femngi

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by femngi 10y ago
It's concerning because it reveals something about the way he views other people. There's an old saying that you should carefully watch how your date treats the waiting staff because that is how they will treat you one day. The fa
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by femngi 11y ago
How does this Backtrace file format differ from Microsoft's Minidump format which is also used on Unix as part of Breakpad?
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by femngi 11y ago
Honestly I would like to know what the overhead is in continually maintaining a custom cross platform UI toolkit for one application is versus just rewriting the UI using an existing framework like Qt. It seems like an awful lot of effort m
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by femngi 11y ago
It really irks me that the std algorithms library seems to have been designed without any consideration for usability given how much I would love to rely heavily on the generic algorithms it contains. For example consider the simple task of
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by femngi 12y ago
It was my understanding that despite cutting their budget deficit spending has actually increased substantially in GB over recent years.
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by femngi 12y ago
Rust is aiming more to be a better C++. However that doesn't preclude it from being used in the same space as C and can become impressively lightweight if you forgo things like the standard library. I would argue that it is better than
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by femngi 12y ago
It's not just about native vs interpreted though. Most of those languages use garbage collection for memory allocation which is still going to be an unacceptable performance hit for most of the domains where C and C++ are still in use.
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by femngi 12y ago
Since it is a template you could always use universal references to avoid copying where not needed: template <typename Collection,typename unop> void for_each(Collection&& col, unop op){ std::for_each(col.begin
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by femngi 12y ago
I have to ask what this language is trying to provide that isn't already provided by lua or python when it already looks almost identical to them. Has it got an end goal that I cannot see or is it just being done out of an interest in
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by femngi 12y ago
The definitive introduction to C++11 is probably 'C++ Primer 5th edition'. It covers stuff other than the new features but everything is described as it should be done in C++11/14.
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by femngi 12y ago
Stuff like this makes me really regret being a C++ developer. Companies and projects are adopting new features at a glacial pace and yet the programming world is still moving forward and it feels like despite the best efforts of the committ
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by femngi 12y ago
That's not a C++ community convention, it's just another bone headed part of the Google C++ coding standards. It's stupid because now everything is potentially nullable and every single function will start with: if (!ar
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by femngi 12y ago
It's frustrating reading about this and seeing that it makes all the same mistakes as all these other gdb frontends that make them impossible to use with the standard library. What the hell is this https://people.gnome.org&#
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by femngi 12y ago
Never mind working with other languages, it's a problem just linking between different compiler versions.
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by femngi 12y ago
Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and disagree anyway. Not only are they a poor structure for flow control they are an inefficient and slow one too, as Andrei mentions in his 2012 talk on expected<T>, a talk which also nicely illu
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by femngi 12y ago
C++ isn't exactly a new language but has also had type inference for a few years. I think people still think of C++ as that dusty old thing in the corner and forget that it is actually capable of a lot of the things users of these new
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by femngi 13y ago
I have to strongly disagree with your example. In fact I feel it may just be one of the worst usages of macros I have seen in that you are hiding the control flow of the program and thus obfuscating your code for other programmers. It might
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by femngi 13y ago
They fixed Alt-Tab when I had never before realised it was broken. The new paradigm just makes so much more sense: Alt-Tab switches between applications and Alt-` switches between individual windows of that application. When I have to use
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by femngi 14y ago
Can you explain you think Genetic Programming is unsuitable? I honestly can't see why you think it wouldn't work.
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by femngi 14y ago
One horrendous bug me and my friends came across with infuriating frequency was that the game would randomly change the word with another one of the same length when asking you to guess it. Effectively making it impossible to win unless you
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by femngi 15y ago
Stuff like this makes me twitch. Why are researchers so keen to have my car controlled by radio tags? The potential for abuse is seemingly never discussed because I feel that admitting it will kill this idea stone dead, as it should.
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by femngi 15y ago
You should read http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython if you haven't already seen it since it deals with the performance of nested loops. The only issue I guess would be portability, for example to PyPy.