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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:23PM (#18189476)
HTTP2 is just the transport, there would be a ton of machinery to implement in each language in the stack.
Re:Arguing against using protobuffers
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:11PM (#18189401)
Furthermore, in the case where I'm using protobufs as a necessary evil of grpc, what's the best alternative here?
Re:Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
on Saturday August 11, 2018 @02:04PM (#17740780)
In Canada, that's the legal definition of engineering. You may not call yourself an engineer without accreditation and such accreditation will be rescinded if you make severe enough engineering mistakes.
Re:Taking an Ancestry Test Could Make It Harder to Buy Life Insurance
on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:27AM (#17724450)
The whole point of insurance is to distribute risk. At some point, if coverage granularity becomes too high, insurance will just become pointless, right?
Re:Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)
on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:21AM (#17644218)
Indent behavior is just one of multiple formatting tasks. Spacing between operators, curly-brace placement, etc. all fall in the same category here.
Re:Type-safe Bitmasks in C++
on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:07AM (#17302288)
The fact that this relies on overloading an operator for every enum makes this a complete non-starter as is in any professional codebase unfortunately. That can be fixed with a trait type though.
Re:Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL
on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:48PM (#17232887)
OpenGL is "learnable" by someone in the process of learning. Vulkan and Metal are much less approachable. This will put a huge damper on low-level graphics programming as a hobby.