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If they could only do the same to weasel-wording and stating falsehoods on the internet...

and thank god they can't, at least not for now. i can still say any bullshit i want on the internet, as is my right.

from your own article:

Non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression may very well be interpreted by the courts in the future to include the right to be identified by a person’s self identified pronoun

nice precedent

Policy on Preventing Discrimination Because of Gender Identity and Expression states that gender harassment should include “ Refusing to refer to a person by their self-identified name and proper personal pronoun”. In other words, pronoun misuse may become actionable, though the Human Rights Tribunals and courts. And the remedies? Monetary damages, non-financial remedies (for example, ceasing the discriminatory practice or reinstatement to job) and public interest remedies (for example, changing hiring practices or developing non-discriminatory policies and procedures). Jail time is not one of them.

oh ok, no jail time, but i'm forced to hire someone that identifies as an attack helicopter, great!

So what does this mean for pronoun misuse? Well, refusing to use a person’s self identified pronoun is not going to be considered advocating genocide – unless the refusal to use the pronouns was accompanied by actually advocating genocide against trans and gender non-binary folks.

so its fine unless i promote genocide, kinda makes sense but its still a slippery slope imo

Similarly, it’s hard to see the refusal to use the appropriate pronoun –without something else – rising to the threshold of hate speech. Hate speech laws in Canada have only been used- and only can be used – against extreme forms of speech – explicitly and extreme forms of homophobic, anti-Semitic or racist speech.

so pronoun misuse is still legal, unless it gets to "extreme", whatever that means. and who decides what "extreme" is?

Moreover, prosecution needs the approval of the Attorney General.

so in the end the attorney general decides..

and who says what is or isn't hate speech? cant you see the problem with these laws?

also Canada, which soon will also consider mis gendering as hate speech.

i notice your .ui files have a lot of stylesheets in them, did you edit them by hand or did you use some tool?

looks great btw!

ITT: fat people making all sorts of excuse for Nestle

is this reddit?

while that is certainly true, using QML you can build native apps using almost only javascript (if you want), most people have no idea about that too i suppose.

but i agree, for many people C++ is a no-no, even though Qt C++ is pretty straightforward with all the helpers they provide (like the parent-child memory management).

i think is because most people don't know how far Qt has come in terms of mobile development.

most people hear Qt and immediately think about heavy desktop applications. its a shame really, Qt is pretty awesome atm for mobile development.

abuse? offensive? haha, what a first world problem, having my code called “shit” is abuse now.. i wonder what you would say about real world abuse.

just grow a skin, Linus can say and do whatever he wants about his project (linux). don’t like it? don’t help it then.

seriously kids these days get offended by everything..

anytime i see shit like this, all i can think is: fuck the industry and the market, fuck commerce, mass production, mass consumption. fuck socialism, communist and capitalism. fuck "democracy" and the fact that it never existed in the first place. and most important of all, fuck class warfare and everything it represents!

this week is Indonesia fires, last week was china insane pollution from gadget manufacturing. next week will be something else. we wont ever be free while all the above exists..

they were, but the hardware was the same was it not?

when i replied more than 30min ago there was already 11 replies and the one i replied to was on the bottom in grey color..

and now they down vote me.. lol whatever guys go crazy!

well i would be more inclined to agree if they didn't announce their product with full view (at least 120º) capability.

i mean, we all saw the videos from the announcement, and the "live" demos. and that was just pure lies no matter how you want to paint them.

also even if they didn't lie, don't we need the dev kit to have the same full capabilities as the final product? would you acquire an early dev kit for some new console, only to find out that it has less ram, gpu and/or cpu than the final product? how can we actually test it fully?

no they haven't, its still narrow as hell.

nice one hackernews, downvoting the most important question in this thread...

i guess this is full of MS fanboys that don't mind being scammed out of 3k dollars..

this is a reply to vvanders comment, for some reason i cant reply directly to his comment, so ill reply to myself..

they didn’t really "fix" it, instead they added a method called std::vector<T>::shrink_to_fit() which i'll admit its not the most elegant way, but it works.

what it does is, it resizes the capacity() to be the same as the size(), deallocating all the extra memory.

- "Almost every AAA game I've seen didn't use the STL."

that’s probably because most of the AAA games you've seen used old in-house libraries that replaced the STL, since the earlier STL implementations weren't the best.

STL is not 100% the way to go every time, but i would say that nowadays unless there’s a really specific implementation need, it should be used at least 90% of the times, even if only for base for new data structures to be built on top of.

- "Stack allocations are discouraged because they can introduce non-deterministic bugs (stack overflow depending on the call sequence which can't be predicted in advance)."

i really don’t understand this problem, you can change the stack size on every compiler and every OS either on compile time or runtime. also, are you writing functions or methods with 10k LoC?

stack allocations are actually easier to follow than heap, its not even close..

- "Its nearly impossible to write a game without dynamic allocations. Most of the time they'll override the new/delete operators"

yes i agree, dynamic allocations are still really needed, and not only for games.

But, overriding new / delete operators in C++ when you can set custom allocators and deallocators for both unique_ptr and shared_ptr? once again i think that’s more of a legacy code update problem than an actually implementation need problem.

- "and on that level they work almost exclusively on void*."

only if they want to, that’s what templates (and again the STL) are here for.

I’m not saying pure C++11/14 features are the only way to go, i just think that at least in new code it should take priority, the cleanness and robustness it provides its just too good to ignore.

funny, every time someone says they're sick of C++ all i see in their code samples is horrible C with classes code.

take for example a lot of C++ samples that that guy shows in the video, he calls it "C++11" and uses code like:

- void* data = NULL;

- no STL

- no stack allocations

- only dynamic memory allocation using new and delete

i mean come on..

the linux support goal has been reached months ago, and still nothing..

not really complaining, since it runs out of the box in wine.

I've read it already, the final retail version, not the early draft and its pretty awesome (like all his other books).

IMO its better than the Bjarne Stroustrup book (which i've read too), but any of the two is fine to learn modern C++ features.

first thing i thought when i read the title:

    #include <iostream>

    class Int
    {
    private:
            int _value;

    public:
	    Int(int value) : _value(value) {}
	    Int operator + (const Int& b){ return Int(++_value + b._value); }
	    friend std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& out, const Int& value){ out << value._value; return out; }
    };

    int main(int argc, char** argv)
    {
	    std::cout << Int(2) + Int(2) << std::endl;
            return 0;
    }

its not even a fair comparison, because it's not comparing .NET with Qt, it's comparing ATF (the name of this toolset) with Qt.

so it's like saying "using our 3d game engine is easier to build games than pure opengl", which makes sense because it was made for it. now when they compare ATF with another toolset like it build in Qt then it will be a fair comparison.

well CUDA is really for general purpose development on GPUs and to be fair if i recall correctly CUDA appeared before there were standard ways to to GPGPU (like openCL and directcompute).

the idea i got from the video is that mantle is a replacement for opengl and directx for "performance reasons".

i still agree with you though, this is just pure marketing to make people develop/buy AMD GPUs instead of something else.

how would surface like devices ever replace the traditional desktop? they allow no upgrades and pc gaming without a physical keyboard/mouse is just impossible.