Hoff

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by Hoff 17y ago
As-yet unseen endings of the "someone is wrong on the Internet" http://xkcd.com/386/ ... - commercial interests. - advertising. - religious beliefs. - political party affiliations. - market transparency. - peer pressure - etc. That there
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by Hoff 17y ago
Spend money on the microphone, or borrow a good one, and get a mike stand and a pop shield. Particularly if you are doing any audio work, whether recording or podcasting, or otherwise. A decent low-end cardioid condenser produces audio ou
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by Hoff 17y ago
Until a solar storm rolls through.
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by Hoff 17y ago
$100? If nothing else, an entrance fee cuts down the numbers of resumé spammers.
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by Hoff 17y ago
I'm skeptical. It's a distracting feature. And I have to wait for it to fade back in to find the link to switch modes. It's distracting. Worse, this scheme stinks of that "too cool for its own good" flavor, which means it's going to be
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by Hoff 17y ago
Not IMDB. Rather, that is for a web site with vast quantities of graphic ads surrounding a very small box of celebrity-focused text content. If it's not a landing-page advertising web site, then the site in question is certainly constructed
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by Hoff 17y ago
These folks +know+ about robots.txt stuff. If not directly, then because some staffer and most any sycophant in range has already pointed to it. The folks have almost certainly explicitly told the staffers involved not to enable robots.txt
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by Hoff 17y ago
Does anyone seriously think these folks don't know about robots.txt? Folks, it's clearly a form of institutionalized trolling. Various of the folks involved are clearly piling onto the best troll since, well, since the marketeers of some m
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by Hoff 17y ago
It'd be interesting to teach a semester-long course building up a single complex application, and to require each student to swap their source code with another (randomly selected) student for each new assignment.
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by Hoff 17y ago
How to research. How to ask a question. How to communicate. How to come back to a program you've written after a year. Or after ten. Distributed source code control. Incremental development. Integrated debugging. Planning for failure. Fo
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by Hoff 17y ago
world's gotta choose And has. A few will pay (to produce or to consume) better content. Some will lament. Some vendors and some consumers will have better content and will find (some?) readers will pay. Most readers will be entertained
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by Hoff 17y ago
OpenID solves a problem I don't have using an approach I don't want with a troubling restriction (no functional revocation) and all while ignoring better solutions (password keepers) that are already available. And the "don't delegate to so
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by Hoff 17y ago
If you can manage to ban the debugger, then you should rethink your entire debugging support strategy. A debugger infrastructure can be a core and critical component within a non-trivial application. This whether the integrated debugging i
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Shifting Blame Is Socially Contagious(sciencedaily.com)
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by Hoff 17y ago
You're not likely to build a web server nor other general application within these constraints, but purpose-targeted applications with capabilities somewhat past an etch-a-sketch UI do seem feasible. Think Pokemon. Not "general purpose". A
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by Hoff 17y ago
The keyboard model is tied to the use of source code, and source code to the keyboard. This implies wholesale replacement of source code. Probably with an icon-based language and drag and drop development environment. This also implies a
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by Hoff 17y ago
Building an OS is feasible for a small team or even a single programmer. Providing enough of a subset of the expected APIs and the device support and the databases and web browser and the compilers and file systems the rest of the stack tha
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by Hoff 17y ago
Which usually means the shark fins are starting to circle, regardless of whether the folks in the boat have noticed the mindshare leak.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Any experiences with Google Checkout?
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by Hoff 17y ago
The title is somewhat misleading. While Objective C syntax is mixed into the examples, the looping constructs discussed are entirely native C constructs. The code also looks to have 32-bit dependencies based on its use of the %u. The use of
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by Hoff 17y ago
As is typical in the software universe, you must target which subset of folks are central to the profits of your business. How many customers will you have past your particular and local top 35 languages? Enough to warrant the translation
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by Hoff 17y ago
Adams is describing how marketing (tries to) work. Marketing seeks to identify customers. In a manner of consideration, Adams is seeking to acquire better and more targeted search results, or skills in searching for products or services.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Your laptop lacks a GPU? While it is quite true that some applications will be configured as thin-client, that approach requires mostly-ubiquitous communications and with sufficient bandwidth. Whether multi-core or GPU-based or otherwise,
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by Hoff 17y ago
When you're writing documentation or designing UIs, please remember that the right and left references for the mouse buttons are entirely ambiguous. Most mice have been configurably-ambidextrous for a decade or more, after all. The X Window
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by Hoff 17y ago
The screen handling of vt100 emulation is badly broken, based on my recent experience with it. A valid vt100 sequence was completely borking the terminal session. I've unfortunately not had the time to chase the bug down, and the boxes tha
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by Hoff 17y ago
VAX had a CRC instruction. While it might seem flippant to compare VAX to x86, it was found (on VAX) that a programmer could potentially get better aggregate performance by avoiding that instruction; that having an instruction doesn't autom
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by Hoff 17y ago
Apple has supplanted cron with launchd within Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
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by Hoff 17y ago
Cache sizing and memory latency are linked. Up to a point, implementing larger caches can improve aggregate performance in higher-latency processor design configurations. Beyond a point, larger caches aren't performance- or cost-effective.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Somewhat perversely, I've specifically tested that syntax on a few occasions, and have had surprisingly good results as compared with a classic search.
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by Hoff 17y ago
This title reminds me of an ancient Fortran compiler bug; a case where a programmer could alter the value of a numeric constant within the Fortran code.

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