What docs? It's all in the standard
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by eliben 11y ago
Here's a complete C frontend that uses the lex/yacc approach - https://github.com/eliben/pycparser (the Python ports of them, that is) FWIW, if I had to do this again today I would certainly go for hand-writt
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by eliben 11y ago
Out of curiosity - why do you consider cpp particularly hard? It's easier than the compiler, actually :)
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by eliben 11y ago
It's cute how he compares his "for loop parser" that handles C for-loops with Clang's, that handles C++ stuff including range loops - to show how his code is simpler :) Silly silly Clang developers for making their code
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by eliben 11y ago
Can't you still do the old assignments?
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by eliben 11y ago
There will be no inflection point. The process is gradual and is long under way. To clean a house in the area can cost ~$150. Good nannies can make $50-60K a year. Plumbers are expensive. Gardeners are expensive. And so on. This is just bas
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by eliben 11y ago
It's going to take quite a while before the restaurant waiters and dish washers, house cleaners, plumbers and gardeners of the valley will be replaced by machines though.
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by eliben 11y ago
Getting a herpes is probably a side effect folks with advanced melanoma could live with.
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by eliben 11y ago
It actually is. Except it's not added between growing and fruit and consuming it, but before growing the fruit. Fruit have been bred and genetically engineered for high sugar content for millennia. ... none of this is to bash fruit - t
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by eliben 11y ago
I agree that criticizing what's essentially a gift isn't "nice". But, on the other hand, this move reeks of evil-ness. Instead of bringing 3rd world people knowledge and freedom, we bring them Facebook. This is embarrass
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by eliben 11y ago
Is Facebook still planning to gate the internet in India behind Facebook, though? I recall they had plans to give folks in third world countries access to Facebook only, which is extremely sad.
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by eliben 11y ago
Fruit has a lot of sugar in it, too. Do you avoid fruit as well?
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by eliben 11y ago
> Most people who rewrote their apps from X to Go and saw improved performance and readability benefited much more from the rewrite than they did from Go Precisely, and isn't this presentation the perfect example of this phenomenon?
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by eliben 11y ago
That's a lot for supporting a free OS on a single server
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by eliben 11y ago
The almost $3K price tag on a "Linux OS" is disturbing
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by eliben 11y ago
> The only site I ever visit while I work. You never Google stuff for your work? Never read online reference manuals / docs, like cppreference.com, docs.python.org or whatever language rocks your boat?
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by eliben 11y ago
This is an incredibly well-written and interesting piece. Is it only me, but what seems to have solved the author's problem is getting back "into the flow", by finding an area of research she was keenly interested in? Also, t
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by eliben 11y ago
Here you go: $ python >>> 10e50 * 10e90 1e+142 Waaaay bigger than the number of atoms in the universe. Consider yourself the "greatest programming mind" now. You're welcome ;-)
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by eliben 11y ago
Yup, all of this is fairly tricky for YAPF as well ( https://github.com/google/yapf ). We ended up reusing clang-format's algorithm
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by eliben 11y ago
Geez, I was trying to figure out what you'd do with a Wordpress app for Pocket, and then it hit me.
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by eliben 11y ago
What do you mean by annoyingly great?
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by eliben 11y ago
I'm one of the first paying customers of Pocket. Alas, their quality has been going down recently. The most important feature - keeping the location inside an article between app invocations, is not working. For long articles, if I s
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by eliben 11y ago
To be honest, that was just a (possibly lame) attempt at some satire and humor. I don't have anything against JS programmers or frameworks. Hope I didn't offend anyone :)
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by eliben 11y ago
Just curious - wouldn't the revenue of companies like Uber always be super high, but with low profit margin. Kinda like Walmart... Because lots of money switching hands is just what the company does. (*) Unlike other companies like App
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by eliben 11y ago
I suppose you should stay far away from Google Fiber then, as well. And anything else done by the evil Google. Much better to keep with the good guys like Comcast. They will never, ever spy on you.
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by eliben 11y ago
This is awesome, as long as it actually gives these people access to the internet rather than to the monstrosity that is internet.org
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by eliben 11y ago
It is truly tragic how much heat and energy is wasted in the world by static websites requiring to run huge piles of horrendous PHP to render their unchanging contents from a database through Wordpress on every request.
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by eliben 11y ago
Except that it lets you export to TXT if you want. And open it from almost any device. And is much less likely to get your computer infected with something nasty

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