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by tacos 12y ago
Ah, my metaphor wasn't clear. I wasn't arguing for unit types (user-defined literals didn't appear in C++ until C++11...) I was pointing out that reconciling units in physics is common sense. People don't debate whether
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by tacos 12y ago
Interesting choice as game engines are famously C++ and the scripting languages -- even the one-offs custom made by the devs -- are less "scripty" than you'd think given the development pressures. From Wolf3D to Unity they la
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by tacos 12y ago
I think of it like typing the units in physics class. Sure, you can leave them out. But how much time are you really saving? A lot of these languages make for lovely blog posts and also happen to be fantastic for gluing things together. But
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by tacos 12y ago
True: hiring non-programmers from top schools and then giving them tasks like "fake out multifinder enough that WinHelp runs" is a unique form of cruelty. But most work in the 1990s was like that. He should be glad he landed at Mi
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by tacos 12y ago
Visual Studio in even the shittiest, crufty Windows VM is a better experience than Xcode. Seriously Apple, what is the deal?
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by tacos 12y ago
They're also a great fucking company . Nerds care about this sort of bullshit. People who turn seeds into fruit into dollars care that the manufacturer will drop in with a helicopter to a field and get you going fast with a loaner par
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by tacos 12y ago
I've only seen rants of this tone, format and length from bona-fide crazy people. There's a line here and I hope stays on the side where I can continue to respect him. If he wants me to use GPL3 I'll take it under advisement.
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by tacos 12y ago
For real (and cooler) information on the ribosome, check out the amazing work by Joachim Frank at Columbia. http://franklab.cpmc.columbia.edu/franklab/ Nerd trivia: his son is Ze Frank.
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by tacos 12y ago
If the goal of the Mono project were to provide a cross-platform scripting language for games then, with obvious caveats about all the well-known problems, sure, "that worked." But the goals and history of the project were clear.
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by tacos 12y ago
I'm not sure what your point is here. Talented programmers have been releasing stuff that works great on shitty platforms forever. If the money is there, you work around the nonsense, warts and all. It doesn't mean DirectX 6.1 is
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by tacos 12y ago
Um... Unity spent the last three years trying to find a way to pry themselves off Mono. Unity "works" because devs using Unity work their asses off tiptoeing around a really old version of Mono. You picked about the worst possible
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by tacos 12y ago
I literally saved two businesses as favors to friends. One by replacing a Mono app on Mac with Windows running in a VM. The second by doing the two hours of config work they were afraid of to host on Windows Server instead of a Linux box. (
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by tacos 12y ago
The Mono team did an amazing job, and they actually had a lot of support deep within Microsoft all along. But yeah, I think it's okay to say "it never really worked." (And there's nothing wrong with being a port factory
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by tacos 12y ago
I like you. Let's be friends.
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by tacos 12y ago
I read it, started to doze off, forced myself to dig in, and was left with the feeling they just redefined the Constant of Integration as part of their own mystery lingo. It shouldn't be like this. Sheesh.
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by tacos 12y ago
The bug list for a dev tool, that devs use, containing bugs meticulously entered by devs, carries weight. I also provided sample code above, so I clearly use the tool. And I've written and published scripts that show that it does not g
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by tacos 12y ago
The tool has one critical function: to generate files that calculate dependencies properly. It does not do this. Been using it since 2.6. Get one of their super-tweaky ever-changing commands wrong and it doesn't generate dependencies A
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by tacos 12y ago
SET(i 0) while(i LESS count) LIST(GET extras 0 file) LIST(REMOVE_AT extras 0) LIST(APPEND extras "${root}/${F}/${file}") MATH(EXPR i "${i}+1") endwhile() "
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by tacos 12y ago
It averaged a gross profit margin of 38% the past five years. While paying a dividend. And doubling the stock price. Which companies in that list have profits let alone profit margins? And are half as diversified? I see the big upside. I se
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by tacos 12y ago
I understand the bet. I do not think you understand what "averaging $33B" means. For instance Rubbermaid simply owns numerous home, commercial and healthcare markets. They make everything from saws to Sharpies. They doubled their
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by tacos 12y ago
Exactly. I admire Sam's balls but the externalities here are immense. The greatest financial mind of our time built Berkshire Hathaway to $350B over 50 years. GE is worth $250B. Microsoft $340B. To believe Sam's motley list of com
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by tacos 12y ago
Ironically a basic statistics class indicates that cherry picking companies that deliver 2x, 3x and ... whatever the fuck that third pick is ... as a guaranteed return over 5 years is indicative of the overenthusiastic hype that historicall
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by tacos 12y ago
OneDrive has been a mess: "Prior to Windows 8.1, we had two sync experiences. One used on Windows 7/8/Mac to connect to the consumer service, and a second sync engine to connect to the commercial service (OneDrive for Busines
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by tacos 12y ago
Microsoft offers 1 TB storage through OneDrive for $69.99/yr -- and it comes with Microsoft Office apps for PC, Mac, Android and iOS. I have a soft spot for Dropbox, but it's really just a matter of who buys them for what price no
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by tacos 12y ago
I'm a Microsoft fanboy and Powershell is bad Python. How 'bout we meet in the middle and y'all make the changes the Cygwin guys need? And hey, where'd that POSIX subsystem go? Finally got C99 support almost shipped now h
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by tacos 12y ago
I counted seventy one (!) factual errors by the time I got to the section on the Leslie Speaker, where "rotating motors" become "horns" that are "picked up" by speakers. That makes two PhD students today on the
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by tacos 12y ago
Job was for C++ implementing signal processing code with SIMD optimizations. He couldn't unpack RGBA from a long. I've also seen Matlab shitheads who couldn't do it in C either, so it goes both ways. The point of mentioning t
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by tacos 12y ago
The page you link is actually a shortened form and links to the real list: http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#How_is_Octave_different_from_Matl... which comes in at 2,662 words. The parts you say are good about Octave are EXACTLY t
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by tacos 12y ago
Since you linked to several thousand words explaining the differences between the languages, as well as the following quote: "The plan is for the GUI to be considered stable with version 4.0" then I'll assume you haven't
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by tacos 12y ago
Well at Carnegie Mellon they did. That's why I wanna know how some punk got his Caltech paper stamped without even learning C. He did seem sad that SpaceX wouldn't touch him. Apparently you need more than friends at the Jet Propul

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