DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 14y ago
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are sat
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
"In fact, it's usually used as the TP monitor in TPC-C benchmark systems because it's more efficient than .Net or Java and much cheaper than Tuxedo or Encina (which reduces the $/TPM)."
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
This answer on Stackoverflow explains it: http://stackoverflow.com/a/401999/8954
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I don't think it's about the ambition, it's just that it seems to me that us Europeans generally lack the Americans' "screw you guys, I'll do this my way" approach to things. We're more comfortable with following established patterns which
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
In my experience it's fairly easy to convince designers to use shared Dropbox folders instead to exchange design assets. And it's a lot better way of doing it than email.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Look, this is about good manners, not censorship. Everything you've just said is trivial and unhelpful. Naming ethnicities this way will only make you look like a fool and undermine the point you're trying to make.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
The same reason you don't say black beggars or Mexican criminals. The racial or national background of these people might be interesting for sociologists but it's unhelpful in everyday discussions. It strips people of their dignity, whether
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
In France, full-time contracted factory workers get paid the SMIC (minimum wage), which is currently around €1400 per month. There are various ways to hire workers for lower wages, such as summer interns, who are typically only entitled to
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I think you really misunderstand this. I did work as a junior mechanical engineer in both French and Eastern European manufacturing plants, small and large. In my experience, labor is equally or even better skilled in Eastern European count
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
But browsers are are allowed in the App Store. Indeed, you can download Opera for the iPhone or the iPad from the App Store for free. There used to be a ban on apps in the App Store that share the functionality of the inbuilt apps but this
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Essentially, it allows the delivery and execution of native code in the browser. From what I've seen it's still fairly widespread on corporate and academic networks (to enable services such as remote desktop in the browser).
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I'm not super familiar with compiler internals, but wouldn't it be possible to push the exception-handling frame as an additional frame to the top of the stack instead of unwinding? This way the stack would be preserved. In addition, if the
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
A false statement implies any statement. That being said, the post itself is not really about record labels or the Internet. It's actually a pretty thought-provoking article. I'm personally glad that the 1800's, the 70's or the 2000's are g
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
That would be actually very good for Oracle. Oracle would pay a certain amount of money to IBM in exchange for licensing these APIs. As they say, business is IBM's middle name so it's not like they're going to make this a political question
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I had the misfortune in the past to maintain C# code that kept everything as strings; whether it was an integer, a floating-point number, a guid, a date or a boolean. Lousy developers can abuse anything, in itself in my opinion this is not
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Have you ever noticed in 90's shareware games how levels that are only included in the paid version are just nearly not as good as the ones in the free version? That's because you're a much more interesting target before you have made your
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Oh that's very cool, I din't know about that one. I guess this item can be removed from my list.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
PostgreSQL is awesome (I really love it), now let's do some complaining: * I'm not fan of doing backups with pg_dump. I think it would be a lot more awesome if I could tell the database to back itself up in-band. Even better, I would like t
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I don't know, I'm not really into gaming so I'm not familiar with the context, but most of the "mod" answers seem to be unnecessarily arrogant and condescending, not exactly professional. Are they Microsoft employees or community moderators
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is nitpicking but OS X 10.7 already ships with full ARC (and it works on 10.6 too in a somewhat limited manner). However, garbage collection was never enabled on iOS.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is a very good point and I think it illustrates well how difficult it is to write a paging / caching system that does the right thing most of the time.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is also a good approach, but if you do that, you have to remember two things. First, you can only reliably measure the height of the keyboard at runtime, and the keyboard size could change even after it was displayed (if the user touch
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Yes, that would work as well, but if you do that, you have to make sure that you leave a wide enough margin (at least 44 points wide) on each side of the controls to allow for touching the background.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I agree with the rest of your post, I'm just nitpicking here. I wanted to point out that when a professional is described as senior, it has nothing to do with age or how long they've been in the industry, it reflects their status. Assuming
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Age-related words has been used to describe status in a hierarchy for a very long time. It's an euphemism. "The Council of Elders" sounds much better than "The Council of Rich & Powerful". This tradition is in fact much older than most
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I think one of the hardest part of login views and other forms in iOS is dealing with the keyboard. You don't want the keyboard to hide stuff but you also don't want emptiness where they keyboard would be when the keyboard is not visible. A
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I'm not sure if docking to the right is really the best default; it really depends on your setup. On big, wide displays it's indeed a good way to do it. On small displays (notebooks) docking on the bottom is better. If you have multiple dis
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Ok, consider the following scenario: Process A (let's call it Safari) allocated 600MB of memory. Out of this 600MB, it hasn't used 400MB for quite a while (because, for example, it contains data for tabs you haven't looked at for hours). N
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Recent Windows NT kernels, recent Linux kernels and recent Darwin kernels will drop disk cache pages the moment something more important needs them. Memory management in modern kernels can be very complicated and just because it appears tha
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Tetris in 256 bytes of binary (self-contained, no dynamic linking or libraries) handwritten in assembly: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=6951

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