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by pmr_ 11y ago
72k can keep you alive on sub-standard living conditions, but it will not keep a team of 6-7 talented programmers and artists alive for very long. Not even for way below market pay and working in a garage. And a single person just cannot tu
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by pmr_ 11y ago
How do you know that? Have you had any practical experience with a large code base using new style (e.g. post-C++11) Concepts? People have been using Concepts in some form for a very long time and even properly documented they can still be
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by pmr_ 11y ago
The Wikipedia article linked in another reply to parent confirms that. The months in which the worms were harvested were named after the worms.
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by pmr_ 11y ago
I just went clicking randomly on Vimeo links and I didn't find a single auto-playing video. You are right about YouTube and I actually think they should handle visitors that come from outside YouTube differently than visitors from insi
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by pmr_ 11y ago
As others I had a totally different expectation given the title. I thought it would be a piece about how Wikipedia had some message or lesson that we should listen to. I think the author had no bad intentions and what he build is probably w
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by pmr_ 11y ago
Why should I adapt my usage patterns to accommodate the shitty behavior of a few websites? Also, are you sure you are in position to tell other people how to use the web? I certainly don't think I am.
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by pmr_ 11y ago
Starting to play sound without user confirmation is a default tab-close. I wont even take the time to look at it. Bonus point for not being flash that hijacks the browser shortcut.
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by pmr_ 11y ago
That much should be clear, my (unfortunately) implicit question is: how can we instruct a machine to optimize for the very intangible things everybody seems to love so much about this chalk? What about the more subtle economic things (like
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by pmr_ 11y ago
I think the statement following this is much more important and interesting to HN: > The tendency has become more and more prevalent under electronic auction systems. While incidents like this are often used as examples of the failures o
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by pmr_ 11y ago
You are not quoting the part where he shows his benchmark results, analysis of the problem, and suggested solution. I don't necessarily agree with Linus' tone or choice of words, but what you are doing is far worse. I'm not e
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by pmr_ 11y ago
Even if your tax is paid automatically you can still recover taxes but it is hard and the laws are confusing. In Germany a special profession with a state exam (Steuerberater) as well as special associations (Lohnsteuerhilfeverein) exist or
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by pmr_ 11y ago
I'm not intending to put you, your enthusiasm, or the people behind Modules down: I've been hearing that story since C++11 was still called C++0x (this might be an exaggeration) but I don't see anything happening in terms of
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by pmr_ 11y ago
At first I thought "a build system which automatically figures out what to build and how to build it purely based on the source code" included figuring out library dependencies. It looks like I was wrong though and you still have
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by pmr_ 11y ago
You are saying that you actually need to read and understand code you are refactoring. Hard to disagree.
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by pmr_ 11y ago
I can't follow. The code I showed is already processing masterlist and decides if it should process masterlist[z].list2 for every z: 0..masterlist.length. I fully agree that the code in my post is very bad, I took it from the article.
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by pmr_ 11y ago
> My word, something can be redundant (not conceding that point) and not "just plain wrong." I think we can agree to disagree. I'm strictly against redundancy if it doesn't serve a well-defined purpose. > Your lang
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by pmr_ 11y ago
> You must null check a lot of things in C, especially since there is no graceful error handling (try/catch blocks)... C certainly allows things to be null (or garbage) values. You are correct that adding C as an example language wa
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by pmr_ 11y ago
He then proceeds to iterate over the list using zero based indexing. The loop would not execute once if the list had length zero, making this check just plain wrong. I know an even lower level language (C++, C) that doesn't have the pr
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by pmr_ 11y ago
if( masterList[z].list2 != NULL && masterList[z].list2.length() > 0 ) { for( Integer y = 0; y < masterList[z].list2.length(); y++ ) The if-statement is a good summary of what is wrong with Java. The autho
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by pmr_ 11y ago
This has been discussed here before in 2012 and the linked version is not different from the one before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463
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by pmr_ 12y ago
That sounds interesting, but I'm suspicious. Do you have any examples of such macros and maybe some statistics or ideas how often they are actually seen in the wild?
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by pmr_ 12y ago
I can only speak for the Emacs capabilities of readline: all commands which would usually change the line (previous/next-line, beginning/end-of-buffer) will use the history as the buffer. All of them preserve the line you are curr
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by pmr_ 12y ago
There are already SWIG generated python bindings for CGAL: https://code.google.com/p/cgal-bindings/
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by pmr_ 12y ago
Ascending single or double ropes is most often practiced in rope access, tree climbing, caving or technical climbing. Ascending a single rope will often involve a Jumar [1] and a camming device placed on your foot or chest. Ascending a doub
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by pmr_ 12y ago
You can strike the intrusive. Your comment is valid for all kinds of linked lists.
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by pmr_ 12y ago
So, you argue to not add a feature to the language because it would fix one of the main points of criticism? That is silly, don't you think?
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by pmr_ 12y ago
You are being downvoted because the language comes with well-defined and specifically designed ways to customize allocation/deallocation. Your approach choses to ignore those facilities and even adds a runtime decision to code that abs
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by pmr_ 12y ago
It is easy to forget that this is just a report and up to this point it hasn't had any real consequences yet. If this will ever lead to anything (be it criminal charges, convictions or change in policy) is still open.
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by pmr_ 12y ago
That is the kind of magic thinking of C++ programmers sometimes exhibit that drives me insane. Yes, compilers have become excellent at optimizing code, but they aren't magical. The generated code will have some semblance to the code we
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by pmr_ 12y ago
I was immediately reminded of Robinson's work a few seconds in. There is so much to discover out there and the extremes of physical state and sheer size make it so hard to imagine it all. His writing offer a window into that world and

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