Deestan

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by Deestan 16y ago
I live in Norway, so the phone bill is a significant factor. Also, the wife and kids are sleeping in the next room, which would require me to step outside on the porch in the middle of the night with my cellphone. Yet also, I'm so tired I
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by Deestan 16y ago
Congratulations are in order, he sacrificed 400ms CPU time to save at least a few minutes of coding time.
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by Deestan 16y ago
I take this to mean that if the nodes are disconnected from each other, Synctus disallows all access to certain files on node A; i.e. the files that node B currently owns. Do I understand correctly?
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by Deestan 16y ago
Customs aren't law enforcement, they just like to think so. The request to enter a password should be treated as a impolite request, which you should politely deny.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Unless I misheard him, he made a working implementation of the Hack ALU, which is magnificent all by itself. Hack is a virtual fully working computer that students build completely from the NAND up during a semester: http://www.catonmat.ne
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by Deestan 16y ago
I said " practice in keeping your code terse". Actually trying to golf production code would just be insane. Programmers commonly put in completely unnecessary abstractions "just in case", and a golfing mindset will help you avoid a lot o
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by Deestan 16y ago
Code golfing may seem like just a fun nerdy "sport", but it's actually really useful practice in keeping your code terse and your unnecessary abstractions to a minimum. I recommend everyone to try to do really well in a few code golfing c
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by Deestan 16y ago
A glider will slowly lose speed x altitude. This plane maintained a steady speed x altitude through flapping.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Apparently not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack > A "zero day" attack occurs on or before the first or "zeroth" day of developer awareness
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by Deestan 16y ago
Interesting and convincing. I would love to see similar studies for different kinds of games. For example, after playing Braid for 4 hours straight, I had trouble performing normal day-to-day tasks naturally for about half an hour.
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by Deestan 16y ago
I was genuinely thrilled that the article brought up the points about causality vs. correlation. Then I was sad, because it reminded me how rare it is. Almost every news article about research I've read the past 20 years has been of the
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by Deestan 16y ago
Fully agree with the first post-it point, but I disagree with: > The only real solution is to let people use the word "password" if they really want. It's still orders of magnitude safer than having them keep a file/email/post-it full o
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by Deestan 16y ago
You should have different assets for very different resolutions anyway. E.g. small details look good on a desktop screen, but obstructive when scaled down to mobile resolution.
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by Deestan 16y ago
I've had great success with Peppermint and Aloe vera. Both plants are useful, can take a lot of abuse, and doesn't require any green fingers on your part. - Peppermint can be used to make tea, mojito, as flavour for ice cream, or you can j
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by Deestan 16y ago
I think a chat would just add frustration and abuse.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Other turn-offs: 1. Pull out an inconsequential suboptimally worded sentence in my CV and ask questions about it while wearing a half-smirk. 2. React negatively to anything about my CV or manner that is considered general practice among o
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by Deestan 16y ago
Thanks for the answer. I must have read it in a different light then; to me it looked like a complaint about a misleading submission headline.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Can anyone please let me know their reasons for downvoting this comment? Lately I've seen a lot of what appears to be mindless pile-on downvoting of perfectly on-topic, polite, informative comments. It is making me wonder if there's some
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by Deestan 16y ago
Happy to hear that! I'll wait until we upgrade to the newest version before I start, though. No use complaining about stuff that's already been fixed. :)
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by Deestan 16y ago
No idea why you were at -1; your comment was informative and on topic. On a side note, I also tend to play that "game" when stuck in slow home-from-holiday traffic over the mountains. Changing speeds all the time while driving manual is su
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by Deestan 16y ago
> Instead, you'd make the trie of an encoding, probably UTF-8 There are some new implications you need to account for if you do this, as you no longer have one node per letter, but a path per letter. E.g. subtrees will no longer correc
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by Deestan 16y ago
Having the "Yes, send me product updates (big improvements coming) & marketing tips!" checkbox enabled by default gives off a bad smell. It is the little brother of e-commerce sites that sneak stuff into your cart when you aren't looki
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by Deestan 16y ago
I really like Jira too, but I could still go on and on about things I find crappy about it. :)
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by Deestan 16y ago
A square rendered in perspective would get a trapezoid shape like that.
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by Deestan 16y ago
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to work long hours in a cramped, smelly cubicle on a second-hand half-broken chair when the company is wading in cash. "Good programmers are not motivated by material needs" and yada yada, but we really
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by Deestan 16y ago
The most interesting bit of that show was how they beat that serious-looking fingerprint sensor with a licked piece of paper: Photocopy a fingerprint, lick the copy, push it onto the reader.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Yep, Cod Liver Oil.
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by Deestan 16y ago
I'd recommend taking fish oil for vitamin D, as it also contains proper Omega-3 acids (many things labeled with Omega-3 contain useless variants). If you are going to be practical about it, taking a spoonful from a bottle each morning costs
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by Deestan 16y ago
Each VM does some work. If the number of VMs grow exponentially, the work grows exponentially. !=P.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Yes, that's what I meant to write. English is such a moving target.

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