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magnushiie

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    Comment #45280986

    Skype was written without exception handling and RTTI, although using a lot of C++ features. You can write good C++ code without these dependencies. You don't use STL but with caut…

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    Comment #27914802

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    Comment #23291601

    Generated columns are not necessary for indexing in Postgres, you can create an index on any expression based on the record (supported by many versions now).

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    Comment #17366508

    If you are really after performance writing parsers in .NET while keeping the code structure manageable you should look into the new Span type.

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    Comment #16387329

    I was not saying cancellations are not useful, I was saying cancellations are better handled explicitly via cancellation tokens (which compose perfectly, unlike computation based c…

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    Comment #16386189

    I think the author wants promises to represent computation, whereas they represent predetermined (i.e. single-shot) events. He mentioned C# Tasks, which do mainly represent computa…

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    Comment #15131610

    While I kind of agree with the rule of 3, in the example given, I would just rename BaseScraper to ScraperWithFormLogin when encountering the 3rd instance and not derive the 3rd fr…

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    Comment #12924727

    Although I very much like C# where generics are not elided, I think most of the value comes from the productivity from static analysis, and therefore Java generics cature most of t…

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    Comment #12924693

    Except the 99% (though in my experience more like 80% of the cases where generics would be considered in other languages) of the time you are refraining yourseld from using interfa…

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    Comment #10334565

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