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by rpnx 2y ago
Agree. I work at Google. I promise nothing happens quickly. It can take over a week to set up a new SQL database & client. Half coding (don't get me started on boq...) and half data integrity and criticality annotations for the dat
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by rpnx 3y ago
I made something a bit similar to this when trying to make a new shorthand. It was made by translating to stenotype and then following rules to convert the stenotype runes to a kanji like form. Eventually I decided it wasn’t faster than exi
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by rpnx 3y ago
The number of patents owned by startups is greatly dwarfed by the number owned by large companies. Furthermore, the competition opportunity for small businesses to offer similar products at lower prices greatly outweighs the value of patent
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by rpnx 3y ago
They didn't sack him, he quit for better pay. In Japan companies rarely sack employees and employees rarely quit. People are expected to stay with the same company basically their whole life. That's why he didn't get fired fo
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by rpnx 3y ago
Don't do this. Network firewalls are harmful. Let people configure their own firewalls on device. Having to VPN around network blocks is annoying to say the least. Network firewalls are harmful and just a lazy excuse for bad client sec
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Ask HN: What do I do about boredom?
5 points by rpnx 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Need ideas for a programming language name
2 points by rpnx 3y ago|4 comments
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by rpnx 3y ago
Do you have strong feelings about the names being too similar?
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by rpnx 3y ago
Interesting, the language is called "rylang" though, not "ry", so I think they're different enough to avoid confusion? other than the domain names anyway.
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by rpnx 3y ago
I have a plug in hybrid. It can drive about 25 miles on electric then switches over to gas. 8.8 kWh @ $0.30/kWh amounts to around $0.10 per mile. Gas here is around $0.09/mile @ 52 mpg. So, if electricity > approximately $0.30&
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Ask HN: Suggestions for performance benchmarks for a new language?
2 points by rpnx 3y ago|3 comments
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by rpnx 3y ago
I registered rylang.net, but I have not put anything there yet. I'll put something there when I get further along. Only just added destructors for now.
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by rpnx 3y ago
Oh yeah I'm with you on that one for sure.
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by rpnx 3y ago
I think one common trait is that systems programming languages have pointers and manual memory management or ctor/dtor based memory management (as opposed to a garbage collector). Non-systems languages abstract away pointers with some
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by rpnx 3y ago
Sounds like C++11 onwards. I plan to include all of those features of course.
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by rpnx 3y ago
The main distinction between systems languages (e.g. C, C++, Zig) and non-systems languages is that in a systems language you can interface directly with the OS/hardware or at least a very lightweight runtime. If you need to talk in a
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by rpnx 3y ago
I suppose you could produce documentation as a compilation byproduct. But I am not sure that is within the scope of a "programming language".
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by rpnx 3y ago
I'm not sure that that is much related to systems programming, that sounds like a pretty high level library feature.
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Ask HN: What do you want to see in a systems programming language?
9 points by rpnx 3y ago|22 comments
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by rpnx 3y ago
Look, the great people of hackernews flagged an article they don't like. Amazing.
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by rpnx 3y ago
Privilege is fake and just used to bully white cis men. It's a justification for discrimination. It's the same as the n-word in principle, used to single out people of a particular race. The weird thing is that some people conside
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by rpnx 3y ago
Wow, that's pretty shocking. Perhaps nobody noticed. I am not sure GNOME has ever been sane though, so perhapss this is of no consequence?
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by rpnx 3y ago
It's exactly the topic of the article. Did you read TFA?
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by rpnx 3y ago
I think there's plenty worth talking about here. Like the opinion that the previous internet, where everyone could be rude and not worry about offending others, was arguably better. I actually agree that the old internet was better. I&
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by rpnx 3y ago
This is a really good article but you aren't going to like it if you're on the pro-SJW side. I think it's a very good rationalization of the rational side of anti-SJW reasoning particularly as applied to Free Software. Dude i
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by rpnx 4y ago
"Passive Income" is the root of all of our economic troubles. People who are getting "Passive Income", are by definition not working and producing output for the economy. In order to gain passive income, you must leech o
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by rpnx 4y ago
I think the reason is that productivity/wages have been falling. People want to maintain quality of life and so must dedicate a larger percentage of their time to income generation. This is, I think, directly a result of the declining
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by rpnx 5y ago
There's too many bad programmers that are able to get by because of clueless managers. And schools aren't good indicators either. So for that reason I have to disagree very strongly. CV/Resume is a VERY BAD way to evaluate ca
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by rpnx 5y ago
My thoughts on this are that every time I see a news piece about Firefox it's about "social justice", some code of conduct controversy, or something else utterly unimportant to web browser selection. Being "Open Source&q
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by rpnx 6y ago
Never been a fan of C style strings for exactly this reason. C style strlen is slow. In C++ strings, the size is included in the string structure. Also, fetching the distance between two std::string::iterator is fast. string_view::size shou

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