jay-barronville

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by jay-barronville 4y ago
What a false equivalence. I don’t understand the need to pretend like C++ isn’t a minefield of complexity (especially compared to C). I don’t hate the language and C++ programmers tend to be some of the smartest programmers I know/enco
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
Deleting my social media accounts tangibly improved my life. It’s been many years now and I don’t care to look back at all. A nice side-effect was how much more productive I became (in a number of ways). It also made it much clearer who my
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
> But in this case C isn't even any different, so this tangent is irrelevant anyway. If you take a struct by value in C it, drum roll, copies it! You’re absolutely correct, but I also don’t have to worry about copy versus move seman
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
Sorry, I beg to differ. C is a simple language. The overwhelming majority of issues I’ve encountered writing C code haven’t had anything to do with the language; most issues have turned out to be due to compiler, library, architecture, kern
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
I mean, 9x out of 10, the very reason to use a low-level language like C++ is precisely because you want or need to reason about such things, no?
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
This is why I love the simplicity of C (C99 in particular). I remember back when I started learning C++, after years of experience writing C, I was admittedly turned on by the cool features like smart pointers, standard data structures, etc
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
Fair point, but I didn’t gather that the author expected anything different; I think he simply wanted to highlight a behavior that may not be that obvious to programmers who aren’t expert C++ programmers (i.e., most programmers).
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
Good work. I’m going to test this out. Thank you.
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but to me, this is just an unsolved problem. Between polyrepos and monorepos, I’m not convinced either of them is a clear winner. I’ve used both structures and as a project grows, I dislike them both for
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
Side note: This is why backend validations are necessary. When the frontend validations are crappy, it does help if the backend doesn’t validate, but when the validations are good, they can usually easily be bypassed if the backend doesn’t
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by jay-barronville 4y ago
Congrats on the launch! I love this idea. It’s so simple but it immediately clicks. My instant reaction was thinking of the various ways I’d totally use this (and gladly pay for it, if reasonably priced). A few things: - Add support for use