AndresNavarro

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by AndresNavarro 13y ago
Ah, but with a little practice (& patience!) you can dial complete numbers using this system. I used to call the 113 number (clock/time information) here in Argentina in this way just for fun.
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by AndresNavarro 13y ago
I don't think he's missing the point. I also find the scissor type keyboards to be a better fit than the model M and derivatives. And I also touch type & spend hours a day typing.
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by AndresNavarro 13y ago
I think he means too high with respect to the desktop/table surface.
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by AndresNavarro 13y ago
I see the discussion revolving around the ideas of jamming the signal and alternative ways for prisoners to have access to cellphones. I would prefer to have a discussion about whether it's a good idea to forbid cellphones in jail in t
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by AndresNavarro 13y ago
The problem here is actually trademark law not copyright. The idea behind trademarks is that customers know the source of the product, so names, logos, brands, etc. are protected by it. Copyright only protects the actual content/expre
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by AndresNavarro 13y ago
I use my thumbs for control and alt on a regular (scissor type) keyboard. I remap alt to control and super to alt and have had no problem since I switched, about 4 or 5 years ago.
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by AndresNavarro 14y ago
I found this pretty funny and all but it also reminded me of something my dad always says: "Carpentry is a science of centimeters, not millimeters". Meaning no sane person would ask for a table 2m long and complain that it's 5 millimeters
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by AndresNavarro 14y ago
I suppose he meant Android is not what Stallman would call GNU/Linux (and could actually be called Android/Linux if you will). See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#linuxsyswithoutgnu
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by AndresNavarro 14y ago
There's a difference between a development environment and the code that runs in a random device... The problem is not just closed source software (which I don't like and try not to use) but a lack of documentation of the architecture and b
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by AndresNavarro 14y ago
I think the last paragraph is key: > We also need to revisit the approach of compiling a high-level language to VHDL/Verilog and then using vendor-specific synthesis tools to generate bitstreams. If FPGA vendors open up FPGA architectur
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by AndresNavarro 14y ago
It's not even that, this can be (and probably is) implemented with dynamic variables (or some similar mechanism). You can also implement exceptions with setjmp and longjmp in C. I feel the most important thing is conventions, and having a
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
I don't think it's the same in US English, I think the parent is right. Here in Buenos Aires one can say "kill yourself" (which would be "matate" in the rioplatense dialect of Spanish) for almost anything and nobody would bat an eye. In Eng
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
I found about this problem when moving from gnome to a minimalistic window manager that had no task bar whatsoever. I now use cnetworkmanager which is a python cmd application that uses dbus to connect with the regular NetworkManager servic
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
A Kernel interpreter in C: http://www.bitbucket.org/AndresNavarro/klisp Just this week I got my first fork and a bunch of nice contributions.
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
I think I'll use this opportunity for a shameless plug: https://bitbucket.org/AndresNavarro/klisp This is my ongoing project for a Kernel interpreter. It's already functional and it even has documentation. It is still, however, a work in
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
Indeed. Erlang has this feature, I didn't intend to imply otherwise. What I meant was that this mechanism would be more difficult to implement in Go.
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
I'm not very knowledgeable about either Erlang or Go. But from what I read, Erlang doesn't share objects between threads whereas Go does. This is a serious difference, because as the article mention you have to decide what to do if there ar
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by AndresNavarro 15y ago
As a c programmer I find it quite odd/unnerving actually. It may be simple to understand its structure and it may look clean, but that isn't much to say of a project this size, especially if you know what it does. I found the file division
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by AndresNavarro 16y ago
While some of these are great examples of common pitfalls with 64 bits errors, I find it amusing that the first example has a deeper conceptual problem: You can't (shouldn't) use memset to assign NULL to a pointer variable. In many (maybe m