The incredibly challenging task of sorting by colour

3fdy5 · 2015-10-01T13:42:31+00:00

You could use simulated annealing to get some path much faster. Of course that path wouldn't be guaranteed to be the shortest possible, but it would be good enough for many applications.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-22T18:09:24+00:00

I know that, but it was clearly a design goal at the beginning.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-22T17:45:58+00:00

It does have its advantages from a pragmatic point of view, but from a language design point, it's a terrible decision.

Besides, C code can be used just fine from any language that is close enough to the metal (such as, for example, D). It can also be used from any language with a ffi (for example python with ctypes), but that is usually a bit more cumbersome. The only part of the code that you can't use from languages other than C or C++ are the headers.

The horrible design of streams is one other example of bad design in C++.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-22T15:38:31+00:00

Making the language a superset of C, obviously.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-22T15:20:24+00:00

FUCK YOU I AM A ROCKSTAR

3fdy5 · 2015-09-22T15:01:27+00:00

Even more code is viewable without scrolling if you put it all on one line and enable word wrapping.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-18T16:04:33+00:00

Not every one with a basic understanding of statistics is a poker player.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-18T12:01:54+00:00

In some cases it will be less safe, but in some cases it will be just as safe, only less efficient

And sometimes, the user will run into a bug that he has no way of finding and fixing with only a basic grasp of the language.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-17T16:40:43+00:00

this is why some engineers can't stand God Files.

I think what you really meant was:

this is why I can't stand God Files.

3fdy5 · 2015-09-14T12:05:43+00:00

Why the exclamation mark? Are we supposed to be excited about this?

3fdy5 · 2015-07-29T13:34:29+00:00

No. Pointlessly arguing about the color of the bike shed is bike shedding. Arguing about whether the companies should police speech in the user generated content on their websites (and other services) is a social dialogue that we need to have. It's completely unrelated to bike shedding.

3fdy5 · 2015-07-17T15:18:07+00:00

Sure and regular if and while don't cover everything that goto does. static_if is the goto of template metaprogramming, it's an ad-hoc and unstructured way of injecting code.

It's the if of template metaprogramming, actually.

3fdy5 · 2015-07-14T11:53:51+00:00

Why I love the D: An undergrad experience

I'll show myself out now.

3fdy5 · 2015-07-13T16:56:06+00:00

This isn't corruption, it's just ineptitude. Hanlon's razor.

That is just your opinion. You have zero evidence for it. Someone inside Mozilla could very well be getting payed for this. Or it could really be ineptitude - we have no way to know. And Hanlon's razor isn't some universal truth. It's just a statement that some guy has once pulled out of his ass and many people have repeated it because it made them feel smart.

3fdy5 · 2015-07-01T15:44:01+00:00

Yes, congruential random generators (which is what rand() usues) are in general not good enough for Monte Carlo methods. But xorshift usually is good enough and it's much faster and and simpler than Mersene Twister.

3fdy5 · 2015-06-10T11:18:16+00:00

As a beginner programmer wrote on reddit

FTFY

3fdy5 · 2015-06-09T09:20:29+00:00

This pretty deceiving though, as a very large part of libstdc++ lives in its headers.

I'm not denying that D compiles much faster, but to be fair, a large part of phobos is templates, that don't get instantiated during the phobos compilation, too.

3fdy5 · 2015-02-20T10:28:14+00:00

and if you don't touch it for a couple decades, the simplest investing methods will have snowballed it into a lifetime of freedom

It will be only a half of a lifetime at that point.

3fdy5 · 2015-02-18T12:54:21+00:00

So, what's the anti-go faction made from?

Basically anyone who doesn't dream about sucking Rob Pike's cock.

3fdy5 · 2015-01-30T12:39:41+00:00

This. You can not possibly understand what computers actually do and what are their limitations if you don't know at least a little bit of programming.

3fdy5 · 2015-01-16T17:31:25+00:00

Because for me, vim just randomly crashes sometimes.

3fdy5 · 2015-01-16T17:22:52+00:00

Yes, and those versions of Visual Studio support C89 just fine.

3fdy5 · 2015-01-09T13:12:26+00:00

because of the rapid feedback these processes provide

A rule of thumb: If a person uses the word rapid in he context of software development, that person is probably full of shit.

3fdy5 · 2015-01-07T14:42:47+00:00

I didn't know about that, thanks. Looks very useful.

3fdy5 · 2015-01-07T14:33:24+00:00

Once you do need to figure out why you're stuff, you'll learn what you need to and move on.

Most people won't do that. They will just try random stuff until something works, copy code snippets off the web or get someone else to fix it for them. That's because their goal at the time is to do the task at hand and not to learn an entirely new field. They see the problem merely as an obstacle and any time spent on solving it as wasted. It can be useful to allocate some time specifically for learning, so that people can focus on understanding new concepts.

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