BrandonM

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by BrandonM 12y ago
Want to help? I went to http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ and entered my ZIP code. It took me to the page of my representative and senators. I submitted a link to the article and a message indicating that I would like to se
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The first comment there (by Anonymous) claims that the final technique can also be optimized: (memset_ptr)(p, 0, len); > can be replaced by: if (memset_ptr == memset) { memset(p, 0, len); } else { mem
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I would prefer this feature on a file-by-file basis. I usually prefer the unified diff, but for some changes, the diff is so bad that it becomes useless; that's where I would use a split diff. Another diff-related improvement I'd
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Couldn't you use a dedicated todo app like Remember the Milk?
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I think you need to add pthread_cond_destroy(&chan->m_cond); After https://github.com/tylertreat/chan/blob/master/src/chan.c#L1...
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Why do people use "the number of [...] issues and pull requests" to measure the usefulness of an open source project? Shouldn't a project gradually trend toward maturity, when the vast majority of bug fixes and big-win featur
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> You misinterpreted my statement. From that point on means when you code it. That's a very aggressive way to phrase, "Sorry, I stated that unclearly."
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A different user replied with a very comprehensive list that is now inexplicably deleted. It included a story about Google using its leverage to oust location services competitor SkyHook: http://mobile.theverge.com/2011&#x2F
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> C is roughly (F - 30)/2, not too bad. A few months ago, I was concerned about the inaccuracy of this rough conversion. It's actually accurate to within ±3°F for all temperatures -5°C to 25°C (23°F to 77°F). If you're OK
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I'm a US employee who's been working part-time and traveling abroad for the last 2-1/2 months. I have a Charles Schwab Investor Checking account that has no-fee ATMs all over the world (no ATM fee, no conversion fee, ATM fee
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> like man in the middle attacks stealing everything from all your user/passwords to credit/bank/personal info. If you're logging in or sending financial data over unsecure (non-SSL) connections, you already have a pr
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It might be worth adding [2004] to the title? My wife and I were just in Warsaw for a few weeks, in the exact region he described, and we saw no signs of crime to speak of. We saw very few police out and about, just the occasional uniformed
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> [1] http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3 Here's the thread context, for anyone else who is curious how Linus responded: http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/k
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> Better be honest and say "... This is hard...." This I disagree with. Telling someone that something is hard before you teach it to them is a self-fulfilling prophesy. My wife is a native Russian speaker, and she is slowly
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> From the conversations, Morocco sounds like the best place to go visit; the guy from Morocco waxes the most poetic about his homeland. Maybe for guys, sure. You can find many stories like this one: http://www.neverendingfoot
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Doesn't that argument work just as well for touch typing? Would you argue that being a touch typist is useless? Do you ever use keyboard shortcuts... Ctrl-A, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z, Shift-End, etc.? Extrapolate that to everythi
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> Otoh if I had a project that was being done by "IBM Global services" I would absolutely angle things differently if things weren't done right. I wouldn't care about that company not getting it's $10,000 (arbitr
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Yeah, I have. It seemed objectively better, but I started using NetBeans first, and it's what we all use at work. The workflows and keyboard shortcuts are ingrained enough at this point that switching doesn't really seem worth it
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Java 8 + an IDE like NetBeans (which isn't even the best Java IDE) is actually a very pleasant development experience. I am a total convert from Python in vim to Java in NetBeans+jvi. Refactoring in Python or Ruby or Javascript or what
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I was about to say that, myself. The irony of asking this question on HN made me smile. Note that they are (or did? or might be?) moving to a DB format in the end, but for at least the first several years of Startup/Hacker News, it was
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No worries! When I read it, I chuckled at the shortsightedness, then I noticed the asterisk and thought, "WAIT, THAT WAS ME?!" It's always interesting when you can look back at yourself and see how much you've grown or l
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Have thinly veiled insults finally become socially acceptable?
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One learns a lot in 8 years, it turns out. To be fair, I was making an argument that it was trivial to replicate, and it was... Ubuntu, Google, Microsoft, and several others did just that. Kudos to Dropbox for their unanticipated (by me, an
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> CA, despite some faults... No pun intended?
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While I feel for your situation, I had to downvote you because your comment smacked of No True Scotsman and attention hogging. Sorry. A startup folded and left several people with nothing to show for years of effort. It seems pretty callous
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This topic came up in a month-old submission about why eBay lost many of its organic rankings in Google's Panda 4.0 release. Some of the comments from that discussion seem quite relevant to this one. http://news.ycombinator.
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I can't tell if you like Rust or hate it. If you hate it, and you are right, then it will simply fade away and your comments will serve nothing more than being able to say, "I told you so." If you are wrong, then you end up l
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You seem to desire both stability and a faster 1.0 release. The realistic choices are: 1. Release fast and iterate 2. Release fast and be stuck with mistakes 3. Release slow Option #1 breaks stability, so that's out.
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> Why haven't any of the big names released a true "app store" where anyone can get a game into the store for maybe $100...? This seems like an interesting model. Charge developers a flat fee (FEE) up front. Take a cut
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> It's easy to work remotely Is it? I get a pretty steady stream of offers from recruiters and LinkedIn, and I can't recall a single one that offered remote work from day 1. Care to share all of these opportunities you know a

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