MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 1y ago
In the confession of The Golden State Killer, he said that he would feel a force enter his being and do the raping and murdering. He also said that when he got older he was strong enough to resist it. A lot of people lob ad homs at me and c
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
I'm not at all against a new model providing a more solid foundation for a new OS, but it's not going to be garbage collected, so the most popular of the newer languages make the pickings slim indeed. > But the ongoing CVE pres
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
That's a fair point that I hadn't considered. I was developing C+objects as C++ was first being released in the mid-90s, and then using Borland's C++ compiler in the early 2000s, but never really thought about it as anything
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Because programmers are creating the abstractions, not the programming language. And there is no OS I'm aware of that will threaten Unix's dominance any time soon. I'm not against it, but C's being so close to what micro
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Indeed. And congrats on your daughter's craftiness and how it intersects with math. Our daughter is not so much into the pure math side but loves to do amigurumi, which is really applied 3D modelling. A craft show she wants to do later
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> That being said, I would not want this sentiment formalized in code guidelines :) Surely. I'm all for code formatting standards as long as they're MY code formatting standards :-) Ideally, I'd like the IDE to format the
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> Because your ideas are not deep nor are they connected to anything. I didn't realize you were are the authority. Or is it that you don't realize that you're not the authority? I know the answer to these questions, and wh
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> C lacks mechanisms to do this apart from using its incredibly brittle macro facility. We programmers are the ultimate abstraction mechanism, and refining our techniques in pattern design and implementation in a codebase is our highest
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
All his ideas are fantastic, and are obviously the result of long experience in a seasoned and highly successful project. He is sharing techniques that simply work for large, complex codebases. Ignore them at your peril! Specifically, thoug
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Simplicity is essential to achieving managable complexity over time.
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
The reality is that we spend FAR more time reading code than writing it. That is why readability is far more important than clever, line saving constructs. The key to further minimizing the mental load of reacquainting yourself with older
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> Your position offers no predictions, offers no implications, and offers no way to be measured in any way. That's fair, but I didn't say that I could offer any of that. All I offered was an explanation of the situation, specif
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
I second that motion, good Sir!
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> within 10 years > within 25 years That is "many years" in my view. > so untrue So you're saying his ideas were immediately accepted? I guess that's why he was still working at the patent office for fourish yea
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> a charlatan is a person who invents what they insist is a truth and then labels all who do not believe as fools. I completely agree, but the truth is that I am not a charlatan, nor am I a liar. A charlatan does his dirty deeds in hopes
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
It took many years before Einstein's ToR was confirmed by pictures of light bending around our sun during an eclipse. Paul Dirac predicted antiparticles purely by mathematical intuition. It wasn't until later that the theory prove
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
"Look, forget the myths the media's created about the White House--the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." --from All the President's Men That was over 50 years ago, and now no one over
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Mensa makes me think of two things: Groucho's quote "I'd never be a member of any club that would have me as a member." And one of our favorite Columbo episodes (all free on Tubi) that features a murder in a very Mensa-s
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Our daughter counted AK as her favorite book for years, though now I suspect she'd choose Little Women or any of the last five William Gibson books as her fav. She's read many of the
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Parentheses wouldn't be shift-9 and -0.
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
Related: it's like the "Everything is fine" meme cartoon picture, except the people seeing the scene unfold are forbidden from talking about fire.
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
'We’d like to put this chapter behind us': Tech execs having regrets about backing Trump Anyone around here know anyone who feels foolish right about now?
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> it said is that the underperformers overestimated their performance True. > but they still believed they did worse than the high performers. Fair point, but if they can't understand their own unexcellent performance, how can th
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
I'm pretty sure that Lord Kelvin was also in the cohort of fools that bullied Boltzmann to his suicide.
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
I doubt that list is as long as the great minds that glommed onto a new tech that turned out to be a dud, but I could be wrong. It's an interesting question, but each tech needs to be evaluated separately.
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
I understand the importance of fact-checking, but the problem is that it loses its value when much of the readership dont care about facts. We live in a world where many, many people are not only too stupid to know how stupid they are, but
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
That's just really fantastic. Well done, indeed.
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
There is a disease here on HN, and "the algorithm" is not helping. My intuition is that the commentariat has factionized itself. Of course, the fundamental intent here is to make money irrespective of negative external effects. Th
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by MrMcCall 1y ago
> It's akin to looking at Stack Overflow and copying the first result, or going through a tutorial that tells you what to write without ever explaining it. But if you're not digesting the why of the technique vis a vis the how

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