antekone @[email protected]

TIL In Germany there is a law forbidding you to wear masks or anything else that will decrease the effectiveness of enforcement imposed on you by the police.

https://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html

Sad fate of every software development project:

1. All code that can be refactored, will be refactored to a level of unrefactorability.

2. All code that is easy to remove, will be removed in favor of code that is hard to remove.

Big production movies: if the only difference between you and soap operas is the lower frames per second parameter, then I think something's not right

https://sonyreconsidered.com/tom-cruise-wants-you-to-turn-off-motionflow-on-your-bravia-set-d296169b5d41?gi=139e360d472c

#Apple standards

https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com/

Hey, let's ban the "CO2" term because you know, global warming and sht

https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html

Accidental reality #hacking

https://twitter.com/meslin/status/1225834920611848192

#WinAPI ... such beautiful design!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincred/nf-wincred-creduicmdlinepromptforcredentialsa

> The people that made the most money during the gold rush didn't mine for gold. They sold shovels.

So true

Really awesome series of articles about Java Virtual Machine -- #JVM Anatomy Quarks:

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/

Do you have any plans for 2:02PM on 2nd February 2020?

Not sure if you remember, but the first version of #Android has been using dark-ish theme by default.

Then, Google has switched from dark to light theme from some reason.

And then when Apple decided that dark theme is a thing, Google started to roll out dark theme again, but this time advertising it as a new feature.

In early #Windows95 prototype, the Trash was named 'Wastebasket'.

o_O

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

A bug in #C++

http://anadoxin.org/blog/c-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-5.html

Metaprogramming (programming using templates) in C++ is like programming in JavaScript -- there are lots of interesting stuff you can do, but you have to fight with the language at every step.

The value of Gamer Boycotts

#Blizzard

... kind of true

If I'll never create my own Linux distro, I'm gonna name it: "CON & * ? \ / ( Linux".

The value of gamer boycott:

https://i.imgur.com/abXW9.png

... since I've mentioned #JavaScript:

0x123456789 * 0x123456789 = ?

Ruby: 23880016183359539025
Python3: 23880016183359539025
#JavaScript: 23880016183359537000

😢

template<typename T>
struct S {
template<typename U> void foo(){}
};

template<typename T>
void bar()
{
S<T> s;
s.foo<T>(); // error: < parsed as less than operator
}

#C++ please don't act like #JavaScript