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by obiterdictum 15y ago
This topic is always popular here on HN. A pain point even. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561311 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2345552 However most of these submissions do not si
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Why is it a bad thing? I think any site doing startup coverage needs to publish the list of its investors as a disclaimer.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Obviously, (1) it's not very reusable, and (2) doesn't work for office with glass doors and open-plan offices.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
This remnids me of a story last year about an online retailer who was deliberately rude to his customers to get bad press, because it improved his search engine ratings. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pag...
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I can't get the index page now. Sorry, I think the traffic from HN may have killed it. :(
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Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job?(therighttool.hammerprinciple.com)
138 points by obiterdictum 15y ago|56 comments
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
"457 visa holders are usually required to purchase their own since everyone else is covered under the national health care system." Not sure if you are aware of this, but if you are not entitled to Medicare, you are exempt from paying Med
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
You will be pleased to know that there is a site full of little gems like this: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes Most of my time savers that I've never thought of were found there.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Actually it's currently used in Apple's Siri to answer factual questions.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I'd say by the middle of next year you should be able to use the a lot of the features portably. GCC: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html Clang: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html (currently down) MSVC: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vc
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
We have just started using some C++11 features, and with new features come new traps and potential complexities, as you'd expect with C++. A few examples: 1. Implicit lambdas ("[=]") capture "this" pointer for data members, if you capture a
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I am not a native English speaker, but I'm constantly dumbfounded as to why anyone would even entertain the idea that "its/it's" are in any way similar. When you substitute one with another, the sentence just does not parse . It stops maki
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
This feels like a C++ tutorial from mid-90s. C++ code written today looks nothing like what's presented in this article. Besides, some poor sample code choices jump out at me, like throwing an int and using C library. I realize they are the
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
PDF conversion is a difficult problem. To my rudimentary understanding of the format, PDF documents aren't really plain text, they have no semantic information, they are just individual glyphs and figures mapped to absolute coordinates on a
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Another good alternative is to remap the infrequently used Caps-Lock key to Esc (what Emacs users remapped to Control for ages). http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RemapCapsLock
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I apologize in advance for this ode to Vim, but I feel I should get it off my chest. I admit, the main reason for me to develop in Vim these days is to simply minimize the number of keystrokes I have to press (and the number of times I have
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-12/greece-s-risk-of-de... 98% chance of default makes them essentially expensive lottery tickets at this point.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I'm curious if you benchmarked Haskell implementations against any C or C++ implementations (especially for market connectivity). Any hint about magnitude of difference?
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Tsuru Capital claims to be using Haskell almost exclusively. http://www.tsurucapital.com/en/
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I like where this is going, but it was a bit unstable for my taste last I tried it. I think it still relies on the file being syntactically correct, which may break your parsing sometimes and is still quite slow with template-heavy code (Bo
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Deficiencies of GCC's Optimizer (AI-32/64)(gcc.gnu.org)
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
These two are orthogonal. Simply put, 1. ABI is a set of rules for interaction between multiple code units (functions, translation units, libraries) running sequentially and calling each other, e.g. how arguments are passed to the functions
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
The way I see it is that before C++11, the semantics of individual threading implementations relied on compiler and platform-specific primitives (like atomics and barriers) that happened to be similar enough to create an illusion that C++
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I've never built a compiler, but how well does having common optimizer for all platforms work in practice ? (11.5.1) Does it cause a "lowest common denominator" effect thus making the code take less advantage of the target architecture tha
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
It seems to me that the entire site is made up of fluff articles and the the bulk of submitter's history is made up of links to this (and also its 16yo founder's) site. File this under self-promotion.
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I think this is a very web-development-centric view on things. In fact, I dare suggest that the world does not revolve around JS, and the bulk of development, especially in-house, is done in fairly pedestrian languages (C++, Java, C#). Web
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
The blog of Nomura's NXT Direct system developer: http://hackingnasdaq.blogspot.com/
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A Japanese broker offers clients market access faster than 3 microseconds (2010)(ft.com)
2 points by obiterdictum 15y ago|1 comments
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
I'm a full-time Vim user. This was my problem when I started with Vim. But then I learned to love GDB and other command-line development tools. At first it seemed a bit archaic to me, a Visual Studio user at the time, but when I got a hang
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
Disclaimer: I don't have a citation for this, I just remember it mentioned a few times, so I may very well be wrong.

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