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by nindalf 4y ago
Was clang development so dependent on one organisation? I can easily believe that many Google engineers are choosing to spend their time on Carbon now, but it seems strange that there was so much dependence here. Could there be some other r
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by nindalf 4y ago
I’ve heard that story many times. Maybe it’s true this time. I’m not going to stick around to find out because I got burned before.
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by nindalf 4y ago
No I actually can’t because during these hiatuses there were many PRs submitted. These weren’t merged in because the author didn’t review them. Why does HN have this urge to write this template comment of “oh it’s free software, no complain
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by nindalf 4y ago
I respect Sergio but I’ve heard that like too many times in the last 3 years. Every few months it’s the same excitement whenever some activity is spotted on the repo. It always ends the same way - stalled yet again. The goodwill earned has
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by nindalf 4y ago
I’ve been here twice as long as you and it seems very coherent to me. Your comments on the other hand, less so.
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by nindalf 4y ago
When Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked in his home and nearly killed, your guy tweeted out a conspiracy theory that it was a tiff between two gay lovers. Could you show me the Science (TM) that backed this conspiracy theory? You might str
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by nindalf 4y ago
I think we might be overindexed on his Twitter antics. Yes, he’s proven himself an incompetent moron for not realising the difficulty of running Twitter despite repeatedly being told it’s difficult. But this was only noticed by terminally o
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by nindalf 4y ago
Oh, is that so?
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by nindalf 4y ago
Those who think C is inherently good can’t be convinced otherwise. Any argument will be dismissed with “programmers need do be better”. Any assertion will be dismissed as subjective, lacking data. Any data backed study from Microsoft [1] or
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by nindalf 4y ago
> Why write in the open if you write for a black box? The irony of this is two fold. Everyone on this thread is writing comments in the open that is training the black box. But one step further, none of us owns the content we write on HN
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by nindalf 4y ago
Not surprised Kate Reading narrates audiobooks.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Rust makes a distinction between recoverable and unrecoverable errors. Recoverable errors are the E in Result<T, E>. You can take action and recover, depending on what kind of E it is. Unrecoverable errors are things like stack overfl
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by nindalf 4y ago
You might like how Rust does error handling. Rather than a function returning a triple of (val, error) where the error can be ignored, functions return Result<T, E>. If you want to get the T, you must write code that handles both poss
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by nindalf 4y ago
> Group chats have thrived and are very rarely problematic This is a person who has never seen what WhatsApp groups look like in Brazil or India.
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by nindalf 4y ago
SBF was donating his customers’ deposits. Bill Gates is donating his own wealth. SBF made his money from a Ponzi scheme. Gates made his money selling software. SBF’s wealth existed only in fantasy land. Gates’ wealth exists on the real stoc
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by nindalf 4y ago
I think it was just a regular pump and dump like with doge or btc. He was going to buy a stake, get his followers excited, pump the share price and then dump it. What he didn’t realise is that in the real world, contracts can be enforced.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Oh you’ve been programming only for a few decades? I want to make a "kids today" joke/comment, but it's more of just the pace of trends/fads not the people per se. I’m actually a cosmic entity that views time as an
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by nindalf 4y ago
You want to take a quick poll on HN? Nearly everyone who comments here (me included) passionately hate seeing hucksters defraud the general public.
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by nindalf 4y ago
I’ve worked many years in fields adjacent to scams and fraud. I’ve seen many different kinds, especially romance and financial scams. This knowledge doesn’t make me more confident about avoiding scams, it’s made me realise that anyone can b
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by nindalf 4y ago
It's a game that can be played both casually and competitively, like many other games. But using artificial aids would be frowned upon even in casual contexts. I would be annoyed if my opponent in chess got suggestions from a chess AI
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by nindalf 4y ago
This was discussed 10 days ago (287 points, 332 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33714007 dang - scribe.rip is an alternative front end to medium.com. That's why this wasn't caught by the dupe dete
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by nindalf 4y ago
Imagine if Hardy had never received the letter from Ramanujan for whatever reason. Like a regular, run of the mill Royal Mail mistake. Ramanujan would have died in obscurity, with no one understanding his genius.
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by nindalf 4y ago
I think the theory is that the payoff comes later. Ideally the system quietly continues working well for decades, but needs maintenance and improvements 30 years from now, by which time most of the existing C++ programmers have retired. If
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by nindalf 4y ago
> look at me oscillate I'm curious, are you dyslexic? Seeing letters move is generally something that people with dyslexia complain about.
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by nindalf 4y ago
> Arrays do have an advantage however, compilers can see their size Wouldn’t vectors have the same advantage in Rust? If we’re iterating over a vector, it’s proveable at compile time that the length is not being modified during the itera
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by nindalf 4y ago
No doubt when GP refused to complete the coding assessment the people who designed it thought “aha! Yet another non-coder filtered out by our process!”
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by nindalf 4y ago
Disagree. Asimov himself matured as he grew older and that improved his writing. In the original Foundation trilogy women are mere props. Things happen to them, they don’t make things happen. In his later years he was capable of writing a s
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by nindalf 4y ago
GP is extrapolating from their experience and assumes that everyone would feel the same way. “I’m less productive in Go compared to Java Spring” => “the whole world is less productive in Go compared to Java Spring”.
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by nindalf 4y ago
GP was asked to support their claims with data and didn’t like it.
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by nindalf 4y ago
The can and have convinced most working age people to get vaxxed. The issue is the low rate of vaccination among those who are 80+. These folks rarely interact with organs of the state, and there’s not much you can do to coerce them. Simply

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