obiterdictum

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by obiterdictum 15y ago
As far as I remember, the distinction between "typesetter" quotation and "logical" quotation appears in computerized typesetting. In traditional paper typesetting, a quote was kerned together with a period (or a comma) into a single charact
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
For me, the second stage in the evolution as a C or a C++ programmer after a discovery like this was to start relying heavily on language standards. After all, it's the ultimate reference about how the language should work on all platforms
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by obiterdictum 15y ago
There isn't. There are two explicit methods to get raw pointer value with different semantics: - get(): auto_ptr retains the ownership - release(): auto_ptr loses the ownership
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I can't say I have a lot of negative experience, but after evaluating it, I've come to the conclusion that it's not the right tool for the job for us. We develop trading systems and I wanted a decent messaging framework for internal non-spe
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I'll throw in an unsubstantiated hypothesis that this happened with popularization of Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People".
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
Yes and no. They do use a thread pool of OS threads, but they don't map 1-to-1 to goroutines.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
PS I can't edit my post anymore, but I remembered that there is a similarly named site for command line tricks: http://www.commandlinefu.com
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
What does this minimalistic page offer except links to (already) rather well-known Bash resources? Am I missing something?
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
That old chestnut again? Standard C and C++ do not have a memory model and do not support multi-threading at the language level. You have to rely on compiler-specific libraries/APIs, or C++0x (which has a memory model).
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
He runs the biggest design studio in Russia, so I suppose he does not have that much time to translate his entire website into English.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
A correction: as far as I recall the author studied in US at some point of time.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I've noticed that for the most part quality of a presentation rests on the skill of the speaker, rather than the quality of slides.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
You've accidentally got emacs in my vim.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
There is probably a lot of redundancy. It's like learning a new technology. Your first project will take a long time, then, once you've solved the meta-problem, it gets incrementally faster each iteration until it reaches some lower bound.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
Add me to the list of curious.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I know Japan, for example, does not have the "clearly erroneous trade" rule. However there are fat-finger protection barriers. TSE, for example, will limit prices based on previous day's close. http://www.tse.or.jp/english/rules/regulati
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
"The two men worked out how the computerised system would react to certain trading patterns – allowing them to influence the price of low-volume stocks." The key phrase here is "influence the price" . Taking the quote at face value, they
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
You are probably attending wrong kind of conferences. Either this, or you are not the target audience.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
It's hard to make any judgement of a language that's barely a year old, especially about performance and libraries. All industry standard languages are at least a decade old. > C++ and Java are the gold-standard for library-centric con
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
...followed by ln -s /dev/null ~/.macromedia
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
It's interesting to note that Orwell takes a contrary viewpoint: http://www.orwelltoday.com/orwellwaryoungwhy.shtml "Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man? The argument usually advanced is that in killing women you are killing the b
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I don't think it should be taken literally, because statisticians come in different guises. Nobody ever says that being statistician is hot, yet there is a lot of interest in quantitative analysis and HFT (even here on HN) which is all abou
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I think most of them just skim the description and bid on a lot of projects without really reading them and hope to get some of them awarded. Being non-native English speakers compounds the problem. Or am I being too gentle? It's hard to mi
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
Foc C++ development I'd add A.vim: switch (or split) quickly from header to its corresponding c/cpp file.
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I find it interesting how the attitude is different when a web startup fails and Google fails. I keep reading here how startups must try out as many different ideas as possible: try an idea, fail early, learn from your mistakes, move on to
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
Graph scale makes all the difference: try searching "python, clojure", "java, clojure", or "c#, clojure".
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
There is a fine line between building a maintainable architecture and over-engineering. I think experience of being at both ends of the spectrum can help you "feel" the right level of generalization. At first your code is an unmaintainable
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SQLite 3.7.0 Released(sqlite.org)
66 points by obiterdictum 16y ago|16 comments
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
A more modern variant is "A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs." -- Bram Moolenaar
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by obiterdictum 16y ago
I worked on a Symbian application a few years ago. Symbian C++ IDE (Carbide C++) costed 1,300 euros in 2007. Some S60 APIs are only available to Nokia partners (costs money). Now combine it with antiquated and poorly documented API, and the

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