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by jotux 10y ago
This popped up recently: https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/25-best-paying-cities-softwar... Which compares cost of living to wages to number of jobs.
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by jotux 10y ago
IEEE members agree to the Code of Ethics, which are pretty universal: >We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal o
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Not really moot. I do C++ on embedded processors with as little as 32kB of program space. Using a single exception means your code will not fit. My general rule of thumb to use full-fledged C++ is a processor with at least 256kB of program
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>I don't think a 3d print would have the necessary resolution. I bought and run a Projet 3500( http://www.3dsystems.com/3d-printers/professional/projet-350... ) at my day job. In the highest resolution mode,
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by jotux 10y ago
http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf See page 4 for the rule summary.
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JLink is updated very quickly and works with every arm platform and IDE imaginable.
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C's comma operator syntax is also weird and, in my experience, many people don't really understand it that well. edit: In reference to the last line: "oh this was a stupid idea, let's not take advantage of it". It&#
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by jotux 10y ago
void (*fn)(int*) // fn takes a pointer-to-an-int and gives you void Wouldn't this suggest that the type this function takes is `int*`? I've always thought the pointer declaration syntax in C was just an oversig
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Young children are difficult. Ask them again in 40 years.
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by jotux 10y ago
I think the best gender-bias comparison to programming is nursing. High demand, decent pay, similar amount of education required, but ~10% of nurses are men (compared to ~21% of programmers who are female)[1]. [1] http://www.bls.
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by jotux 10y ago
BLS says 1.1M: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s... But if you add a bunch of similar fields that probably have software engineers you could probably get close to 3M: http://w
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I feel exactly the opposite. Traditional, non-nested, forums with more than a few users end up with many pages of @author comments that make it difficult to track the course of the conversation. With nested comments I know exactly who someo
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There's already an industry providing static analyzers for C (Coverity, Klocwork, Polyspace, etc). If you're doing mission-critical C you're probably using these already.
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My rule of thumb is McMaster for big stuff, sdp-si for little stuff.
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I use one of these: http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT126734/it.A/id.5/.f My job is half hardware/firmware so I put a lot of meeting notes, specs, and calculations in it.
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by jotux 10y ago
Seems to be a spam account? Seven days ago he was a 3rd year EE student: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11825550 And this is text copied from an old reddit post? https://www.reddit.com/r/programmi
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by jotux 10y ago
Inexpensive and robust EOG would go a long way in making human-computer interfaces much easier to use.
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I agree completely with what you're saying but this: >This looks like it was written by a 16 year-old student who heard "lock free", and went "cool, I'll write a library!" And he missed the last 40 years of
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>I just don't understand this attitude that all feedback has to be couched carefully to avoid hurting anyones feelings. >Adults should be able to take criticism. If they can't, I have very little sympathy for them. Again, yo
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Comments like this are exactly why people are afraid to release projects to the public and contribute to open source.
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>I'll echo I think parrot is the word you're looking for. Had you read the article you'd have seen this is a trend that started in the 60s and started accelerating in the late 90s.
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by jotux 10y ago
Yes, it's higher than other countries, but the majority of Americans still live near their parents. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-fa...
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>The only reason companies use shit like that is because it beats running the company manually without a computer Probably not. The reason they were probably using it is because it was originally written in the 80s/90s, it works, an
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>I rarely have need for what's in the stdlib It has been my experience that people who don't know or use the C stdlib end up unknowingly re-implementing stdlib functions over and over again.
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by jotux 10y ago
I understand this is how kickstarter markets itself, but "campaigns" like this sure make it look like a new-tech store. And in this particular case, what idea are people investing in? The newest version of a watch from a company
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Just do what JPL does: http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
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I think firefox used to have a feature where when you searched and the search found/highlighted the item, if it was a url, pressing enter or space would follow the url. I really miss that feature.
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>but what is "bloat" in the context of 2016? I've recently (last 3 years) moved my bare-metal embedded software development from C to C++ so I've actually run into issues of STL adding too much to the binary size. To
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>I can't choose what I believe to be true. Uhhh, what? Fundamentally belief is the acceptance in an idea as true or real. It represents the amount of confidence you have in what is presented to you. Confidence can be based on many
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by jotux 10y ago
Today is the day you learned other people have different priorities than you?

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