The assign operator rebinding is yet another thing that behaves slightly different from the rest of the language.
Readit Newsz_open commented on C++26: `Std:Optional<T&>` sandordargo.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
Lots of bad advice. Using unsigned for normal integers when you know they will be positive does worse for optimization, not better. Also for (;;) {} is convention because older compilers would give warnings with while (1)
I stopped reading there.
z_open commented on UTF-8 is a brilliant design iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-... · Posted by u/vishnuharidas
kill Unicode. Done with this after these 25 byte single characters.
Powertoys has had some weird bugs over the years:
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/410
I can't find it now, but I think it also used to crash outlook if you put mailto: links in emails.
I wish I could find the pull request associated with that issue.
Tried it and realized it was gimped compared to the Linux tools it was trying to emulate. Monopolies will always be playing catchup with basic functionalities people have done for free because they make sense.
z_open commented on Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging mahesh-hegde.github.io/po... · Posted by u/never_inline
It isn't either/or. Good programmers know how to use both and know how to choose the appropriate tool for the job.
printing is never the appropriate tool. You can make your debugger print something when that line of code is reached anyway and automatically continue if you want. So what's the point of pritntf? It's just less information and features.
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z_open commented on Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyl... · Posted by u/xelxebar
Not this article again. His opinions on include files don't make sense anymore. Modern compilers keep track of what includes are necessary to reprocess.
Thank you, all HNers at Google, for continuing to work there.
And yes, before you ask, I have personally quit a job that paid 3x what I was able to get elsewhere over ethics. And no, I'm not rich, probably bottom 5% in terms of assets among my colleagues, coming from a lower-class background.
What the hell do the antitrust people in the US do? Google should have been chopped to bits a decade ago and Microsoft buying Github is just nonsense. Way too much potential for abuse all around.
z_open commented on Microsoft calls protest a 'destructive' act by outsiders geekwire.com/2025/microso... · Posted by u/pinewurst
“…demonstrators returned Wednesday to again take over a portion of the plaza at Microsoft’s East Campus. They poured red paint on a company sign to symbolize blood, and blocked a bridge…
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…the 20 people arrested in the Wednesday protest included one current employee, and three former employees…
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Almost all of those arrested [Wednesday], including some carrying fake company ID cards…”
This is counterproductive. Acting like an idiot in public and disrupting peoples’ work doesn’t gain sympathy. (At best it gains awareness. But that isn’t the problem Palestinians face.)
They're not acting like idiots though?
And they're trying to raise awareness that Microsoft helps Israel surveil and attack Palestinians, not raise awareness that there is a war going on.
Your comment is a typical one that protests should be less disruptive, but only disruptive protests have historically been effective.