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by w0utert 14y ago
I'm not suggesting anything, I'm just saying that extrapolating publicly available information about the performance of Google AI cars, does not give me any clue about how they would do in real traffic. I don't think 'just as bad as some hu
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by w0utert 14y ago
No, I didn't even know about that crash, reading the reports it apparently involved 4 cars, and the AI Prius running into the back of the car in front of it. Obviously, Google declared afterwards that it was driven by a human at that time,
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by w0utert 14y ago
Genuinely curious: what is it that makes so many people have such high regards for Google's self-driving AI? I agree that it's a whole different ballgame compared to just tracking a lead vehicle on the motorway, but honestly, all I have see
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by w0utert 14y ago
I have a smartphone that is 3.5 years old already, and it's still getting the latest OS updates. It wasn't even sold as a developer phone either. I'll leave it to the reader to guess what phone it is. No matter how you spin it, Android OS u
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by w0utert 14y ago
Keeping this in the context of devices like a pacemaker, do you really believe that an open-source development model would be safer for the people who depend on it than a closed-source model? Do you expect them to flash custom ROMs to the p
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by w0utert 15y ago
^ this Hours worked must be one of the worst metrics for performance, productivity, efficiency or commitment. I don't know why people in some countries or cultures are so obsessed with how long they work, or how few days they take off. Or a
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by w0utert 15y ago
> I think it has the potential. It always had. Android already turned the mobile market upside-down. In what way did Android 'turn the mobile market upside-down'? The mobile market turned itself upside-down, and Android was just one of
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by w0utert 15y ago
What you are describing sounds like plain old memory starvation, not really a problem with the memory management. You don't have to fill up every last bit of RAM before the OS starts swapping, as there could be pinned memory pages or proces
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by w0utert 15y ago
Not this again, we already went through this a few weeks ago. Back then, I thought the conclusion was that there is nothing broken about OS X memory management, and that with every 'fix' you come up with, you will just introduce another deg
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by w0utert 15y ago
Embedded, low power, real-time, drivers, high performance computing, low-level kernel, legacy, and so on... The alternatives you give are not really the best examples either. C# is only a viable development platform for serious/professional
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by w0utert 15y ago
I never have to force-quit XCode, no matter how shitty my code is. If my code hangs, a Command-'.' kills it and I can continue working, even if I'm debugging multithreaded code that hangs somewhere outside the event loop while the main thre
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by w0utert 15y ago
I fail to see how the article you link to supports your opinion in any way, and neither you or Siracusa offer any arguments why Objective-C needs replacing. At all. You can summarize Siracusa's piece as 'Objective-C needs automatic memory m
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by w0utert 15y ago
The way you state it is a little negative, but it's an interesting question nonetheless. I think Objective-C would not have been on many developers radar if it weren't for the fact that Apple frameworks use it extensively (they don't 'force
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by w0utert 15y ago
In some ways I can imagine they could be strengths, or at least beneficial in some situations. For example being chaotic and non-conforming sometimes you learn something you would otherwise miss out on. Most of the other things I mentioned
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by w0utert 15y ago
One thing you didn't mention in your article, but which I think is a relevant and interesting observation to make, is that 'your code =/= your identity' works both ways. It's not just that you should not project messy code onto someone's pe
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by w0utert 15y ago
Apple uses LLVM to drive the very sophisticated auto-completion, static analysis, and error reporting features built into XCode, which are by any standard insanely good. No need to get politics or hidden agenda conspiracy theories along for
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by w0utert 15y ago
To be fair, where I live we have subsidized health care and mandatory health insurance for everyone, but still many forms of 'preventative health care' are considered unacceptable, an invasion of privacy or belittlement by the government. F
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by w0utert 15y ago
I'm not saying I'd like to see GCC disappear. In fact, I still depend on it for all of our C++ stuff. The point I was trying to make is that GCC isn't that much better than LLVM in terms of how well it compiles every bit of valid C++ you th
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by w0utert 15y ago
What makes you think GCC 5.0 tomorrow will be better supported by your current development environment, than LLVM today? I find the rest of our comment somewhat derogatory towards LLVM and the kind of things you can do with it today, it's a
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by w0utert 15y ago
> You don't remember what the original argumentation was. Firefox is free, Mozilla can't afford the patent licensing, that's all. IIRC, there were other reasons not to support using the OS codecs. H264 license fees are not an issue when
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by w0utert 15y ago
So with IE 5.5 on Windows 95 I'm safe, right?
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by w0utert 15y ago
I think the fact that Google is pushing Chrome on Android, which according to reviews wipes the floor with the standard Android browser, more or less proves your point.
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by w0utert 15y ago
ARC is not really 'needed' for anything, it's just a very nice way to prevent memory leaks and pruning lots of retain/release statements from your code. I would not re-factor existing code without ARC if it was properly debugged for memory
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by w0utert 15y ago
"And if you really think there aren't problems building the same code across the various official GCC backends, you're not paying attention. Ask the Linux kernel guys about GCC's code generation oddities." You don't even have to go as far a
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by w0utert 15y ago
Well, I've been using Nvidia cards with the nvidia-driver and dual-monitor support as well, and it has been fantastic, until I upgraded my Ubuntu install, got Unity without asking for it, after which multi-monitor support was completely bro
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by w0utert 15y ago
"I guess this is a matter of opinion. Every time I am forced (read: paid) to use Xcode for some project, not only do I dislike the fact that I have to dig out my macbook because Apple's tools don't work on any other platform, but I find act
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by w0utert 15y ago
If you're a little pragmatic about it like me, you can still use the arrow keys to move around, at least in vim this works out of the box. I've been using VIM for over a decade now, and learned to make good use of many of its features, but
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by w0utert 15y ago
Quite poor usability on desktop as well, not really the best advertising how to use HTML5...
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by w0utert 15y ago
So you are basically saying you hate Apple and the way they contribute to OSS (which IMO has been a very significant contribution benefiting many other OSS projects), not LLVM or Clang. Good to have that sorted out... :-/
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by w0utert 15y ago
I agree about the point you make about contrast and syntax hihglighting, but I disagree with your conclusion. In my experience dark backgrounds with light text are more tiring on the eyes in long coding sessions. Text gets blurrier quicker

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