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by tsahyt 14y ago
API documentation can be generated from the source code with tools like doxygen. For everything else there's the standard toolchain consisting of a good editor and source control. Writing documentation is a chore but it's a very important a
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Yes, this. I'm looking at you, freedesktop.org... PulseAudio documentation is poor. Considering it doesn't really work out of the box on half the systems out there that's pretty bad. fontconfig docs are some of the worst I've seen in a long
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by tsahyt 14y ago
It's a game. It's fun. That's the value.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
One of the test images with 4 cats on it was reported to have only 2 cats on it by the cat detector. Still, good work :)
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by tsahyt 14y ago
There are a number of problems with this article. First, the way ray tracing is described is very odd. Rays aren't traced beginning from the light source that emitted them, but are shot from an "eye point" through a pixel on the screen and
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Most phones could technically run it but there are no updates supplied by the vendors. That's one of Androids biggest weaknesses. Well, I don't care, I've rooted my device long ago and keep flashing updates :)
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by tsahyt 14y ago
The 920 actually performs really well here. Another strong point of this phone. I really wish Nokia a proper comeback in the smartphone market. Maybe I'm just nostalgic about what they used to be. However, the 920 seems to be the kind of ph
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Does it? I mean, is WP really on par with Android or iOS? I haven't ever used it, so I can't really make a statement here, that's why I'm asking.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
This figure is not from a single instance though. When running a single instance of WP I've always found it to be fantastically slow. The greatness in the described stack really lies in Nginx. It's really not WordPress serving 70k request
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Linus uses MicroEMACS. This post is satire.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Same here. I almost got tangled in a bit of dialouge too.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
There's one thing you forgot here: They want to do that in one place . We're already doing all that here, today. We work on code using GitHub or similar services. We present our work on HN. We've got endless means of communication. And bot
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by tsahyt 14y ago
That's probably because Facebook is really just a way to satisfy narcissistic needs. I've seen to many people writing their diaries on FB, open for everyone to read, trying to grab attention. In a way, a lot of publication platforms are lik
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by tsahyt 14y ago
The internet itself has been the social network for hackers ever since. As a hacker it's more like "what places to avoid" rather than where to go to.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
This is bad.. really bad. I'm not sure whether Apple screwed this up so badly or Google really did a brilliant job on Maps.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Yes, this, exactly. It's hardly a scientific topic anymore. Not that there wouldn't be any science involved but it's become increasingly hard to tell the science from the political scare mongering, which is why - for the time being - I try
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by tsahyt 14y ago
A great start to an article that I'm skeptical about in its entirety.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Regardless of the context I'd actually say yes.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> law is one of the few remaining ethical professions. No, it isn't, at least not in general. There are lawyers who enact their job as an ethical profession and we should be thankful for them. But there are lawyers who couldn't care les
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> Do we honestly believe a beginning programmer will be better off reimplementing std::vector or just using a fixed array instead? I believe a beginning programmer will be best off using fixed arrays at first, then reimplementing a basi
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Obviously, yes. One can't expect jumps across multiple levels of libraries, wrappers and APIs to be free of cost. That's what Carmack referred to as "20 layers of crap". He's effectively right about it. On the other hand we can't reinvent t
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by tsahyt 14y ago
True in a way. C++ programmers like to think that they're writing efficient code because of the language they're using. The same applies to some C programmers (although at a lesser extent I think). In fact, the biggest gains are made on an
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Still they're both effectively right about it. "Object oriented niceness" comes at a cost. With C++ it might be smaller than in dynamic languages like Python, where things like function call overhead can be ridiculously big, but it's still
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by tsahyt 14y ago
The visual demonstration is rather hypnotizing to watch. This algorithm is an example how seemingly intelligent behaviour roots in just a handful of simple rules. In this way it kind of reminds me of Conway's Game of Life: A few simple rule
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> when JS support is unavailable That, yes. I noticed that my CPU load was noticeably high browsing some sites. Nothin special, just news sites. I found that quite annoying so I activated NoScript, suddenly the load was gone. The proble
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I'll risk a downvote for a non-constructive comment now, but I have to say this. "switched to [..] Windows and everything pretty much just works ". That sentence pretty much just beat OSX with its own slogan!
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by tsahyt 14y ago
"Isn't the purpose is that there isn't anything to get?" I know what you're trying to say, but you're entering a very dangerous area here. There is no useful system, anywhere, that doesn't require some amount of understanding. Even intuitio
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I remember a time when template engines ran on the server and sent finished HTML pages to the clients. What happened to that and why have we adopted methods such as this? Is this to balance load away from the server?
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I think Go has big potential, especially with those who now code C++ or Java but also with some users of dynamic typing languages. I have a feeling Go is here to stay for a while.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Probably. I haven't witnessed that yet though.

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