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by p0nce 7y ago
I've never switched to Chrome from Firefox. I don't really care that it's 10% faster, when Chrome is wielded as a weapon against freedom.
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by p0nce 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043965
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by p0nce 7y ago
Yes. This is only one of these "must-read book list", what you can do is search several of them and see which ones are quoted by almost everyone! About "everything" I would rate the following books very highly, for their
544.
by p0nce 7y ago
Part of the Stone Age is that the good stuff is already out there in books nobody reads, rather than fancy Medium posts.
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by p0nce 7y ago
HEVC in practice is 3x the encoding complexity for 40% to 50% bitrate reduction.
546.
by p0nce 7y ago
Netflix is already using HEVC since a while.
547.
by p0nce 7y ago
Please don't confuse "x265" and "H.265 / HEVC"
548.
by p0nce 7y ago
It's easy to have opinions on things, but that doesn't mean these opinions have any substance. If modern architects choose glass buildings maybe there is more to it than just our immediate reaction.
549.
by p0nce 7y ago
When concrete was introduced it was considered highly elegant.
550.
by p0nce 7y ago
Any market-leading product which is known for having the worst codebase out of all the competitors?
551.
by p0nce 7y ago
Never really seen that in practice, code is "touched" but rewritten?
552.
by p0nce 7y ago
This is the same thing with Rust, where original core team are Mozilla's employees.
553.
by p0nce 7y ago
CBT should be especially well suited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19958920
554.
by p0nce 7y ago
Thanks for saying this, it's especially strange to see so much people disparage SOLID as if they have outgrown the concept because it was invented some years ago.
555.
by p0nce 7y ago
Surely we can do without the SOLID principles this time, right? right?
556.
by p0nce 7y ago
This article completely changed my mind about SOLID and I realized how underrated this simple mnemonic still is: https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2265481-oop-is-dead-long...
557.
by p0nce 7y ago
Try it and see for yourself.
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by p0nce 7y ago
Easier to create a software company than work for one.
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by p0nce 7y ago
Well engineering decision are tradeoffs, using D i've never missed pattern-matching and I have used ocaml before.
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by p0nce 7y ago
In D the GC heap is shared across registered threads, so it supports values allocated in one thread and passed to another. This particular passage from one thread to the other is guarded by a "shared" type constructor, so as to ha
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by p0nce 7y ago
Having a GC doesn't "sacrifice performance" in itself
562.
by p0nce 7y ago
You guys are welcome to D, you may enjoy unboxed floats, guaranteed monomorphization and native threads. Also, 3 backends.
563.
by p0nce 7y ago
An idea so bad it has made it into hardware!
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by p0nce 7y ago
> globally, and across most countries, the weighted rate of return on capital was twice as high as the growth rate in the past 150 years.
565.
by p0nce 7y ago
Marketing that pose as authentic is in fashion (I mean this in a Out of Topic way, no relationship with Instagram). In my segment "technical" arguments that present easy-to-believe falsehoods win customers.
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by p0nce 8y ago
I know a few podcasters and one thing they seem not well prepared for is the extreme difficulty of voice recording and processing. In particular sibilance control and dynamics are just really difficult. Having a good vocal sound takes a lot
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by p0nce 8y ago
Yup, most gamedev will talk about performance as a reason to prefer Unity, when asked about Unity vs Godot.
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by p0nce 8y ago
Godot is a very impressive project.
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by p0nce 8y ago
None of my competitors use a language from the 70's.
570.
by p0nce 8y ago
Well you learn to appreciate the value of RAII and exception working on high-availability software. It's almost impossible to have correct error paths and deinitialization without. I'm very doubtful the new crop of languages witho

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