EdiX

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541.
by EdiX 15y ago
OTOH, discounting tobacco, most cases of cancer (78%) are unrelated to lifestyle choices. I also have problems coming to terms with the idea that occupational hazards are lifestyle choices.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> I do use a phone and computer but only because they're necessities. Commenting on Hacker News is a necessity.
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by EdiX 15y ago
Do you make a branch every time you change something? Do you make a branch for every developer's local copy? The thing is, when you solve the problem of dirty local workspaces by making them actual branches svn becomes just as complex as gi
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by EdiX 15y ago
> SVN has branches, too. I don't think I have said it doesn't
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by EdiX 15y ago
> Please, do elaborate! In detail, why is git better than subversion if all I need is a central repository for a few people working at a company on one site, sitting in the same room with permanent network access. No distributed or remo
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by EdiX 15y ago
... no emacs, no compilers, no interpreters, no shell, no browser other than the company mandated one...
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by EdiX 15y ago
Actually, the reason for not evolving/rewriting TeX is so that old documents can be typeset and produce the same results. I find that an appealing goal.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> * You only need one binary to work with TeX. Either PDFTeX or LuaTeX. All other binaries are just glue code (for example to generate missing Metafont fonts, but who wants them these days anyway? A lot of TeX uses Computer Modern to ty
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by EdiX 15y ago
The author is not a TeX-head, or he wouldn't be surprised about WEB, Pascal and wouldn't confuse Plain TeX with LaTeX (the documentation of TeX is the former not the latter).
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by EdiX 15y ago
> At the time, IE6's chief competitor was a bloated, slow, crashing version of Netscape. At the time IE6 was released, every competitor of Internet Explorer had already been pushed out of the marked by the illegal bundling of IE4 and 5
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by EdiX 15y ago
> Microsoft builds stuff that's meant to last for an ungodly long time, and mostly they do it pretty decently. IE6 is still a standard because they built it to be a standard, and it has endured as a standard. IE6 is still standard becau
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by EdiX 15y ago
I heard of a website called Hacker News that allows anonymous posting. I bet that's a cesspool too.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> The parasites will walk around happily listening to their free music in their makerbot printed mp3 player (from pirated plans) and collect their social security checks from the government, while software developers and musicians slave
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by EdiX 15y ago
Normally in git you never pull on a dirty working dir, you either stash or commit your work and then pull. That's why this bug is unlikely to trigger normally.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> For the life of me, I could not figure out why he would not save his changes before pulling stuff down on top of them. He appears to be using git with the svn workflow (svn update; svn commit).
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by EdiX 15y ago
The reason our browsers don't autodetect the character encoding as utf-8 is because that page doesn't say it's utf-8. In that case browsers are allowed to assume it's latin-1.
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by EdiX 15y ago
valgrind doesn't dump registers but doesn't require special compilation options and if debugging symbols are available will include file names and line numbers in the stack trace.
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by EdiX 15y ago
And yet, HFS+ is still there.
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by EdiX 15y ago
It has also been regularly extended every time Mickey Mouse was about to enter public domain, the realistic expectation is that copyright in the USA will never expire.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> If you widen the character even more (...) If you go to UTF32 you waste a lot more space in any conceivable situation (extra-BMP characters are less tha 0.1% of the text even in CJK languages) and you still don't get anything in excha
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by EdiX 15y ago
In-house door locks aren't very secure, usually.
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by EdiX 15y ago
In my experience if you set a search engine other than google to the "not so tech-savvy" they will use it to search for "google" and then proceed from there.
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by EdiX 15y ago
No, everything is passed by value, it just happens that objects live in a reference model.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> Some UNIXes like OS/X still have a vestigial /bin/[ executable! This includes linux, but it's in /usr/bin/[
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by EdiX 15y ago
Handling an out of memory error in any way other than terminating the entire process is very very hard, because the effects of memory exhaustion are felt by all your threads at the same time usually preceded by massive slowdown due to swapp
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by EdiX 15y ago
> it will get them their Christmas bonuses. The question is how many Christmases.
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by EdiX 15y ago
Three articles about Groupon IPO prove it's a popular and interesting topic.
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by EdiX 15y ago
A better argument would be that only a fraction of GNU software is active at any moment, so by percentage of GNU v/s kernel code executed in any given time interval. A lot of programs link to glibc.
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by EdiX 15y ago
The simple way is ignore everything after the first point 7. Your code WILL be broken but so is everyone else's code. 99% of programmers don't know much about encodings I don't expect them to start learning about the issues with unicode's n
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by EdiX 15y ago
You can't force the compiler to output an xor on a single-byte register (CL). I wonder whether that's actually any faster.

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