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by zwieback 5y ago
Yes, we use locking checkout in certain situations but not for traditional source code, more for CAD files or documents. It's a fairly rare situation, though, mostly helpful for non-coders that don't understand the concept of a me
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by zwieback 5y ago
We still use Perforce as well, for some projects. We also don't use exclusive (locking) checkout and merge problems are resolved the usual way. I do like to see who else has a file checked out because you can usually also tell which wo
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by zwieback 5y ago
I was, yeah, if you mean using C++ as a better C but being slow to adapt the STL, standard library and associated concepts. We were doing a lot of device driver development and other constrained stuff back then (early 90s) so the "C++
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by zwieback 5y ago
Totally agree. Coming to C++ nowadays must seem a bit odd compared to other statically typed OO languages (e.g. Java, C# or similar). For oldtimers like myself that learned coding before C++ it's a natural evolution and I can accept C+
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by zwieback 5y ago
I should add that, while growing up in Germany, my dad had a Fiat 850, Triumph Spitfire, Alfa Spider (3, with the ugly spoiler) and another Spider (the ugly 1996 spaceship looking one) which my mom still drives. The Spitfire was an especial
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by zwieback 5y ago
I remember when that thing came out. There was a certain population in Germany that would buy French cars in that era, against better judgment.
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by zwieback 5y ago
Yes, modern cars are ugly but Saabs were ugly when other cars looked good, sorry to say.
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by zwieback 5y ago
OpenCV, which is what the OP is using, has higher order camera calibration. There are functions to calibrate based on checkerboards or dot grids and undistort images using those calibrations. Sometimes it's better to match first, then
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'd be interested in the correlation to two metrics: age and size of employer. When I was young I worked at startups: super stressful, high risk of company collapse, constant overload, funding stress, etc. I'm in my 50s now and ha
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by zwieback 5y ago
Ouch. On a more positive note: Goethe -> George Eliot -> "browser"* -> the WWW * Bullet 12 in here: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538298/facts-about-georg...
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by zwieback 5y ago
Nice. Here's the German version: Amerika, du hast es besser als unser Kontinent, der alte Hast keine verfallenen Schlösser und keine Basalte. Dich stört nicht im Innern Zu lebendiger Zeit Unnützes Erinnern und vergeblicher Streit. It r
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by zwieback 5y ago
I often wonder about that - if I was going to write by hand I might end up extracting a simple interface, do some type coercion/promotion or some other trick to reduce the number of functions I need to write. I read about how .Net does
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'd worked with "serious" embedded systems when the Pi first came out so I was skeptical. Fast forward to today and I have multiple Pis doing various things for lab experiment automation and so do many others around me. I thi
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by zwieback 5y ago
Except that one of the data points was that kids who were in full-time school were happier, so it's probably got to do with home life. Full-time school + more parents/siblings at home.
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by zwieback 5y ago
There's been rising awareness that researchers refrain from publishing neutral or "boring" results, this is a real problem because it skews the expectations not only of researchers but also the general public. So, for me this
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by zwieback 5y ago
okay, good observation on a apparently the quote is confirmed by the man himself, though: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html
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by zwieback 5y ago
It's true that implementing a standard library in C++ seems daunting but a) most C++ users don't implement stuff that goes into the standard b) you can tailor your data structures to the problem at hand instead of making it usable
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by zwieback 5y ago
Missing in these advertisements-disguised-as-blogs is an estimate of effort or time. Let's say ML is critical to a new product or internal tool, how many man-years is it reasonable to invest? If your expectation is using ML like a drag
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by zwieback 5y ago
You mention the problem of having to recompile for ABI-breaking improvements. Just out of curiosity - in the environment you're describing, how much of the code cannot be rebuilt? As I was reading I was assuming that most situations wh
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by zwieback 5y ago
Me too, interestingly "Life and Death of Harriett Frean" is not at my local or university library. Must be really forgotten. Glad to see Katherine Mansfield in there, I devoured everything she wrote, one of my faves.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I've run into this problem, there could be multiple reasons: standard job descriptions that are used over and over, jobs changing shape while the company is screening applicants, unclear objectives on part of the hiring managers, etc.
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by zwieback 5y ago
I'm going the senior IC route, I would add to the description in the article that the job usually comes with an expectation of technical leadership and mentoring and/or helping to steer management. I spend hardly any time in gener
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by zwieback 5y ago
I wrote a fair amount of code for TI's TMS320C4x DSPs. They had 32 bit sized char, short, int, long, float and double and a long double with 40 bits. Took a bit to get used to but really the only way to get to the good stuff was by wri
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by zwieback 5y ago
> > Everyone who writes about programming the Intel 286 says what a pain its segmented memory architecture was > Actually this concerns more pre-80286 processors, since 80286 introduced virtual memory, 86 had segments, 286 added p
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by zwieback 5y ago
I learned programming before IDEs existed so I think I can join the author's crotchety old elitist club. As such I'm also a sceptic of anything AI-driven or crowdsourced. On the other hand, I recently allowed Visual Studio to use
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by zwieback 5y ago
Happy Birthday, I love HN but I still miss Usenet...
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by zwieback 5y ago
Nice resource but the headline really brings up the question about what language we should use to "quantify" code. I'd go with something like C or even Fortran: expressive enough to do this kind of work but low-level enough t
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by zwieback 5y ago
I work at hp and we have all of 15.x.x.x and use it for all our internal networking. At one time we also had all of 16.x.x.x because of DEC/Compaq. I suppose at some point this could be an asset for us since we could use some different
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by zwieback 5y ago
I get what you're saying and you're right but that's overstating it. There's no expectation of zero-risk gains. By definition that doesn't exist.
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by zwieback 5y ago
They are only buying it up because prices are rising so fast. More housing would mean more stable home prices, which makes the sector less attractive to investors.

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