rubashov

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by rubashov 14y ago
I don't know about the "One True" language, but it seems clear that people are casting about for the next generation successor to C and C++; that is to say a fast, compiled, statically typed language incorporating the lessons of the last 25
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by rubashov 14y ago
The gdc compiler sticks the D front end over gcc, so cross compiling is the same as with gcc/mingw, to the best of my understanding. LDC is another compiler that uses the LLVM backend and it might support cross compiling, I don't know. Sett
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by rubashov 14y ago
I don't find this as quite a ridiculous idea as the satire presumably assumes. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy
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by rubashov 14y ago
I have heard that Apple campuses and information are highly compartmentalized, almost along DoD lines. Badge access systems heavily restrict who can go where. I'm curious what their policy is on carrying devices into access controlled areas
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by rubashov 15y ago
"Imaginary" lines that people fight and die over. Are you really this deluded? Nations exist. People bound together by the land and cultural and genetic heritage is a real thing. Unsurprisingly many people with strong ties to their nation d
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by rubashov 15y ago
I remember seeing some mention that English has by far more words than most languages. Saying "Ontology recapitulates phylogeny" in other languages is allegedly hard.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Bit of a stretch to call it a "conversion". He and Walter Bright simply set out to fix the glaring problems with C++ after long experience with it.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Long distance running is not especially good for health or the heart. Marathon running and long distance cycling are actually quite bad for the heart. There's a ton of stuff out there now about disturbing rates of sclerosis in marathon runn
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by rubashov 15y ago
Running is not a good way to get low body fat such as in the picture. To get that ripped, lean look you actually want to avoid aerobic exercise and stressing the glycogen system. Intermittent fasting (only eat once or twice a day) and relat
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by rubashov 15y ago
> The Phobos standard library is quite unfinished indeed How so? I think it's got pretty much what belongs in the standard library.
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by rubashov 15y ago
These hard to prove theories, such as Jared Diamond's and in the reviewed book, exist in large part to counter the highly convincing and data driven eugenic theories. The eugenic and IQ based theories are politically unacceptable. "A Farewe
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by rubashov 15y ago
> everyone rushes Who is rushing to buy gold? I'd be surprised if more than 1% of households have meaningful gold exposure.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Yeah, he even goes on about compromised health. After a couple of his big scores he looked around the celebratory dinner table and realized how the preceding three years had badly aged people.
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by rubashov 15y ago
What is the smallest, thinnest dumbphone on the market? I want a very, very small phone for voice and SMS and that's it.
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by rubashov 15y ago
Well, yes, if you've never traveled at all, and especially never traveled outside the west, I would guess that's rather eye-opening. I'm addressing the people who endlessly hit up new places and try to pretend it means something. It's just
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by rubashov 15y ago
I contend that mostly what you're getting out of your three days or three months somewhere is a blast of novelty. It's not making you any smarter or better, which is what a lot of people try to claim.
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by rubashov 15y ago
I've traveled a fair amount and I don't get the degree of fascination. It's essentially a form of entertainment. I've learned more about almost any place from books and media than just passing through, seeing the sites, and meeting some peo
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by rubashov 15y ago
> wants to start working out but doesn't know anything yet? What's there to really know? The average person just looking to be healthy doesn't need a gym or any instruction. Buy a $3 jump rope. Jump over it 4,000 times every couple days
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by rubashov 15y ago
This plus something for disk persistence is totally sufficient for writing web apps in C++: http://cgi.sourceforge.net/
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by rubashov 15y ago
> this thinking that can kill science and startups If an industry does not employ the native people in a country, or only enriches a clique of owners, then who cares if it leaves? In any case, this line of argument is malarkey. There i
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by rubashov 15y ago
We have very high unemployment. Also, the national identity and cohesion is swamped by a far too large influx of foreigners. There should be an immigration moratorium. Essentially zero people should be let in until there is robust job growt
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by rubashov 15y ago
The complicated parts of boost where this is what you end up doing are really more like libraries for library writers. You'd almost certainly wrap something like Boost.Geometry for your specific needs. It's made with flexibility as the goal
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by rubashov 15y ago
Tip: don't be a glib, smug prick on a date. Please enunciate why something like asio is evil. You review the documentation and examples and the outlined primary use cases "just work". But you can dive in and do really complicated things.
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by rubashov 15y ago
That's how any API is used 90% of the time.
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by rubashov 15y ago
> Most of Boost is a horrible templated mess. Are you just saying you find the implementation distasteful? I don't find using the templated boost stuff problematic. Most of the time you just cargo cult examples from the documentation an
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by rubashov 15y ago
What was your problem with it? I have tried to use Condor for a couple things recently and was annoyed enough by it I concluded Gearman was probably the better approach, though I haven't used Gearman. For the record, Condor probably works f
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by rubashov 15y ago
How do you justify locating in center city philadelphia with all the taxes and the dysfunction of the city government when you can be 12 minutes away in conshohocken to avoid them?
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by rubashov 15y ago
The genetic component has to do with susceptibility to overeating, though. It's not some magic "metabolism" setting as is most commonly claimed.
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by rubashov 15y ago
I do find it interesting that over the same period the obesity epidemic developed standards of public dress, and arguably behavior, deteriorated badly. People got fat at the same time flipflops and cheesy t-shirts became suitable public att
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by rubashov 15y ago
I thought the article wasn't very good. It goes on at length with the only takeaway being that fat people have a very hard time maintaining weight loss and we're not sure why.

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