marvy

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91.
by marvy 7y ago
> we wanted to break some backward compatibility examples?
92.
by marvy 7y ago
yep, he vaguely mentions this in footnote 6
93.
by marvy 7y ago
One more: OEMs like Dell and HP aren't allowed (by Microsoft) to sell PCs that dual-boot between Windows and something else, such as GNU/Linux so the only people that get to try Linux are those that have it pre-installed as the on
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by marvy 7y ago
See this comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20285242#unv_20290891 (HN really should make it easier to make "anchor" links, so people don't have to load a new page just to see a sub-t
95.
by marvy 7y ago
I think that is indeed the point pron was making, or at least similar. You can't actually ignore soundness, but JVMs sometimes go farther than I'd expect. (Example: don't check for null, just handle SIGBUS if null is "
96.
by marvy 7y ago
makes sense
97.
by marvy 7y ago
so you're saying you approve of the longer titles?
98.
by marvy 7y ago
did it work?
99.
by marvy 7y ago
Sure, but they WANTED colors. The just wanted them to be fast.
100.
by marvy 7y ago
To draw_down: your comments are showing up as dead, As for assert in Go... couldn't you just make a function that takes a Boolean and panics?
101.
by marvy 7y ago
All of these prevent access to your data, which is why lockout is a problem in the first place.
102.
by marvy 8y ago
Just download an LTS and then run do-release-upgrade. (May have to tweak /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades)
103.
by marvy 8y ago
> perhaps it would be better if more programmers took direct responsibility not just for the code they actually write, but for the code they outsource to others, often without truly grappling with the implications of those decisions. Now
104.
by marvy 8y ago
before I forget, thank you both for the discussion; reminded me why I signed up for HN :)
105.
by marvy 8y ago
Hmm... maybe I better watch this talk at some point and try to get this through my head better... When I saw the bridge example my reaction was basically "why would that result in bad bridges?" I feel slightly attacked when you sa
106.
by marvy 8y ago
Sure, register allocation is mostly solved and memory management is far from solved; thus memory management gets far more of the game programmer's attention (or else your game will play at two frames per second, plus occasional longer
107.
by marvy 8y ago
So, I guess what you're saying (correct me if I'm wrong) is that even though memory management (and register allocation, and other things) can be classified as "incidental", this is a dangerous label, because people are
108.
by marvy 8y ago
I think maybe your definition of "actual problem" is not the same as their definition. Let me try to defend their definition with an analogy. If I write in C, I don't have to worry about register allocation (which variable g
109.
by marvy 8y ago
It's an mp4 video. But then the next question is: how did they make that video? And the answer to that is... I have no idea.
110.
by marvy 8y ago
node, not .net
111.
by marvy 8y ago
also: {mystring:"HelloWorld!"}
112.
by marvy 8y ago
That's a really good question and I hope someone comes by to answer it. My guess is that people go beyond this and already design entire adders and stuff at the transistor level if they think it affects their bottleneck.
113.
by marvy 8y ago
Yep, that's exactly what I meant
114.
by marvy 8y ago
Greetings, fellow language lawyer! Pedantic you are, but this time you were not quite pedantic enough :) I think you're conflating two different meanings of "constant-time". The one the C++ standard cares about is "t
115.
by marvy 8y ago
yes! As an extra bonus, make these links easier to find the UI, so I don't have to inspect the HTML to find them.
116.
by marvy 8y ago
Horstmann style looks like my ideal, but there's very little tool support for it, from what I've seen. For instance, if I want to swap the first two lines of an "if" statement, I can't use "line-based" co
117.
by marvy 8y ago
I partly agree and yet... surely the candidate noticed that communicating was difficult?
118.
by marvy 8y ago
> better than nothing, [which is sometimes the only other option] True. The trick is to sort of mentally keep track of how much better than nothing it is, so you know which pieces of anecdotal evidence you can trust with only 40% confid
119.
by marvy 8y ago
Let me try to make hexane360's point more explicitly: Imagine a hypothetical universe where all Haskell books are equally good, but some are more popular than others (maybe they have well known authors, or catchy titles, or are availab
120.
by marvy 8y ago
Oh. That would be a tough spot to be in. I assumed that's not an issue here though.

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