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by Gupie 11y ago
An example that superficially looks like "cut and paste" programming occurs is actually implementing a new derived class. In the C++ case, you could: 1. Type out the new .h and cpp files from scratch. 2. Copy/rename the base
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by Gupie 12y ago
> Just use your common sense, let your experience guide you and if you're not sure about something, ask your teammates. Brilliant, added to our bugzilla quips list.
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by Gupie 12y ago
Some benchmarks for difference C++ methods of converting a string to double: http://tinodidriksen.com/2011/05/28/cpp-convert-string-to-do...
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The Two Envelopes Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Gupie 12y ago|0 comments
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by Gupie 13y ago
"peoples' brains aren't wired to do lots of work for little or no or unequal reward" This is the actuality for most people in the West or the Third World. Thinks sweat shops, paddy fields, StarBucks...
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by Gupie 13y ago
Good take, but the Enterprises have save the Federation from destruction on multiple occasions. With out them the Federation would have been assimilated, enslaved by the Klingons, destroyed by meglomanic advanced alien AIs...
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by Gupie 13y ago
"produces an astonishing 500 cloned pigs a year" - but why? Is there a market for cloned Pigs!? Is this a research project?
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Call yourself a hacker - your computer could be seized without warning(theguardian.com)
6 points by Gupie 13y ago|0 comments
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by Gupie 13y ago
> C++ “solved” the problem of redundant casting and error- > prone size calculations by replacing malloc and free with > new and delete. The corrected C++ version of the code > above would be: > > struct Pod { >
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by Gupie 14y ago
What is the potential for technology to help, some sort of combination of Google glasses and siri?
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by Gupie 14y ago
Aren't the first two problems simple to solve: 1. create an array length n of booleans set to false, set the each index i to true for the integers in the array, the index of one still false is the missing integer 2. same as 1 but with a cou
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by Gupie 15y ago
Sorry short and messy, ask an actuary. The probability of a breakthrough is IMO much the same as for an afterlife, not very high. There are lots of quacks about. However the following about fasting once a week is interesting: http://www.te
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by Gupie 15y ago
Anything to do with world population history?
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by Gupie 15y ago
Has there been a change to the law? Can you give a reference please. I thought UK law has always allowed reasonable force to be used in defending your property..
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Apple copies rejected app(theregister.co.uk)
249 points by Gupie 15y ago|68 comments
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by Gupie 15y ago
Simple advise - don't over-eat
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by Gupie 16y ago
I work with a guy, long time ago, who would take code already split into functions and refactor it into one big function. I am not joking here, actually happened.
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by Gupie 16y ago
"until now it has been inconceivable to me that people making nuke plants could possibly underestimate the risks" What I don't understand is why the walls meant to protect the plant from a Tsunami were too low.
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by Gupie 16y ago
Perhaps social interactions are just not rewarding for some really smart people, by definition almost everyone they meet will be significantly less intelligent than themselves. Anyway, that's my excuse :)
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by Gupie 16y ago
"I left shortly after IPO to pursue other interests." :)
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WTF - WikiLeaks Task Force(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by Gupie 16y ago|0 comments
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by Gupie 16y ago
How do I know that you, the selector of the 100 digit number, are not an enemy spy?
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by Gupie 16y ago
For what its worth, my solution was to give the guard a set of sealed envelopes. Each envelope having a password written on the outside and a password written on a piece of paper inside. The spy would give the guard the word that is written
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by Gupie 16y ago
Just what I was going to say. The form is split into 2 sections, one for account information, the other for billing. The "Tips" checkbox is in the billing section! This is a terribly bad place to put a checkbox labelled "Tips". Are these ad
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by Gupie 16y ago
> Awesome, I'd like to take one of my Lamborghinis for a spin. > > Oh, wait, I can't, because I don't actually own any. If you have a spare £600: http://www.dreamcarhire.com/cars/lamborghini_lp560_4_spyder....
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by Gupie 16y ago
Distance makes the heart grow fonder
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by Gupie 16y ago
No, the "very stupid criminal" comment was just an attempt at humour. If you get stopped by two cars and one of them is a marked police car then it is obvious that the other car is also a police car.
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by Gupie 16y ago
There is a regular marked police car and uniformed officer behind the bike so that should have made it clear that the guy with the gun was also police, or perhaps a very stupid criminal.
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Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by Gupie 16y ago|1 comments
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by Gupie 16y ago
I agree. Poor programmers write convoluted messes. Poor but smart programmers write over-complex code. Smart programmers write simple elegant code. A good language is one that make it easier to write simple elegant code. But I am not convin

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