hackingthenews

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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Clang/llvm also does heap ellision (removing unnecessary mallocs) while gcc didn't last time I checked. I think the llvm devs allows themselves to have a more practical understanding of the cpp standard.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
and if you don't they will force your competitor to take $1B.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Now I am even more interested, but still have no idea.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I honestly can't tell who you are talking about. And I really want to know...
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I would agree with this for phone numbers, but not email.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Read a rumor somewhere that he made the edges of the MacBook in his prototype design so sharp to the point of serious discomfort to users, but he only changed it after Steve Jobs had to ask him about it. edit: [1] Turns out it was the first
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I wonder how broad the definition of effectiveness is in their implementation. The visual method might have limitations, considering that many CSS properties are only "effective" when you start moving/interacting with element
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I agree, but I find his methodology a lot more refreshing than other similar opinion pieces, who barely tries to look at data or give context to their claims (history).
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Also Lazy data structures can achieve this. And C++ (and rust probably) compilers have no issue doing these optimizations as well.
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
Stream overheads exists, but I have never understood why. Take the example of Java: Why are loops faster than using streams (in most cases)? Shouldn't the optimizer/jit be able to see that most streams (even chains of map, filter
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
(I think it was sarcasm)
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
I think we need to recognize that most people/companies who stick to python 2 doesn't do it because they are being stubborn. There is a real judgment call involved. It might look strange from the outside, but maybe it really is da
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by hackingthenews 6y ago
> At the end of the day an engineer shouldn’t pick database because it’s the fastest but because it fits their use case the best. Every comparison article doesn't need to (and shouldn't) include a comparison about every kind of
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by hackingthenews 7y ago
That really depends on what was benchmarked, so much so that dropping random benchmark results is meaningless. A benchmark like this [1] (showing c++ < js < java) is absolutely useless as the person writing it has no idea what they
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by hackingthenews 7y ago
To be fair about one thing, the pedestrian would not have survived with a human driver either. They crossed the road in pitch black darkness. The only reason it was news was because it was a self driving car.
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by hackingthenews 7y ago
What about the fact that privacy is becoming a thing of the past?
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by hackingthenews 7y ago
> Islamic culture, traditional scholarship places the point of ensoulment anywhere between 40 and 120 days after conception. Our western taboos around this topic, likely even our western secular taboos, derive from a belief in ensoulment