jheriko

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841.
by jheriko 12y ago
i used to be a big fan of this sort of stuff, but the better solution for many of the problems described is to avoid array resizing. if std::vector is your bottleneck you have bigger problems i suspect. reminds me a bit of eastl as well...
842.
by jheriko 12y ago
the real challenge in portability is where the code must interact with the platform. making C command line tools that run across linux/osx/windows is quite straightforward, but anything more involved can be interesting, esp once y
843.
by jheriko 12y ago
i've never actually used fork... feeling glad now. i probably would have not realised this... reminds me of allocating memory for an error message to tell someone they are out of memory. :)
844.
by jheriko 12y ago
hmmm... 1000x? how does it scale though?
845.
by jheriko 12y ago
the way to flag this to an employer is simply. not to air the grievance but to inform them of it if it is public knowledge... e.g you left as a result, it was your former employer who will be contacted for a reference, or there was some pub
846.
by jheriko 12y ago
having been a bridge burner i can say that most employers are not competent enough to discover that you burned a bridge if they care... and if you volunteer the information its a great way to filter bad employers too.
847.
by jheriko 12y ago
did you sign a contract? most standard contracts would be being broken by this behaviour. if i were you i'd squeeze them for having dicked you over...
848.
by jheriko 12y ago
good stuff. the power of function pointers for stuff like this is quite enormous. making a vm like this is great practice for a real compiler too... :) i'm curious though, why it isn't a direct copy of x86? other than the obvious
849.
by jheriko 12y ago
this stuff is always interesting. i don't understand how it ends up in the language in the form of 'for-in' though. the syntax is similar to the old school BASIC for loop, but the implementation is heavier in the vast majorit
850.
by jheriko 12y ago
do those pixel blocks actually represent accumulated samples from the image? any number of very obvious methods can be used to avoid this besides using a black box...
851.
by jheriko 12y ago
notepad and other modern solutions... they are ubiquitous for a reason. typing is such a tiny part of programmer productivity compared to thinking... ... do a little more thinking and never have this problem again, learn to adapt to whateve
852.
by jheriko 12y ago
i do a lot of lockless programming and avoid these problems almost entirely... although i will admit to having written a custom allocator or two for that scenario. i don't really see why being functional adds some extra requirement whe
853.
by jheriko 12y ago
nm. just seen the follow up. :)
854.
by jheriko 12y ago
I think you will find they embarssed themselves. Responsibility flows upwards, not downwards. Its just unfortunate that the people at the bottom are often carrying the people above far more than they should...
855.
by jheriko 12y ago
I hope you fought that firing... ... incompetence like that comes from having F6 next to F7 and no checks or authorisation needed for a potentially dangerous action etc. Processes should be designed for people to make the common mistakes...
856.
by jheriko 12y ago
What if banks compete and start providing a reasonable quality of service? It wouldn't be hard.. they just don't bother because there is no return for the investment right now. Bitcoin scares the crap out of me. It looks too much
857.
by jheriko 12y ago
> Read critically surely that means accepting that a bulk of research papers are written exceptionally poorly with excessive wordiness and jargon, a lack of good paragraph structure and not very much real content. if you have to tell peo
858.
by jheriko 12y ago
actually GC's aren't that bad. considerate apps on android will not hitch from the GC unless the device is quite old my bigger problem is debugging these things. whenever i am forced into this environment i usually end up debuggin
859.
by jheriko 12y ago
still of the opinion that this is not a problem to solve with algorithms but with just doing your god damned job and accepting that some of it is mindless chore work and that it requires some basic level of attention to detail and skill. my
860.
by jheriko 12y ago
i wish we could see a balanced analysis of this... there are many, many advantages to 'modern' food production - this is why we did it to begin with. the economic advantages may cause the problem where the quality of the food drop
861.
by jheriko 12y ago
as a tangent... one of my former teachers would call register by assigning us numbers at the start of the year, then everyone would say them in sequence. a lot faster than the classical approach. :)
862.
by jheriko 12y ago
the iron dome doesn't prevent me from feeling sympathy for israelis under rocket attack. its the volume of palestinian children killed by the idf according to official figures... which is much greater than /all/ of the israel
863.
by jheriko 12y ago
how does that work? if you give people the facility to hide and commit crimes than you are helping people hide and commit crimes - even if your initial reason was to aid political dissidents who don't want to be found, rather than pedo
864.
by jheriko 12y ago
a little bit yes. if you didn't make that knife they may have found another one... but that doesn't stop that they took your work and used it for harm. i'm sorry that reality is harsh.
865.
by jheriko 12y ago
As much as I don't like the litigation culture or 'the man' stepping on 'the little guy' as a result - but if the little guy is being a dick and acting in violation of the spirit of the law then let him stomp away i
866.
by jheriko 12y ago
i dunno - its certainly possible to be productive after even 20 hours. some of those last terrible bug fixes that make that thing ship... its not ideal productivity but its better than missing a deadline and losing money
867.
by jheriko 12y ago
i don't get the point - but entertaining read. i don't think we have violent games dominating for some random fluke of what was made first and what the creators wanted. its just supply and demand. although this is also why other,
868.
by jheriko 12y ago
yeah... there is a big problem with interviews and best practices already. if you are good enough at an interview you can con your employer into giving you lots of money for not very much... can we have a service that goes the other way? id
869.
by jheriko 12y ago
its amazing how so many individuals can manage all this bureaucracy just fine... but trendy web startups can not. srsly. its embarassing.
870.
by jheriko 12y ago
aside from that most people can't afford to go that far for work... by a long way. it takes money to make money.

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