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by lmitchell 7y ago
Hey now, don't make me sad. In my heart I still like to pretend that Discworld will always have more books to read :'(
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by lmitchell 7y ago
This feels spectacularly Pratchett-esque. I would not be surprised to see this as the first sentence of a Discworld novel :P
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by lmitchell 7y ago
> Part of the message, aside from just quantifying how limited time is, would be to find enjoyment where you can in your 'mandatory' activities too as they'll represent the bulk of your life. I wish I could give this comme
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by lmitchell 7y ago
The only thing 'unspecified' guarantees you in this context is 'safe to destroy'. It specifically does not guarantee the safety of any other member functions - only the destructor. So either push_back() or pop_back() c
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by lmitchell 8y ago
Right, this is what I was alluding to with 'choosing what to feature'. But I honestly am not sure whether a line should be drawn here, and if it should, where it should be drawn. I know that one feels distinctly creepier than the
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by lmitchell 8y ago
Aren't they different, though? When I go into a grocery store, the deal is, they put out a selection of things, I pick the ones I want, then I go home. This is actively trying to manipulate me personally into buying something that i
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by lmitchell 8y ago
'Ultron is designed with OOP in mind and has not failed to live up to the promise at all possible places.' Would that more professional programmers had this humility. :)
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by lmitchell 8y ago
I... definitely did not just watch this play itself for like five straight minutes... I think I need to get more fresh air or something.
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by lmitchell 8y ago
Presumably 'developer experience', given how it's used in conjunction with 'user experience' for a developer-focused product :) Admittedly not the most easily understood acronym, and I'm sort of guessing.
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by lmitchell 8y ago
I was convinced it would be something about realistic hair simulation and/or rendering. I was surprised, but I was not disappointed.
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by lmitchell 8y ago
Not gonna lie, I still can't parse what this is supposed to be after a number of readings. What's the actual sentence? I'm so curious :P
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by lmitchell 8y ago
Thank you for posting this, I found it both very enlightening and a pretty fun internet-drama read :D Interesting that the original complaint of that article/thread and this one are both the same - ie. quaternions are 'too hard to
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by lmitchell 8y ago
So I've actually thought about this a fair bit recently, since I'm making some changes to C++ code that touch a lot of files in reasonably straightforward ways. The changes should be possible to merge conflict-free in basically
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by lmitchell 8y ago
I really really hope this was a joke, because it was incredibly funny if so and terrifying if not.
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by lmitchell 8y ago
Shameless plug: At EA we've open-sourced our C++ standard library implementation that focuses on games. While it's not necessarily focused on embedded development, you might be interested in checking it out - it provides a number
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by lmitchell 8y ago
This ignores both the fact that RMS is much more than just the maintainer of glibc, and the fact that 'just forking' glibc doesn't stop the maintainer from having a significant amount of public influence. The problem is not a
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by lmitchell 8y ago
I guess I understand the downvotes here, but I really do think you've hit on at least an issue. Maybe not the issue, but it's a pretty big problem. RMS's conduct here is just... pretty inappropriate. Jokes about abortion,
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I dunno, I find it pretty easy to understand... seems like the main instruction loop is in tvm.c, in the function tvm_vm_run(), which is exactly the first place I looked and seems totally sensible to me. for (; vm->prog->instr[*in
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by lmitchell 9y ago
Not quite. Multiple dispatch (as mentioned in sibling comments) is basically 'virtual on both object and argument types', so like: class Vehicle { virtual void Collide(Vehicle other); } class Car { void Collide(Tr
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I moved from git to perforce when I switched companies, and even though I actually really like git and consider myself reasonably proficient, I don't mind perforce. My one real pain point with it isn't so bad, but I dislike how pe
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by lmitchell 9y ago
Diminuitive of 'nope' :)
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I think the relevant quote from the judgment is: 'criminal forfeiture serves no remedial purpose, [and] is designed to punish the offender...' So they don't actually care about compensation, they just have the right and want
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by lmitchell 9y ago
And I'm lucky enough to have clicked on the comments first, otherwise I would have been #6.
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by lmitchell 9y ago
You might be looking for the term 'SOLID' ;) e: it may be worth noting that I can't for the life of me remember what the I and D stand for... clearly I am much more of a KISS kind of programmer.
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I knew I recognized your name from somewhere! Presumably you are the iEchoic of http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IEchoic_Build_(vs._Ter... fame? :) Never knew you personally but I spent a lot of time lurking on TL
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I've been clicking on your 'hacker news best comments' button for like twenty minutes now... you weren't kidding when you said 'basically a time waster' :P Seriously, really good looking stuff for your early pr
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I know this is a bit irrelevant... but did you mean 'bonhomie'? (I only think that because I was really, really confused by that sentence - then I realized I had been mispronouncing 'bonhomie' in my head this whole time,
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by lmitchell 9y ago
I don't even think it's about pretty code - I think it's more related to what one sibling of the post you replied to mentioned, which is that there are tons of communities (among them machine learning, but including tons of s
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by lmitchell 9y ago
Inasmuch as I want everyone to be guided by their moral convictions, yes. I mean, even if I don't agree with them, I'd much rather an engineer's decisions be guided by 'what they feel is right' rather than guided by
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by lmitchell 9y ago
'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department! says Wernher Von Braun.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs I really really really strongly disagree with this. As

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