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Comment Anonymous Coward is a Pussy (Score 1) 476

He didn't master the tool called "C++", so he got himself a toy called "C#". Now he bitches about the tool when in reality his own conceptual and practical incompetence is to blame.

Basic advice on trolling: Follow hyperlinks to get superficially correct posts and avoid mistakes like writing about embedded guy that he exclusively uses C#

Comment Re:ANY SORT has "upsides" &/or "downsides" (Score 1) 404

Which is theoretically correct but completely different in practice.
When you do not care about sorting performance using library function is best.
When you care about performance then optimized radixsort almost always wins by huge margin.(Using radixsort on floats is typical exercise.)
Exception is when you require wild sorting order which does not happen often.
Unless your data does not fit into memory where variant of quicksort is best.

Comment Re:Or.. teach devs to use threading as appropriate (Score 1) 404

Even the best of C or C++ compilers are terrible at vectorization of code.

The 1990s just called. Seymour Cray is on the phone laughing at you.

Really? Even simple examples like this:

int sum(int *s){long i;
int su=0;
for(i=0;i<128;i+=2) su+=s[i]*s[i+1];
return su;
}

Results in 765 byte monstrosity by latest icc and 1095 bytes with gcc

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Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? 761

juicegg writes "TechCrunch contributor Klint Finley writes that developers have shunned unions because traditional workplace demands like higher pay are not important to us while traditional unions are incapable of advocating for what developers care about most while at work: autonomy and self-management. Is this how most developers feel? What about overtime, benefits, conditions for contractors and outsourcing concerns? Are there any issues big enough to get developers and techies to make collective demands or is it not worth the risk? Do existing unions offer advantages or is it better to start from scratch?"

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 419

> Free market monopolies" are a misnomer, as the company that has provided such a high quality, low cost product that no-one can compete with them must continue to provide such quality, or risk new competition arising. Like quality and cost of U.S. Steel and Standard Oil products in 19. century?

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