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by petke 11y ago
I actually laughed out loud. Well played. Taking the comparison seriously though for a moment. In my opinion the difference is that C++ isn't just a better Cobol. Its not just the same thing re-imagined or cleaned up. There is a revolu
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by petke 11y ago
Yeah lets see how it plays out. I might have a look at rust at some point. On the benchmark though, its doesn't seem quite fair. At least that first one is comparing a single threaded c++ program, to a multi threaded rust program. And
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by petke 11y ago
True, C++ has slipped since its hay days. Its natural in a way. C++ as a general purpose language cant compete with domain specific languages at their own domain. Even if every domain got its own language, there might still be room for a g
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by petke 11y ago
Languages come and go but C++ remains. I wonder if this one will be different. Im not trying to be a jerk. Just voicing my concerns. Learning a new language and producing code in it is a huge commitment. It better be around in 10 years. Wil
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by petke 11y ago
yes, please.
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by petke 11y ago
ok
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by petke 11y ago
I got existed for: "Dark Comedies 869". Man its difficult to find these kinds of movies. Unfortunately there was not 869 of them but just 6. I have seen them all. One of them was amazing; "Sightseers" if anyone wants a m
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by petke 11y ago
For all its faults, old fashioned broadcast media was better in a way. It spread information to you whether you agreed with it or not. Having a strong opinion on anything was rare, because for all you knew you where alone with your views. Y
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by petke 11y ago
Thats interesting. Are most people on HN web developers? It makes sense I guess. Im an old C++ programmer and I get the vague feeling that I'm in a minority here. Has there been any polls on HN demographics? Who are you guys?
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by petke 11y ago
Quite frankly, Im surprised the reason behind this isnt common knowledge, at least among us geeks. The reason is hardware designers have hit a wall, they cant make single threaded applications run any faster. So your brand new gaming PC is
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by petke 11y ago
Its like the cult around Che Guevara. I saw lot of tourists wear those T-shirts when I was in Bolivia. I found it very distasteful. Bolivia after all was where Che tried to start yet another civil war but could not get any locals to join. T
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by petke 11y ago
"The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth" Is a humorous non-mathematical book about him. Erdos was a funny and strange man. He was the most prolific co-writer of math papers. He di
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by petke 11y ago
You don't really get rid of complexity by using a simple language. You just move the complexity into your own code. Say if your language doesn't have dynamically sized containers, you will end up writing your own. You hack it so y
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by petke 11y ago
I probably shouldn't get in on this heated discussion ... but C++ aims to be a safer (higher level) C, at no runtime cost. I think it mostly succeeds at this. I think C++ can only get so far, without deprecating some of C. Or at least
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by petke 11y ago
Such statistics would be very useful to society. Tracking people as a group to figure out how they behave. Its only when the tracking targets individuals that it get creepy. "New York'ers goes to the toilet x times a day" is
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by petke 11y ago
Good point. Those musicians that made it, maybe they where just better at networking. The music I tend to like most is these folk type singer/songwriter with an acoustic guitar singing sad songs. A lot of those musicians seem quite int
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by petke 11y ago
That's good advice. Find a niche basically. It don't think it works for every career though. Being good or even being the most skilled at a niche. Musicians and actors, any job that has as much to do with popularity as with skill.
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by petke 11y ago
This makes a big difference to me. I was actually for Facebook basics, when I thought Facebook picked up the bill so that poor people could access at least some internet. But if the operators are paying for this ... then what value is Faceb
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by petke 11y ago
> Though the programme is promoted by Facebook, its costs are borne by the mobile-telecoms operators it works with. How does that even work? Why would the telecoms agree to pay the bill on behalf of Facebook? Surely there must be some mo
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by petke 11y ago
Most of the cost of blockbusters is marketing. > Hollywood continues to wrestle with rising marketing costs, particularly overseas, which can make up 70 percent of a film's gross. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new
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by petke 11y ago
I agree. I think they should give that choice. I think foreign media companies don't realize that even though many European countries dub movies, lots of people will watch an un-dubbed movie (with subtitles) if that is the only thing a
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by petke 11y ago
I used the linked 3rd party site above: netflixable.com, choose a country, goto "Alphabetical List". Example: http://usa.netflixable.com/2016/01/complete-alphabetical-lis... The total number of movies&#x
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by petke 11y ago
Interesting to compare, the total number of movies/shows/episodes on netflix for a few countries: USA: 7004 UK: 3589 Finland: 3380 (So high because they don't dub?) Sweden: 2542 (But Sweden does not dub either ...) Germany: 2
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by petke 11y ago
Amazon has a long way to go. As far as I can tell prime or Amazon Fire TV is only available in a few countries. I think they needs to go global quick, or they will not survive against netflix. As it is now, the internet is a rather segregat
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by petke 11y ago
I never heard of this before but it sounds it scales better to big and small jobs, and is more efficient use of available manpower. Say you have a huge job, or many small jobs, that one personal assistant couldn't do at once alone. Or
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by petke 11y ago
I thought this was about http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/
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by petke 11y ago
I don't get it either. National shipping isn't that expensive to justify paying 100 usd a year, and prime doesn't cover international shipping. So what do you actually get? Fast shipping. Doesn't seem worth it. I live in
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by petke 11y ago
I hope you are right. I would make a great ted talk. How cheap mobile communication is changing life in remote villages. From own limited experience, I was struck by how expensive slow internet access was in the third world around 2008 (two
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by petke 11y ago
I'm a bit sad about this. Whatever its faults. This would surely have driven down the cost to send a messages between people, low enough that very poor people could do it also. There are plenty of poor people who cant afford to make mo
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by petke 11y ago
I'd rather have something like Strong Typdef for that. Maybe we will get it eventually. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p010...

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