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by megrimlock 14y ago
What you describe as a marketing gimmick has let us gradually migrate a 10M line cross-platform C codebase to C++. There are plenty of reasons to dislike C++ but casually disparaging them often means you miss reasons for its continued real
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by megrimlock 14y ago
This may sound crazy, but there are people drawn to accounting or insurance who are simply numerate, who love numbers and precision and carefully designing rules that accomodate the fascinating special cases of the real world, and who do en
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by megrimlock 15y ago
Thanks for the details! This technique works surprisingly well. (One of the artifacts I was able to find is at the base of the Bay Bridge in SF's SOMA -- there's a vertical wall that has the street surface projected up along it rather tha
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by megrimlock 15y ago
The underlying problem in tech hiring is that it is difficult to assess candidates in an interview format. Many of the skills and personality factors that make someone a success are dependent on context. Transplanting an engineer to a new
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by megrimlock 15y ago
Yeah, Chrome represents a pretty different model from most desktop apps we run. Chrome's seamless auto-update has brought web-app style continuous iteration to the desktop. That means continuous change, and presumably improvement, but als
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by megrimlock 15y ago
One nice thing about the book is that it gives sympathetic economic context to some of these issues, humanizing what might otherwise seem like utter fraud. Briefly, it's a combination of: - inevitable human motives when faced with a chance
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by megrimlock 15y ago
For anyone who found this tale interesting, "Poorly Made in China" is a well-written and eye-opening account of similar antics. http://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production/... Much like the kickstarter project mentions, th
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by megrimlock 15y ago
Sony Pictures Imageworks also does this: http://opensource.imageworks.com/ As has ILM: http://www.openexr.com/ Beyond benefiting from open source and wanting to give back, these studios use lots of software with different features and f
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by megrimlock 15y ago
You're right that "fractal" is a bit sloppy here. It's always been a tawdry analogy when used like this that will annoy anyone who likes their words to have meaning. But I think his underlying point is that Apple consistently executes sim
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by megrimlock 15y ago
Command queueing allows the device controller to handle requests out of order. Since it has intimate knowledge of the hardware it can order requests for maximum throughput.
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by megrimlock 15y ago
If that's the case then I wonder if my search results will end up populated solely by witticisms and novelties. In my experience so far +1 seems mainly used as a polite nod or chuckle, because its primary effect is that it's visible to the
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by megrimlock 15y ago
The space of OpenGL programs that fail to produce anything visible onscreen is surprisingly vast.
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Intel Single-program Multiple-data Compiler(ispc.github.com)
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by megrimlock 15y ago
Consider that small talk can simply be a token gesture of openness to someone, a chance to engage them and try to take the conversation to a more interesting place. Few people can't jump straight to deep topics all the time and the people
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by megrimlock 15y ago
That sounds really frustrating. Have you asked them why they didn't offer, in a non-accusatory way that won't put them immediately on the defensive? They may feel guilty and too ashamed to speak of it now. I can imagine the last thing yo
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by megrimlock 15y ago
We all know things really happen in primes. It's numerology you can believe in.
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by megrimlock 15y ago
I enjoyed reading your comment from my pre, while sitting in the park on a nice day. I agree that the fanfare over gee-whiz features is just hype. What should interest you is the potential, though unlikely emergence of another serious com
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Genuine appreciation for concise recapitulation. I felt I could hear the Tivo fast-forward beep-boop sound while reading your comment.
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Ambient occlusion (as the term is typically used) is a way to approximate local reflection of uniform inbound (aka ambient) light. It does this by measuring how much of the exterior environment is visible at each point, as a way to modulat
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Start by talking to them about how you think they are really good at solving problems -- and how one of the challenges you hope they can solve is producing work that others on the team can understand and extend. They may need to first hear
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Slide 87 of the pdf has the best summary, but the main thing w/r/r REST is that get/put of entire resources can be too heavy. 1. custom methods let you get/put specific fields, without having to transfer the whole thing or split resources
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Yes, this approach is ideal when you are one person working consistently on the same project, and have much of the design in your head, which is feasible when you keep the code size small. It suffers when you have multiple people working si
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Use caching as a last resort, not as a fundamental design strategy Resist excessive abstraction Set performance targets for yourself Excellent points for making any software perform well. I am working on performance in a non-web app
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by megrimlock 16y ago
It's kind of fascinating to peruse the generated js, if you are at all familiar with the CPython code: http://syntensity.com/static/python.js Also geeky fun to try to recognize what constants like 4294967295 correspond to -- it's all over
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Yes. The majority of "recommendations" we receive were provided as a polite favor to someone's former co-worker, relative, neighbor, etc. These are rarely better than random applicants, perhaps because they trying to exploit social connec
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Google Docs spreadsheet, one sheet per month, with shared write access. Easy to handle both recurring expenses and one-offs (hypothetical keg party, hypothetically broken window from hypothetical keg party). Also easy to factor in percent
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by megrimlock 16y ago
HN expects a higher level of argument than unsubstantiated claims and lazy categorical insults. Please raise your game.
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by megrimlock 16y ago
Is your objection just to C++ syntax in general (in which case: total agreement) or something particular about OKWS? It seems pretty self-explanatory, as far as C++ goes: okclnt_t *make_newclnt (ptr<ahttpcon> x); This declar
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by megrimlock 16y ago
You might be interested in boost::optional, even if only as a point of comparison: http://boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/optional/doc/html/inde...
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by megrimlock 16y ago
See "Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...

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