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by sai_c 5y ago
I see more and more of these posted here on HN. There is a question i would like to ask those from HN who think there is some kind of "alien" technology involved. Let's, for the sake of the argument, just assume there is a mo
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by sai_c 5y ago
I can only fully agree on this. In my specific case it would already be enough if the the two big ones (Keil & IAR) would provide a compiler. If this obstacle vanished, the situation would be totally different here.
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by sai_c 5y ago
Disclaimer: Embedded dev here, working with 8, 16 and 32 Bit microcontrollers. Almost exclusively C. In Europe (and especially in Germany where I live) I don't see myself writing Rust in my day job for years to come (already twenty yea
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Move Constructors in Rust: Is it possible?(mcyoung.xyz)
4 points by sai_c 5y ago|0 comments
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by sai_c 5y ago
So, basically you are saying "Rust is mostly used as an application programming language anyways, so let's not pester those users with the overhead of OOM handling"? Fair enough. But this would mean that Rust is (factually) a
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by sai_c 5y ago
This is probably not the place to say the following, but I just have to. Reading your comment nearly made me cry, because it (strikingly) reminded me of my own story. You are not alone. Keep your head up (as you seem to always have done), a
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by sai_c 6y ago
As I said, I really can't put my finger on it, but maybe it is this (tongue in cheek). Taligent: The whole point of adding all those abstractions is to reduce complexity.
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by sai_c 6y ago
Every time I read about new Swift features, I'm reminded of this paragraph from Aaron Hillegass's book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". I don't know why. Once upon a time, there was a company called Taligent,
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The Best Programming Language (2017)(pron.github.io)
2 points by sai_c 6y ago|0 comments
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by sai_c 6y ago
Ah, i see. But the systems crowd (I'm going to lump them all together: microcontroller, kernel, high performance networking, etc.) is supposed to be the main target audience. For me it is hard to believe that so many of them just brush
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by sai_c 6y ago
Yes, indeed. Yet, this is the problem to solve. I don't know if you are using Rust, but what would you say, why is that? Where does that motivation come from?
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by sai_c 6y ago
Disclaimer: I've only dabbled in Rust from time to time, but have not written anything serious with it. Those kind of comments are not based on looking at Rust's features on a theoretical level. It's more from the viewpoint o
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by sai_c 6y ago
Honest question with no bad intent: Do you really think the "C community" as a whole will accept ANY syntax changes to the language? From my experience I would say no. I think it would be "easier" to force tools on them
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by sai_c 6y ago
The problem is most developers and/or management don't care about security. They only care about being done as fast and/or as cheaply as possible. I'm still not convinced the new languages (Rust & Zig) will change th
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Bounds Checking in C(bellard.org)
4 points by sai_c 6y ago|0 comments
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by sai_c 6y ago
I don't think it is, for the business-logic code portion any way. You gotta be joking. Most of the time this is an attempt to transform dysfunctional processes from reality, to functional processes in software, resulting in d
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by sai_c 6y ago
Kubernetes. Docker. AWS and its gazillion impenetrable product names. The days of security updates, pentests, honeypots and captchas you have to go through in order to put up a webapp that won't be commandeered by (inse
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by sai_c 6y ago
Rinse and repeat. Three hundred years later, we're at the original python again. Invented on the USS Enterprise. "To boldly create programming languages no man has created before."
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by sai_c 6y ago
Honest answer (no trolling or bad intent): I let all important photos be made into a photo book. None of the available backup strategies are robust, safe and future proof enough for this task (I'm talking about pictures of my family, k
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by sai_c 6y ago
I eat 250g (uncooked) alone. Add to that sauce and vegetables, sometimes meat. I'm nearly forty, and 1,74m and weigh between 76 and 78 kg (depending on the time of the year). I'm a software developer and only do loaded carries thr
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by sai_c 6y ago
I'm doing the farmer's walk for a couple of months now, and I have to say it seems my posture is getting better. Alongside this, I'm using the blackroll for the legs and back. I'm quite fond of loaded carries. So, if I m
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by sai_c 6y ago
I know I'm going to get downvoted, but may I quote Wikipedia: "An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and
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by sai_c 6y ago
"I have always been passionate and curious about systems programming. At a first glance, this area of knowledge might seem very complicated and even impenetrable for a lot of people. Thankfully, with Rust, the tide has st
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by sai_c 6y ago
1.Microsoft is a company. 2.Microsoft loves money. 3.Whatever makes them money gets their love. 4.Making money is the primary purpose of a company.
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by sai_c 6y ago
Almost every interviewer asks you to talk about yourself. Not my experience in Germany with big companies.
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by sai_c 6y ago
Thank you very very much. This made my day :-).
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by sai_c 6y ago
Yes, but: - Was there ever a moment like "Oh no, I should rewrite my story in german, because I could better express the ideas"? - Have you ever left your pen on the desk, coming back the other day, just to find out it does not wo
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by sai_c 6y ago
I understand the "unsafe" construct on the technical level, but thanks for clarification nevertheless. My point was that, with "unsafe", Rust provides a technical construct which allows to carry over some negative develo
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by sai_c 6y ago
Reading should be considered a side project when you work full time executing. Full ACK. I wish I were only asked ONCE in an interview "Which blogs/sites do you read for technical education and what was the most interesti
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by sai_c 6y ago
* unsafe makes it very easy for you to audit where data races or memory errors are possible, instead of needing to audit an entire c codebase I have seen this argument a couple of times before. But I can't make myself buy it.

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