DerekL

> You can run Linux and play GTA and Mortal Kombat on other consoles.

I don't know what you mean here. You can play the latest Mortal Kombat on the Switch, too.

The actual title has an exclamation point. By automatically removing it, Hacker News has turned the title into nonsense.

The Switch eShop also has the programming game Human Resource Machine.

http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/human_resou...

Link is broken.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697122

> Greg Schmid, a 78-year-old retired economist, said the region should slow the expansion of large companies.

Slowing the expansion isn't good enough. Your city should have never allowed all of those offices if it wasn't going to allow a proportionate amount of housing.

> Dereferencing a nullptr gives a segfault (which is not a security issue, except in older kernels).

It’s a segfault on many C++ implementations, but it has undefined behavior, so there’s no guarantee.

Resubmitted later, with more votes and comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436

“Planet of the Apes” is not part of the title.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368040

> But even if device owners applied the January patch, all an attacker has to do now is to switch to a non-curl scanner/exploit tool.

Or the attacker can just keep using curl and use the option to change the User-Agent string.

Actual title is “Volcanoes! Lightning! And Radioactive Gas, Too”. It becomes ungrammatical if you remove the exclamation points. If you feel you have to change it, I'd recommend “Volcanoes, Lightning, And Radioactive Gas, Too”.

Actual title is “Apple unveils its subscription streaming service, Apple TV+”. Also, you shouldn't use the Apple logo character (U+F8FF) in the title, because it's in a Unicode private use area, and it won't appear correctly unless it's displayed on an Apple device, or by use of a special fallback font.

Actual title is “Here’s how you’ll access Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service”. Why was it changed?

(2002)

Title is misspelled: it should say “VCs”, not “VCS”. If you capitalize the s, it looks like part of the abbreviation. (Version control system? Video Computer System?)

Let me explain to everyone else how your function works. It's turning a tree into a list. The tree is rooted at “rest”, and the list starts at “pseudoRoot” and ends at “tail”.

If the root of the tree has no child on the left, it pops that node and adds it to the end of the list. If it does have a left child, then it does a right rotation on the tree, which makes the left side smaller. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_rotation .)

I was wondering if this really runs in linear time. Call a node in the tree good if it lies on the right-most part of the tree. In other words, a node is good if the path from the root to that node only goes right at each step. The root is always good. A node is bad if it is not good. Each right rotation turns a bad node into a good one, and the pruning removes one good node. So it is really O(n) time.

The title is misspelled. It should be “its”, not “it's”.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19285052

Title is misspelled.

Yes, cross-platform development is more work, but that example you gave is the wrong way to do it. It's better to abstract the differences using typedefs, functions, macros, etc., and keep the platform switches in a few isolated places in the code.

Yeah, they finally fixed the switch statement after more than twenty years!

One sad thing about Java is that they followed the syntax of C (and C++) even when it is obviously terrible. Falling through to the next case is occasionally useful, but it's so rare that it should never have been the default. Either there should have been a “fallthrough;” statement, or better yet, a “goto case 5;” syntax.

d for decimal, o for octal, X and x for hexadecimal.

> “[...] paper money is going away, and crypto is a far better way to transfer value than pieces of paper, that's for sure."

I don't know why he's comparing cryptocurrencies to paper money. Government-issued money is mostly transferred and stored electronically, not with banknotes and coins, and I'm sure he knows this. Is he also including checks?

In your opinion, how does SIMD compare with “vector architectures” described in the article?

Actual title is “Apple's Planning a 16" MacBook Pro, 31" Display”. I guess the double quotes in the HTML title element need to be encoded.

*doesn't

But if the sellers don't communicate about prices, then it's not illegal collusion, right?

The headline uses the term “keynote” incorrectly. A keynote is the most important speech or presentation during a longer event. A stand-alone presentation can’t be a keynote.