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by lelele 15y ago
Well, after starting using memory-management classes exclusively, and never again raw pointers, I have coded lots of C++ and I have never experienced any memory issues (leaks or access violations). I think C++ has issues much much worse tha
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by lelele 15y ago
"Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?": http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/14/why-do-c-folks-make...
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by lelele 15y ago
What about objects who are referenced by more than one object, and which are linked to resources? try... finally blocks are just a different way of freeing your resources at the end of a block, and won't help with objects which outlive the
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by lelele 15y ago
You are not worth answering to. Yes, I use Emacs. And yes, I use Meta (Alt) keys sparingly. I think the only Meta-chord I use is Alt-Tab to switch applications.
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by lelele 15y ago
The dreaded "Unknown or expired link" error if you flip through a few pages. Thanks heaven there is hckrnews.com. Merging discussions is not allowed. No checking of duplicate links, if I'm not mistaken. Non foldable threads. No way to watch
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by lelele 15y ago
Well, when I started using Emacs, I copied a lot of snippets of code which I didn't understand, and it didn't hamper my learning process. Quite the contrary, it sped it up because I was able to override some annoying behaviors before learni
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by lelele 15y ago
I think one of the strength of Emacs, that has allowed it to grow that much compared to Vim, is that it has always had one official extension language. It doesn't have any external dependencies. If Emacs developers endorsed extending Emac
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by lelele 15y ago
"Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that supports class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that supports functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp)...
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by lelele 15y ago
What about using an higher level language for game logic, and optimizing critical section of code with C/C++?
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by lelele 15y ago
This is my favorite: http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-...
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by lelele 15y ago
> I don't know how far over to the functional paradigm arc leans but hacker news is programed in it. HN doesn't look as an outstanding piece of software.
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by lelele 15y ago
Galois is a company which uses functional languages, mainly Haskell if I'm not mistaken: http://corp.galois.com/ If I'm not mistaken, Jane Street is another functional programming shop: http://www.janestreet.com/ These are companies usi
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by lelele 15y ago
I don't have any info besides Yeggie saying it.
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by lelele 15y ago
Any advanced language worth his salt will allow you to link libraries from other languages. It may require some work, but at least it can be done; whilst you can't expand the capabilities of your programming language of choice as easily. I
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by lelele 15y ago
Why don't programmers have high social status? Because: - their craft is arcane (everyone can grasp what either a doctor or a lawyer do, but grasping what programmers do is more difficult); - they are socially inept (goofy attitudes, disreg
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by lelele 15y ago
Actually, after having used it for ten years, I think C++ is the language which should be deemed obsolete. We don't need such a complex language anymore. Long live C!
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by lelele 15y ago
Dvorak work quite well with Vim. Just use "ce", "de", etc. instead of "cw", "dw", etc.
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by lelele 15y ago
AFAIK, Python folks are experiencing something different: they have two incompatible languages which can't talk to each other, that's why they have to port code from Python 2 to 3. OTOH, no matter how bad I think about Perl, it seems Perl f
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by lelele 15y ago
I have always wondered why languages can link to code written in other languages, yet can't link to an older version of the same language. That is: new code should use new syntax and semantics, while old code should be still compilable and
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by lelele 15y ago
> An angel investor once shared candidly... Candidly? Really? I agree with the previous poster that youngsters are naive and much easier to be taken advantage of. I've been exploited in my younger years in ways which would not work anym
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by lelele 15y ago
Lousy employers who employ lousy interviewers deserve lousy employees.
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by lelele 15y ago
> Mozilla can do nothing about you using Firebug, yet still gets blamed for the slowness. This is how things go in real-world. I remember reading about how much work went into each new version of Windows because of bugs and clever code
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by lelele 15y ago
What's the purpose of using Firefox if you lose all your customizations? Just like Emacs, Firefox rules because it's customizable. On my Linux box, Firefox crashes tens of times a day. I've not dumped it yet because it's the only browser wh
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by lelele 15y ago
http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html And remap Caps Lock as Escape.
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by lelele 15y ago
> Bad user or bad usability? The second, of course. When it comes to usability, HN scores pretty low.
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by lelele 15y ago
What's special about Lisp? Simplicity. No syntax means you don't have to parse code when reading it. Each construct's scope is clear. Whenever I code for a while in Lisp and then have to go back to C or Java, I find myself uncomfortable
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by lelele 15y ago
It is not what Perl you know that will hurt you, but what you don't know.
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by lelele 15y ago
> 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The Big Bang.
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by lelele 15y ago
There aren't boring business. There are boring companies. There aren't boring problems. There are boring solutions.
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by lelele 15y ago
My Nokia 5800, set to silent mode, does not make any sound, it just flashes. Just tried it indoors.

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