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by StellarScience 18d ago
Python is famously built around hash tables. So much so that several versions ago they made an improvement to the hash table implementation, and the entire language became several percent faster. However, I'm surprised to see no data s
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by StellarScience 1mo ago
Not true. I just bought No Man's Sky on a Steam sale a few months ago and have been having a blast with it - only very occasionally neglecting my adult duties because of it.
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by StellarScience 1mo ago
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by StellarScience 2mo ago
> I'm trying to separate out which is "don't do this in C/C++" and which is "don't do this in any language". To achieve high performance, any language would need to implement integer addition with
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by StellarScience 2mo ago
> I really don't see what's supposedly awful about that loop Exactly! That's precisely the problem with it. (Hint: think about your code when size = 0.)
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by StellarScience 2mo ago
> for (size_t i = size - 1; i < size; i--) Agreed, seeing that example briefly made me consider whether this blog post was a parody. Sure, it works for this exact example, by relying on i wrapping "down" to MAX_INT on the la
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by StellarScience 2mo ago
I liked how the discussion of 'delta = x - y' moved right on to how really you usually want delta = abs(x - y), so let's talk about that instead... Even beyond Stroustrup, Dijkstra, and Google, this whole panel of C++ luminar
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by StellarScience 3mo ago
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by StellarScience 3mo ago
10 months or so ago I believe HN posted "The future of Large Files in Git is Git" : https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/ So is it the future now?
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by StellarScience 3mo ago
Just FYI, finally in C++ you can add a top-level exception handler and call boost::stacktrace::from_current_exception ( https://www.boost.org/releases/1.85.0/ ), and get a stack trace on exit as helpful as in Python
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by StellarScience 3mo ago
CEOs understands that AI offers potential productivity increases. Using that productivity boost to cut staff is an unimaginative approach. Bolder approaches include using that boost to exceed the expectations of current customers, or to inc
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by StellarScience 3mo ago
> the hyperbole from the tech CEOs about them replacing all white collar workers in 12-18 months Just keep in mind that you're likely hearing from a limited subset of all tech CEOs. "CEO Expresses Moderate Confidence that AI Ca
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by StellarScience 4mo ago
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by StellarScience 5mo ago
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by StellarScience 6mo ago
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by StellarScience 7mo ago
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by StellarScience 8mo ago
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by StellarScience 8mo ago
98% of the time those lengthy messages are useless, but the other 2% of the time they're critical to tracking down the problem. A year or two ago Visual Studio added a pop-up that parses such lengthy compiler messages into a clickable
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by StellarScience 8mo ago
And similarly: slow growth is terrible Slow growth is awesome! Slow growth gives you time to address the challenges of growth, and think through sensible solutions. Rapid growth feels like you're constantly plugging holes in the
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by StellarScience 8mo ago
Better idea: write code. Don't waste your teams' time with back-to-back hour-long meetings.
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by StellarScience 8mo ago
git clone --branch v6.10.1 https://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git . No login required. They do require a login to download precompiled binaries, but what self-respecting Hacker News reader wants those?! Ok, I'll admi
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
Ignoring the git commit message strawman (those can include "what/why the change", not "what/why the code") and the Uncle Bob strawman, the final code block looks fine. But notice: // translate wi
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
> Companies that have disdain for their own customers ... do not endure in the limit. This is a very common sort of wishful thinking that lets people bypass hard decisions. You create a company that loves its customers and employees and
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
Years ago our company consolidated on Firefox because we could rely on it to not send our information to remote servers. At that time other browsers made it hard to disable telemetry. Firefox was then the only browser that could forward Ker
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
C++ with Boost has let you grab a stacktrace anywhere in the application for years. But in April 2024 Boost 1.85 added a big new feature : stacktrace from arbitrary exception ( https://www.boost.org/releases/1.85.0&#
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
The US federal government issues its employees smart cards (Common Access Cards) that contain digital certs. Government employees can use these to send and receive S/MIME encrypted emails. That's a couple million users! Our small
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
The AI spreadsheet example in the linked article is interesting, but that occurs within a more specialized and constrained environment than general GUI design. I think of good UI design as involving a lot of human factors understanding comb
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
> It's unfortunate that so many people end up parroting fanciful ideas without fully appreciating the different contexts around software development. Of course that's true of both sides of this discussion too. I really value DR
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by StellarScience 9mo ago
> it's much easier to remove and consolidate duplicative work than unwind a poor abstraction that is embedded everywhere. It's not easy to deduplicate after a few years have passed, and one copy had a bugfix, another got a refa

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