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by lmitchell 9y ago
And there are 10 million Github repos out there! So yeah... we're running out. ;)
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I don't understand the hate for merging up. I've worked with the 'cherry-pick into release branches' model, and also with an automated merge-upwards model, and I found the automerge to be WAY easier to deal with. If you
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I mean... for what it's worth, I'd never seen it before, I would never have seen it without the manual intervention, and I loved it and think it's perfect for HN. I don't think we really need a 'fundamental fix&#x27
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by lmitchell 9y ago
Seconded this, this is my setup on both Windows and Linux and works for me across multi-million-line C and C++ codebases. It's quite finicky to get set up on Windows at first (or at least, it was for me last time I tried), but once you
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by lmitchell 9y ago
Yep, I'm a huge fan of this for this reason. I've spent a lot of time in my life messing around with cmake, scons, custom bash scripts... you name it, trying to get around C++'s shitty dependency management. And then recently
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by lmitchell 9y ago
And if that's not good enough, there's the one whose game basically opens with 'Losing is fun!': http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Losing
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by lmitchell 9y ago
Presumably Microsoft is allowed to use Windows wherever they please ;)
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Sure - I didn't really mean to imply that starting at main() every time was the way to go about things. I guess my point is just that I find it's usually a lot more useful to methodically explore than it is to sit and hypothesize.
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by lmitchell 10y ago
This is a surprisingly accurate description of the general sort of debugging technique I've gotten better at as I get better at programming. I find that logically it tends to make more sense to me to start with a high-level function, a
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Because `i` isn't an int, it's an initializer_list, and you almost never want to actually create an initializer_list instead of an int? Seems pretty understandable to me.
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by lmitchell 10y ago
I came into this thread expecting an article about how Silk Road was originally used by pot dealers... not what I expected but still interesting :P
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by lmitchell 10y ago
This was what I was going to say but I figured it was a pretty common sentiment :) The thing that really gave me confidence was finding someone who was willing to take me on and mentor me when I was figuring things out, it makes a massive d
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Oh lord well there goes a good hour of my time. I'm a sucker for a good DF story... :P
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Really cool, thanks! I played SimCity a fair bit as a kid, it's really fun to look through s_disast.c in that repo... brings back some memories :P
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by lmitchell 10y ago
I'm not 100% certain of all the details but isn't that exactly what Google tried, and failed, to assert originally? If I remember correctly, the 'fair use' argument only came up after Google lost on the 'can't
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by lmitchell 10y ago
https://www.lurkmore.com/view/GNU/Linux_interjection
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by lmitchell 10y ago
It's the nature of the chords you're able to play - you're given the 1-7 chords of a specific mode (the most common ones are the major and minor modes, the notes of those modes make the major and minor scales of a key - but t
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by lmitchell 10y ago
What is this? I get the feeling there's a joke somewhere I'm not getting that's pretty funny.
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Probably more of a heap I would think.
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Or, well, there are the highschoolers who are actually writing OSes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045254 :P
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by lmitchell 10y ago
While I think that's true, it's also orthogonal to the 'belt' concept [1] they're using, which I think GP was referring to. I'm also curious about the state of the Mill - judging by the forums on their website
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by lmitchell 10y ago
True, but I still think it can be done better, and the time will only get more ripe for it as more longtime players quit (source: all my friends quit Dota and we've been playing since beta or soon after).
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by lmitchell 10y ago
I disagree at least on one point - I've also played Dota a fair bit in the last few years, and as for Dota, I think parent might be pretty on the money when they say games are moving away from traditional MOBAs. The format is great, bu
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by lmitchell 10y ago
As someone whose parents are both foresters, this actually confused me pretty hard. I'm disappointed this wasn't a forestry-oriented startup :P
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by lmitchell 10y ago
So obviously YMMV, but I was born in '92 and my roommate and I listened through basically this whole thing last night - and we both agree with you, the '80s was where it was at.
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Maybe a bit off-topic, but I just want to clarify - lambdas only include dynamic allocation if you convert them to an std::function, right? I was under the impression that 'auto f = []{...}' did no heap allocation, but converting
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by lmitchell 10y ago
Basically what I came in here to say. I swear half of my uni calculus class would have failed without Paul's notes :D
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Well that's interesting - the only difference between you and I was YouTube, and I'm a married man over 32 making 52,000+. (I have YouTube because Google installed it by default on my phone but I disabled it so I didn't cou
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Haha I'm married (wrong), over 32 (wrong by about ten years), and make more than 52,000/year (wrong by more than I'd like to admit as an intern :D)
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by lmitchell 11y ago
Ohh, are 'dead' comments different from ones that have just been downvoted into mostly-grayness? In that case I don't actually see them, I just see undead comments :) thanks for clarifying

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