Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | sennalen's commentslogin

Reversing max and min. That's one I've done a lot, and I don't think any compiler could save me from.


C++ has Algol roots, but I think the C++ template metaprogramming style is an ur-language of its own. You could draw some parallels with ML maybe, but they came at it from a different direction.


This. Misses the compile-time evaluation boat completely, even though the proverbial "sufficiently smart compiler" is based on the idea.


You could solve the original problem statement using just the part of the script that lists unmerged branches


"Because I use NixOS, this was very easy."

First time I've heard someone say that


"I use NixOS btw"


I heard an anecdote years ago about some medical device where people were clicking through confirmations without reading, so they made the user type IRREVERSIBLE on the keyboard to proceed.


"Get in contact with current employees at the company"

and draw the rest of the owl?

This blog is really missing the core question of what contact would be more effective than applying to the company's explicit job postings


Watch them


Wikipedia is not a newspaper. Please stop trying to update it with information less than a week old.


Looking in from outside, people going immutable with Nix sure seem to struggle a lot more than people going immutable with disposable containers and Terraform/OpenTofu


How do you manage macOS desktop apps with those, I am confused. The article is about set up of a personal workspace.


Some of the most valuable meetings I've ever had were optional meetings without agendas. The crucial feature was it was only people who code. When technical people who didn't often interact with each other were given the floor, they turned out to have lots of important things to say.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: