CrLf

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541.
by CrLf 17y ago
Ok, can someone explain this to me: if H.264 licensing is an issue, why not offload the whole thing to the platform's video codec APIs? If the OS vendor already pays license fees for the decoders, than that should cover it. If the vendor do
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by CrLf 17y ago
The regulator on the Arduino is made only for low current output (500mA max, I think), not to mention the Arduino pins should not exceed 20mA or they will most likely burn out. If you are drawing enough current to make the board (I'm assumi
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by CrLf 17y ago
People are permanently trying to "fix" C, but C has nothing to fix. It is a limited language, both by the constraints at the time of its creation, but also by the problem space where it has been used over the years. And that's how it should
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by CrLf 17y ago
I forsee the day where JSON-related technologies become as complex as XML-related ones, and people start moving to the next simple thing.
545.
by CrLf 17y ago
That's probably the spirit that got VLC where it is now. Not having the time or the skill to contribute is one thing, being willing to contribute but only if there's money involved is another.
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by CrLf 17y ago
Never. I used to quickly look through my spam folder in GMail and then flush it whenever it went above a certain amount of messages. Now I don't have that compulsion anymore, since there is an option to not display the unread count. I just
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by CrLf 17y ago
Out-Lucas Lucas is easy, just throw a decent story in there, and don't get high on the effects. Given Hollywoods history in recent years, I'm not to confident that Avatar will be such a good movie.
548.
by CrLf 17y ago
The real meaning of the word "hacker" has been lost forever (even in technical circles) so, no, I don't call myself an "hacker". If I know the audience will understand it properly, I'll call myself a "geek". Otherwise, I'll just call myself
549.
by CrLf 17y ago
This whole discussion just looks to me as IT everywhere, not just only on the financial "industry".
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by CrLf 17y ago
Well, I'm a CS major (or whatever you want to call to the european equivalent) and I don't code for a living. I'm a systems administrator, and while I like to program and do so fairly frequently (both for fun, and on the job), I just can't
551.
by CrLf 17y ago
I have three things to say about that: 1. Not every CS graduate will work as a programmer. Many will work in other technical roles within the industry. Do not assume that CS knowledge is only appliable to programming. I graduated from a CS
552.
by CrLf 17y ago
Actually, doesn't that mean that women don't have what it takes to actually be a programmer? The devil is in the details, as they say. Not stating a fact, just pointing out that in the context of a technical profession, that citation actual
553.
by CrLf 17y ago
It seems to affect upgrades only, at least that's what the article implies. This is one of the reasons why I prefer to do a clean install between major releases of any operating system. It has lower chances of hitting some untested or poorl
554.
by CrLf 17y ago
Shell scripting is as relevant as it ever was. Python or perl scripts are fine if you are doing more complex and "algorithmic" stuff, but for automating system administration tasks, I often find that shell scripts are simpler and more conci
555.
by CrLf 17y ago
It used to be the case that the file's icon represented the file's type. But with icon previews, that's no longer the case, so the extension is the only visible means of conveying the file type.
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by CrLf 17y ago
X the standard and Xorg the implementation have been one and the same thing for a while. But X is just a component for the system, and what is lacking is a vision for the system as a whole. Actually, unifying visions have emerged for many f
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by CrLf 17y ago
The biggest stumbling block is not X, not by a long shot. The biggest stumbling block is the lack of a unifying vision.
558.
by CrLf 17y ago
I guess it was I that fell into a race condition: replying before my brain had finished parsing the command. :) It's obvious now, that regexp does not match, for example, the "]".
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by CrLf 17y ago
Well, but why does that work? Doesn't it rely on the opposite outcome of the race condition mentioned in the article?
560.
by CrLf 17y ago
One word: ugly.
561.
by CrLf 17y ago
Oh, the "social network included" syndrome...
562.
by CrLf 17y ago
Those differences that "get in the way" are actually relevant in the real world, where people will use those systems as they are and not after upgrading and recompiling core components.
563.
by CrLf 17y ago
If I'm not mistaken (I'm more of a DB2 guy), Oracle implements MVCC too.
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by CrLf 17y ago
Pretty impressive. I don't know who to praise, if the people that do these amazing things or the people that design lego mindstorm parts in the first place... BTW, although those japanese humanoid robots that run, climb stairs and whatnot a
565.
by CrLf 17y ago
I participated in some ACM programming contests when I was a student. My university had about half a dozen teams, and we had local contests and participated in national and european level competitions. I can see where the author is coming f
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by CrLf 17y ago
Dumb hollywood stuff that, funny enough, seems to be praised when it comes in dead tree format (eg. Neuromancer). Thing is, cyberpunk is not hacking. Buffer overflows are not hacking. It never was, actually. Hacking is about building and le
567.
by CrLf 17y ago
I immediately noticed that too and I'm wondering, why insist on doing CGI characters instead of the plain old green screen? The CGI characters fit more seamlessly into the scene, yes, but I find mocuh more easy to ignore the small imperfect
568.
by CrLf 17y ago
There was a time when icc was really ahead of gcc on Intel processors. When I worked in the chemistry department of my university, we did some compiler benchmarks on Pentium 4's, AMD Athlons and even some Alphas (gcc vs. compaq compiler in
569.
by CrLf 17y ago
Yet, all the world is not x86.
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by CrLf 17y ago
I gave up after a couple of paragraphs. Maybe I have a short attention span, or maybe this is just the same tired old argument. During the Unix wars nobody gave a crap for standards, and these only came to be when Unix was starting to get s

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