ColinDabritz

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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Neat, I love how git has these tools that are so clearly targeted at 'I did this before' developer problems. Hey, I keep having to repeat this exact same merge, let's automate that. A similar problem is 'When did this br
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
I really like the realtime feedback idea, similarly you could always show how many additional dots are needed (e.g. the starting counts are correct and count down as you add visible blue dots in it's line of sight), 0 is blank, negativ
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
I disagree, it affects public discourse and how we reason as a society. It does change opinions. http://www.shalhevetboilingpoint.com/top-stories/2015/01/14/... http://www.ted.com/convers
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Delightful. Satire is an excellent way to illuminate inconsistent or unreasonable positions.
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Interesting. I feel that "intellectual property" already penalizes people for innovating. It supports the original creator directly, but it prevents all the other innovators from creating more work in the same direction that is in
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Except that we don't track those numbers, so it could be that earlier in the recession more people were recently out of work, and looking hard, meaning they were counted in this number. Right now, it's been a lot longer, so perhap
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Non-nullable reference types have been called an impossible problem, but so was 'Await in catch and finally blocks' which shipped in C# 6. From http://blogs.msdn.com/b/csharpfaq/archive/2014/11&
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
I think the title was perhaps a misnomer, and it's distracting from the message. The author is arguing that we are miss-framing the literacy involved in programming, and that the real literacy is modeling. He's specifically compar
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
What activities would you expect to be doing in such as scenario? For me, if I was doing it "with other peoples code" rather than "with other people", I would expect to be doing things like large scale architecture, deve
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
It might be 'easier' in a certain sense, and possibly a way to optimize for your paycheck, but 'resisting the pull to move into management' for me is about wanting to do high quality engineering, having a sense of profes
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
'the ski game' is likely Ski Free. Delightfully, the author has created a 32 bit version of the game, if you want to run it on your modern desktop. You can also download the 16 bit original version. Considering the simplicity of h
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
You're almost there! Basically that swapping you outlined occurs twice, once on each side. 1. Both threads read '0', beginning their first incl instruction (A: 0, B: 0, Store: 0) 2. Thread A completes execution of all BUT ONE
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Neat. I don't notice anything/much for most of the cycle, but somewhere in the middle I can hear a brief "zwip" rising tone, for part of a second. I happen to have three "identical" monitors, and it's simi
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Such a wonderful essay. It's very applicable to the teaching of computer science/software engineering as well. So much of the problem is the misunderstanding people have about the field. It's a creative, constructive discipli
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
It's good to see responsible public disclosure of such vulnerabilities so that vulnerable users can take steps to protect themselves. Bravo. I wonder when the company will issue a patch for this, and what form it might take...
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Over time, my 'urban legend' bullshit detector has been refined, and is much improved from earlier in my life. I have, on a few occasions, found myself relating some 'fact' or 'story' and realized immediately t
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
This is an amazing approach to making some hard-to-understand aspects of software more visible. This sort of improved information is how software process and tools evolve over time. I look forward to seeing where this project goes.
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Interesting premise. I think the original behavior is partly correct. The combination of user name and password doesn't match. Either one could be incorrect. Say my usual login is steven@example.com, and I do know my password. If I try
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
IsNullOrWhiteSpace() was added in dot net 4: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.isnull... I agree that Truncate would be a nice one to include in the core.
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
My thoughts are with the Virgin Galactic team. Spaceflight is difficult, dangerous, and I believe crucial to the future of humanity. Test piloting is always dangerous, more so with space vehicles, but that doesn't make it any less hear
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
For me, the driverless car isn't about providing a chauffeur service that is otherwise too expensive. That's a nice side benefit. To me, the main benefit is safety, as automated systems can be more 'alert' at all times,
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
You bring up a specific challenge, how to handle it when you realize a deadline is probably going to be missed. That's one aspect, but you also need to look at why your deadline is going to be missed more broadly. Here are some challen
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Current Flu shots have few side effects, and decent protection. I believe there is a chance of mild flu-like symptoms, a chance of ache near the injection site for a day or two. The CDC has changed stances to recommend everyone (over 6 mont
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
You are right that the usage of the term is confusing in this context. I think it still communicates two critical aspects: First, this is being exploited right now in the wild (and was when it was discovered it sounds like). Second, your wi
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
In fact, most users will behave this way, it's not exclusive to teenagers.
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Exactly, the headline turns "the surveillance we are doing and have done" will break the internet, to "being afraid of surveillance" (implying "without reason") will break the internet.
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Well, at least we know it is probably effective, or they wouldn't make such a fuss.
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
So for floats: a ( b + c ) != a * b + a * c (in some cases)
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by ColinDabritz 12y ago
Ah yep. I was mixing things up a bit. The one that surprised me was that, in some cases: Large + small + small + small =! small + small + small + = Large Which is indeed associativity. Really underscores how complex things are.

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