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Also apple only spends about 3% of revenue on R&D. Google spends about 15% (and so does ms) if i remember correctly. I think at some point this is going to show. If apple isn't car…

I find it surprising how little interest there is on hn about cpp in general. This video about the future of cpp is the best i have seen this year. My guess is the demographics of …

Garbage collection only works well for memory though. Other resources like file handles, mutexes, database connections, etc. You don't want to leave those hanging. You want them to…

Its not been done as general as this though. Check out this link if you have the time. Especially the last 15 minutes. Its by the ceo of openmp and its very interesting. http://you…

I have never been as excited for the future of cpp as I am now. Cpp17 and cpp20 are going to be revolutionary when it comes to concurrency an parallelism. In cpp17 we get couroutin…

I'm no expert just an mma fan. The rear naked choke for instance. Once they get under your chin its hard to slip out. The bigger the chin the more difficult. The chin is like a hoo…

If the neck was so vulnerable it needed protection why doesn't animals have a chin. And why isn't there a permanent bone covering the neck at all times.

The chin just helps people choke you better. You cant slip out of their grip as easy. Also a big chin is bad for fighting. The easiest way to knock someone out I to hit them on the…

Chimps pout better than any selfie teen. So I don't think that's it

Fair enough. I was talking about synchronisation of threads though.

Truly deterministic multithreading is really just single threading. Multithreading is by its nature undeterministic. To make it deterministic you really have to synchronize enough …

It took me a while to get that. Yes thats a very useful word. Much information per character. If we could use it as a verb also it would be very useful. Ex: I meh calling her, coul…

Its kindof strange that we see doctors time as so valuable that we shouldn't bother them unless we are sick enough we cant function. Its like taking the car to the mechanic only wh…

Just looked up Finnish quickly. I never thought of it before but its very strange to me that a basic word like jaksaa is missing from English. It seems as basic a word as want or c…

It took me a while to see that the dramatic looking spikes and falls in the graphs where only due to the lower range of the y axis being cut out.

Are you talking about Robocop?

I imagine if hn grows any bigger it will become like reddit. It's the smalltown vs big city mentality.

I don't think this obsession with Aaron and his death is any good. It feels like a morbid soap opera. He is more talked about in death than in life. I think its better to focus on …

Automation of common medical lab tests. Not just for the sick but for the healthy. How cool would it be to every week send a drop of blood by mail and get to see a nice graph on a …

If it can identify a bug and fix it then its fully automatic. If its good enough we could eventually give it the password to our source control systems and let it do its thing unsu…

This goes equally well for all these new languages popping up. Even if it is better at everything it does that is not enough. Legacy code and developer community consists of huge a…

Considering facebok is a global site and selling/buying/marketing of firearms is highly regulated in most countries. It makes practical sense for facebook to be conservative and ju…