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by forgettableuser 11y ago
> You've said most of your build time was linking, so wouldn't you get the same build times with C? C++ generally incurs a price on link times too. For example C++'s stronger type system creates more burden on the name man
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
I expected a fluff article by a high level JavaScript programmer buying into all the optimistic promises of WebAssembly. Instead, this is actually one of the best articles I've read about WebAssembly. The author approaches it from a C&
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Actually C++ is not a superset of C. And it does have these kinds of issues. C++ continued to diverge with C99/C11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B Function pointers are one scary are
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Additionally, police officers have special privilege, but their home information is not disclosed. As are all civil servants from the post office to the IRS.
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Public records that aren't public aren't public records. That's a tautology.
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Actually, the article made me think Elmo is Nermal, The World's Cutest Kittycat from Garfield. We just need Oscar the Grouch to start mailing Elmo to Abu Dhabi all the time. Problem solved.
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
That MV police blog post says the traffic officer stopped the car to "educate the operators about impeding traffic per 22400(a) of the California Vehicle Code." Sounds like a Dukes of Hazzard episode where the Duke boys
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
It reminds me of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It had lot of rules dictated by Disney and Warner Bros. For example, Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse had to have the same number of lines and same amount of screen time.
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
It would be fascinating to see what is required to actually make this work. Sadly, the red tape alone seems like it would be enough to kill it before meeting the deadline. - Getting the permits to sell food (in Chicago of all places) - Gett
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Game devs tired of C++ are waiting for Jonathan Blow's new language :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ He states D isn't different enough to encourage most devs to go through the pain of switching. If
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
The question on my mind (and probably everybody else's) is Facebook backing away from D? Seems like if they were stepping up D, they would want to keep him on board to help improve it. And backing away from D might have encouraged him
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Check out the Handmade Manifesto for a better feeling of where people like these are coming from. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10095104
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Lots of reasons: - Software bloat leads to slow download times and slow launch times and more RAM usage - Abstraction layers often get out of control and sacrifice lots of performance and lead to software bloat - Often you start with and SD
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
An additional problem is that in a downturn, people reassess what they are willing to spend money on. Overvalued companies with revenues today may see those revenues evaporate. This also happened in the first dotcom crash.
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Maybe a little surprising due to track records, but since Xbox One (and PlayStation 4 and Wii U) are AMD based, DirectX 12 not performing well on AMD would be an utter failure for Microsoft.
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San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners on Garbage Trucks(mercurynews.com)
7 points by forgettableuser 11y ago|4 comments
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Great point about this example being a code-size trade-off example and not an actual zero-cost example. As for actual zero-cost optimization, Chandler Carruth who works on Clang at Google gave a talk at the 2012 LLVM Developers' Meetin
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
I already knew Perl and Posix regex when I took automata. I cruised through the initial basics of regular expressions faster than my peers. But I got into trouble after I learned that regex contains a bunch of features (hacks) that have no
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
And another, @mike_acton, from CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391464
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Ooh. I recognize one of the contributor names, @cmuratori, from another HN post: Handmade Hero: C game from scratch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604489
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
The messed up patent system might inadvertently prevent this scenario. Assuming Facebook doesn't license the patent to banks, then the banks won't pursue this out of fear of the patent system.
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
Looks cool, not terrifying.