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by jheriko 11y ago
i strongly disagree with that sentiment. but there we go... i can certainly go into more detail if you would like, but the main thing for me is that it solves no problems that existing languages do not, and the generated code (i.e. instruct
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by jheriko 11y ago
without /this/ c++ compiler. not all of them ¬_¬
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by jheriko 11y ago
neither are of great benefit imo. they certainly don't allow me to do anything new... just enable me to do things with less work. this is not a bad thing, and certainly is a good thing, but on its own its a tiny benefit compared to wri
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by jheriko 11y ago
there is still a lot of pain in using visual studio for iOS. its obviously the way forward though... i'd still not use swift for it predominantly if i can use a tiny layer of obj-c/swift to interface to sensible code written in C+
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by jheriko 11y ago
there are two things i think worth pointing out here. 1.) the study focuses on the developing world, which is a very different environment than the developed world. as such i do not believe its conclusions can be considered to say much abou
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by jheriko 11y ago
maybe i am missing something here... i really don't know. it might not be rigourous, but for standard, deep neural networks its intuitively obvious enough that you can reinvent the idea from scratch in your bedroom in a time before the
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by jheriko 11y ago
why? i seem to have managed many such projects without such tools before and after 6 years ago... i'm not sure what benefit they would realistically have.
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by jheriko 11y ago
yes, not having proper c99 has been a pain for a very long time right up to VS 2015
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by jheriko 11y ago
why would you want to use swift? just curious. you don't need a reason... but i've not seen much good about the language, just a bunch of apple hype and hand forcing. just like obj-c which the mainstream community realised the fla
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by jheriko 11y ago
it never seems to actually be posix, but yeah that kind of stuff. it is interesting stuff.
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by jheriko 11y ago
i can accept that argument. basic used & and php uses . as mentioned by another comment. :)
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by jheriko 11y ago
true. although we would call it successor right? shortening function names with abbreviations ought to have died when fortran relaxed that restriction. XD
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by jheriko 11y ago
i doubt it tbh, i bet he means no /3rd party/ dependencies other than the ones that came with the development environment. the C standard library and the usual set of headers and os functions that you get in most C environments is
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by jheriko 11y ago
usually when people say this what they mean is revolting and difficult to read things. (i'm not 100% sure this means you, but all of my experience tells me this is likely the case, sorry to have to be critical) i've heard this sor
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by jheriko 11y ago
its still not as easy as in languages with modern libraries. a = "foo" + "bar"; is very useful so is b = a.split( "," ); or a = b.trim(); etc. C strings are rarely so convenient. its more obvious with the more
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by jheriko 11y ago
> NO dependencies not even sockets? because /that/ would be impressive.
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by jheriko 11y ago
you may be surprised how easy it is to write a http server that replies with html in C... its all just text going over sockets after all. i did it myself a lot a long time ago by teaching myself, but you are right that using some full featu
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by jheriko 11y ago
post increment/decrement is definately worth removing imo. so few people understand its behaviour and it enables some really revolting and difficult to read things. i think a lot of people learned this in the 80s, 90s and 00s even... i
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by jheriko 11y ago
i shouldn't have said it maybe. you are right that he deserves some credit, it just always irks me that the cult follower types seem to think he was single handedly responsible for all of the success of apple. like most CEOs he set a d
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by jheriko 11y ago
well, the designers at apple get a lot more credit is what i mean... but that is one aspect of the beauty of their marketting. i guess if they got the credit it wouldn't work so well. :)
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by jheriko 11y ago
true i guess. its easy to forget this...
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by jheriko 11y ago
its a shame this is a joke. you really could learn better from ballmer than from jobs imo. i'd much rather be successful for the like ballmer than jobs. cult following is creepy, and recieving kudos even when you do nothing makes it ea
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by jheriko 11y ago
i dunno my experience with users in the real world is that software is slow, as slow as it always was and they are frustrated with it now as much as ever. i'm not saying performance won't go away eventually, but we are not there y
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by jheriko 11y ago
> known standard workaround that is a little bit hand-wavey, but fair enough. thanks. :)
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by jheriko 11y ago
i wasn't really referring to linus's comments although he is pretty much spot on, i hate to say (i have no great love for him XD). you are right that numbers are numbers, but that says nothing about what they mean or measure. i ca
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by jheriko 11y ago
not even an argument, but had me in stitches. :) bravo
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by jheriko 11y ago
don't forget the graphics hardware and memory buses. these can have enormous impact on the performance of anything that gets rendered - even ignoring GPUs, if it is pure CPU rendering. i'm not saying he's not gotten something
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by jheriko 11y ago
i could be wrong, but i came to the same conclusion in a different way as i first heard the statement made during the announce about the power being comparable with laptops. as soon as he said whatever high percentage of laptops it was i wa
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by jheriko 11y ago
i'd be curious what makes this a useful abstraction compared to thinking about providing useful features with simple interfaces? i can easily see that reducing state implies reducing the number of steps a user takes to solve a problem

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