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Throwaway23459

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    Comment #33962387

    Maybe he only knew C as you say. I did C++ professionally for a while. Not properly, just updating models in derivatives trading systems. I remember reading 3 Scott Meyer books, th…

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    Comment #33952029

    > [Paraphrasing] Is Verse supposed to be an easy language for beginners ? Yes! Well that was the point of my comment. Maybe you have a different interpretation of 'Learnable as a f…

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    Comment #33950610

    Has it got currying? Partially applied functions passed around in folds and traverses are horribly difficult to read for beginners. Example: an Advent of Code solution posted in r/…

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    Comment #33949303

    My lecturer in second year, > 20 years ago mind, said we are learning C, because C++ is C with an ugly object oriented graft on top.

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    Comment #33949185

    > so-called 'lenient' evaluation strategy which is neither strict nor lazy, but somewhere in-between Sounds like we are still clinging on to laziness in some regard, I wish we coul…

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    Comment #33948925

    You appear to be reading more into my post then I intended. The point I was illustrating is that there is no cruft in React. Try and keep your posts factual.

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    Comment #33940471

    Most recent papers, in NLP at least, are so sparse on detail that it is impossible to reproduce their models. And then there's the compute cost, as at least one other poster has me…

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    Comment #33939885

    React and Angular are both blazing fast, and are definitely not pointless. Open create react app, spin up a page with 50000 buttons, compare that to a plain js version, then come b…

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    Comment #33939873

    Well google use all of their own internal 'frameworks', so you can't really use their web applications to judge the rest of the web.

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    Comment #33905734

    Does Whisper ever respond with "I don't understand" or does it always try to amble on and give an answer, no matter the confidence of the prediction?

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    Comment #33813595

    I worked through a popular Introductory Category theory text. Did all the problems and made sure I understood everything in there really. It became clear by the end why some mathem…

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    Comment #33714765

    > What really bites is when you need to change the type signature of a load-bearing > interface and find yourself spending hours changing every place where the type is > used only …

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    Comment #33701105

    > None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers I remember the js13k game jam winner this year used BSPs. Linked below. https://github.com/…

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    Comment #33621195

    There's no agreed way to organise a functional codebase. You end up with thousands of functions, can you imagine the mess a big team is capable creating? With some discipline I sup…

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    Comment #33554764

    Laziness principally. In my opinion, laziness is as difficult as managing pointers in C++. Laziness makes memory usage of your program difficult to reason about as it becomes large…

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    Comment #33543883

    I know! I recently went for a job where when I got to the system architecture rounds they were asking about sharding and setting up a server/db for global level massive scale. I on…

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    Comment #33542481

    Seems to have been airbrushed off the site now.

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    Comment #33541210

    Full stack, been doing this a few decades now. Not really. Every new front end feature just feels like such a chore. You tire quickly of building new CRUD endpoints and pages prett…

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    Comment #33220757

    Speeding up the build could be done in other ways, were they using esbuild or something fast previously? Probably not. The memory usage saving is really not a big deal, load up you…