zxxon

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by zxxon 9y ago
Why bring these ancient home computer platforms into play? Those were totally different to program for. Why not compare a C compiler from 1998 to one from 2018, on x86 (no SSE of course)? C compilers have gotten better, but not spectacula
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by zxxon 9y ago
Huh? C is fast (compared to Swift) because using it doesn't imply sprinkling lots of sugar (like ARC) into the resulting machine code. Simpler languages like Fortran can turn into even faster code than a C implementation. UB optimizati
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by zxxon 9y ago
If someone literally gets hired over some white dude by "virtue" of their gender and/or race, then they aren't there by merit. That's exactly what some ideologically (or PR) driven HR departments do. The suspicion
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by zxxon 9y ago
In my experience, programmers are generally less socially inept than people would think, while people in most other professions are less socially adept than they think they are. The thing is, some programmers really are socially inept and
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by zxxon 9y ago
>> ...the truth is that they have beautiful offices, close-knit teams, a lifestyle with time for friends, a lot of influence, and a huge impact on real people’s lives through the software they create. That's not "the truth&q
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by zxxon 9y ago
It's not about eye-candy, the Web has become an application platform (against all resistance) and it can't thrive on standards bodies to deliver every bit and piece required. Even in 2018, web applications are shunned by many prof
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by zxxon 9y ago
Simply doing things with HTML doesn't magically solve accessibility issues, either. A simple DOM representation could be used as a fallback, if possible.
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by zxxon 9y ago
>> The majority of game engines scene graphs are retained mode 3D abstractions. ... but they are not built on an abstract retained mode API. That would be the wrong level of abstraction for a Web API that people can build on properl
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by zxxon 9y ago
>> This basically assumes that there's a tree of UI objects in memory, which is the case for all mainstream toolkits as far as I know. This is also the reason why they are a pain in the butt to use, at least from the perspective