DerekL

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by DerekL 7y ago
Title has a mistake. The abbreviation of “venture capitalists” is “VCs” or “VC's”, not “VCS”. I see this same mistake often on Hacker News. Does the site automatically make this “correction”?
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by DerekL 7y ago
Also, console makers collect fees from third-party game publishers, whether it's on physical media or it's downloaded. I don't know how much profit comes from each source.
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by DerekL 7y ago
C++20 is adding a type-safe alternative to printf, called std::format, though it doesn't provide warnings at compile time.
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by DerekL 7y ago
The Apollo Guidance Computer has roughly the same power as a Game Boy, first manufactured in 1989.
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by DerekL 7y ago
The title is wrong. It's “Committee on Homeland Security”, not “Department”.
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by DerekL 7y ago
That's true, but it has nothing to do with the main point of the post, which is that that implementation of the q function will almost always give bad results.
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by DerekL 7y ago
I should have bought one when they were making them!
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by DerekL 7y ago
You could use an RF modulator and connect it to a TV, but it wasn't included with the system.
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by DerekL 7y ago
There's still the need for logging and assertion functions, where you want to test the debugging level or some other value before you evaluate the arguments to the function. Right now, you need to use a macro, but there's a propos
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by DerekL 7y ago
There's some speculation in this Wired article: https://www.wired.com/story/lasers-hack-amazon-echo-google-h... The thermal effect is one, where the membrane heats up and makes the surrounding air expand. The othe
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by DerekL 7y ago
Calvin and Hobbes was syndicated. What do you mean?
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by DerekL 7y ago
That's not specific to Objective-C, it's a GCC extension to the C language.
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by DerekL 7y ago
Why not just #define MY_ASSERT(expr) ((void)(false && (expr))) The problem the do-while idiom is that the macro result is not an expression, so it can’t be used in certain cases.
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by DerekL 7y ago
Actually, the argument of MY_ASSERT should always be convertible to bool , even in release mode.
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by DerekL 7y ago
There's a remake of the original game on the iOS and Macintosh App Stores: > Now Larry’s original creator, the world-famous game designer Al Lowe, has teamed up with Sierra Veteran Josh Mandel, to bring this amazing, perverted game
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by DerekL 7y ago
By the way, it wasn't just Adobe and Microsoft; practically no developers wanted to write all of their UI code twice.
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by DerekL 7y ago
I've recently seen this painting used in the “Boo Boo the Fool” meme. Media critic Lindsay Ellis has used that meme image while discussing the final season of Game of Thrones. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boo-boo
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by DerekL 7y ago
This was loosened in June 2017. Now apps can can download and run any interpreted code, using any interpreter. It’s not restricted to coding apps or user-written code. In the developer agreement, the second paragraph of section 3.3.2 gives
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by DerekL 7y ago
It can't be a compile error. It's not an error for a program to contain such code, it's only an error if that code executes.
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by DerekL 7y ago
I was going to suggest RedBox, but then I found out that they shut down in Canada. In the US, they're a good replacement for Blockbuster for new releases.
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by DerekL 7y ago
Are you saying OpenGL wasn't on Mac OS before Mac OS X? That's not true. Apple released OpenGL for Mac OS 9 in 1999. WWDC 1999: Mac OS 9 - A work in progress https://youtu.be/LkmSrCsKPLk?t=1360
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by DerekL 7y ago
What do you mean by “FED”? Do you mean “the Fed”, the Federal Reserve System?
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by DerekL 7y ago
> In particular, the reals mean you accept measure theory, which in one of its key results says you can build two spheres of radius x from one sphere of radius x, and no holes. The computables don't go there. You cannot accept or re
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by DerekL 7y ago
The article only goes to 1986, but the Video Toaster wasn't released until 1990. The article doesn't even get to the Amiga 500 or 2000.
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by DerekL 7y ago
> I had Flight Simulator and Multiplan on the C64, for example. The Amiga did not have either. Wikipedia says that Flight Simulator II was published for the Amiga, though not until 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by DerekL 7y ago
By the way, those are called the Lucas numbers.
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by DerekL 7y ago
> Radio Shack gutted itself, IMO, albeit probably in response to the reality that they couldn't sell very many single 555 timers for $1.99 anymore once people had obvious alternatives. I don't have any firm numbers on this, but
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by DerekL 7y ago
The TRS-80 Model II used them. Some CP/M microcomputers did too.
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by DerekL 7y ago
It would be nice if the program would abort if a non-void function returns without a value. The only cost would be a slightly larger executable.
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by DerekL 7y ago
> A square mile is a huge chunk of land. It's nearly 640 acres. By the way, a square mile is exactly 640 acres.

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