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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Caste system doesn't seem to be a reason. People here just want shortest way for something, not much ethical considerations or whatever. People study CSE mostly because it pays well, despite having literally no interest in this. People
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Bullshit. Not just Brahmins are responsible for caste system and all. Now that Brahmin vote bank is literally smallest, every other community gets benefits from government, while Brahmins do not. Some people like to hate on Brahmins. It is
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
IITs were a thing. Now getting an IIT is purely a matter of practice. The entrance exams suck, and are susceptible to coaching.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
I think explains it. But there are more south Indian people than north Indian people as well, despite there being lesser population.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
At the point, all that matters is if templates are monomorphized or not. Other things don't affect much. Your previous statement just counts like fanboy-ism.
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Introduction to Abject Oriented Programming(typicalprogrammer.com)
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
It seems many comments in this thread don't get the point. The "Premature Optimization is Root of all Evil" is about juvenile low level optimizations that sacrifice code readability. They don't give high perf gains eithe
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
It reminds me my experiments to get a debian rootfs running on a plain Android terminal emulator without something like termux. I remember I used LD_PRELOAD along with fakechroot and fakeroot packages to get most things working. Those days&
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
naive question: What is implementation difference between async and synchronous function that makes many languages differentiate them?
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
If using Mobile Firefox (not FF Preview or FF Focus), then greasemonkey is available as add on.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Ecosystem.. I don't know about node. But there's whole lot of java code and libraries out there. Otherwise why would people build other languages for the JVM? Ease of writing; Most of code is okay having a GC. But time to produce
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
That meme should have been diminished earlier. People should understand while Google saves much data within itself, Apple shares it with advertising partners. By the way, People have come to hate Google all the way for some advertising and
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Ask HN: What are some interesting ideas in Code Editing and Development tooling?
1 points by terminaljunkid 7y ago|1 comments
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
> Many other fields require the same mental capacities we employ: from doctors to school teachers all the way to even accountants. They are literally doing the same stuff we are doing: grabbing stuff that was already built by others, thi
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Eclipse Project Slides (2002) [pdf](eclipse.org)
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Joel Spolsky: Fire and Motion(joelonsoftware.com)
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Plus ublock origin can save a lot of data. I am on a slow university network and I keep JavaScript off by default using UBO. It takes 3 clicks to enable it for sites that really need it, but web is much faster with it.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
IMO Lisp is just overrated, it lacks visual clues, reads right to left with horrible nesting etc.. Sure it has some good concepts. But fanboys on internet make it seem like some God tier thing.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
The blog is one of biggest apple fanboy bullshits out there. And given the bias against google in HN / reddit, it is quite simple why apple is heralded as preserver of privacy. Hell, one can disable most of google stuff and install f-d
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
> I see massive companies like AWS reimplementing open source projects' APIs with proprietary solutions This may feel wrong to some, but emulating the API of the famous thing is bread and butter of software interoperability.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
The problem with those standards committees is they are very opaque and finished standards are not freely available.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Better, I am almost always able to download the paper by prepending sci-hub [dot] tw [slash] to publisher's URL. It sometime asks captchas but not at all a problem.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Yes, in short - users & groups serve as a rudimentary implementation of capabilities. Best example is Android. But there's more to it. Separating admin user from non admin user always has advantages and I do it even on Windows.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
I feel if google had brought android to desktop, with terminal and all, it would be a good developer experience and also nice for normal user. There's sandboxing, it requires less and less maintenance than other OSes and UI is quite in
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
So some predictions for SW industry: * We would be still using Python 2 and Linux kernel 3.X somewhere in production * Google Fuchsia will reach beta * Go will not get generics * Rust won't reach dreamed popularity -- still deemed terr
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Isn't there any kind of problems that can be automatically generated but can't be solved reliably by machines?
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
> In fact, there are so many occasions where the optimisation is so good that the end user doesn't believe that anything happened IMO it can be attributed more to bad UI than optimizations.
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
I literally got into CSE because of termux, at the time I didn't even have a PC..
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
Premature optimization is when micro optimizations triumph readability..
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by terminaljunkid 7y ago
I think you entirely ignored the performance cost of dynamism (not having types known, not having value types, dynamic binding of methods etc..) that is handy 1% of the time but imposes type safety & performance cost other 99% of the ti

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