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by p0nce 6y ago
> working at Alphabet is no longer a choice they can make in good conscience. Sorry to say so, but it has always been a moral failure to work in the surveillance industry.
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by p0nce 6y ago
> The entire syntax for Clojure fits in a single line. But some of us absolutely don't like this syntax. The small bits of Java in the article are very readable in comparison.
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The D compiler have had a great changelog since years and it has made a difference to popularize what went into an update. Each major change comes with examples, and it's great content. https://dlang.org/changelog/
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by p0nce 6y ago
This is generally true, however in a toxic workplace being effective might set you as a target for doomed projects or envy - even sabotage. You may see people getting promoted by threatening to leave rather than doing good work. You can&#x2
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by p0nce 6y ago
It's fun because sometimes all of your points are true at once :)
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by p0nce 6y ago
Suffering is the commodity engineers are providing.
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> which will cause them to no longer be asked which to use each time. This sort of pattern is conceptualized well in the book "About Face". I think it's a helpful book that explain a lot of the DAW popularity variation.
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As a plugin vendor supporting Linux: I think the problem might not be technical but is instead all about the UX. Regardless, it's been great supporting Linux as it appear 5% to 20% of our userbase are now Linux users (macOS 30%). On Wi
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by p0nce 6y ago
> uninitialized variables All variables are initialized in D, so not sure what you have found there. A language that is in active use generates tons of questions though :)
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Lock-free is a bad substitute for having larger task size.
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Typical developer is not allowed by contract to say anything related to the product externally. They are just respecting a contract they signed.
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by p0nce 6y ago
bad website, you cannot post to your followers, it makes people unhappy, advertising there is useless
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Using assembler would be likely slower, when intrinsics are available.
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by p0nce 6y ago
Exactly this. It's hardly ever mentionned, but as error paths are less tested, code that is written without exceptions (and RAII) will be wrong a lot more often.
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They are error codes.
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Yes, it's really a simple realization. Almost common wisdom that some things matter more than others, but when you've learned something alone / incorrectly you must forget those first classifications. For example my singing t
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by p0nce 6y ago
As an example. Suppose you get an interest in your bodily functions, and try experimenting with foods and stuff. You want to understand this stuff. At first your mental model will be very confused. You may think that you can sense your (say
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by p0nce 6y ago
No big problems using GIMP here, for the last 15 years. A lot of the tools are genuinely useful.
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Singing lessons were immensely valuable to me for an unexpected reasons: to really make progress in singing you need to forego a lot of older habits and rearrange your neurons, a process that was apparently well understood by the teacher, a
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by p0nce 6y ago
It's really a classic situation, the greenfield project is stopped and the historical "old" project keeps going on.
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by p0nce 6y ago
Before git won there were some competitors with better command-line, like: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrVsGit
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by p0nce 6y ago
Linux is great BUT it has a lot of UX design problems every time I have to use it.
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by p0nce 6y ago
Also the M1 is built on TSMC 5nm. The AMD Radeon Pro 5600M is built on TSMC 7nm.
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by p0nce 6y ago
Honestly sounds very interesting and necessary book.
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by p0nce 6y ago
Keep it up! I've subscribed. I hate most of DAWs.
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by p0nce 6y ago
With Rosetta a lot of x86_64 programs actually do work, and the porting to arm64 is not _that_ bad. Besides you get all iPhone/iPad apps :)
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People speak about Apple excellent libraries, but a lot of these just lack in documentation. Moreover, Apple will also _remove_ documentation of API they are not favouring. And it makes sense, Apple is such a monopoly it can afford to have
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by p0nce 6y ago
Rust builds slower than C++.
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VAT is taxing added value, it taxes wealth right where it is created.
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by p0nce 6y ago
COM is still used a lot in audio (at least the COM ABI) because it allows to share objects between programs/shared libraries and manage their destruction. It also has a nice way to add functionality.

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