CJefferson

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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   "The Old New Thing" by Raymond Chen. It is full of fun stories, and also an excellent viewpoint into maintaining backwards compatability in Windows.
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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   I think it is very interesting to see this. While it is easy to mock FarmVille as trivial or stupid, they are clearly doing something right, in terms of getting players.
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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   If the OS used the SSD as a swap device, it would still try to write the data back to the underlying drive within a reasonable period of time, which isn't necessary for SSD.
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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   Don't you need echo "file1 file2" | xargs -P2 -n1 gzip ?
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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   An brief and interesting quote from John Carmack. While I still love C++, it seems the language moves is moving further and further away from practical usefulness, in terms of compile time, good error messages and debugability all the time.
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   It took 69 single steps to get past a BOOST_FOREACH() statement. Madness.(twitter.com)

   5 points by CJefferson 16y ago|3 comments
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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   The problem with this is very subtle. The problem is saying that it is equally likely that the other envelope contains half, or double, the money of the envelope we have chosen. It is impossible to choose a value from an infinite series (th
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   by CJefferson 16y ago

   While I agree that not allowing you to change your name is annoying, I feel relating it to sexism seems a bit extreme.