DeepDuh

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by DeepDuh 14y ago
The C type conversions I know of seem quite trivial. Can you give an example of something non-trivial? And I don't mean something like the float f = some_integer / some_other_integer trap, those should be obvious.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Apple's 'Numbers' is actually quite good for most use cases, it's quite a bit more elegant as Excel anyway. The problem with Apple is their lack of experience in business support and their shortcomings in Q&A in the mac department latel
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Courier looked extremely promising and I'm saying that as an OSX,iPhone,iPad user. How they could kill that thing off still blows my mind. Then again we have only ever seen an interface mockup, haven't we? Maybe the software / device they h
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Exactly. It's probably not even that common for biology groups to have a programmer doing work for them, so they don't often get that chance. That's why we need more interdisciplinary research groups / teams.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Did you share your solution? Imagine them reapplying your method to some testcases, yielding the same results for days of work within minutes.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
"let the compiler work its magic." if you want that, use a higher level language. One of the foundations of C is that there is as little implicit behavior as possible. I'd hate to be left in the dark whether my . will now result in a point
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Thinking about it, OPs concept may have potential for a game. Something in the style of Introversion's "Darwinia" (I highly recommend it btw.), but with first person gameplay. The linked video could perfectly serve as an intro to the game.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
If she wouldn't have had the backup in her house, couldn't you have simply restored the files from the original disks? Of course you would have to rebuild the folder structure somehow, but that would be the work of some days, not months, ri
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Yep, about that XCode installation: They screwed up when they first made it MacAppstore-only. It has become much better now, it can also update through the appstore without redownloading the whole multiple GB package. The whole Lion softwar
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Being currently involved in GPGPU research, these descriptions remind me of the state we are in for GPGPU computing. CUDA, OpenCL and now OpenACC have been steps towards a higher-level abstraction of stream computing and every time a new fr
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
3dfx: ookay sadface
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Welcome to "Death"/null.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Can you explain to me why you need a turn-by-turn navigation app when you know your route already?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
As an iOS user from Europe I seriously hope they will do the transition gradually - e.g. first migrate only the US users, then country after country like they do with new iTunes content for example.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I meant the other way around: Japanese media with english subtitles. For tv series / animes have a look at dramacrazy.net; If you want western movies with Japanese subs I recommend iTunes with a Japanese account or Tsutaya if you are stayi
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I know. That sentence was of course sarcastic ;). It's a shame too, because a lot of their media has that special charm and its artistic value is sometimes quite high IMO (especially in the anime department).
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
How about you need your people to make an iOS 4.x compatible app. Oops, suddenly they need Objective C including all its memory management nasties. This is going to be so much harder if you have never seen pure C.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Beat me to this but I like the objective C approach: You can save lots of specialized classes by extending existing ones with categories. And instead of a rigid class structure you usually check the availability of properties at runtime. It
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Japan probably has one of the lowest piracy rates, so they don't seem to be forced to release earlier there. Japan's own media is even more backwards, most of their media never gets international releases although there is a big fansub scen
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I see your point now. Yes, I can see Python 3's syntax facilitate some of that work. I still think you will need branches and/or polymorphisms to do more complex localizations, especially when you need to support east asian languages.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Do you really want to keep the same format strings when localizing an application? Isn't it much cleaner to just define multiple format strings? Translations in general don't work that way, you can't just move around words and translate the
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Note: We already have had that in Switzerland for several years now, it's quite popular: http://mobility.ch/en/pub/index.cfm . They have self service rental cars all over the 'bigger' cities here (Note: Biggest inner city in Switzerland =
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
2 x 10^13 years: Estimated time for a self assembling system of the complexity of Adobe's software lineup to reach equilibrium, e.g. to balance out new bugs with fixed issues. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936320