stusmall

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by stusmall 13y ago
I have to ask. Why?
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by stusmall 13y ago
I'm the same way with checked exceptions. Right now I am in the pro-camp... but just give me a little bit. I am about to start a greenfield jvm project so I think I will be anti soon... but once its mature and I'm in bug fix mod
483.
by stusmall 13y ago
What is complex about the type system?
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by stusmall 13y ago
That's just how early R&D is when you have a physical product. I can't count how much crazy crap I've seen rushed from China to make a deadline or meet early turn outs. Sometimes engineering time and early adopter happi
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by stusmall 13y ago
I should clarify my asking the question isn't "Why would anyone do that?!?!" it is more "What is the advantage? Is there something I missed?"
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by stusmall 13y ago
Why is that? My motivation for picking Android is the larger market share. Even if you have engineering preferences, to me what really matters is getting it out in front of a wider audience.
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by stusmall 13y ago
I'm surprised that iOS is winning out as much as it is on the first native side to build.
488.
by stusmall 13y ago
Why would you want to switch on a boolean statement? EDIT: Ignore me. I see your explanation below.
489.
by stusmall 13y ago
This is an important part of the way I learn. I will read something and then explain it to someone else. It makes me think deeper about the issue as I form the words and it gives me a great chance to get corrected when I am making unfair
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by stusmall 13y ago
I think that might be a bit too broad of a take away. I hate to be a pedant but C# allows user defined value types and I'm sure there are other GC'd languages that aren't as reference type heavy as Java. I think it would be
491.
by stusmall 13y ago
I love beej's guide! Its where I learned socket programming. It is an art to make such a dry subject as entertaining as he does.
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by stusmall 13y ago
I've been working hard to keep my sodium intake low. It is really hard. Your palate becomes very used to it and some things taste very off without it. Whenever I make a veggie stew it is this battle in my mind of how I want it to ta
493.
by stusmall 13y ago
GCC's -Waddress triggers a warning on the use of a function in a conditional expression like in that X bug.
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by stusmall 13y ago
Writing to an uninitialized pointer.
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by stusmall 13y ago
I remember an almost impossible to diagnose heisenbug I had on an embedded device years ago. It was a small embedded system with no MMU and very poor tooling. It took 3 of us stuck in a room working long hours together for 2 weeks to trac
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by stusmall 13y ago
Static code analysis tools exist in many languages even very high level, safe ones. A lot of them are even named after lint or as a tip of the hat to it. Their presence isn't a sign of flaws of the language. They are signs of flaws i
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by stusmall 13y ago
Among others the Objective-C crowd might want to have a chat with you about it being the "widely-accepted state of the art." This is ignoring the fact that memory management does not really address C's ability to do unsafe m
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by stusmall 13y ago
I would be more willing to blame C if these bugs were unsafe memory operations. Unused parameters, logic errors and assignment instead of comparison aren't unique to C and the language isn't without counter measures for them. The
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by stusmall 13y ago
The reason why this is allowed is that is seemingly pointless code. After this buffer is memset'd it is never referenced again and falls out of scope. Assuming that all other code behaves safe and doesn't rely on undefined behav
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by stusmall 13y ago
>One might expect the glibc library's code to be written in such a way as to provide maximum portability. Its worth noting portability was one of the reasons cited by Debian for moving from glibc to eglibc.
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by stusmall 13y ago
I can think of some vendors who offer source sharing agreements on their closed products for auditing purposes. I'd speculate Boeing would offer the same if the contract is valuable enough, especially if its DoD writing the check.
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by stusmall 13y ago
Sure there is a sandbox... but its a bit leaky
503.
by stusmall 13y ago
Honestly, ActiveX/JApplet comparison seems pretty fair to me. I know you said Java, but still.
504.
by stusmall 13y ago
That wouldn't even need an SSL bug to MITM
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Mt Gox acquisition?
8 points by stusmall 13y ago|1 comments
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by stusmall 13y ago
Not only does it put a bigger focus on bitcoin as whole than MtGox, it is extremely negative about the company. I don't know what the intended audience for this is but it wouldn't do a good job of selling the company as a good in
507.
by stusmall 13y ago
Same here. The statement that got me was "The reality is that MtGox can go bankrupt at any moment, and certainly deserves to as a company." That is no way to start out a slide show that says there is still hope for recovery from
508.
by stusmall 13y ago
Its not just the lack of control, the bigger problem is features that have been added in. There major use cases for C that go by its nature can not fill. It can not do bare metal programming or real time applications without major changes
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by stusmall 13y ago
>I'm by no means a LaTex expert. I've written a few papers and a bunch of reports, nothing published, just undergraduate stuff I had a long talk about something like this with a close friend last night. He has a favorite techn
510.
by stusmall 13y ago
I don't mean to be a jerk, but how much do you actually use/have used LaTex? They aren't even similar. They have very few similar use cases. One is a typesetting system the other is a word processor. Sure, documents come

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