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by sdegutis 10y ago
Well that's the point of philosophy, isn't it? To figure out what we're supposed to do. For some people, just living life going through the motions is enough, and they never stop and ask this question. Other people keep bounc
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by sdegutis 10y ago
A link to the GitHub repo would have been better.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
How much unsafe code was needed to make this work?
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Blogging is his full time job. All his revenue is through sponsorship, but he maintains a high reader count through active posting, which is why he can charge so much for advertising.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
> PRICE: $8,500 When I was looking into advertising there, it was $2,000. Guess he's doing well. I don't envy him though. Being a full time blogger has to be one of the most soul-killing jobs. All that keeping up on the most
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Nope. See gurkendoktor's reply to me above. I agree with his/her reasoning.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Meh, I've spent about 20 hours on this project so far, and I'd estimate probably 2 minutes of that time was spent managing .h files.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
My only real gripe with C is that you have to write your own functions/macros (or use someone else's) to make dealing with strings intuitive. The stdlib is perfectly fine from an algorithmic standpoint, but I always have to look u
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Plus if you don't need inheritance, you can just use pointers to structs and pass them to functions. And if you need simple polymorphism in some small places, you can use tagged unions.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Writing a brand new Mac app for myself, using Objective-C instead of Swift. So far it's a breeze. Yes I used Swift for a while, and it sure feels all academic and all, but meh, ObjC gets the job done just fine for me.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yep. They probably don't realize how big of a part "Word of Mouth" marketing plays in their sales. At every small business I've ever worked at, everyone praised the MBP highly, and if you didn't have one, you felt l
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by sdegutis 10y ago
I think the point is that Google "understands" what you mean even if you don't say it quite right, or use the right phrases or words, and that's especially needed when searching for legal rights and things where what you
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yep that's exactly it. And I had the same thought of "this is the last straw" too that Paul's talking about there. I just got fed up with seeing everyone write like that, everywhere . Thanks for the link.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
I'd love to know what people who work full-time with C++ think of the "Orthodox C++" concept (link in the article) that this project adheres to.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
So, on a related note, someone wrote a blog post a few years ago that just perfectly epitomized the annoyingly pretentious writing style everyone in the tech world seems to have, and I recommended to him that he use simpler phrases and word
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Haven't tried Pixelmator, but for the past 7 or so years, Acorn has been very useful to me for most of the same stuff I would have used Photoshop for. http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Not at Apple as far as I've last heard (5 years ago). I know we're talking about Amazon here, but mentioning this because it surprised me how much of a cult Apple seems like internally.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Comments on HN can be enlightening as to how people think. Never look here for validation of innovative ideas though. It's just not meant for that kind of discussion.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
> "the feeling you get with OCaml is that once your program compiles, it most likely also runs correctly" The feeling you get with Clojure is that, when you write and test each function (using CIDER) and get live feedback to
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Use your pinky to dial your bank on your landline ;)
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Chopping off your thumb is only in movies, where logic barely exists. In real life, you can cancel your funds and reverse their fraudulent transactions.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
And even then, it seems like 20 minutes worth of work. Not a whole lot to it.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Yeah but why not move to GitHub instead of making it a copy ?
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Wow. That's some complex stuff. I used to think I was interested in amateur/hobbyist programming language design and implementation, until I read enough articles like that one to know I'm way in over my head. The simple (read
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Maybe it's because I came to the party late (started professionally in 2007) but I've never heard anyone preaching or praising open offices. It's either been a neutral "I dunno this is just how we do it" or an annoy
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by sdegutis 10y ago
In fact, C (with SDL2) seems perfect for writing a retro video game. Memory leaks aren't usually a concern, because most memory is allocated up-front to save time and give very predictable and consistent performance. And most video gam
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by sdegutis 10y ago
In fact that's just 40gb per year, which is pretty doable even on a local SD card that Alexa could be fitted with. Or even if it stores one month and deletes the oldest one every day, that's still 3gb. Very doable.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
But it's old news. It just says "marriage isn't the honey-moon, but it's still worth it anyway," but in like 15 paragraphs.
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by sdegutis 10y ago
Why is this upvoted to the front page? How is this article in any way interesting?
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by sdegutis 10y ago
If I had to give them the benefit of the doubt, I'd guess that they feel that SSL has failed at fulfilling its intended purpose, and that they're working on a "superior" alternative which they plan to use for themselves

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