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by svckr 9y ago
- complains about people being told to use a different tool - goes on to tell people to use a different tool
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by svckr 9y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if we see a resurgence of compile-to-js languages? If JavaScript keeps on piling up layers I could see people longing for a simpler, smaller language. Where there was coffeescript to highlight functional features i
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by svckr 9y ago
Here in Germany we have a clear distinction between credit- and debit cards. And I guess the culture leans more toward the "saving not loaning" model nickrio describes. So for me it is a conscious decision wether I pay with my ban
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Aphex Twin’s Patch Editor Uses Artificial Intelligence to ‘Evolve’ Synth Patches(synthtopia.com)
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by svckr 9y ago
Okay, I'm gonna say it: I had to chuckle at the name "Connect", because there is already [0], and _even more so_ with Stripe also naming their user onboarding flow "Express", like [1]. Beautiful work nonetheless. [0
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by svckr 9y ago
I can relate to that. I guess undefined behavior makes it somewhat harder to write correct software. I've definitely read someone make the same point. The problem is, you can't always know if (for example) you're reading from
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by svckr 9y ago
The author quotes an article referring to using uninitialized memory for additional entropy and that article cites [10]. Let me just say: DON'T do that, ever. Uninitialized memory is rarely random. If you're lucky, it's quasi
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by svckr 9y ago
One way is to delete entries from `require.cache`. Either way you might get a separate instance if npm decided that your module and another module require different version of a given module. These would both be singletons though. Just si
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by svckr 9y ago
Came here to mention that guy who registered the "nul" package on npm an hour ago. Found your post. The world is a small place.
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by svckr 10y ago
Maybe I don't give the rewriters enough credit, but in all honesty, I'd be surprised if they bothered to look that deep into the code and tests before it's already too late. Too often, there's just some handwaving and pr
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by svckr 10y ago
Hey, so just to clear things up, because nobody seems to have mentioned it: Is there a sign indicating that there are only right turns allowed? (White angled arrow pointing right on blue background) As a driver approaching this particular c
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by svckr 10y ago
Try less, and smaller roads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess'_paradox
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by svckr 10y ago
I know, it is hard to take anything at face value these days. And asking the question why there is so much support now might not be popular, mainly because the answer is not really pretty. I do, however, believe that there are some object
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by svckr 10y ago
Here's what, Tim Pope, our favourite vim nerd has to say about this: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... (Same, but with more words.) A point of contention seems to be the cho
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by svckr 10y ago
I absolutely agree. If you look at Rust from a systems programmer perspective and compare it with the systems languages OP lists then, yes, safety is THE most radical feature. But Rust can compete on so many more levels. Web services, user
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by svckr 10y ago
Well I'm still hoping for a "I'm feeling lucky" button for this. Type in a symptom, get redirected straight to a product page of an online pharmacy.
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by svckr 10y ago
Agreed. RAII is something I miss deeply in many other languages.
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by svckr 10y ago
Re 2): Pinterest. It's the cancer of Google image search. I don't get how Google's search ranking doesn't massively penalize that behaviour. I'd rather stomach an advertisement than the "plz register" BS.
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by svckr 10y ago
Now, if you had some kind of home automation switching the lights you could implement a really slow communication protocol as a USB device driver.
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by svckr 10y ago
I secretly enjoy the ridicule I get from other web developers for refusing to use Chrome (except for late stage cross browser testing) because it does not even try to fit in.
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by svckr 10y ago
One of my favorite discoveries as well! I sometimes (rarely) compare archives with: diff <(tar tzf f1.tgz) <(tar tzf f2.tgz) Or diffs of diffs: diff <(git diff --cached) the-patch-alice-proposed
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by svckr 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying that. I was slightly irritated as the article name-dropped bokeh but then went on raving about the processor, not coming back to bokeh to pick up the dangling reference. So the iPhone just blurs what it considers the b
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by svckr 10y ago
Saying one is a C++ expert is a pretty extraordinary claim and should require extraordinary evidence :) I'm regularly intimidated by positions looking for capital s Senior C++ developers, because no matter how deep my knowledge goes, m
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by svckr 10y ago
This is from "The Humble Programmer" of which I was reminded too. I think the term humility captures the essence of what the author is saying better than "lack of confidence". You can be confident in what you know, all w
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by svckr 10y ago
> [...] forcing the end-user to manually deal with fixing problems, which is often fraught with pain and peril, and doesn't seem like a strategy that would work for something that's a database (as opposed to something that&#x27
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by svckr 10y ago
This is stupid. Why would they write JDSL if they could just have used https://github.com/josh/cafe-js which is clearly superior because it uses Git instead of SVN? Typical case of NIH. /s Actually, I've read
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by svckr 10y ago
When I learned the basics of electronics in middle school our teacher (and, actually, every teacher since) explained the relation between resistance, voltage and current using a triangle: /U\ /R*I\ (Where U = voltage
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by svckr 10y ago
I've been playing with wait-free algorithms some time ago but never got anywhere meaningful. A wait-free queue for multiple consumers and multiple producers would be kind of the holy grail when it comes to wait free data structures. Is
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by svckr 10y ago
> While I agree with your sentiment, I believe that your statement about pkg-config goes a bit over the top. Granted, pkgconfig is often a good solution for a hairy problem. I was just so very delighted to see such a simple Makefile :)
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by svckr 10y ago
With energy efficiency as a primary goal I was expecting way more use of explicit SIMD instructions. The InfoQ post mentions xcodebuild, but there is also a Makefile. I really appreciate the presence of a no-nonsense Makefile. No autoconf,

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