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by sramsay 7y ago
I think the answer to that is that I wasn't an experienced enough developer at the time to know how to do that. ;)
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by sramsay 7y ago
I keep my head down in language war discussions, but when people start the usual round of complaints and ridicule of C++, this is exactly what I think: I'm not sure we're actually talking about the same language.
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by sramsay 7y ago
> - std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr (your code should not have any new/delete). It's easy to write code with clearly defined ownership semantics, and I've yet to create a memory leak. I cannot begin to describe how hug
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by sramsay 7y ago
In 2012, in a concurring opinion on a case involving warrantless GPS tracking, justice Sonya Sotomayor wrote: "More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privac
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by sramsay 7y ago
I feel like there should be a "UNIX Birthday observed." And the 50th would be January 1st, 2020, natch.
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by sramsay 7y ago
I remember Stallman's obsession with "TiVoization," and I remember wondering if that was really the most pressing thing on the horizon at the time. I also find the claim that the goal of the FSF became "completing GNU f
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by sramsay 7y ago
He really loved it (and I think plans to write some more stuff with it). I'm coming up on 50, so all of my friends' parents are roughly the same age. The big crackup for me is that they're all worried about their parents f
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by sramsay 7y ago
No, honestly. He contributes little bugfix patches to projects here and there to various projects, but he doesn't want to maintain software for anyone else (fair, I think -- he did spend an entire career doing that). He makes (pretty
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by sramsay 7y ago
You probably can't name one he hasn't played around with (and I'll admit -- I'm an enabler with this). He certainly has his black belt in C++, JavaScript, and Ruby, but he's crazy about Lisp and has recently gone o
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by sramsay 7y ago
Maybe you won't (alas)! He is also a master-level woodworker, but had to stop due to spinal stenosis. Being a geek, he has his Apple watch set up to remind him to go walk around every hour, and that tends to keep it at bay. But he re
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by sramsay 7y ago
My father, who is about to turn 80, is still knee deep in code every day -- having retired (many years ago) after 45 years in the industry. The guy remembers paper tape, and is still going strong. And often, he's way into whatever the
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by sramsay 7y ago
It's been on my list for, well, decades I suppose. But I've always understood it to be an exceedingly long novel. I suppose I'm surprised to hear that you read the whole thing in a week?
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by sramsay 7y ago
Have you, by chance, read Barbarians at the Gate?
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by sramsay 7y ago
"Write what you know" -- while not exactly bad advice -- is also better when not taken too rigidly. "Write what you believe" is better, I think.
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by sramsay 7y ago
I was amazed to see that with Catalina, zsh is now the default shell on MacOS. Then it occurred to me that this is probably more about Apple's great GPL purge than anything else.
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by sramsay 7y ago
I was surprised that wasn't on there. Seems to me more closely allied with the genre than Diamond Age .
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by sramsay 7y ago
> Unfortunately I don’t think the DX7 is hard to program just because of the user interface. That was my first thought. And actually, I kept trying to understand (from the article) how exactly this UI makes FM programming easier. Does
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by sramsay 7y ago
Take a look at Judson Jerome's The Poet's Handbook . Very readable introduction to English prosody, as well as a variety of other technical aspects of poetry.
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by sramsay 7y ago
Is RAII in C a serious suggestion being made anywhere?
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by sramsay 7y ago
I read this book -- well, twenty years ago! I wasn't a very experienced developer at that point, and I found the book extremely helpful. What I've never been able to figure out is why it has never been updated in all that time.
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by sramsay 7y ago
> Maybe if I were seriously into literary matters. Like the subscribers to the London Review of Books ($49 US / year), the New York Review of Books ($89 US / year), or the LA Review of Books? ($100 US / year for a q
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by sramsay 7y ago
May I suggest . . . https://3dforreddit.com/r/shitHNSays (I know, I know. But it is kind of funny to jump from HN to a museum of HN comments in 3D)
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by sramsay 7y ago
A thousand times this. My absolute number one requirement (after things like, um, the ability to make phone calls) is that it fit in my front-left pocket. I didn't upgrade to the last model for this reason and no other. But I can onl
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by sramsay 7y ago
God, or Swing! Please, for the love of all that is good, do not show this list to any manager. Ever.
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by sramsay 7y ago
From the article: "The elevators aren’t the only issue plaguing the ship, which has had problems with two other core systems -- the electromagnetic system to launch planes and the arresting gear to catch them when they land." So l
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by sramsay 7y ago
Honestly, the new design might be better, but I'll never know, because like you, every single page throws an error. How can one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world be so completely broken? I'm not sure. I can certa
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by sramsay 7y ago
One hand on the keys and one hand on the knobs is a very specific way of "playing" a synthesizer. A lot of people don't really play the instrument live in this way. I, personally, don't use keyboards to drive synths at
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by sramsay 7y ago
This is such an exciting project. And the phrase "the Middle Ages and the Humanism Period" is a bit misleading, because what we may find are transcriptions of ancient texts long considered lost. One of the most flatly incredible
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by sramsay 8y ago
I frequently find myself thinking the Greatest Novel Ever Written is either War and Peace or Anna Karenina , depending on which one I re-read most recently.
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by sramsay 8y ago
I recently switched to IVPN from Nord (a month or so ago), and I'm very glad I did. Great interface, and it never goes down. NordVPN is always advertising their massive server network, but I was always getting booted off and having co

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