Generics are a touchy subject, they make the code awful but they save you from writing more of it. As a side note C++ does just that with its generics implementation (the compiler creates a different code for each class that uses the generic class) that is why C++ compiler is slow. Java does not do that in its generics implementation, but the Java way has its own trade-offs.

Microsoft dev tools are either free or really cheap, the real problem is lockin into the ecosystem, sure the same is true for android and iOS, but they have established user-bases already

I bet the hardware guys say that the physics has bugs that they have to work around too.

WebAssembly is a bytecode, from my understanding not much different than Java.

Yeah it is because the optimizing compiler does not know how to optimize those things yet. But in reality having a proper examinable bytecode would be better for those times you actually need every little bit of performance. Examining the bytecode of your own code is easier than trying to understand the compiler (badly documented and forever evolving) optimizations.

V8 actually has two JIT compillation modes exactly because of things like this. One handles "easy" functions and the other handles "hard" functions (functions that contain eval or try and catch for example), the "easy" compiller has worse performance. This link explains it well:

https://github.com/petkaantono...

Great read for people who want to optimize for V8, many of the tips should be valid for other javascript engines as well.

From the article:

Currently not optimizable (ie will use the slower compilation method):
Generator functions
Functions that contain a for-of statement
Functions that contain a try-catch statement
Functions that contain a try-finally statement
Functions that contain a compound let assignment
Functions that contain a compound const assignment
Functions that contain object literals that contain __proto__ , or get or set declarations.

Likely never optimizable:
Functions that contain a debugger statement
Functions that call literally eval()
Functions that contain a with statement

Maybe because it would look bad if they only halted the sales on steam?

Yeah, exactly what happens in my company, the laptops are windows with a bunch of crap on them (antivirus, audit system) that is scheduled to run once a day and when it does run it makes the computer useless for half a hour.

Ah it also helps that when I want to work from home I just take the SSD not the whole computer.

My company gave us notebooks without SSDs, but they are pretty lax on external devices (you can bring your own mouse, pen drives and such). So I brought a SSD and bought an esatap cable (esata-powered, those cables are a pain in the ass to find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and installed linux mint in it. I boot straight to linux (they don't lock the bios) and do not even use the HD inside the notebook. Since the company also seems to think that RAM is a non-renawable resource they also saw fit to give us only 4gbs of it, so my swap partition is also on the SSD.

This setup helps my work a lot, before I started doing this my workflow was frustratingly slow, now everything runs just fine. It helped a lot when the RAM runs out and it starts doing swap, it still gets slow but not anywhere near as much as before.

This is all rather fishy, I am wondering if Steam is actually curating big releases for quality and taking the thing out of steam by themselves and only allowing the publisher/developer to make it seem like it was their own decision all along.

I am not from the US, but do they recognize eSports as actual sports or is it a different category? If so what are the difference between each category?

To me facebook is in the stage "said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise)". The users have not yet started to migrate to alternatives.

To me facebook is in the stage "said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise)". The users have not yet started to migrate to alternatives.

Slashdot is the one that is only a shell of what it once was and digg is the one that is dead.

See? you are part of the problem, you can't let these services get popular. Stop sharing your sharing websites!