hnbro

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by hnbro 10y ago
"worldwide apex predator" == "good at it (being animals)" ?
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by hnbro 10y ago
if not this person, someone else will. so it just boils down to asking what his personal political views are.
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by hnbro 10y ago
not everyone can be dirk nowitzki :(
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by hnbro 10y ago
> you have to handle them the definition of "handle" widely varies, to the point of making the exercise near meaningless.
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by hnbro 10y ago
it's unfortunate that rust seems barely more than a compiler. it's... empty. the "ecosystem" feels like a namespace-free dogpile of college spring break experiments. a wasteland of pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha 0.0.0.0.0.1 st
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by hnbro 10y ago
who is "esr" and why do you accuse them of such things? edit: oh, the The Cathedral and the Bazaar dude. i saw a video about him that seemed to portray him well. but having found his blog... well... i can understand your sentime
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by hnbro 10y ago
can go (or rust) compile for targets that don't have a jvm?
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by hnbro 10y ago
when i first saw d (years back), it merely seemed like an attempted c+++. the syntax seemed extremely similar, as if they took c++ and just tweaked it a bit, rather than working at least somewhat from first principles. seemed almost comical
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by hnbro 10y ago
why would someone think it was "compact disc"? even if a hn reader was somehow completely ignorant of continuous delivery, the context and usage should be a guide.
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by hnbro 10y ago
what does "feeling female" mean?
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by hnbro 10y ago
i guess it's always good to have an exit strategy.
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by hnbro 10y ago
i think it's only odd to some because of prescriptive "style guide" insistence over the years. it makes a great deal of sense.
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by hnbro 10y ago
does "they" imply a gender?
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by hnbro 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy
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by hnbro 10y ago
this is both reductive and a red herring.
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by hnbro 10y ago
i'm inclined to think there is no such thing as a "free press". i'm also of a mind that even when one presumes such a thing exists, there's no reason to believe that this leads to "truth" or "reliabi
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by hnbro 10y ago
i think trump's win had a lot less to do with trump himself than other factors.
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by hnbro 10y ago
do you have "strong political views"?
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by hnbro 10y ago
"efficient" is an overloaded term, and depending on your meaning it's not something everyone's pursuing.
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by hnbro 10y ago
> That seemed pretty absurd ...why?
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by hnbro 10y ago
one-sided reporting as usual.
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by hnbro 10y ago
or shii or zee or
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by hnbro 11y ago
> something relatively trivial like Twitter has 4000 people there is more to twitter than the web app you type dozen words into. i don't much about them (including whether 4000 is accurate), but presumably there's a lot to work
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by hnbro 11y ago
> despite the fact that every single game, which made a significant critical/financial impact had a period of crunch this argument doesn't necessarily disprove the notion. it's plausible to suggest that whatever impact th
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by hnbro 11y ago
a coincidence, but whatever.
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by hnbro 11y ago
i think having known bounds would make arrays a non-zero cost abstraction.
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by hnbro 11y ago
perhaps "unobvious" to you, but that's something which is empirically (if subjectively) resolvable, no?
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by hnbro 11y ago
well, you would, you're in games. fairly substantial amount of stockholm syndrome in game programmers, imo. ;-) bjarne and others in the community have talked about the heavy cost of legacy and compatibility many times. it's oka
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by hnbro 11y ago
how dare they.
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by hnbro 11y ago
yum makes rpm easymode!

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