orneryostrich

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   by orneryostrich 5mo ago

   Pre-wealth, Notch was friendly, kind, and downright jolly! Even as he started to accumulate wealth, he was donating huge sums of money to various indie games. Whenever a Humble Bundle dropped he would top the leaderboard for the amount he p
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   by orneryostrich 3y ago

   You never “need to” learn much of anything, but I think it would give you a different perspective. You don’t know what you don’t know.
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   by orneryostrich 3y ago

   This is fine advice for a personal project, but I don’t recommend proliferating a new custom framework if you expect other people to join and ramp up on your codebase. It’s nice to be able to join a shop that’s using something you’re alread
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   by orneryostrich 5y ago

   Oh! This erratum is the point I’ve been trying to get across. It sounds like we agree on this?
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   by orneryostrich 5y ago

   This isn't really the point I'm responding to. I am responding to this idea: > If you are relying on testing for correctness, you have already lost. In any language. As Dijkstra noted, testing can only prove a program wrong. Th
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   by orneryostrich 5y ago

   C++ is even less well-defined than C, though. We find defects in the standard and inconsistencies between Clang/G++/MSVC every day. You’re demanding a rigor that is not possible with a modern technology stack.
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   by orneryostrich 5y ago

   You do know that every operating system and CPU in existence has ill-defined operations, right? The best-defined software I know of is SQLite. Every function is carefully documented with a description of all failure modes and returned error
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   by orneryostrich 6y ago

   It seems to me like TypeScript's soundness hole in #4 could be fixed. 1. I'd want TS to show an error on the line where the aliasing occurs, encouraging me to clone the list if I want to change its type from a distance.
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   by orneryostrich 6y ago

   But if your program is single-threaded, you don’t need an `Rc` type. The whole point of `Rc` and `std::shared_ptr` is so an object can have one owning pointer per thread, in cases where you’re not sure which thread will finish using the obj
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    by orneryostrich 7y ago

    Uh... Instagram is a Django app...
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    by orneryostrich 7y ago

    Keldon Jones’ Race for the Galaxy AI is brilliant. Every line is documented C. It trains and deploys a neural net. It has a fast and functional GUI. Most diehard RftG players have cut their teeth by losing to Keldon a few dozen times before