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by jzwinck 11y ago
Anyone who designs command-line interfaces for GNU/Linux should read this: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLin... and this: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standard
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Tuples are useful for writing fairly low level features such as marshalling between threads. std::bind is another way, if you need to marshal arguments with a function...but if you don't have a function to call, it's just a tuple.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I've seen two competing philosophies of how to determine pay. First, you can find a large pool of candidates, learn the typical wages in your market, and make offers pegged to the average (with some offset). You will learn what fractio
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by jzwinck 11y ago
You can use "import longmodulename as mn"--many people do this today, and it isn't nearly as harmful as "*".
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by jzwinck 11y ago
> the only downside of doing it in Beijing is that you’d have to tolerate the bad weather and air pollution That is certainly a huge downside, but isn't another one the fact that you seem to be stuck "fast following," buil
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Planes are made heavy, for the same reasons as trains: safety enhancement and cost reduction. Ever notice how every wheelie cart on a plane has not one but two locking handles to secure it? How about the ram air turbine [1] which is used a
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I recently overheard two girls talking about Tinder. One told the other it was "Like AirBnB for dating." If you think for a minute that's pretty hilarious. Sharing economy indeed.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Not only do US airports make me take my shoes off, many of them now have the "naked picture machines" instead of regular metal detectors. I was presented with those twice recently. The first time I went through it, then afterwar
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by jzwinck 11y ago
> Another reason why Chinese love coming here is to take advantage of government benefits, particularly with regard to medical care. As an American living in Asia this is horrifying. How did you discover this group of Chinese people who
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by jzwinck 11y ago
> The stock markets and banks will close for an indefinite period. Whatever happens, it will not be that . The London Stock Exchange is one of the largest in the world, and it isn't going to close for an "indefinite period&qu
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Doesn't this leave you with the problem mentioned in the article where some users have DNS hosts rather far away from themselves?
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"Bringing in Boost" doesn't cost you much at all in terms of compile time. Using some of the advanced template meta-programming stuff in it may, but basic things like the legacy compiler and OS support you mention are largel
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I wasn't discussing readability, but rather performance. The two are not mutually exclusive. Nor was I picking on the "last few percent" of performance--the shortcoming in speed of the "I in team" example is likel
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How is a profiler going to help if your code is riddled with inefficient structures? The "I in team" example can be made more efficient if SplitWords returns an iterator, but SplitWords itself won't be possible to change onc
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by jzwinck 11y ago
One of the main reasons to use C++ today is the potential for high performance. One of the examples given is a great demonstration of what not to do: allocate a new container on the heap, scan it once, and delete it. I'm talking about
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I'm having a hard time parsing some of what you wrote at the end there. First, Google's IPO was in 2004, not the 90's, and e.g. E-Trade was very well established and not so different from today. In any case I don't see
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Emirates' largest planes have universal AC outlets on most seatbacks, as well as USB. They also have WiFi: no charge for 10 MB and $1 for 600 MB. All of that in economy class.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
If you can get a well-paying job you could move to Singapore, where English is an official language, India is much nearer, and the process from initial entry to permanent residency can be completed within three years (n.b. it is not guarant
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Dictating what is "easy to do" is an insult to software producers everywhere. If you'd like to know more about how "simple" things can take lots of effort to deploy in heavily-used production software, consider rea
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Of course not, that would be ridiculous. It's just a pretty picture made by cherry-picking years to superimpose and imply...something. Maybe there is some seasonality, but if you think the two graphs are impossibly correlated, it&#x2
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> On what basis have you arrived to those conclusions? > And don't mistake the food that you can eat in your local Chinese restaurant to what the Chinese are actually eating. I live in Asia. My local Chinese restaurants are Chin
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Search for "evolution" in this article and you will find nothing about the headline topic. Just a couple token mentions of how things are different now than during most of our evolution--a fancy way of saying "before."
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Rather than a corporate conspiracy, your suggestion won't be implemented because it would exclude most scientists from the program in favor of bankers.
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Lots of people travel to places outside the US where none of these things can be taken for granted. I think most of them are sane humans. In 2013 two people died in a Best Western hotel (in the US) due to an improperly and illegally instal
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by jzwinck 11y ago
It is horrible what happened to the author's father. But it is also inevitable. Like a morbid million monkeys mashing away on keyboards, operating at scale in meatspace all but guarantees that someone will die whilst using the servic
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Current practice on first-world vessels sometimes includes solar panels, but even better is an EPIRB [1]. Too expensive for third-world fishermen who anyway did not intend an ocean crossing. You don't need long-term power for it, bec
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Maybe taxpayers are not interested in paying more tax for the enforcement of well-known laws against people who flout them (a few of whom are the very same taxpayers).
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by jzwinck 11y ago
They do it to reduce their exposure to lawsuits from former employees. And it cheapens all their reference letters, in particular the ones given to employees that actually got along well there.
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"Fixed bug."
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by jzwinck 11y ago
"We live in a city with 1.5m people living below the poverty line - that means we have 1.5m people at risk of being homeless." Not exactly. First, the poverty line is federal and does not move with the ebb and flow of NYC life. Se

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