jackosdev

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by jackosdev 4y ago
That is my favourite speech ever, and the advise about finding what you love in life and business, is a truth so real that it doesn't matter how much of a platitude it is. The author obviously gave up on this search, and now seemingly
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by jackosdev 4y ago
My theory is they can't build anything worthwhile themselves, so they find something popular but with problems, which allows their ego to divert attention away from their own inadequacies.
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Egui is amazing, Tauri is a better Electron. Both of those things are infinitely better than Qt
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by jackosdev 4y ago
I'm a fan, I've got Prime, and I'm not interested in the slightest, I'm done watching giant companies ruin good franchises and legacy characters. Would have to put a gun to my head to watch this one
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by jackosdev 4y ago
This confused me as when I hear data-orientated I think data structures that are optimised around minimising CPU cache misses by using better alignments, using enums where possible, not storing results of simple calculations etc. There is a
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Yeah there has been some great efficient software coming from the Rust and Go communities, ripgrep, nushell, lazygit, helix to name a few I use everyday
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Doesn't mean anything, just someone filling in the hours, it'd be faster and more effective to build from scratch, anyone who could reverse Twitter already knows how to make a better clone. The bigger a company gets the more they
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Don't even have to click to know what that is, first thing that came to mind when I saw this headline
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by jackosdev 4y ago
I've had to bounce around from Mac, Windows and Linux for work, the main programs I use everyday are all Electron based (Postman, VS Code, Spotify etc), they all behave basically the same just everything is slower in Windows on my lapt
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Jim Keller (helped design the spec for x86-64, was in management during Apple, AMD and Tesla's ultra successful periods) said when he was interested in management he just read like 100's of books on it, and turned out there was lo
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by jackosdev 4y ago
He's an interesting guy who seems straight out of a science fiction show. Can't nerds like me just think it's kind of cool that someone is actively trying to expand humanity to multiple planets? My read is people find reasons
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Rider was damn good compared to Visual Studio, been over a year since I used it and was still in beta then as well
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Works when you've been using a minimal language like C for over a decade and you're an expert. For people learning a new language they constantly need to be recompiling to check their assumptions are correct, that's why it&#x
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by jackosdev 4y ago
It takes you to the trait definition but not the specific implementation. There is an open issue looks like a hard problem to solve, but intellij does it so must be doable.
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by jackosdev 4y ago
So would something like miri have caught this if it was in their CI?
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by jackosdev 4y ago
In one of those Harvard blitz scale talks a guy was saying you need to be at least 10x on a dimension people care about to enter an already established market. I guess this would be possible for the VS Code market if you could get the same
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by jackosdev 4y ago
Spent a long time in Australian mines, some are heavily unionised, what you say is right it does attract the most toxic people, but at the same time even the truck drivers earn a fantastic living they can use to support a family. This is on
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by jackosdev 5y ago
I'm the same, I love having all the core stuff I need in there, and I find it all really easy to understand. Hardcore Linux people just hate it because it abandons their main tenant of "do one thing and do it well"
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by jackosdev 5y ago
> Phantomderp and I have both recently been very aligned on a particular subject: being extremely angry about C ABIs and trying to fix them. Damn beginners!
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by jackosdev 5y ago
Amazing, was literally just thinking about how this is one area I've always been interested in but never taken the leap
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by jackosdev 5y ago
I like it, surprised the legions of Skyrim players haven't already coined that term
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by jackosdev 5y ago
Damn that's the best 404 I ever seen
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by jackosdev 5y ago
Some packages give you options for different packages that conflict. E.g. if you install i3 it will let you choose between standard i3, i3-gaps or 5 others. You can only have one installed at a time. I've been using Pacman for years ne
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by jackosdev 5y ago
The Zig creator is very conscious of this, talks a lot about rejecting many proposals and ideas to keep the language simple, not being an ass-hole about it, just to avoid what happened to C++.
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by jackosdev 5y ago
Damn I love the tech community, so much amazing free content
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by jackosdev 5y ago
It looks way more elegant and modern to me
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by jackosdev 5y ago
I was happy to see `fmt` make it into C++20 as `std::format`, it's a great library
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by jackosdev 5y ago
Thanks for that, I put both those links up the top of the blog post
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by jackosdev 5y ago
Thanks really appreciate it, happy to be in someone's bookmarks
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by jackosdev 5y ago
He actually flew back to Sydney to visit his kids during the middle of a lockdown when people couldn't visit dying relatives, because it was fathers day!

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