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That was my position too, but I was recently told there's a tool called waypipe that is supposed to solve this. Haven't tried it yet, though.

Related Twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1250518818197245953

Exactly: "spare" is the imperative ("save!"), "sparen" the base form ("to save").

But don't get me wrong, I'd love to see your optimism come true here.

No. For simple economic reasons, such as too much testing effort vs. too little revenue.

The saddest part of this story is that Netflix/Amazon/younameit will continue to ignore and block Linux users as the niche market they are -- even if a future Firefox or Chrome ver…

Given that a NSA dev team was well aware that the spyware would be discovered and disassembled at some point in time, it was reasonable to intentionally leave behind evidence that …

OK, agreed. C (and C++) just suck regarding this detail.

Archaic and impractical. Example: Instead of using Linux' pragmatic approach to function prototypes: "In function prototypes, include parameter names with their data types. Althoug…

Under what license may I reuse those snippets -- or are they too short to provoke legal issues anyways?

Quoting from the end of the paper: "Source code and a phase diagram generating Python script are available under the M.I.T. license on github.com at https://github.com/mattbierbaum…

C++'s template-based sorting mechanisms allow for the same optimization without manually special-casing anything. (The compiler "integrates everything", to quote the author, out of…

Nice. Please add more GCC versions (3.x and 4.0 through 4.3?) and the most recent clang/clang++ releases! Direct pastebin-style links would also be great.

You're being overly pessimistic on the percentage of Europeans speaking English (though not necessarily as their native language). This language has worked as a common means to com…

With that argument you could invalidate any high-level language construct. They're all just "specialized syntax" of classic idioms in Assembly.

I agree on Bjarne's opinion here -- it would be nice if C and C++ had merged at some point. Unfortunately, the reason why this hasn't happened is inherent: C++ is so utterly comple…