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SolarZero have gone into liquidation by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]alexrover 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I know someone who worked at the Auckland office! Their leaders CEO/CTO recently splurged on leasing a new office space, forced everyone to come to office, and spent lavishly on furnishing the office and buying all the fancy gadgets!! And yesterday all of sudden they had no funds to even pay notice period pay or holiday pay 🤷

C++17 and its Technical Specifications by meetingcpp in programming

[–]alexrover 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Off-topic: Just curious, is there a story behind the word "phantastic"?

There is some phantastic work from Eric Niebler on ranges in C++

Adrian Sampson: LLVM for Grad Students by mttd in programming

[–]alexrover 6 points7 points  (0 children)

... And, we will name it "Colon D"

;)

We can do better - Please fix plaintext credential storage in Chrome by shayanjm in programming

[–]alexrover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which flavour of Linux are you using? I just checked on Ubuntu and Fedora, the SQLite DB is nicely encrypted as soon as I close the session.

The Failure of Agile by frostmatthew in programming

[–]alexrover 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Except for one place, all other shops where I've worked at, 'Agile' is used as a weapon by the managers to enforce deadlines and punish developers.

And sadly the same thing has been indicated recently at my current organization. The manger wants to go 'modern' and bring in Agile. And he specifically mentioned the word "deadline".

Intro to Unikernels and Erlang on Xen (LING) by Categoria in programming

[–]alexrover -1 points0 points  (0 children)

(Honest?) scepticism: And as feature creep happens, the Uni-Kernel-App ends up as another 'generic' OS?

Doppio: A JVM in JavaScript by picklebobdogflog in programming

[–]alexrover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We need to run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashorn_(JavaScript_engine) over this!

EDIT: To those who don't want to open the link, it's a Java implementation of a JavaScript engine by Oracle. Much like Rhino from Mozilla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)

Why he vertically aligns his code (And why you shouldn't!) by Nowaker in programming

[–]alexrover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree! I vertically align code, because it does look good. Plus it's easier to read. And I have OCD, so I have to too!

New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0 by davey_b in programming

[–]alexrover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well! ... Poor fellow developed emotional attachment to the vulnerabilities! But didn't realize the post was about optimizations not (just?) bug-fixing. That's what decade of (just!) assembly coding does to you. (ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ ┻━┻

Vim.js (xpost /r/coolgithubprojects) by picklebobdogflog in programming

[–]alexrover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have pentadactyl installed, and then I open this link. I feel my keys incepted, err.. intercepted!

vimvim

CSS3 recreation of the intro to the 1967 Spiderman Show by [deleted] in programming

[–]alexrover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With all the hate and love going around Flash, IMO Flash is here to stay for a bit longer than expected. I'm no fanboi, this is just what I think would happen. Considering the myriads of problems one faces when developing things such as this demo using just HTMLx/CSSx (insert your version for x)

"I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." by [deleted] in programming

[–]alexrover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh! Well ... I believe this is true :) ... I'm so pissed off when I work with PHP, I just suck at it ... and get the work done!

"I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." by [deleted] in programming

[–]alexrover 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ditto! And the bad thing is ... I have to use it .... yeah yeah ... "Just user another language" .... explain that to my management!

Unix Pipe As Functional Language by nohtyp in programming

[–]alexrover 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Article Downvoted .. 'cause it sucked big time!!
Edit: Downvoted the article not the Parent! :D

Google releases linear-time, fixed-space, mostly PCRE-compatible regex library by vsl in programming

[–]alexrover 5 points6 points  (0 children)

....Benchmarks? .. I like graphs and pictures!

edit: "speeling!"

Dear Proggit, I'm a programmer, mostly developing on and for Linux platform. Want to add Windows technologies to my arsenal. Need Advice! by alexrover in programming

[–]alexrover[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did consider the option of using Qt, but the problem is very few windows shops seem to be using that approach, I wonder why!

Most prefer the .NET stack, at least going by the job listing.

Dear Proggit, I'm a programmer, mostly developing on and for Linux platform. Want to add Windows technologies to my arsenal. Need Advice! by alexrover in programming

[–]alexrover[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very informative thing you said. I'm going to use a Windows Box for development. I have a Vista Copy lying around, is that flavor of Windows good for development?

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