Why does a chat client need constant updates? Why are they mandatory? (I can’t even skip them if I’m on a slow, metered connection.)
Raphael Luba
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Raphael Luba
@LubaRaphael
Programmer, BJJ enthusiast (and still bad at it), father of 3, co-founder of @FabmanHQ, working on a compiler @Thekla_inc
Wien, Österreich
Joined November 2014
- Replying to @RedSantarWow, that „haha, we’ve caused an extra inconvenience for you – isn’t that funny“ dialog is next level.
- This is very disingenuous. The dichotomy is not „wasted nanoseconds vs. unreadably hyperoptimized code“. Modern software often takes many seconds to do trivial tasks. The problem is that developers nowadays make their programs 10,000 times slower while also making everythingMorning bathrobe rant at the cabin: performance.
00:00 - Replying to @tsodingThe ESP32 SDK uses Python to drive CMake to generate Ninja files to build the C/C++ source files. It’s _beyond_ ridiculous … In alternative universe this would have been a Monty Python sketch: “The Ministry of Silly Build Systems” – but it’s a reality.
- I think C is here to stay forever. It‘s the lingua franca of computers. C++ is a very different story. We might not be able to kill it. (🧛) But making it irrelevant is a noble goal we can aim for.How to kill C/C++
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- I was compiling LLVM on Windows (which takes frickin’ forever), came back an hour later, and Windows just decided to reboot for updates in the middle of it? 🤬 Whoever decided that this was acceptable behavior for an OS should be fired with prejudice!
- I always knew that buying the „STL Tutorial and Reference Guide“ was a great investment! Now I have finally found a way to apply it:
- If someone sincerely calls themselves “architect” in a software context, run for the hills.Programmers are taught explicitly in all industry standard training curriculums to architect first, then write the code that does anything later—the exactly wrong way to program.
- Eskil is currently preaching what many more developers, designers and product managers need to hear:
- Hype? No, I’d call it a disaster! If that claim is true, we are in for an even steeper decline in software quality than in the past decade. Brace for impact! 🛬⛰️AI is literally writing 25% of Microsoft’s code. Still think it’s hype?
- Replying to @tsodingI exclusively consume „tech news“ predigested: unless friends forward it to me, I won’t hear about it. It’s the same reason I don’t read daily newspapers—only weekly ones: if it is not important enough to survive one level of filtering, I don’t want to hear about it.
