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by pubby 14y ago
Well this article is pointless - Linux development has always worked towards improving those bullet points. It's not like there's rallying _against_ better UI or less bugs. > Focus on Developers I'm assuming this is focus on _web_ devel
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by pubby 14y ago
The resulting video is one trillion frames per second which the title is referring to. This video shows 10,000 fps video camera which seems to be on a commercially sold camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQ37OfknJ
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by pubby 14y ago
I don't understand why people believe they will be immortal if the singularity ever occurs. Humans came from microbes, yet we couldn't care less about them. A super intelligent being would see us the same way.
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by pubby 14y ago
No, pixel art is not at all about "big blocky pixels" - that's some silly 8-bit retro movement. Pixel art is about a crisp, distinctive look and intricate detail. For instance, this piece: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/29178.htm Keep
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by pubby 14y ago
I'm nitpicking, but it's CLANG, not Clang. One's a video game swords thing, the other is a compiler.
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by pubby 14y ago
There was a 'virus' that spread on 4chan years ago that did something like this. AFAIK when saved as a .js file and run it would post itself back 4chan to continue spreading.
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by pubby 14y ago
I based my assumption off of a quote I heard that was along the lines of, "It is often better to write in the language of the OS when doing systems programming." My personal experience with FFIs and C bindings was extremely boring and tedio
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by pubby 14y ago
I imagine using Go to write high-performance code or interact well with system libraries is not easier or simpler than a C++ approach, and certainly having worse results. Also, the comparison to CS/JS seems unfair as Go is not just a syntax
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by pubby 14y ago
I'll believe it when I see it - anyone have examples of well-written Go compared side-by-side to well-written C++ to show how it is "more expressive"? Anyway, the benefit to small languages is that it's much easier to design and reason abou
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by pubby 14y ago
I'd be more interested in comparing Haskell to one of those even stronger typed programming languages. I'm forgetting the name of them, but it would be interesting to see how much is too much.
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by pubby 14y ago
They did an AMA on reddit and the consensus was that it's just a publicity stunt.
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by pubby 14y ago
I don't recall Windows being much more consistent, although I understand your point. And keep in mind that on Linux/Unix, text streams are the universal (and generally consistent) interface.
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by pubby 14y ago
The term 'designer' is extremely vague and I have no idea what the author is referring to each time he uses it in the article. At first I thought he was using it as a nonsense umbrella term (similar to how words like 'scale' are used) but a
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by pubby 14y ago
The grammar needs serious work, the writing style was strange, there were errors in the code, and it contained wrong information. I can't say that I recommend this.
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by pubby 14y ago
Do you have any examples of how Lua is as efficient as C?
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by pubby 14y ago
What do you consider an 'expert' to be? It's one of the most ambiguously defined and useless word when used in practice.
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by pubby 14y ago
I think I got every esoteric one correct but knew only a handful of actual languages. Guess I should change my priorities.
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by pubby 14y ago
Infinite time includes spending infinite years floating in the void of space, alone. You don't even have any rocks to perform computations. That sounds like death to me.
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by pubby 14y ago
std::initializer_list is pretty magical.
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by pubby 14y ago
The design idea of "don't pay for what you don't use" seems to cause the language features/library to be wide and orthogonal instead of deep; the weight is more or less spread out. Beginners can learn in increments, which is the approach I
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by pubby 14y ago
Exception specifiers are deprecated and for good reason.
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by pubby 15y ago
I generally stick to Google for programming related searches and use DDG for the rest. Hopefully DDG improves to the point where I can use it 100% of the time.
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by pubby 15y ago
I found Colemak very easy to learn and regained most of my speed within a week. The only real problem is you have to deal with bad key-bindings, although it's worth it.