leif

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721.
by leif 16y ago
Really, the worst code only ever happens in systems of extreme maturity. I'm doing some light internal Windows system stuff right now, and all the business w.r.t. COM combined with a rampant NIH disease and competing coding guidelines resul
722.
by leif 16y ago
> I guess you also need a way to suppress spurious warnings. man gcc ... You can request many specific warnings with options beginning -W, for example -Wimplicit to request warnings on implicit declarations. Each
723.
by leif 16y ago
-Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic that's all you need
724.
by leif 16y ago
If you want to touch the lives of as many people as possible, you can't go wrong working for Microsoft. They might be evil, but if I can help out some percentage of their users, that's quite a bit of good done for the world. I won't say t
725.
by leif 16y ago
Sometimes it's annoying, but overall, the problems (at least, the one I'm working on) are interesting, and, for some things, they have great tools.
726.
by leif 16y ago
Because if you like solving problems, the problem, not the technology, is the most important thing. Seattle's a pretty nice town too. At least, that's my answer.
727.
by leif 16y ago
Yo' momma loose.
728.
by leif 16y ago
That mean includes everyone that isn't applying to the math department at Harvard. What do you think the mean is among their applicants?
729.
by leif 16y ago
Even so, it's not a huge achievement.
730.
by leif 16y ago
Of course, you have to wonder, why doesn't arc90's blog use one of its readability themes?
731.
by leif 16y ago
Does anyone else feel like this is a painfully low amount of money?
732.
by leif 16y ago
When you avoid tight bends and creases (singularities---places where the derivative vanishes), you have a nice structure on which you can do useful things like take derivatives, measure lengths and angles, find "straight" lines, and such.
733.
by leif 16y ago
buhhhh...really?
734.
by leif 16y ago
Finally, I'll be able to throw away my mouse and only use vimperator, or better, uzbl. Thanks, Apple!
735.
by leif 16y ago
I'm trying to run the demo, and it keeps starting up emacs in order to compile html templates. It doesn't use -nw or -q, so for each file, it creates a window, loads my init files, runs a tiny bit of elisp to expand a template (or somethin
736.
by leif 16y ago
I actually did this. Frigging worthless university programming courses didn't bother teaching scheme. Learning scheme's libraries on my own along with the lisp paradigm proved too daunting before (or maybe I just never found the right toy p
737.
by leif 16y ago
No, FUSE is really slow, it just depends what you're benchmarking. That guy is really benchmarking the disk, not the filesystem. If you benchmark things that test the filesystem layer on its operations---that is, make it do lots of things
738.
by leif 16y ago
I still don't fully understand haskell's whitespace usage. :-/
739.
by leif 16y ago
What you want is __attribute__((unused)), assuming you're compiling with gcc.
740.
by leif 16y ago
> i still have regular arguments with tabs/spaces/indentation Clearly, you should end your files with ".py". > navigating code efficiently Use xcscope, if your language is supported. Obvious, and you've probably tried it (and now,
741.
by leif 16y ago
wake up reset alarm wake up start some bacon cigarette make some eggs, put on a kettle eat eggs and bacon start brewing tea shower/shave drink tea, browse internet, time permitting run to catch train to school
742.
by leif 16y ago
This I believe to be true.
743.
by leif 16y ago
The name for this is an "Unrolled linked list," in the same semantic fashion as an unrolled loop. Congratulations!
744.
by leif 16y ago
Reminds me of chuck, an audio programming language. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
745.
by leif 16y ago
Meh. I know it's confrontational, and I don't mind the downvotes. I find it hilarious, apparently you don't. Sorry.
746.
by leif 16y ago
haha, wow nobody wants to challenge me on this?
747.
by leif 16y ago
Programming as art is little more than masturbation. Useful programming must be done as a science.
748.
by leif 16y ago
Could someone please hurry up and write a well-supported, popular lisp that compiles to javascript and runs on V8 (it could be friends with clojure)? I hate hate hate javascript's syntax and object model, but evented I/O in a lisp would be
749.
by leif 16y ago
Inserting in sorted order is not a typical case, and I strongly doubt your "at most 1 disk seek" claim but my memory is fuzzy so you may be correct. You're definitely right that the cache should be hot though, so I am now also a skeptical h
750.
by leif 16y ago
This is too god damn awesome for words.

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