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by mailslot 7y ago
I have a theory that Apple will eventually replace the entire keyboard with a giant “Touch Bar.”
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by mailslot 7y ago
I can imagine cars that choose routes that are “optimized” for partners of the manufacturer. Considering a new big screen TV? Well, let’s make sure you pass by Best Buy on your way home everyday until you do. Dinner time? Why not drive righ
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by mailslot 7y ago
They are and they should be used responsibly. I’d argue sparingly also.
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by mailslot 7y ago
It has optional cycle detection, yep. But... you could also just spend a couple of minutes to not have cyclic references.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Mastery is different. You can still be highly proficient in short time without knowing every nuance. Then, you can choose which one feels best and is worth your time pursuing more.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Sure, if you’re using pre-1990’s memory management. Best practices have evolved far beyond the explicit use of malloc & free and unsafe string handling. Most popular dynamic languages don’t use garbage collection under the hood anyway.
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by mailslot 7y ago
I argue that some limitations, like clear resource ownership, are good... but there are still workarounds that aren’t too arduous. Weak pointers and the like are decent enough abstractions to handle the rare case... or just going manual. It
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by mailslot 7y ago
Seems like we could just as easily stop using garbage collection. ... or even go back to reference counting / smart pointers and just live with the “limitation” that we can’t have circular references.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Why not all of the above? Then you can choose the best language for the task at hand. They each have their own unique strengths.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Superconductivity would revolutionize transportation, low cost medical imaging with MRIs, and weapons. Lots of weapons.
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by mailslot 7y ago
It looked really good for me
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by mailslot 7y ago
... Unless you work with people that treat the Dockerfile like a garbage bin of dependency hell and don’t care because “that’s what Docker is for.” Often, I find the loudest containerization zealots tend to write the most fragile code. “Imp
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by mailslot 7y ago
Open Streetmap doesn’t build laser scanning drones, or fleets of connected 360 camera vehicles, or the tech and infrastructure to do the mapping. SOMEONE has to build all of that. It can’t be free. If it’s govt funded, then there WILL be co
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by mailslot 7y ago
I worked, briefly, for a mobile app developer that made an app so bad, it regularly bricked phones. There were bugs in the logging that would trash the flash storage. It would also prevent the radios from entering power save, and floor the
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by mailslot 7y ago
I’m wondering if these aren’t the same people. The ones that, if not texting, are driving while putting on makeup, ogling every lady in a dress, turning into oncoming traffic, popping ambien, or driving drunk. It seems like a personality ty
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by mailslot 8y ago
I have, and my teams write abstraction layers around both internal & external systems for testing, integration, and sanity. It limits the scope & necessity of domain knowledge to be scattered about everywhere. The core logic is easy
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by mailslot 8y ago
Fair
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by mailslot 8y ago
How would gamers feel with 2x longer release cycles and higher cost and/or less features? Lower profit and higher expenses is the only way, but given the risks of any ambitious title, small studios are nearly always flirting with bankr
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by mailslot 8y ago
Every game development job I’ve had has been terrible by any measure... but I still crave to go back. It’s easy to put in long hours when everyone else does and you genuinely enjoy their company. It’s easy to forgo pay, when you have equity
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by mailslot 8y ago
I’m going to get heavily downvoted for this, I’m sure, but... If I find myself needing, or even using, code completion, I’ve fucked up my implementation. My interfaces are not intuitive nor consistent... or it’s just glue lacking adequate a
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by mailslot 8y ago
I went to production with Mongo and it exceeded my expectations. It operated without a single issue for years under high load. It was a dream to administer and a vital piece of a multimillion dollar franchise. Everybody else I know, however
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by mailslot 8y ago
If you work on the things I do, suggesting that there is a viable alternative to C++ is ridiculous. I’d love to write everything in Python & Rust, personally, but it’s just not a viable option for many types of projects. With the smalle
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by mailslot 8y ago
Amazon isn’t a monopoly the way that AT&T or Comcast are. People have a choice and can easily go to Walmart, Target, or most any other retailers online or at a physical location. In this case, Amazon is winning by out-competing their co
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by mailslot 8y ago
You could rotate the mouse pad and the mouse wouldn’t track. Very prankable. Edit: At least on a Sun workstation
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by mailslot 8y ago
Kernel space JavaScript.
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by mailslot 8y ago
How many drunk drivers are responsible enough to even use an app to evade checkpoints? Is this really an issue?
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by mailslot 8y ago
I remember that. HSPA+, which was just fast 3G. It was an improvement from what I remember, but the first time I tasted LTE, I felt ripped off.
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by mailslot 8y ago
Great. Windows updates will now be able to brick the hardware.
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by mailslot 8y ago
There are many reasons. The elsephant in the room, being that it’s Javascript and includes a full blown browser with a JS VM. When I write a C or C++ app, if I use libcurl and a library I’m using does as well, it links to the same shared li
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by mailslot 8y ago
Local and major news sites alike, are cesspoools of intrusive advertising and tracking. They’re so poorly built, with so much advertising, that they hardly even function any longer. Even if Google links to a news site, I won’t click. It’s p

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