magnushiie

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by magnushiie 1y ago
Skype was written without exception handling and RTTI, although using a lot of C++ features. You can write good C++ code without these dependencies. You don't use STL but with cautious use of hand-built classes you go far. Today I woul
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by magnushiie 5y ago
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by magnushiie 6y ago
Generated columns are not necessary for indexing in Postgres, you can create an index on any expression based on the record (supported by many versions now).
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by magnushiie 8y ago
If you are really after performance writing parsers in .NET while keeping the code structure manageable you should look into the new Span<T> type.
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by magnushiie 9y ago
I was not saying cancellations are not useful, I was saying cancellations are better handled explicitly via cancellation tokens (which compose perfectly, unlike computation based cancellation).
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by magnushiie 9y ago
I think the author wants promises to represent computation, whereas they represent predetermined (i.e. single-shot) events. He mentioned C# Tasks, which do mainly represent computation, but in some cases Tasks are also used as events and th
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by magnushiie 9y ago
While I kind of agree with the rule of 3, in the example given, I would just rename BaseScraper to ScraperWithFormLogin when encountering the 3rd instance and not derive the 3rd from anything (or create an abstract BaseScraper) - there&#x27
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by magnushiie 10y ago
Although I very much like C# where generics are not elided, I think most of the value comes from the productivity from static analysis, and therefore Java generics cature most of the value. Perf improvement opportunities are great though.
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by magnushiie 10y ago
Except the 99% (though in my experience more like 80% of the cases where generics would be considered in other languages) of the time you are refraining yourseld from using interface{} and perhaps choosing another bad solution (lesser of th
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by magnushiie 11y ago
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