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72k can keep you alive on sub-standard living conditions, but it will not keep a team of 6-7 talented programmers and artists alive for very long. Not even for way below market pay…

How do you know that? Have you had any practical experience with a large code base using new style (e.g. post-C++11) Concepts? People have been using Concepts in some form for a ve…

The Wikipedia article linked in another reply to parent confirms that. The months in which the worms were harvested were named after the worms.

I just went clicking randomly on Vimeo links and I didn't find a single auto-playing video. You are right about YouTube and I actually think they should handle visitors that come f…

As others I had a totally different expectation given the title. I thought it would be a piece about how Wikipedia had some message or lesson that we should listen to. I think the …

Why should I adapt my usage patterns to accommodate the shitty behavior of a few websites? Also, are you sure you are in position to tell other people how to use the web? I certain…

Starting to play sound without user confirmation is a default tab-close. I wont even take the time to look at it. Bonus point for not being flash that hijacks the browser shortcut.…

That much should be clear, my (unfortunately) implicit question is: how can we instruct a machine to optimize for the very intangible things everybody seems to love so much about t…

I think the statement following this is much more important and interesting to HN: > The tendency has become more and more prevalent under electronic auction systems. While inciden…

You are not quoting the part where he shows his benchmark results, analysis of the problem, and suggested solution. I don't necessarily agree with Linus' tone or choice of words, b…

Even if your tax is paid automatically you can still recover taxes but it is hard and the laws are confusing. In Germany a special profession with a state exam (Steuerberater) as w…

I'm not intending to put you, your enthusiasm, or the people behind Modules down: I've been hearing that story since C++11 was still called C++0x (this might be an exaggeration) bu…

At first I thought "a build system which automatically figures out what to build and how to build it purely based on the source code" included figuring out library dependencies. It…

You are saying that you actually need to read and understand code you are refactoring. Hard to disagree.

I can't follow. The code I showed is already processing masterlist and decides if it should process masterlist[z].list2 for every z: 0..masterlist.length. I fully agree that the co…

> My word, something can be redundant (not conceding that point) and not "just plain wrong." I think we can agree to disagree. I'm strictly against redundancy if it doesn't serve a…

> You must null check a lot of things in C, especially since there is no graceful error handling (try/catch blocks)... C certainly allows things to be null (or garbage) values. You…

He then proceeds to iterate over the list using zero based indexing. The loop would not execute once if the list had length zero, making this check just plain wrong. I know an even…

if( masterList[z].list2 != NULL && masterList[z].list2.length() > 0 ) { for( Integer y = 0; y The if-statement is a good summary of what is wrong with Java. The author doesn't even…

This has been discussed here before in 2012 and the linked version is not different from the one before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463

That sounds interesting, but I'm suspicious. Do you have any examples of such macros and maybe some statistics or ideas how often they are actually seen in the wild?

I can only speak for the Emacs capabilities of readline: all commands which would usually change the line (previous/next-line, beginning/end-of-buffer) will use the history as the …

There are already SWIG generated python bindings for CGAL: https://code.google.com/p/cgal-bindings/

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