Hacker News Reader

Coincidentally I accessed this in class earlier today without seeing HN first and thought how amazing it was.

I didn't know that it'd gotten a whole new look so recently. Amazing. Congrats to all at Git-SCM, nice job.

josefonsecaon Wind Power Without the Blades

If some alien civilization landed on Earth, I'd like them to land in Dubai. It's as if they're building a future land, the landscape, the sand, the buildings. Amazing.

josefonsecaon Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier

Curious about that. How so?

josefonsecaon Facebook's numbers

Is that stat serious or is it some political statement? Facebook really has zero users in China?

josefonsecaon Facebook's numbers

Yup!

josefonsecaon Facebook's numbers

When you look at a statistic like:

Penetration in Turkey: 85%

If market research is not the first thing that comes to your mind, then you should probably go see a shrink.

josefonsecaon Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in Visual C++

There must be a strategical reason behind this, I can't believe they'd make such a huge mistake.

One possibility is that they're trying to corner the native languages so developers start migrating more and more into managed runtimes. This gives Microsoft more power and control over what the programers are doing on their OS. Removing C++ would be too big a hit, so killing off C is the compromise they found.

The fact that they recommend GCC is intriguing though, I can't quite make sense of that.