optforfon

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by optforfon 10y ago
Google controls Android due to the PlayStore Just an anecdote. I'm currently living in China and me and the other expats were always kinda amused that local Chinese are willing to spend the equivalent of 2 months of their salary on an
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by optforfon 10y ago
One thing that needs to be stressed is that realistically there is a rather limited amount of Uranium than can be extracted from the earth for nuclear power. That if we could magically convert to 100% nuclear power - it wouldn't last t
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by optforfon 10y ago
I'm not really fully involved in the ecosystem too much, but has open source hardware really paid off? Like I see that you can get cheap knockoff Arduinos - but that's not really moving things forward. Are people forking board des
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by optforfon 10y ago
The problem is immature tooling. There is no feedback loop from the compiler's generated assembly back to the IDE. We finally have libclang which sorta does some stuff (I'm not entirely sure how far it can go) - but I'm hone
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by optforfon 10y ago
uhhh, well I'm sure the space race didn't help in reducing tensions.. but you know all the proxy wars and thousands of soldiers dieing prolly played a bigger role. There really shouldn't be an use vs. them with China. That&#x
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by optforfon 10y ago
Except it's going to go hand in hand with nationalism and fear-mongering. It won't bring people together and that ultimately a lot more sad.
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by optforfon 10y ago
I think this is only true when you look at political speech (where the sacred phrase "founding fathers" can justify most things) But ultimately at this point the US is culturally on a completely different level compared to backwar
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by optforfon 10y ago
The rational for killing the local population is fundamentally different Nanking was massacred as punitive action for resistance, not as a means of creating space for the Japanese. They Japanese did have "colonists" in Manchuria
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by optforfon 10y ago
At least when it comes to startups this makes total sense. Work is increasingly both your work and your life. Your friends are increasingly your colleagues. Traditionally you don't cuss in the work place b/c you have to stay profe
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by optforfon 10y ago
I saw plenty of domesticated elephants in Thailand (and I assume all of South East Asia). Are African elephant some how different when it comes to this?
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by optforfon 10y ago
I need to open a bank account in China next month - out of curiosity, in what way are they one of the most modern? :)
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by optforfon 10y ago
It has an "atmosphere" It's 0.00628 atm according to Wikipedia. That's effectively a vacuum. You can't have liquid water on Mars. So you can grow plants in some kind of transparent pressurized place... Just like on
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by optforfon 10y ago
I really like this workflow, but my major grip is that the autogenerated merge commits are terribly ugly and uninformative. I'm sure you can override them, but no one seems to every do it. The workflow is awesome at visually segregatin
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by optforfon 10y ago
Okay, but at that point you're talking about things that are way beyond the capabilities of an iterative loop. I think my point still stands - that implementing a tail recursion in place of a loop is not something you will have to pay
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by optforfon 10y ago
this is outside my field of expertise. Can you give an example of a tail call that needs "trickery"? I'm not 100% on this, but when you have a tail call I don't think you have to remember the state of the stack frame. &q
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by optforfon 10y ago
the CPU is just doing a jump to an instruction at the end of each iteration. When you do tail call recursion you are doing just that. The assembly jumps to a tag and in recursion you jump to a function name, which is also effectively a tag.
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by optforfon 10y ago
I assume Adobe is in the title and eBay and Intel aren't for some reason
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by optforfon 10y ago
Do people really get viruses through their browsers still? Can't think of that happening to anyone I know
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by optforfon 10y ago
I've definitely come across it being referenced for use in games. Specifically the "Component" design pattern is supposed to use it. It's kinda described here: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/component
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by optforfon 10y ago
I'd second "Effective Modern C++" by Scott Meyers and point out that while the book was written for C++11 most of the new features of C++14 extend and polish off those existing features. Now const expressions are more flexibl
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by optforfon 10y ago
I've never had the occasion to use an SQL database. But say I was writing a game using C++ - at what point would I go from managing a bunch of maps or vectors of entities to using a SQL database? If I was writing a ray tracer and neede
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by optforfon 10y ago
How is Adobe involved? This is Python + OpenCV, but I'm under the impression Adobe is a pretty serious C++ shop and has their own graphics libraries (I'm mainly aware of boost::GIL and their STL)
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by optforfon 10y ago
I think there is a big cultural element. Not to say other cultures are immune to conspiracy-theory thinking, but something about American exceptionalism seems to encourage it.
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by optforfon 10y ago
I don't want to see those things either. I don't go on Facebook for some historical reality check, or to be reminded of the horrors that are happening around the world. Every news media organization sensors itself and doesn't
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by optforfon 10y ago
I tried to figure out how to do memory mapping with Boost once... It was complicated. I wish there was a good crossplatform solution that was clear and easy to use
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by optforfon 10y ago
"You can find plenty of porn and hysteria behind the GFW" uhhh... what? Are you just making this up? I never come across any of it. Not a single porn site I've tried works. They're pretty thorough in my experience. Haven
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by optforfon 10y ago
You're just seeing what you want to see. The BBC works just fine in China and it's def pretty anti-China. The way I see it Opinion/Editorial heavy journalism is heavily suppressed. Blogs, things like Medium don't work. W
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by optforfon 10y ago
Yep, that's the one I have. I honestly rarely get to 50%, but you stop feeling guilty about leaving the screen on for too long and it's just more pleasant to use never having to worry about the battery. + it's incredibly chea
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by optforfon 10y ago
The LG phones have replaceable batteries. Seems to cover the same demographic
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by optforfon 10y ago
Unfortunately they're so overpriced that it's cheaper to buy two non-waterproof phones

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