jernfrost

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by jernfrost 11y ago
Yeah that sounds totalitarian to me. Like why would a country insist on all its citizens pledging allegiance to country every day! That is a bit North Korea sounding to me.
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by jernfrost 11y ago
I come from a country with the opposite work culture, Norway. We got short days. So does much of northern Europe including Germany. What I don't like about this work hour obsession is the idea that it indicates how hard people work. Yo
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by jernfrost 11y ago
This is something that puzzles me. I've met many people like him who I know objectively speak are highly intelligent. But still on many levels they just come across as really stupid. Like they believe in completely wacky ideas or consp
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by jernfrost 11y ago
Yeah but you didn't have internet to waste your time back then. I fucking hate internet at times. It has conditioned me to read everything in little digestible tidbits. Before I spent much more time reading actual books, staying concen
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by jernfrost 11y ago
I really like Richard Dawkins explanation of this, where he has you imagine taking a photo of yourself from your are born to you reach adulthood with 1 minute intervals. If you stack these pictures, there is no single picture you can pull o
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by jernfrost 11y ago
You seem to be talking about a very specific area. As I've eluded to earlier, there are clearly jobs where C is best suited, but C is hardly the best choice in most of the areas it is used. People are still doing GUI programming in C.
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by jernfrost 11y ago
I don't think purity is the problem. I just think simplicity has value. It makes it possible to keep most of a language in your head. It makes it possible for anybody on your team to have a chance of understanding your code. There was
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by jernfrost 11y ago
If you use C++ instead of Objective-C or Swift for iOS/OS X development then it is just because you refuse to learn something new. The only use for C++ on iOS/OS X would be algorithm heavy code. C++ is a poor language for dealing
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by jernfrost 11y ago
That is pretty cool. Shows some of the versatility of Objective-C. I was also surprised that a low level API like Metal also uses Objective-C.
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by jernfrost 11y ago
I've worked AVR microprocessors (used in Arduino) and I found that for as small programs as I would write on a micro controller even assembly programming works. But C is definitely a good fit. Since you need effortless access to many l
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by jernfrost 11y ago
Java isn't exactly a big step up. Compare instead old C code to Haskell or OCaml. I am pretty sure the latter comes out a lot better with respect to serious bugs. Also I have real world experience with working with the same type of cod
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by jernfrost 11y ago
C++11 in no way solves the fundamental problem of C++. C++ is too big and has too much baggage. There are too many corner cases and oddball stuff to deal with. Being a good C++ developer requires unnecessary amounts of training. C++11 can&#
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by jernfrost 11y ago
No way, C++ removed some C problems but just added a whole host of its own problems, that don't exist in C: operator overload hell, static initialization and deinitialization hell. Calling virtual methods in constructors blow up. I pro
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by jernfrost 11y ago
From what I understand Cobol and Fortran still leads in number of lines. So much scientific software: weather simulations, military simulations is still in Fortran and Cobol runs at the core of so many banks. In my home country Norway you u
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by jernfrost 11y ago
Different languages will probably replace different parts of C usage. I suspect Go will replace C/C++ for high performance server side stuff like databases and various server software. E.g. I've seen a bitcoin server being written
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by jernfrost 12y ago
Judging by previous Apple behaviour they will wait until Swift is more mature before open sourcing it. I suspect it will be 1.5 - 2 years before we see an open source version.
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by jernfrost 12y ago
Not sure if it is as wrong as it sounds. In many ways the computing world today isn't that different. We sit at home with fairly simple terminals like iPads or laptops while computers filling entire rooms at google, facebook etc are pe
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by jernfrost 12y ago
I believe I read that the reason one doesn't do that is that syntax highlighting should work even when you haven't finished typing or your code isn't entirely correct. It also should be quite fast. Being 100% accurate isn&#x2
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by jernfrost 12y ago
How do you know that. I am pretty sure I've seen the Julia creators talk about generating binaries. Anyway neither Python nor Ruby does this either and yet that hasn't stopped them from being successful.
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by jernfrost 12y ago
What I've read is that inflation in Germany in the 1930s was actually very usefull. They had an enormous amount of debt they were incapable of servicing. The huge inflation cut the debt to pieces very efficiently. The inflation was not
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by jernfrost 12y ago
There is already MacRuby and RubyMotion. They tried using Java years ago. It failed. Developers didn't like it. Existing stuff simply doesn't mix that well with Cocoa and that style of programming. That is why something like Swift
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by jernfrost 13y ago
I find your priorities peculiar. This guys so called "waste of valuable city resources" was very well spent. He unconvered how enormous resources are being spent prosecuting and pestering people who are not really criminals and th
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by jernfrost 13y ago
Very well worded. But... yes there always has to be a but. You can make the same argument about any software development, even within the same language. I worked on a large C++ project. Most code was written in a very concrete way. This lea
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by jernfrost 13y ago
Probably better to ship it to a high quality incinerator than to burn it in a primitive one emitting lots of pollution. Transport by sea requires negligible amount of energy. Local transport will likely waste more energy than the transport
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by jernfrost 13y ago
American companies such as Facebook and Google are under EU laws when operating in the EU. Handing over all this private information about EU citizens is illegal according to EU laws. So PRISM will cause problems for American companies beca
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by jernfrost 13y ago
USSR crushed Nazi Germany, but that does not make it a force for good. In fact one of the most annoying things about WWII is dividing the world into good guys and bad guys. Some were worse than others, but I don't think e.g. the US was all
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by jernfrost 13y ago
I think I can answer that as a pretty liberal parent. Like you I don't have a big problem with cursing or nudity. But that does not mean I let my kids listen to cursing or watch nudity willy nilly. To me it is not that the hearing of cursin
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by jernfrost 14y ago
Hehehe cool I didn't know you were dutch. I lived in Holland for 3 years. It was eerie how similar I found Dutch to be to Norwegians despite living in countries with very different history and physical appearance. I find that foreigners com
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by jernfrost 14y ago
I believe there is some subtlety to this. As a Norwegian I notice Americans co-workers often crave more praise and positive feedback than say Northern European co-workers. Americans also more actively give praise. However that doesn't mean