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by nonsince 9y ago
Your browser is doing ~60fps rendering on the GPU already, it's just doing it much less efficiently. This does less work on the CPU _and_ less work on the GPU, for the same result.
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by nonsince 9y ago
Many people raise the pitch of their voice as if asking a question when saying something doubtfully, so the question mark reads similarly to how one would say it out loud. If you have access to formatting, a similar way of achieving the sam
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by nonsince 9y ago
Type Systems as Macros http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/stchang/popl2017/ It's not world-changing or even particularly novel, but it's such a simple concept explained very well that really changes how yo
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by nonsince 9y ago
Storing hundreds of files in memory is absolutely not necessary. You can incrementally page files in and out, keeping the total size low. Anything that requires an entire file to be loaded instead of using some structure like an automatical
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by nonsince 9y ago
Not hotdog?
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by nonsince 9y ago
With all due respect, I don't think it would be fair to call the quantum project a rewrite. They're incrementally replacing components, and it's not like the original code is abandoned in favour of Servo. It's borne frui
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by nonsince 9y ago
This is highly dependent on the company, small companies with a strong technical focus generally do better since the developers have more say over hiring.
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by nonsince 9y ago
It's different for me, since my company uses a relatively obscure language (Rust, it might not seem obscure if you hang around on HN but most people just look at you quizzically if you bring it up), but contributing to the compiler and
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by nonsince 9y ago
Rust is neither OO nor FP, it's procedural (like C and Fortran) but borrows concepts from OO and FP. OO requires data structures to support dynamic dispatch, and although you can have dynamic dispatch in Rust via trait objects your cod
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by nonsince 9y ago
I use urxvt with xmonad (another tiling WM). I love it, it's so minimalist and basic. I think it supports tabs with a perl extension but by default it has no fancy functionality that your WM can provide for you.
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by nonsince 9y ago
Hi Dan
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by nonsince 9y ago
I recently moved from the Netherlands, where card is overwhelmingly favoured (at least in Amsterdam and Den Haag, I've never been somewhere that doesn't take card and some places refuse cash) to Berlin, which I think is even more
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by nonsince 9y ago
Even outside the engines available to us plebs C# is becoming extremely popular in game dev. It's basically ergonomic C++ so it's very familiar to the kind of people who do games for a living, the VM is world-beatingly fast, and i
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by nonsince 9y ago
Rust is my favourite language for code that has to run on end-users' computers. It's also my favourite language in general, but for that specific usecase it's leagues ahead of the competition in my opinion.
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by nonsince 9y ago
Compared to JavaScript, one would guess. Rust is capable of generating extremely small binaries but none of the compiler's defaults are amenable to it
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by nonsince 9y ago
Desktop link here https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/26/billionaire-investor-marks-w...
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Pwnat – NAT hole-punching without a third party or UPnP (2012)(samy.pl)
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by nonsince 9y ago
> As Tom Dale, a senior software engineer at LinkedIn and a JavaScript luminary, more colorfully described it to me, “JavaScript is like the hippie parents who let you have premarital sex and smoke weed.” That sounds great, he notes, eve
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by nonsince 9y ago
It's not about losing the ability to adapt. Older people are more expensive because they're more experienced. Businesses would rather skimp on quality. I say this as a 22yo.
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by nonsince 9y ago
The destruction-of-beauty argument is not without merit, but no-one makes that argument about Mt Rushmore. You can make something more beautiful, and that doesn't make the destruction of beauty argument moot but it does make it less co
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by nonsince 9y ago
It's not better UX for the end-user if the app is slower. It's not acceptable to make your life easier as a developer in trade for making a worse app. If the developer ergonomics lead to more features then it may be a good trade-o
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by nonsince 9y ago
If I understand the abstract correctly, that relies on having a trusted compiler, which assumably would have to be bootstrapped ultimately from a trusted hand-written compiler in machine code. This effectively counters malicious trusting tr
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by nonsince 9y ago
If the OCaml code is Standard ML-compliant you could run it on Cake, then you only have to trust the conversion
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by nonsince 9y ago
Rust has a pattern-matching "let" and then you can prefix names within any pattern with "mut" to make it mutable. So a basic mutable var is "let mut" but it's just a combination of two other features. I th
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by nonsince 9y ago
I'm really interested in Fortran because I love super down-to-the-metal optimisation stuff, but I have no meaningful use-case for it. Where would you recommend someone start if they wanted to get into modern Fortran?
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by nonsince 9y ago
This is the most Hacker News comment I have seen in years and I love it
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by nonsince 9y ago
Ok, so the only reason anyone's using Fortran is for crazy speeds, what's the codegen like compared to gfortran?
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by nonsince 9y ago
I don't use a smartphone, and the only smartphone-ish device I have (iPod touch) I only even bought because some things won't even run on PC anymore. This is successfully selling me on getting a high-end android phone, something I
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Achieving warp speed with Rust(gist.github.com)
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by nonsince 9y ago
I did music at GCSE and A-level so I knew about a lot of the basic theory here, but it's fallen out of use in the past year or two. The best part of this by far was the deconstruction of tracks that I like into their components and rea

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