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by penguindev 13y ago
You are aware that recompiling with c++11 can improve the speed of existing STL code bases, right? (some bloat, move constructors are, and guess what, that makes transferring unique_ptr free [edit: as in no overhead over manually doing it]
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by penguindev 13y ago
By the way, I posted on the GOLang list a while ago my suggestion for error handling. It's like exception handling, but it's all done through function calls, (no try catch and jumping forward). Example: ret, e = _some_function()
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by penguindev 13y ago
Like everyone, I'm still waiting for the perfect language. That said, due to this issue and the fact that writing exception safe code in c++ scares me (due to having datastructures potentially being in a wierd state), I have never use
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by penguindev 13y ago
The worst problem is that the destructor should not throw an exception (AFAIK). Thus, c++ RIAA is not perfect - can't use it for things that could fail. edit: some people use it for closing/flushing files, bad idea. edit 2: I ju
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by penguindev 13y ago
Oh please. They help with exception safety, and sometimes you do transfer ownership or have unknown lifetimes.
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by penguindev 13y ago
I hope we all realize that 'viable business models' in the world of finance requires merely that they last a few decades. Or at least until the oldest people forgot about the last scam / debt bust / ponzi scheme/ b
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by penguindev 13y ago
I don't know. I like the warm sound of older (vintage) linux kernel versions. These would probably ruin it for me. https://lwn.net/Articles/542664/
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by penguindev 13y ago
What is it called when hank paulson puts the members of congress in a room and tells them to write him a blank check? Somehow, I don't really think 'we the people' are running things, or ever have. Anyway, this is a great th
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by penguindev 13y ago
> The one with the most mining is most secure against 51% attacks Do you mean: A. an attack by the rest of the earth's computing power (e.g. you try to have miners control 51% of the earth's computing power - highly doubtful) o
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by penguindev 13y ago
> If there's an herd, it has been towards buying gold. Bitcoin is a blip in the radar. Fair enough. Gold market cap ~$8 trillion, BTC ~$8 billion. I do find BTC quite intriguing for international movement of assets - particularly i
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by penguindev 13y ago
Try this on for size: How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0 in particular, see the graph of total domestic debt (i.e. credit) to gdp, and how they have short and long term c
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by penguindev 13y ago
Wow. This really isn't making me very confident of bitcoin. You're saying that people (i.e. joe schmo) who have bitcoin deposits need to constantly make sure that the majority of computer hashing power in the world can't be
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by penguindev 13y ago
Awesome! I won't lie, it's my favorite movie too (perhaps there is a support group for us somewhere?). I also got a kick out of transformers prime. The megatron-starscream interactions were always hilarious. SPOILER BELOW And a
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by penguindev 13y ago
>Money is made by pushing buttens at the right time to move numbers around a network. Yes, and that's probably not going to ever change, not sure what your point was.... But here's where people get REALLY rich. Banks financin
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by penguindev 13y ago
Why is hash power required to have 'savings in bitcoin'? I can see mining fees. Regardless, you haven't refuted the 'no technical security' assertion. It's just a question of incentives, dealing, and collusi
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by penguindev 13y ago
We already had, in essence, a 'proof of work' system with gold. Gold supply increases by only a percent or two per year, and it is highly resource / energy intensive. And note that many central banks, including US, China, R
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by penguindev 13y ago
Do tell what the movie is. I like the original transformers movie, great dialogue and outstanding jap. animation.
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by penguindev 13y ago
Don't you hate it when people conflate money with credit. That's why all the bitcoin fans can never win; even if bitcoin was the world reserve currency (similar to how gold still is today - held by central banks), it would mean j
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by penguindev 13y ago
> Bitcoins security relies solely on it being one of few significant coins of its kind. So there's no technical security at all then, just the hope that hash power won't switch away to a new currency (which they have incentive
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by penguindev 13y ago
I think there's two kinds of value. A short term (definitely less than a year, medium of exchange), and long term (saving for retirement). Clearly the long term value is questionable given there is no scarcity; that would seem to be
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by penguindev 13y ago
I don't know anything about mobile, but I've been looking at replacing my htpc ION system (edit: not that it really needs it, frankly it works great) and fanless baytrail boards/cases look very interesting. More cost than
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by penguindev 13y ago
https sends the certificate in clear text. you most certainly can filter on the subject. and obviously you can filter by ip. parent post is correct.
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by penguindev 13y ago
>you should encourage people to believe global warming is a problem that needs fixed as it would further your goals.< Not sure if you missed a /sarc on that? Anyway, I think the root cause is clearly 9 billion humans on the pl
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by penguindev 13y ago
After spending a good deal of time reading about government funded nutritional 'science' over the last 50 years, in which high-carb hysteria took over (making many of us much less healthy, but making certain large businesses much
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by penguindev 13y ago
I'd trust a layperson as much as a scientist. Which is to say, not at all. Global Warming seems to be a political distraction, driven by some businesses looking to get special favors (carbon trading). Let's just ignore the proble
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by penguindev 13y ago
> Seems like a good way to save money on gifts Yeah, it's never about the cost though, and always about the thought... that's hard for me, even after 10 years together....women have a life-long maintenance schedule (romantic an
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by penguindev 13y ago
Wear headphones so you aren't interrupted. Wear headphones to reduce interruptions. IANAEM (not an english major) Actually, is your original even that bad? I though passive would be "Interruptions are reduced by you wearing head
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by penguindev 13y ago
I made my wife a blog / marketing page for her business a few weeks ago as her 'early' valentines day present. The domain name was $13 or so, and using s3 (it's a static generated site) is basically free for how small i
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by penguindev 13y ago
That's a neat aphorism. It's the software equivalent of Intel's tick/tock process. It also explains why I see far too many shiny web 'frameworks'. People just must attempt doing something "cleverly"
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by penguindev 13y ago
Ha. Is that the same obesity and diabetes (and even potentially ADHD) epidemic that's been encouraged by low fat high carb hysteria for the last 30 years. I just hope my kid can still get whole milk when he goes to kindergarten.

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