verdex_phone

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by verdex_phone 7y ago
Im pretty sure I watched a numberphile video on this. I'm having trouble googling it. Anyone know the video I'm talking about? This is the sort of thing that belongs on HN, but not WSJ. WSJ should be talking about the privacy i
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by verdex_phone 7y ago
Actually, this is much more interesting than the doomsday math. Like does somebody have the mental model of a bunch of software engineers shoveling equations into a furnace and it powering a data center? What exactly did they have in mind
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by verdex_phone 7y ago
I can second ocaml. Im using it more lately and really enjoying it. Of course the compiler error message leaves a lot of room for improvement. And it does take a lot of time to get used to all of the peculiar syntax. But you get ADTs, th
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by verdex_phone 8y ago
That's not particularly charitable. The accidental AMA that happened on HN a few weeks back gave me the impression that V lang isn't as polished as a concept as some of the other offerings out there. BUT the author seemed tp ha
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by verdex_phone 9y ago
I imagine the types of things you do with the respective languages as well as the number of people in the communities have a pretty big impact. For example if you're using c++ to implement an interface for some hardware then maybe you
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by verdex_phone 9y ago
This is pretty cool. Ive seen a surprising number of things hidden in c# that can affect performance. For example stack allocation. Anyway im looking forward to the tools, frameworks, and abstractions that come from these features.
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by verdex_phone 9y ago
I dont know. Ive seen systems before where anyone could make catastrophic 'modifications' like what you describe. I tend towards blaming the system construction over the junior developer.