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This has been my primary research strategy for the past decade. It's digging gems from piles of rubbish, but when you find them you know that they are genuine.

> I'm not aware of a way to construct an std::vector without throwing an exception. You use an allocator with enough pool for whatever you need to do and avoid out of bounds access…

> Calling Thing::default() clearly communicates that your just getting baseline values and not a lot of magical other initialization stuff going on— with a Thing::Thing() in C++, y…

> Like maybe checked exceptions in C++ would work https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/except_spec

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_ios/exceptions

I wish people were content at thinking that they know better. Right now they try to coerce others to act like they do in many parts of the world.

To me it seems like a naturally arising question, but these days people aren't always rational so IDK.

I wish I could say just "no" but nowadays you can't be sure where used laptops have been anyway. If you can't buy a new laptop, you could as well just buy one that has been in Chin…

Experience-based guidelines for adopting C++11/14 at scale if you haven't already. (The experience requirement ruled out C++17 and C++20.)

> Lambdas, Streams… Java is far from "80s style OOP" today. Streams are a library feature. At a cursory look Boost seems to have had something similar since 2003: range adaptors[0]…

Java was designed to support 80s style OOP. While many mainstream languages do the same, it isn't particularly modern. I haven't followed Java's evolution in the recent years but a…

The interesting languages are those that don't need killer apps to succeed.

Represent it as a bitmap - people are good at seeing patterns.

> there are places on the internet that do the bare minimum of moderation and only remove illegal content. Unfortunately, only the worst members of society seem to frequent these t…

I tried to add "self-proclaimed" to it but updating seems to fail. Update: resumbission with new title seems to be the way to go. Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3025250…

I bumped into this recently. What do you think?

The dynamics of the KJV were different. N competing Versions had caused divisions among the people, so the king ordered the making of one universal standard. The translation commit…

It is waiting its turn on my table btw.

I have read it cover to cover multiple times and plan to continue reading for the rest of my life.

> Even Christians these days pick an choose which parts of the Bible to read and then distil those down into short stories and songs rather than reading the texts in full. It is la…