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by thebear 13y ago
In the short section entitled "Success" toward the end of the article, the author repeats the sentence "Extreme Programming succeeded" five times, slightly rephrased each time. To be perfectly honest, I find it hard to c
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by thebear 13y ago
Lots of excellent points in this presentation. Here's one more aspect. Lord Kelvin famously said, "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." Therefore, measuring the performance of your investments is a good i
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by thebear 13y ago
Somewhat confusingly, most companies that ship via UPS or FedEx do not accept my P.O. box as a shipping address, claiming that UPS and FedEx do not deliver to P.O. boxes. Others accept my P.O. box, and UPS or FedEx happily delivers the item
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by thebear 13y ago
In the opening scene of the Western "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys" Marshall Flagg (Robert Mitchum) rides up to the homestead of Old Man Grundy (Douglas Fowley) in the early morning, to find Grundy sitting by a campfire outside t
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: That has been my experience as well. People tend to overestimate their performance requirements. Then, in the name of improving performance, they do all kinds of things that bring down their productivity and increa
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: Thanks! I'll add that to the blog post.
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: Thanks for your lucid remarks. JavaScript certainly has its share of annoyances, but likening those to the complexity issues of C++ seems inappropriate to me.
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: It's true, I haven't done a good job of mentioning the benefits that you get in return for the complexity of C++, especially as far as value semantics is concerned. Thanks for setting that right.
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: I haven't found the time to do much with Scala or Clojure, but my impression so far agrees with what you say. Thanks for reminding me: I need to seriously try out Scala and Clojure!
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: Interesting that you say that. I came really close to saying in the blog post that Rust could be the alternative to C++ that I am looking for. But then I decided that I know way too little about Rust at this point
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: Thanks, good point! What I meant was, "Trying to impress with the complexity of your code..." I'll change that in the blog post.
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by thebear 13y ago
Author of blog post here: I believe JavaScript is another example where the problems (not sure if I'd call it complexity, but problems they are) can be understood by looking at the history of the language. Brendan Eich himself has said
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C++ and the Culture of Complexity(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
66 points by thebear 13y ago|83 comments
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by thebear 13y ago
Ok, beautifully written article, I enjoyed reading it. But you really are downplaying and underestimating the kind of reward and benefit that one gets from writing articles and code. For example, I have written a number of articles and libr
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by thebear 13y ago
Well put. What a treat to find such great writing on HN. Here's one more thought on why Facebook, Twitter, and even MySpace feel so much more natural than Google+: perhaps it has to do with the fact that large, functioning communities
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by thebear 13y ago
One reason for the paradox could be that solving a problem on a whiteboard or in a similar interview situation is different from actually writing a program. I could easily see myself failing the fizzbuzz test on a whiteboard. My programming
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by thebear 13y ago
I'm far more interested in conversations regarding where we are headed, rather than from whence we've came Can you have the former without the latter?
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by thebear 13y ago
Additional info: there's a new movie out this weekend about Hannah Arendt and her covering the Eichmann trial. It got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hannah_arendt/
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by thebear 13y ago
>> [...] can you speak to one's capability to capitalize on that experience and personal growth throughout one's life? << Given the fact that I haven't been successful with a late-in-life startup, some may deny me the credib
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by thebear 13y ago
Many people seem to believe that if you want to do a startup, you have to do it when you're young. Young people can afford to take a lot of risk, because they have few responsibilities to hold them back. And if they fail, there'll be plenty
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by thebear 13y ago
This is a great overview. However, in order to use the new C++11 features correctly and avoid pitfalls, one must dig a bit deeper. A good example is auto and decltype: http://thbecker.net/articles/auto_and_decltype/section_01.ht...
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by thebear 13y ago
Good point. I think the same is true for a lot of things that you do in college. For example, in college, they force you to keep deadlines. If you can do that, consistently, for four years, then later in life, you can occasionally miss a de
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by thebear 13y ago
As Sir Winston Churchill so aptly put it: "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
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by thebear 13y ago
Ah, of course, I should have seen that. Now it all makes sense. Thanks for explaining!
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by thebear 13y ago
You live and learn. I always thought "Let's don't" was a joke, something you say facetiously to indicate that you do care about grammar. It turns out that "Let's don't" has arrived in that grey area between grammatically right and wrong w
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by thebear 13y ago
First off, I admit that I am hypersensitive to any form of bastardization of language. So please don't hate me for I'm going to say, I'm just a victim of my hypersensitivities. But: the word "stream" in the English language means "a steady
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by thebear 13y ago
>> But I suppose its one of those things that's likely to be highly subjective. Words of wisdom. Thanks.
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by thebear 13y ago
Given the fact that I can switch to one-column layout, I should probably shut up now. But just for the sake of a lively debate, let me say this: if I can't read the thing, I can't skim it either. I just don't know how to move my eyes around
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by thebear 13y ago
That's brilliant (irony directed at Google, not billnguyen, whose posts are great).
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by thebear 13y ago
I commented earlier that I had a hard time figuring out the chronological order of the posts in the stream. I've learned since that Google doesn't want us to care about that. Fine, that's their prerogative. But now I have a new problem: I d

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