JMostert

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by JMostert 17y ago
Which is why no other browser does anything with it, which is why it works so nicely. The only drawback is that it doesn't validate. You can either wrap it in a conditional comment or incur the wrath of the standardistas and leave it be.
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by JMostert 17y ago
"If anything, cancer resistance (which would probably mean less cell mutation ability) would be disadvantageous from an evolution standpoint because you would have less variation and consequently may have trouble adapting." Evolution doesn'
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by JMostert 17y ago
The stark irony of this is, of course, that very few games on the Commodore 64 used or required BASIC, and certainly none of the popular ones. BASIC games where the first generation, before people mastered assembly. Some games may make prof
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by JMostert 17y ago
Interestingly, neither the original image nor the manipulated one can be called racist. The trouble only comes from realizing we're looking at a before and after. Microsoft generally goes to great lengths to ensure people are not offended.
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by JMostert 17y ago
The perils of DRM were no different back then, except that the term hadn't been coined yet. I remember disassembling and working around the tape loader for a game on my C64 just so I could copy it to disk. I had no intention of sharing it w
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by JMostert 17y ago
> Yes, I did. Does it hurt to offer a different perspective? No, I was questioning whether you had considered his arguments at all, given the "why do we start counting at 0" question which he tried to answer. > I didn't make a ca
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by JMostert 17y ago
Did you read Dijkstra's article? He's making the case for 0, though he's doing it a little abstractly. Simply put, if you start numbering at 1, you are setting yourself up for more boundary problems and off-by-one errors than if you start a
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by JMostert 17y ago
I feel like some qualification is in order. I can't make any excuses for SOAP (maybe someone else wants to take that up), but COM, at its core, is indeed a simple and dare I even say elegant technology. COM is alive and well on Windows, bec
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by JMostert 17y ago
Good advice from the irrepressible Dijkstra on this matter: "Before embarking on an ambitious project, try to kill it." ( http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1055A.PDF ) If you try honestly and still fail to kill it completely, wh
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by JMostert 17y ago
Funny that he has this under "Signs that you shouldn't be a programmer": "you think the presence of code in a program will affect its runtime behavior, even if it is never invoked". Anyone who has written code in C can probably cite an anec
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by JMostert 17y ago
It's quite possible there is none, and they're independent "inventions". There aren't that many four-letter words composed of hex digits (by my reckoning, the only common ones are BABE, BEAD, BEEF, CAFE, DADA, DEAD, DEAF, DEED, FACE, FADE a
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by JMostert 17y ago
It's what bensummers said above: it's not whether MySQL on Windows is a good idea at all, it's why MySQL management implies that it is by claiming to support it. You're probably right that there's no technical reason to use MySQL on Windo
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by JMostert 17y ago
Does that matter? Those users who do care should get the support they can expect if management claims to be committed to Windows, regardless of how many they are. It's a simple matter of putting your money where your mouth is: if you care
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by JMostert 17y ago
There's one argument in there that's semi-sensible: in case of a power outage, it would seem important for the police to be able to continue processing data. Yes, aggregates help, but keeping everyone's desktop computer running isn't as eff
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by JMostert 17y ago
You're kidding, right? Obsessing over (potential) micro-optimizations is a timeless programmer pastime. It will never go away. Imagine something worse: suppose it had made a difference, in the current iteration of the compiler and the fra
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by JMostert 17y ago
I still crack up every time I see the "master programmer" part, which uses COM. The joke here is the ridiculous overhead that the COM boilerplate is putting in isn't even exaggerated -- most of this stuff would actually feature in a real-wo