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Cppreference.com is my favorite resource for up to date info.

When I attended back in the late 90’s, there was a view that once y2k was over and that crisis was dealt with the industry would collapse and there wouldn’t be any jobs. What’s hap…

Where is the sense of dread coming from?

Listening to Dario at the NYT DealBook summit, and reading between the lines a bit, it seems like he is basically saying Anthropic is trying to be a reponsible, sustainable busines…

Convenience and cost seem like big advantages.

If it works, he gets credit. If it fails or never happens, someone else gets the blame. pretty classic.

Very impressive, nice work!

Interesting, I really like balsamiq and still use it personally, despite work being a figma shop.

I think it's great, nicely done! Tools like this to condense and cross-reference complex information to something you can reference easily is very useful to a human like myself.

There are effective and ineffective MBA's.

It is cynical and is simplistic but there is an element of truth to it. Maybe is republican ideology, I don’t know about that.

I think you are right about starting early in education and exposing disadvantaged children to things they wouldn't otherwise have available to them, and supporting them throughout…

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the o…

If you are selecting for anything besides competence, your chances of getting competence is effectively random. It says nothing about one group of people being more or less compete…

emacs works great on windows. I'm not sure if there are things notepad++ does that emacs can't but I've never had any windows-specific issues with emacs.

I think there is a lesson here, something I have learned once or twice as well. Just because all incentives, reasoning and wisdom align with your position, you need to be prepared …

I'm not a lawyer but their original announcement seemed very close to libel and I would think Sam has some legal options should he choose to pursue them.

The article is well-written and detailed, however I was taken aback by the claim that meson is 'widely used for C & C++ projects'. I've come across bazel more often than meson. I g…

That's pretty cool. I notice how MS has become so much more respected as they have embraced open source. Is the next frontier for companies to become open process where the best co…

Not necessarily, although it's a bit complicated to understand in C++. Starting with C++17, there is a feature called guaranteed copy elision that works for many/most scenarios tha…

Changing something so fundamental seems like it should be a rewrite.

It's not guaranteed, but caring and working hard can pay off over time and can give longevity to what you do. If you are working with the right people, they tend to notice and rewa…

And he was probably one of the worlds foremost experts on this at the time given his position at google, haha.

The storage is the problem. How do you store them? edit: I am thinking mainly of espresso and now that I fully read your comment, I see you acknowledge that. Espresso in a sealed b…

in fairness most of his points were probably accumulated before the poster joined the site.