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   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   the edge cases are multiplicative, the more features you use, the more they interact. therefore by reducing language features that you use you reduce the number of edge cases you run in to. most shops agree on a subset of C++ before embarki
2. 392.▲
   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   I agree that picking a subset is the way to go. Google avoid two out of the three i mentioned that you take issue with avoiding. Places I have worked the code is divided into libraries and coding standards per library are different to the w
3. 393.▲
   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   Modern C++ is a moving target. By the time you get around to doing a project with one set of features they've been made redundant. Exceptions are a good example of this with noexcept etc coming in and replacing what went before. I know
4. 394.▲
   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   obviously we disagree! i think it's ok to miss out on language features. templates, as you say yourself you're ok not to know. you're also not ok not to know exceptions. there's other stuff too, you can get away without
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   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   it's a great site, but it's jarring at first. the sgi stl reference doesn't have a lot of c++11 in it.
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   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   Well at the risk of stating the obvious, there's a lot of armchair programmer style "read this", "watch this" instruction here. It's much better to do something concrete. Go and do a trivial project in it, cppr
7. 397.▲
   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   i worked out the number of compilations i did for a year and the cost of c++ vs. c for a 15000 line project and i think it came to ten minutes total. which i found shocking, but there it was. my perception was different from the reality.
8. 398.▲
   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   what is politics but a series of conspiracies?
9. 399.▲
   by throwawayaway 12y ago

   personally i feel that your mission statement could benefit from some bespoke, artisanal, hand crafted attention to locally sourced details, which would enhance the user experience. for over five years.
10. 400.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    form factor is clever, should be a drop in replacement for most people's pi cases too! http://linuxgizmos.com/35-dollar-quad-core-hacker-sbc-offers...
11. 401.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    curious to know how the port is implemented - if it's wedged in to the USB bus like on the pi that has performance implications.
12. 402.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    the UK seem to be fairly well accommodated for extradition: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/100739/response/25520... a one day workers strike in the US would have guantanamo closed the next week and th
13. 403.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    it's basically tptacek and mpyne against the world. for the most part i welcome contributors who aren't entirely biased. unfortunately as even my own worst paranoia was not predictive enough, paranoia that has had me laughed at to
14. 404.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    i cannot be trusted to write nice emails to people and keep a decent rapport/cadence. ergo, i am not destined to be in charge of people or have customers.
15. 405.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    i was under the impression that jQuery had taken care of that, perhaps i was mistaken. certainly a url is quicker to deploy than a jar. with the exception of jQuery: i appreciate your point, even within the same browser, different js engine
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    it's depressingly good at deployment though isn't it. there's nothing easier to "port". it's the write once run anywhere that's been promised so many times. i just don't feel like writing anything in
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    PS: the majority of the income comes from the games, because developers must pay Sony to publish a game on their platform. Sony also develop and sells their own games and services. Sony Pictures: part of the same org. i am just making assum
18. 408.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    i wish i worked in the places you worked. the ignorance in the places i have worked is utterly gobsmacking.
19. 409.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    the entertainment arm is dominant. to protect the content, they strongarmed the hardware arm. they had everything to do with it.
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVbQo3IOC_A
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    it's a fact not a theory in my experience. your experience differs. big deal, fact is - it works for me - it has virtue, the fact that it didn't work for you does nothing to change that. also i infer from the immediacy with which
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    personally, the use for bittorrent is long tail, niche software that has become obsolete and is no longer viable commercially and therefore not available. the idea of the few people that have it being able to share it with the many that may
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    >Use struts when you just need a data container. Use classes when you need to add behaviour. Simple rule, > A struct is a C++ data type that offers the same set of features as a class, just with a public access as default. these are l
24. 414.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    the question is why does a struct exist at all. just because they could pass an exam is not a great indicator of understanding. if your students put member functions, virtual functions or inheritance into a struct i wonder what mental gymna
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    struct_type s1 = {0,0,0,0,0}; struct_type s2 = {0,1,2,3,4}; memcpy(s1, s2, sizeof(struct_type)); // wat is the problem :? > There were no C lectures, nor teaching what is C or C++. > Back when a I was teaching assistance in
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    you can hear the difference between summing 16 channels of 24bit audio vs. 16bit audio in a daw. 24 sounds better. then when you render it, you can't tell the difference between a 16bit dump and a 24bit dump. i think the recent aphex t
27. 417.▲
    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    So the guy who took over from Linus doesn't mind Qt. The guy reiterates how much Linus does not like C++. I want my 12 minutes back!
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    very interesting, reminds me of this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6456253/why-is-reference-... it's a great shame it's defined in such an alien to use way in C++.
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    people keep using this "new C++ devs" proviso, it's a red herring. to remind you: > What exactly do you need to know about C, that is not part of C++, to understand C++? why can't you memcpy classes but you can struct
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    by throwawayaway 12y ago

    cheers for the broken record warning. i will now abstain from further conversation - i will leave you with this - i don't care to read your answer in case i have to respond and you might have to deal with some more repetition: using th