flmontpetit

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by flmontpetit 7y ago
It's simply not possible to quantify performance in this way, when comparing language implementations. Performance can also be constrained by environment and/or context on top of the expensive abstractions the compiler or interpre
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
The vast majority of users have no strong opinions on the matter of software package distribution. They take what's given to them. The vast majority of users are perfectly fine with the Windows experience of dodging fake download butto
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
If Huawei adopts RISC-V then they drive RISC-V adoption to some indeterminate extent. When the market is sufficiently large, someone might consider RISC-V laptops to be a good idea. Even if it's "only" a company like Pine64.
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
If you properly examine the context then you can do like most and interpret "ARM" as "current mainstream ARM implementations".
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
"Literally every software and hardware market since computers became a commodity" all over again, you mean. They've always tended towards monopolies. IP law is harmful to society.
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
I'm a C# dev and the only anxiety I've experienced has lied in having to maintain garbage legacy code.
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
Yes. Being a software developer is easy. It's not necessarily the case, but I can think of no other trade that pays so well and offers so many opportunities for so little ability, effort, accountability, responsibility and stress.
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
For real. Being a software developer is probably the easiest and safest career you can have without being born into wealth. edit: I should also mention having options is not really a blessing when they're all bad.
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by flmontpetit 7y ago
Organizing subgenres by BPM range is pure lunacy