hechang1997

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by hechang1997 7y ago
Many many people use adblockers now. The amount of users they will alienate would be very high.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
I don't know about this. This feels like cheating rather than thinking outside of the box. Like when you ask a student to implement a vector in C++, instead of writing the code the student makes a wrapper around std::vector. Internally
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by hechang1997 7y ago
C++ template metaprogramming may be overused and very difficult to use, but its prevalence despite such difficulty precisely shows how much such a type level metaprogramming tool is desired (compared to syntax level ones like lisp macros or
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by hechang1997 7y ago
Generics and compile time computation. I think Rust should achieve feature parity with c++ templates and constexpr.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
The ideal case is that the DB can work out the difference in the subscribed query caused by the DB update so that the front end can make changes incrementally and doesn't have to rerender the entire list/table.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
There's a “易(Easy)语言(Language)” in China which advertised itself as epitome of "Chinese Programming". It is basically a re-skinned C with a visual programming tookit, which does has its merit as visual programming tools were
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by hechang1997 7y ago
With the power of c preprocessor, you can program in any natural languages. /s
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by hechang1997 7y ago
the most important reason that leads to electron's adoption, I believe, is the flexibility and customizability of HTML UI compared to traditional widget-based ones.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
this library seems promising: https://github.com/zserge/webview
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by hechang1997 7y ago
Yes. Exception is generally a decent solution to error handling unless you're using RAII languages like C++/Rust where unwinding the stack doesn't work well with destructors.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
just like the author said in the end, this is literally the simplest case of concurrent programming where it's very easy to break your works down into independent pieces and no synchronization is required.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
what do you guys think is the best editor theme in bright light? I have been always using monokai but recently I have to work in bright light sometimes and it's quite hard to read.
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by hechang1997 7y ago
That's exactly why people vectorize their code: to avoid slow loops in python and move them to the underlying c/cpp code.