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by n00b101 10y ago
> does anyone actually use any of the post-C++-11 stuff Many major C++ projects are using C++11, e.g. LLVM/Clang, Chromium, etc.
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by n00b101 10y ago
> I found it prohibitively complicated to set up a well-working low-latency audio workstation, even though I had one of the few soundcards that had drivers for Linux (Edirol FA-101). I don't know anything about your area, but it sou
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by n00b101 10y ago
> Should practicing doctors, no matter how accomplished, prepare as if sitting for their boards every single time they start the interviewing process to say, move to a new hospital? But software engineers doesn't have any such desig
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by n00b101 10y ago
Many professions have designations that require passing standardized exams, minimum qualified experience requirements, and on-going professional development requirements. Doctors and lawyers are the most prominent such examples, but it is a
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by n00b101 10y ago
htop may be better than top
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by n00b101 10y ago
I suspect that's no worse than minified JavaScript or ASM.js.
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by n00b101 10y ago
There are several SDL2 Emscripten examples for compiling to ASM.js. You would follow the same process, except just direct Emscripten to generate WebAssembly using a "vanilla" LLVM's WebAssembly backend [1]. You will probably
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by n00b101 10y ago
> I'm a bit lost on the appeal of webassembly A clue lies in the fact that all the major browser vendors (Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple) are implementing WebAssembly. What is the strategic reason for this? The speculation is tha
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by n00b101 10y ago
> I wish the scripting line would not be crossed and we could stick to JIT-compiled JS or even dialects that can execute closer to the metal (like asm.js). It's just so nice to be able to have all the codes ... This is addressed in
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by n00b101 10y ago
> I kind don't understand their current roadmap, it appears that they are trying to spread between C++ and JavaScript devs in an attempt not to lose mind share. And maybe losing both camps in the process.
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by n00b101 10y ago
Similar idea as X Window client/server protocol (circa 1984). Similar drawbacks: UI experience is subject to network latency and disruptions. It also means you have to run the application on a server, in order to publish it to the web.
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by n00b101 10y ago
I asked an Intel chip designer about this and his opinion was that asynchronous processors are a "fantasy." His reasoning was that an asynchronous chip would still need to synchronize data communication within the chip. Apparently
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by n00b101 10y ago
For coding, I would really suggest using the NERDtree plugin [1] (after getting a basic hang of vim modes) [1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658
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by n00b101 10y ago
I prefer the terms "life critical" (people could die if there's a bug) and "business critical" (business could die if there's a bug). I think "mission critical" is a military term (mission could fail
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by n00b101 10y ago
I really wish they had implemented Julia in C++11, instead of C. The source code seems to be very difficult to comprehend for anyone who is not one of the original developers. [1] [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia&
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by n00b101 10y ago
I found the relevant discussion on this: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/960
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by n00b101 10y ago
Fair enough. You are correct, WebAssembly is a bytecode for the underlying machinery of current ECMAScript/JavaScript engines. I think you raise a very good question, why did the WebAssembly committee decide to implement their own stac
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by n00b101 10y ago
The reason for not using LLVM bitcode or ASM.js is already covered in detail here https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md I am unsure how JVM or CLR are relevant. WebAssembly is not a vi
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by n00b101 10y ago
Octave is a clone of MATLAB, which is MathWorks' flagship product. They have identical programming languages and similar libraries. MATLAB's initial release was in 1984, and Octave's was in 1988. So there is a direct comparis
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by n00b101 10y ago
Meanwhile, MathWorks annual revenue is over $800 million.
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by n00b101 10y ago
I see, that is an interesting notion. But how do you "share registers" at 10 GHz, without massive stalls during context switches? The suggestion seems require that the cores are separated by some considerable physical distance,
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by n00b101 10y ago
That's only true if your monitor is 4 inches away from your face.
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by n00b101 10y ago
Also interesting is that modern speech and image recognition runs on NVIDIA GPUs using neural networks, with the Intel CPU relegated to playing a supporting actor role. GPUs also face the same Dennard scaling problem, and don't run an
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by n00b101 10y ago
The general term for that is Dark Silicon [1]. It helps a little and as, others have pointed out, Intel CPUs already have a similar feature called "Turbo Boost." NVIDIA processors also have a similar "GPU Boost" feature.
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by n00b101 10y ago
> Maybe you should stop thinking of code as solving problems and more like painting a picture. It doesn't matter if there are mistakes or if you've done everything perfectly, as long as you've created something cool. But p
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by n00b101 10y ago
Relevant: Grace Hopper explains Nanoseconds [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
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by n00b101 10y ago
What Robert Putnam actually said: "The initial social psychological reaction of people – all of us – to diversity is to hunker down and pull in. And that means that collectively there is often an initial reaction in a period of immigra
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by n00b101 10y ago
>Your ignorance of Singapore is showing here. Thanks, but I have spent a great deal of time in Singapore and know perfectly well what language road signs are in. > You might as well berate immigrants to New Zealand for not learning Ma
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by n00b101 10y ago
> As a New Zealander, born and raised in Auckland. Immigrants are bad for society ... There are large pockets of Indian and Chinese people who refuse to integrate into society. Refusing to learn English ... I'm just going quote the
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by n00b101 10y ago
> why is it that a company like Toshiba, in operation for more than a century, is dependent on the goodwill of banks to remain solvent? This is historically very common in Japan, where they are known as Zombie companies. [1] It's be

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