roqi

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by roqi 3y ago
> amd64 was an attempt to "brand" the 64-bit version of x86 The "64-bit version of x86" is actually the new ISA created by AMD that was backwards compatible with x86 and added a 64-bit mode. I'm sure that you agr
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by roqi 3y ago
You make a great point. No matter how high the complexity level is, if interfaces and abstractions are trivial to follow and they "just work" then the system is actually simple and trivial. I'm seeing poorly advised commenter
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by roqi 3y ago
> Competition seems to always lead companies to drop what makes them special in pursuit of the other guy's customers. Can you explain in your own words why supporting the world's leading package manager system makes Deno "
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by roqi 3y ago
> For a contact in an email adress book, that makes sense. But for a "friend" relationship in Facebook, which side owns that edge? I don't see where there's any ambiguity on this issue. Each individual has the right t
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by roqi 3y ago
> Corollary: how do you get someone who has partaken of the kool-aid to recognize that a practice involving their pet dogma is bad? What leads you to believe that just because you disagree with something then it's automatically a do
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by roqi 3y ago
> We can't go back to pure waterfall. But pure Agile is also a fictitious goal. What leads you to believe that "pure Agile is also a fictitious goal"? Unless you're using weasel words to refer to Agile in a way you ca
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by roqi 3y ago
> I don't really see what this adds to the conversation. It basically boils down to "stop whining and leave". I see it as adding a solution to a blog post describing the perception of a problem. Isn't there a catchphr
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by roqi 3y ago
> I feel like people get way too bent out of shape about this kind of thing (...) I wouldn't read too much into it. At best the author is just venting steam, and at worst he's complaining about things he doesn't quite unde
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by roqi 3y ago
> So we should have 100% faith in what we're being told in the article? If you're asking questions that are answered in the article then that means you're discussing things without any context or insight or understanding,
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by roqi 3y ago
> Look at collector.js, in the first dozen characters it's already using ECMAScript 6 standards like promises. According to caniuse, promises are supported by Chrome since v33, by Edge since v12, by Firefox since v29, and by Safari
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by roqi 3y ago
You didn't pointed out any innovation. New for the sake of new is not innovation, it's just churn.
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by roqi 3y ago
> Arguably CMake is a build system; as a user you can build your project only by running CMake commands. If you put together a shell script that calls some other program that runs a build, that doesn't make shell script a build syst
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by roqi 3y ago
> What does make have that just is missing? Make is a part of UNIX, so it's ubiquitous, stable, and time-proof.
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by roqi 3y ago
> OK, that's just not true. If you really feel that way then you will have to ask the OpenGroup people to fix the UNIX Shell and Utilities part, because they seem to have included a specification of make. https://pubs.ope
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by roqi 3y ago
> And with justfiles, you can have something that looks and feels like make, but with a more pleasant syntax for non-compiling jobs. Make is a part of UNIX, which ensures it is extremely stable and is available on all UNIX systems. You d
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by roqi 3y ago
Nit picking. From the article: > Popular C/C++ alternative build systems are SCons, CMake, Bazel, and Ninja. CMake is not a build system. It's a build system generator. A higher level abstraction over the problem of specifying
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by roqi 3y ago
> NULL is a macro. You're missing the whole point. As per the C standard, NULL is an implementation-defined null Pointer constant. Macros are resolved in the preprocessing step. The compiler does not know what a macro is. What the c
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by roqi 3y ago
> But does C need a nullptr keyword? Yes, it does. > If you're programming in C, you usually define 0 as an invalid value, or a null value. That was also the usual pattern in C++ when there was no alternative. Once nullptr was in
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by roqi 3y ago
I've been a Hetzner costumer for years and I never got a single sms from them, let alone spam.
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by roqi 3y ago
> Get woke, go broke. A quarter of all US newspapers closed since 2005, and they've been shutting down at a pace of 2 newspapers per week. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/media/lo
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by roqi 3y ago
> Diet/exercise changes of course may be some contributors but they’re clearly not being widely followed. Over the past two decades, the number of gyms and fitness centers saw exponential growth to the point where they became ubiqui
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by roqi 3y ago
Submitter here. I've stumbled upon just-js while browsing TechEmpower's web framework benchmarks and noticing that a JavaScript-based framework was holding the 5th position, two spots ahead of the famous actix-http. https:/&
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Just – A small V8 JavaScript runtime for Linux only(github.com)
1 points by roqi 3y ago|1 comments
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by roqi 3y ago
> not a single thread behind a few layers of abstraction, so you get more out of your hardware just-js holds spot 5 of TechEmpower web framework benchmark round 21. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=dat
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by roqi 3y ago
> Pretty sure that's more than the cheapest VPS on Hetzner. I'm rocking a two node cluster in Hetzner. One is an old 1vCPU small that costs over $3/month, and the other is a new 2vCPU addition that is a dash over $4. I pa
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by roqi 3y ago
> So many of the websites are just noise with crappy information. What I hate the most about today's internet is how search engines allow blatant scrapers to feature so high in search results. So many times I Google for something to
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by roqi 3y ago
Is there any effort to get browsers to support typescript? Transpiling is great, but all the tooling required by a typescript project, from transpiling to barreling, is becoming daunting.