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841.
by pif 4y ago
> If they were to taste good But many people report they do!
842.
by pif 4y ago
It's not the industry: it's the customers! With hardware (be it a bridge, a car, a pair of jeans) customers know and accept that no modification is possible once the product is accepted. With software, customers have grown acquain
843.
by pif 4y ago
Bullshit! When was the last time the Chinese people had a say in choosing the leading party?
844.
by pif 4y ago
"Living" is another name for "dying slowly".
845.
by pif 4y ago
I'm not advocating for keeping pragma once a secret: just let them use the historical way once, fall into the beginner error, and let them notice how dangerous copy/paste can be.
846.
by pif 4y ago
People in the USA vote regularly to choose their leader, while people in China do not. Hence, by definition, USA are a democracy and China is not. Sure, the last two elections were a confirmation that democracy is not perfect (with millions
847.
by pif 4y ago
>> GCC's developers have actively resisted allowing it to be modularized [...] > > Learning about this changed the way I looked at all GNU software. It means that you had not yet understood the principle behind free softwar
848.
by pif 4y ago
> I would like to know what register allocation algorithms it uses I'm wondering why you'd like to know. If it is just for your curiosity, that's very good. If you want to participate in the compiler development effort, ha
849.
by pif 4y ago
> the problem has disappeared. No, it did not. You have empirically found a wonderful way to teach your students that their errors are their responsibility, and you are wilfully giving it up and sort of spoiling them. Extrapolating a bit
850.
by pif 4y ago
China is not a democracy. That prevents any sane people to want to tighten their political relationship.
851.
by pif 4y ago
If they are ready to pay, then they can buy a sample of both and spend some time testing the products. If it is the bean counters who choose, then they are buying cheap for the sake of cheap.
852.
by pif 4y ago
Please, add "in the USA" to the title, thanks!
853.
by pif 4y ago
Only if he actually paid for working parts. He who buys cheap, he deserves cheap.
854.
by pif 4y ago
Yeah, me too! I miss the days the web was about sharing information and not advertising apps.
855.
by pif 4y ago
> What really drives quality up is a big, hardass customer. You forgot the part where the customer is ready to pay the money for quality.
856.
by pif 4y ago
The worst information leaks are passwords written on a post-it, and they are usually the outcome of obnoxious safety rules.
857.
by pif 4y ago
> I surely hope that you don't reuse the password of your email account. That one is very important for me and is not reused at the moment. > Any reasonable security expert will recommend you this. Not when you get to the point t
858.
by pif 4y ago
> And really important stuff (read: banks) is protected by two-factor authentication anyway.
859.
by pif 4y ago
> All my passwords are stored in a Password Manager. And that is the problem! I've never bought the hype about a different password for each service. I've 4 passwords in total, sorted by importance, and each new service gets th
860.
by pif 4y ago
If I understand correctly, the main difference is that in the EU you don't need to go to a private college.
861.
by pif 4y ago
> webdevs being naturally impatient, faddish and incompetent Well, isn't it the case? One more article confusing web programming with the whole software development! Front-end development is unstable only for those applications whe
862.
by pif 4y ago
1 - Golang was created for sub-average programmers, thus half of us soon discovered a way to ship more bugs around, more quickly. 2 - Many unlucky ones in the other half found themselves stuck in environments where the former half was over-
863.
by pif 4y ago
> This opinion that Go developers are subpar is silly rhetoric. I don't think so. But it's a fact that Go was meant for sub-par programmers.
864.
by pif 4y ago
> It's a choice for a high level language to pretend that's not true. It's a choice C did since its inception: stop whining and accept the fact, please!
865.
by pif 4y ago
> all of ... in the last 30 years have one address space and use 2's complement for signed integers Yes, they do. The C virtual machine never did and never will.
866.
by pif 4y ago
> Any reasonable person would look at the standard and conclude the intent is ... Any reasonable person would look at the standard and conclude there is no other implicit intent than to describe a standard. > anyone who wants C/
867.
by pif 4y ago
> There's a lot to be said for ... There's nothing to add for what its creators stated: Go is meant for under-average programmers, not for professional software developers.
868.
by pif 4y ago
> I always find this a bit sad, because it seems to take away the idea that programming is about assembling composable parts [OT] Concerning "programming is about assembling composable parts": I always find both sad and ridicu
869.
by pif 4y ago
I can't understand how pictures are sorted: row by row, column by column...
870.
by pif 4y ago
> Meetings force us to context switch, kill our flow, and sap our job satisfaction long term. That's what programmers say. Developing software is much more than programming, at least when you are developing something else than an

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