mikulas_florek

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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
Since the people there chose the same path as me, they were in fact more similar to me (similar demographics, hobbies, ...).
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
I doubt they are higher judging by the number of comments and votes.
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
How do you know people do not care? There are billions of people with phones without enough space and slow or almost nonexistent internet access. They are just not vocal about it.
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
When I was on the front page of HN, IIRC it meant about 5k visits in an hour. How can such a low number kill a webpage... Or do other on the front page experience much higher traffic?
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
Of course they have no way to get btc-e's bitcoins, unless Vinnik tells them the private key, which I bet he will. So it's basically US stealing from people, yet again.
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
What about ordinary people who had money/bitcoins/other cryptocurrency on btc-e? What will happen with money in btc-e's wallets?
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
Vanilla Unity tooling is a joke. Of course it's enough for most games. Store solves some issues, but not all.
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
It's counterproductive. It comes to the point where I do not read anything from certain sites. Diversity is nice, but it does not mean that someone, who has little knowledge in certain area, should write an article from the area.
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by mikulas_florek 9y ago
Does anybody here have "D version 5" compiled? I would like to compare it with my naive C++ version.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Example: 1. I have 0 bitcoins, price is $1250 2. Price drop 20% to $1000 3. I buy 1bitcoin for $1000 4. Price rise to $1200 5. I sell at $1200, earning 20%, not 40% Am I missing something?
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
That looks useful. I do not know F#, but can't you still use ordinary float and have the same bug?
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
You can write the exact same wrong code in e.g. C# public class Meters { public int x; } public class Yards { public int x; } public class Kilograms { public int x; } Meters m = ... Yards y = ... Kilograms k = ... k.x = m.x
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
> Yes, you can. But at least you have a better option and better chance of other people using it, so statistically you'll have less errors. I highly doubt that this specific bug would not happen in any typesafe language. The only wa
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
> casting pointer to meters into pointer to yards, while many C features force or encourage this behaviour. What C feature forces or encourages casting Meters* to Yards*? > You also cannot override operators for combining those units.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
It's hard to discuss this without using any specific "type-safe" language. 1. you can have the same problem in type-safe language, since it will probably have cast to int too 2. do not use builtin operators in C for that, ins
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
If I say: "There are all these bugs in curl, you should rewrite it in rust and it will be better (but I've never done anything similar, nor there is any scienetific proof for what I am saying)" then it's not thoughtful c
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
You can do that in C struct Meters { int value; }
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because they forgot to convert units between different systems. That's an error that can (and probably would) be done in all type-safe languages I know of.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Isn't C 11 years older than Turbo Pascal?
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
> There is nothing consistently consistent about UB. Yet, for years I am memmove-ing objects which should not be memmoved. Or using unions the way they should not be used. > and that they mostly dropped the other saner interpretation
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
> What do you mean by checking against double-free? I pay small runtime cost for the check by having guard values around every allocation. At first I wanted to enable it only in debug builds, but I am too lazy to disable it in release bu
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
I know very well what UB is and I bet there is not a single big program which does not have undefined behaviour. I even rely on UB sometimes, because with well defined set of compilers and systems, it's in reality well defined. I was t
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
> Having a reference that the GC doesn't collect Using such object is/can be as dangerous. In fact I find double-free safer because it usually crashes (and in my code I do checks so it almost certainly crashes), while in C# I c
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Let's take some safe language, e.g. c# 1. object should not exist and the second free is incorrect In C# I can have to variables pointing to the same object, I null only one of them. The second should be nulled too, but it's not.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Double free is not necessary a C issue, but it can be also a program logic issue - I expect to have an object, but it's already deleted. So it's one of 1. object should not exist and the second free is incorrect 2. object should e
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Price of shares is often based on faith in future value, which I guess is higher in case of NetFlix.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
It can be disabled so it's no problem.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
Exactly! When I was hiring I was even asking question I did not know answers to (not as a canditate, but as an interviewer).
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
I guess you can consider yourself lucky, I would not want to work for such company.
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by mikulas_florek 10y ago
I use only a small part of screen when writing code, because it somehow forces me to write shorter, cleaner functions. Although debugging is terrible experience on small monitors, because I need more windows open at the same time - watches,

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