saticmotion
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Comment · 9 years ago
I'm really glad they added a dark mode. But performance is absolutely horrible, I don't get how this made it through QA.
Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
Exactly :) I come from a .net background, where compile times are kinda bad compared to what I get in C. I had also heard of big C++ projects that could take more than 30 mins to build. So I was always scared to move to native code. Until I learned the single compilation unit trick! And if compile times were to get slow again, there are many more ways to bring it down even further,
Comment · 10 years ago
I tend to use a single compilation unit, and use plain C. For a 50k line project I have build times of 1-1.2sec. On top of that I'm also linking to opengl, windows.h and a couple of headers in the standard lib.
Comment · 10 years ago
Despite what the code may look like, they all have a very easy to use API. Take stb_image.h for example. Most people need just two functions, stbi_load(), which loads any supported image format to a byte array. And stbi_image_free(), which frees the data.
But if you need anything more than that it's all there. e.g. loading from memory, loading via callbacks, support for HDR images, support for custom allocators, preprocessor flags let you exclude code for unused image formats, etc etc
Comment · 10 years ago
Increasingly popular are the "single header libraries", which were popularised by Sean Barrett[0]. It's as simple as downloading the header, putting it somewhere in your tree and #including it where you need it. It's especially useful for redistributing libraries, but I've also found it useful to create these in my own projects.
Comment · 10 years ago
Firefox has more than a 4% market share[0][1]. One of the main reasons I've heard, is that it's free, and that the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit.
I also just found this bit, that explains how some browsers might be over or under estimated, because of how their internals work[2]. So we really don't know what the market shares really are.
[0]http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-yearly-2008-2016
[1]https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Ac...
Comment · 10 years ago
My biggest gripe with OOP is the Oriented part. If you design your entire codebase around OOP you will run into architectural problems. Especially with so-called Cross Cutting Concerns[0]. The way I tend to write code, is to just start with my main function and write whatever procedural code I need to solve my problem. If I start seeing patterns, in my data or algorithms, that's when I start pulling things out. I have heard this approach being called "Compression Oriented Programming", but I don't care much for what people want to call it.
This approach doesn't mean no objects ever. But only when your problem actually calls for it. Likewise you will also end up with parts that are purely functional, data-oriented, etc. But they will be used where they make sense.
On top of that I'm also using pure C99. It does away with a lot of the fluff and cruft in other languages. In the past I used to try to fit my problems into whatever the most fancy language features I was offered. Which cost me a lot of time analysing. Now I just solve my problem.
Mind you, C is not a perfect language. There are features I wish it had. But for my approach to programming it is the most sensible to use. Apart from maybe a limited subset of C++ (such as function overloading and operator overloading for some math)
Comment · 10 years ago
Disabling the box shadow on .content-root fixes the performance bug (FF46.0).
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks. It's "draconisch" in dutch. And words with -isch are typically translated to -ic in english, hence the confusion.
Comment · 10 years ago
This seems pretty draconic. To compare with a recent law passed here, in Belgium:
- A fee of 4.000 Euro to bring a product to market.
- Juice bottles of maximum 10ml
- No remote selling of e-cigarettes (but liquids are for some reason allowed)
- No advertising (with some exceptions)
Comment · 11 years ago
The most surprising detail to me was how much water they have to drain out of the metro each day:
"As a result, he said, they “discharge approximately 2-million gallons of water a day.” In other words: about three Olympic sized swimming pools worth."
Comment · 11 years ago
No idea about Pro, but I downloaded 2013 Ultimate from Dreamspark.
Comment · 11 years ago
Appears to be available here: https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=10...