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by tayistay 5y ago
The article makes me wonder: how much headroom do compilers of newer slow-to-compile languages such as Rust or Swift have for improving compile times?
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by tayistay 5y ago
Call me crazy, but I’d prefer the tabs as a big stack on the left side.
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by tayistay 5y ago
Sometimes you have to look in the headers. I don't know why it doesn't get parsed into the docs. Here's the documentation for loadSimulatedRequest: /*! @abstract Sets the webpage contents from the passed data as if i
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by tayistay 5y ago
WFH needs to be mandated whenever possible. We have an existential climate crisis caused in part by constantly driving cars to and from work. This is more important than office productivity, and oddly, nobody is talking about it.
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by tayistay 6y ago
Doesn’t matter who came first, you can’t generate a bunch of smoke and noise. I’m sure Austin has a noise ordinance. Easy solution is to move the event to a better location.
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by tayistay 6y ago
I think we should ban the use of opaque algorithms to mediate communication between individuals. You need to be able to understand and predict the semantics of communication.
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by tayistay 6y ago
Illumination is global so each frame needs to be rendered separately AFAIK.
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by tayistay 6y ago
Ok, 100M miles until death. How many miles until injury?
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by tayistay 6y ago
Obviously, there are various reasons why you can't "just use python or JS" for a particular project.
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by tayistay 6y ago
In many cases you can get away with just using a struct with a tag (no unions). Yes, it wastes memory, and isn't as safe as a proper sum type, but at least it's memory-safe for C++ objects and you can use a normal switch statement
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by tayistay 6y ago
> And investment banking does? Whataboutism.
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by tayistay 6y ago
Couldn't agree more! What a waste of talent.
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by tayistay 6y ago
> If tests can do this, then so can anyone else. If I had an image loader class, I can make a test function a friend, which would allow it to call private functions on the class. This only grants access to the test function (or test clas
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by tayistay 6y ago
C++ gives you enough access control so you can expose things just for testing if you want (make the test a friend, encapsulate the functions into another class). You can do this without breaking encapsulation. If the functions are capturing
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by tayistay 6y ago
I think I've watched that talk before. The starting point you linked to talks about when to do linear searches. Anyone with some experience knows that stuff. It's a good thing to tell undergrads in case they missed it, but Blow al
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by tayistay 6y ago
Well, this is about nice code to look at, not avoiding delaying the ship date. Moreover, here's approximately how I'd write that TGA loading function: 1. Write a function to load just a header. 2. Unit test the function with a hea
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by tayistay 6y ago
You can do that fairly easily with C++ lambdas. I think the primary deficiency, though, is that the functions aren't exposed for unit testing.
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by tayistay 6y ago
I was coding C++ (for graphics) in the early 2000s, and I (and I think most others I knew) would have considered it bad back then. But regardless, the topic isn't "C++ code that was considered good when it was written".
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by tayistay 6y ago
Not terribly impressed. This wouldn't pass my code review: https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/blob/aaa855815ab484d5bd09... Function is 200 lines long, with 8 or so levels of nesting. Also "goto brea
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by tayistay 6y ago
> If I just make a [new language designed from scratch], the odds of anyone using it other than me are almost 0. The mechanics of how languages become popular are confusing and unknown and you are very unlikely to produce the next big la
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by tayistay 6y ago
Yes, I am assuming that Rust isn't much harder to code in than Zig. Rust isn't that hard, really. Since your point doesn't really have to do with which languages are involved (only that they are different somehow), one could
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by tayistay 6y ago
Rust will be safer. Reasoning is pretty simple: a dynamic approach (Zig) will only catch the memory errors for the tested code paths. This is probably only marginally better than running your C++ code's test suite with address sanitize
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by tayistay 6y ago
Count me mostly a hater. OOP as typically done (C++, Java) is bad for two reasons: 1. Heavy use of reference semantics prevents local reasoning about code. 2. Inheritance is really brittle. A subclass can break superclass invariants. I don&
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by tayistay 6y ago
That's quite a dichotomy. Anyway, it's not about what I think, it's about what the recruiters thought. The recruiters probably thought (perhaps wrongly, I don't know) that they would find fewer good candidates at NC A&am
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by tayistay 6y ago
Note that the article mentions they did drive two hours each way (!!) to give the presentation. Surely that's better than "essentially treat you like a dog."
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by tayistay 6y ago
Actually, US News does seem to measure those things: Duke student-faculty ratio is 6:1. NC A&T is 18:1. Duke is #17 in Best Undergraduate Teaching. Seems for NC A&T that info is paywalled. Duke is #8 in Co-ops/Internships. This
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by tayistay 6y ago
"Did Hooli recruiters think that they wouldn’t pass the hiring bar?" Most likely, yes. In the US news rankings, Duke is #10 and UNC is #20. NC A&T is #281. NC A&T has a 46% graduation rate vs Duke's 95%. Duke engineer
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by tayistay 6y ago
If you look at the selection of apps on the Mac App Store, where developers aren't forced to use the store, it's pretty easy to see that their 30% generally outweighs the usefulness of the service. So, semantic discussions of mono
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by tayistay 6y ago
I'm sure it does. Your ownership is in proportion to equity. It's not as if your life situation suddenly changes when you make that last mortgage payment. Your point makes me wonder if mortgages just had the effect of transferring
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by tayistay 6y ago
It's as if the author hasn't ever really encountered scientific precision. Take this for example: "Most of us constitute a property-less underclass only able to survive by servicing the needs of high earners." Who is &qu

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