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by something123 11y ago
Yikes.. I'm going to have to reread this later to grok it better. I think it's nice that the language has added all these new features (though the macros at the end tell me it's not enough..) - but I keep feeling like the dir
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by something123 11y ago
So is this a program that makes it easier for people to change jobs after coming to the US on an H1B? Doesn't sounds like they're gaming anything, but it does sound like something that's sorely needed. As and aside, with all
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by something123 11y ago
The Asus Flip has very similar hardware (same chip) and it runs Arch ARM. http://kmkeen.com/c100p-tweaks/index.html So almost definitely yes...
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by something123 11y ago
I'm gunna defend the otherside here. As a recent post on HN pointed out, when Google Maps happened people were outraged that you could look into their yards. Same thing with Street-View. Zuckerburg just understands that we're movi
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by something123 11y ago
To the first point, I think this might be controversial... but try to avoid people you work with directly. It seems like it's better at first glance - b/c you interact with them more - but the reality is there are whole layers of
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by something123 11y ago
I think an OS class isn't meant to prepare you for working on the operating system. The vast majority of people that take an OS class aren't going to work on OSs, but they should appreciate how everything works. Using a language
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by something123 11y ago
If it's only for education purposes, why C? Wouldn't you want to choose a more "clear" language to get the ideas across?
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by something123 11y ago
I think this is part of a larger issue of people making programming their lives. Our profession encourages obsessiveness more than most - and making your work your life is something people seek out! (just look at startup culture) I find it
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by something123 11y ago
Sorry I misattributed that. I swore I saw the same style somewhere in his book. I still think it's horrible =) (sorry) I remember one of the other preset themes was a lot better (though I have a lot of trouble trying to find a list of
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by something123 11y ago
I don't really like the fetishizing of Tuft's style. If you actually read his books, what he actually does is present a mental model for what to take into account when designing. But his style isn't meant to be the end-all of
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by something123 11y ago
Just to be clear, [as far as I understand] it is a template library that does static analysis using the compiler. Kinda the best of both worlds...
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by something123 11y ago
here is the tool https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL Introduced in this year's cppcon https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Goo...
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by something123 11y ago
You should watch the cppcon2015 keynotes https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/CPP/CppCon-2015/Writing-Goo... static checking of the core guidelines is the entire reason they are writing them. This isn't ju
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by something123 11y ago
It's started to lag and be very clunk for me recently (though maybe I just need to close some tabs). It used to be incredibly more responsive than facebook.com
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by something123 11y ago
There seem to be so many things wrong with this. How about if the person didn't deliver? Would the project be delayed and reauctioned? Haven't the problems of lowest-bidder quality been illustrated over and over? Wouldn't the
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by something123 11y ago
gamification of altruism Has a dirty feeling to it, but I don't see why it can't work =)
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by something123 11y ago
I mean, it's only "necessary" because it would be a catalyst for the proletariat revolution. The Russians and the Maoists generalized on the idea and showed that it's more an issue of getting the disenfranchised organize
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by something123 11y ago
but Craigslist's anachronistic static-HTML feel is so charming...
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by something123 11y ago
However this eliminates a company's ability to retrain workers. Though maybe a modern company should anticipate high employee mobility
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by something123 11y ago
that's kinda a separate issue... that's maybe a problem with the tax system in the US?
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by something123 11y ago
Says the man who doesn't work in defense. 95%+ of the work done is thrown away. I'm not talking about cutting edge R&D projects that happened to not work out, but literally work will be done and then never evaluated and throw
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by something123 11y ago
Or you know.. set aside money for retirement on your own terms? I feel like recent history has shows that pension plans plans are a disaster for companies b/c you're just offsetting costs into the unknown future when you may not b
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by something123 11y ago
Am I alone in thinking corporation tax is idiotic? I think corporations are incredibly immoral institutions (due to skewed incentive structures), however - ultimately it's a collection of investors, owners and employees. Why not be hon
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by something123 11y ago
Surely if you're that large then you could invest in some in-house domain-specific solution. There are whole programming languages dedicated to doing statistics on datasets.
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by something123 11y ago
I just think the service hasn't evolved much since they started streaming nor have they really branched out. Their success is due to their ability to secure rights to TV shows and movies - so thanks legal team
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by something123 11y ago
I guess it's a matter of opinion but I think you're wrong that you have to redesign stuff. Most of the guarantees in essence already exist b/c of best-practices (like RIIA) - they're just not guaranteed by a validating p
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by something123 11y ago
Rereading your comment it feels like you've moved the goal posts and are being overly cynical. (This presentations essentially addressed your previous concern by providing interoperability between new safe code and existing code that d
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by something123 11y ago
We should be seeing completely safe C++ code soon. Take a look at Herb Sutter's CppCon talk this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEx5DNLWGgA Reinventing the wheel isn't entirely necessary. Though if you&#x27
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by something123 11y ago
sounds like a bunch of platitudes with a lot of HR speak (a lot of which I REALLY disagree with) And for having the "top talent" they have little to show for it on the technical side
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by something123 11y ago
I don't really see the catch 22. The gov't could have the best if they payed appropriately (which they don't, and they end up with a lot of lazy people that are there for the retirement benefits) The governement ultimately do

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