ANTSANTS

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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'm not sure how you can tolerate even the possibility of being banned from a computer that you own and payed for.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Interesting. IANAL, but I was under the impression that an important part of the Berne Convention was to give authors the right to approve translations in other countries, ie so that an American company could not translate and sell copies o
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I think the author knows there are better options for compressing large streams, but still chose to use the situation as a simple benchmark to test the performance of his (admittedly trivial) packing and unpacking routines. You're right tha
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
If you look at the code[1], there is basically a special cased/"unrolled" pack and unpack routine for each "bit size" integer that is not already machine addressable. Each routine seems (disclaimer: I didn't check all of them) to operate
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How Fast is Bit Packing?(lemire.me)
18 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|8 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I guess the days of "degrading gracefully when Javascript is disabled" are dead and gone.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The conclusions of this analogy are fairly offensive if you only consider race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the equation. Who has it worse: A middle class white woman of that grew up with loving parents that supported her fascinatio
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The game is about programming a spaceship in a fictional CPU's assembly language. I don't think they have to worry about what non-programmers think of the name.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I think you're grossly misconstruing his point -- that you shouldn't let architectural ideology or a preconceived notion of what the best solution to your problem is get in the way of shipping good software. The Hurd project had an importan
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Yeah, I'd say a big red cancel button (or maybe give the "Pay" button the whole bottom slice, and have a traditional red X button in the corner), and the ability to dismiss the dialog by clicking outside of its frame would go a long way her
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
There's audio processing stuff that I'd love to do in web browsers, but I refuse to touch Javascript with a ten-foot pole. I am the kind of person that would like NaCl to be adopted outside of Chrome. If you are the kind of person that is m
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Amusingly accurate, but you forgot to include an article about the US Patent system, and a few Marco/Daring Fireball/etc articles on the latest event or rumor in Apple Land. Oh, and those Elon Musk and Tim Cook articles could use a few more
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The implications this holds for the "open web" aren't pleasant, but I'm also scared about the idea that killing Feedburner would be the prelude to killing off my beloved Reader. If Google really isn't getting anything out of maintaining fee
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Comics are Trash(daniel-lau.com)
1 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The article didn't include any pictures of Famicom carts, but basically, they're about half as tall as NES cartridges. I haven't popped open any NES games, but I'd have to guess most, if not all NES games just used a Famicom sized board to
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Let's hope it wasn't "use a proxy."
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
One of my biggest pet peeves is still being perpetrated today: Using a Javascript onclick event to open a new page instead of (or even alongside), you know, an anchor tag. If you've ever tried to middle click a bunch of links on, say, a big
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
There is a problem here: The evaluations would be most helpful if they occurred partway through the year/semester, rather than solely at the end of it, because it would give teachers time to react to the feedback. Would you be willing to ho
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
As someone who practically grew up on 4chan, I have to ask: What on earth are you talking about?
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
> And Apple is not going to trade battery life for an SD slot few people (let alone clients) care for (let alone want). I don't want to beat a dead horse, but iPhones lack SD/MicroSD slots because Apple wants to make more money off high
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
> For those paranoid about "online voting" It wasn't your point, but why would a hypothetical online voting system be a problem? If, as another poster mentioned, this online registration system is good enough to prevent erroneous regist
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I didn't take your comment as a troll -- I even considered mentioning that problem in my post. The trust and power that Firefox gives towards extension authors is certainly a strong point in its design for "power users" (letting, for exampl
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'd like to counter here that I prefer that sites don't assign vim bindings, or at least allow me to disable them. The reason being that I make extensive use of the vimium Chrome plugin (similar to pentadactyl on Firefox), which maps common
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Genuine artificial intelligence and inference may be currently beyond our grasps, but hand-programmed special cased procedures (what you might consider the product of reasoning, rather than the existence of) are certainly doable. If the pro
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'm 99% certain this is Microsoft trying to ensure that OEMs don't cheapen the Windows 8 brand by reusing hardware designs across their Android and Windows 8 tablets. Not all consumers understand the difference between software and hardware
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
To start, vector icons don't look as good at 16x16 or 32x32 as they do at higher resolutions. Pretty much every desktop environment that supports both large and small icons (whether with a native vector format or many scaled versions of l
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'm aware of the security problems that making Google the Chrome browser extension/userscript gatekeeper could solve, but this change is still an inconvenience to users with common sense about computer security (do I download AdBlock Plus f
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
> Otherwise people could just publish Wikipedia pages. Go on amazon.co.uk and and search for "source wikipedia".
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Modifying a hardware component to feed it more or less voltage. Particularly zealous overclockers may overvolt components to allow them to run at higher clockspeeds. Particularly zealous efficiency nuts may undervolt components to trade dec
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
You're missing his point: Large or small parts of a codebase may be reused from project to project, but, especially in the days of Starcraft, games are often released as finished products, closed cases that the developers quickly move on fr

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