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GnarfGnarf
·bulan lalu·discuss
What, you rewrote std::deque? Whew!
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·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It’s heartbreaking to think of what treasures were lost when they were using mummies as locomotive fuel in the 19th century.
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·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Perhaps, but municipal water runs by gravity whereas your well pump doesn’t operate during a power failure.
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·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
SBC = Single Board Computing Betriebsblind
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Agree. I love UDLs, use them in my code for improved legibility. I hadn’t realized how badly you can screw up if you don’t define all the operators correctly.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I thought User-Defined Literals were a great idea until I saw all the pitfalls listed in the Google style document. Dangerous indeed.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The UK was not part of the Euro economy.
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·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I'm a Windows/macOS developer, but I strongly feel that all national governments need to convert to Linux, for strategic sovereignty.

(My customer demographic is seniors & casual users).
GnarfGnarf
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I'm a Windows/macOS developer, but I strongly feel that all national governments need to convert to Linux, for strategic sovereignty. I'm sure Microsoft, under orders from the U.S. government, could disable all computers in any country or organization, at the flick of a switch.

Imagine how Open Source Software could improve if a consortium of nations put their money and resources into commissioning bug fixes and enhancements, which would be of collective benefit.

Apart from a few niche cases, the needs of most government bureaucracies would be well served by currently available OSS word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics software.
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·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Qt has many good features, but it is not as robust as Visual Studio. It can lock up while debugging. <F2> will take you to the extern in the same module, not the actual definition. Variable expansion during debugging is slow. You can’t display a.b.c, you have to expand all of ‘a’, then all of ‘a.b’
GnarfGnarf
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Totally describes my experience, since 1965.
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·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I appreciate how lower-case ‘L’, digit ‘1’ and upper-case ‘I’ are differentiated. Also alpha ‘O’ and zero.
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
We cannot escape that "all our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end" (Thoreau).

The perversion of knowledge is a paradox that was known to the writers of Genesis: it's the Tree of Knowledge that gets the first humans in trouble.
GnarfGnarf
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
No, I didn't mean doing the job in half the code (which for sure is better). I meant writing half the code that needs to be written, and then writing the other half that needs to be written, in addition.
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·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I keep wanting to be converted to TDD, but I can't shake the feeling that I'd be writing half the code in twice the time.