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by jeorgun 11y ago
I was quite pleased with Taxiio[1]: Uber for taxis. Now there's a novel idea. [1] http://www.launchnik.com/taxiio
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by jeorgun 11y ago
For C, I'd agree that it's useful. The flags I listed have issues specifically for C++. -Wc++98-compat, on a C++11 or C++14 project, is about as helpful as you'd expect. -Wpadded is triggered pretty reliably by subclassess. A
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by jeorgun 11y ago
Clang's -Weverything isn't really as useful as it sounds; since it includes fairly-to-completely useless warnings like -Wc++98-compat, -Wpadded, or -Wweak-vtables, you'll end up spending so much time playing warning whack-a-m
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Macros really aren't about performance, though (or at least they shouldn't be; inlining and/or constexpr are a better solution to that problem in basically every respect). They're either about simple, potentially extreme
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Closures might make this difficult, since a variable might be referenced by name before it's defined in any scope.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Yes, but that doesn't really answer the question. His site also has a lot of information on Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but none of it is about their considerable open source contributions.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
To be completely pedantic, red blood cells lack nuclei, so aside from maybe mitochondria or something they actually don't carry DNA.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Nah, I don't think it's a sign of bad health. I'm in reasonably good health (and if anything underweight), and drinking soda definitely makes eating a lot of greasy food like fries easier/more pleasant than drinking some
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by jeorgun 12y ago
As a recent convert from Linux/Amarok, I think iTunes is great. I really don't understand why it gets so much hate. It works perfectly fine for me, and looks quite pretty doing it. I don't know any other music player that has
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Yes, but by the same token, every tech article written by a woman seems to have a comment saying "Oh, I'm such an asshole, I assumed you were a man". Now I can't speak from personal experience, but that seems to be pre
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by jeorgun 12y ago
The crucial point is that "yo sé" couldn't be shortened to "no", in the same way that "I know" can be shortened to "no" (via "I know" -> "know" -> "no").
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Except with their mobile apps, where they separated Messenger from the main Facebook app, and everybody threw an enormous fit for reasons I'm still not really clear on. (well, it's not really a clean separation since you still nee
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Nitpick: Comparing Rust's error messages and g++'s error messages, and saying that therefore Rust has a better toolchain, isn't really fair. pcwalton mentioned elsewhere in the thread that Rust's messages are based on cl
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by jeorgun 12y ago
IIRC the Arc interpreter is itself written in Racket.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Is their new project architecturally different, or just a rebranding? I've thought for years that they should rename the thing, to get rid of the stigma, but it'd be kind of a shame to completely abandon the browser just as it was
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Unicode kind of does this already with dotless 'i'; capital 'ı' and lowercase 'İ' are represented as regular latin 'I' and 'i' respectively, despite being semantically different letters.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
No kidding; so far as I can tell, the first ~15 paragraphs are all essentially paraphrases of each other. I like C&H as much as the next guy, but is this much... breathlessness really called for?
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by jeorgun 12y ago
While this is certainly true, it's worth pointing out that debugger != IDE.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Which, as the link mentions, it is — just because their (intentional?) misspelling happens to coincide with an earlier form, doesn't mean it isn't a misspelling.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
I thought "gamification of open source development" was always a pretty major part of Github's business model. Frankly I don't know if that's a bad thing; I've certainly been motivated by trying to keep my &quo
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by jeorgun 12y ago
If appearances don't matter, then why the UI overhaul in the first place?
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Not at all— any feedback is appreciated :) I'm beginning to have doubts about String mutability. Fortunately the only actually mutating method at the moment is append, which is redundant with add but for the mutability, so I might just
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Pat Shaughnessy's Ruby Under a Microscope [1] is a fantastic resource for looking at Ruby's internals, especially concerning parsing, Ruby's class structure, and the YARV virtual machine. It's probably easiest to begin
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Oh, whoops— sorry about that! I added some instructions based on yours to the README; better? Also, if you run in to any issues, feel free to let me know; I only have my MBP and an old Thinkpad T60 running Arch Linux to test on, so I could
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Dang it! I googled and everything. No slight against them intended; it looks like a really cool browser, and certainly more of a Real Project than my little language! Hopefully the domains are different enough that the overlap isn't to
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by jeorgun 12y ago
1. Mainly for fun! Languages are pretty complex, so I got to learn about number of things (e.g. recursive-descent parsing, closures, Ruby and Python internals) in making it, and it's pretty rewarding watching programs run successfully.
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by jeorgun 12y ago
So this[1] post recently made its way across the HN front page, which I found serendipitous given my current side project. There's nothing terribly groundbreaking in my language— everything in it is basically taken from Ruby, Scheme, o
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Show HN: Vivaldi programming language(github.com)
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by jeorgun 12y ago
While I mostly agree, by this definition most things called "casts" aren't anything of the sort. In C++, static_cast (when called on value types) and dynamic_cast are both conversions, not casts--- static_cast<int>(5.5)
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by jeorgun 12y ago
Sure, but it does mean that "few successful companies so far" shouldn't be taken as a death knell for YC's forays into hardware. By fairly direct analogy, the majority of startups not making a profit in their first mon

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