thomasptacek

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   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   Your third argument is fallacious. C++ is gradually incorporating everything you're talking about into the standard. Stroustrop has openly stated that lack of standardized threads were a mistake: you can't get much more environment-specific
2. 92.▲
   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   Justify that statement with evidence. Why would you assume hash_map would outperform a C hash table, or vector outperform a C VLA?
3. 93.▲
   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   Surely you're not implying that vectors, hash tables, and sets are hard to write in C.
4. 94.▲
   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   The RSS feed for this site doesn't offer a link to comment pages; I've only commented on a few submissions that were themselves just links back into new.ycombinator.com. There is an element of suck-upness ("I hear what you're saying but wha
5. 95.▲
   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   I think you missed the part where he doesn't give a shit.
6. 96.▲
   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   What good is a list of books without any explanation of what makes them worth reading? Not one of these descriptions goes beyond what you'd find on the dust jacket.
7. 97.▲
   by thomasptacek 19y ago

   > Everything is faster. Zero drag is optimal. For a while, new applicants would jokingly be asked about their ''drag coefficient.'' Since the office is a full hour's commute from San Francisco, an apartment in the city was a full unit o