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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I did a quick calculation for the energy consumption of Tianhe-2, which has a power consumption of 17808 kW ... 1,538,611,200,000 J per day. Of course the Tianhe-2 is rated as the fastest, and the NSA won't be using something as big, b
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
When a troll calls accuses someone else of trolling, you know you are living in a lunatic asylum.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was thinking along those lines, cheers.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Java took millions of dollars of marketing to make it popular, people didn't just suddenly flock to it because it was C with garbage collection (which was already a solved problem: see C). Could you please explain what you mean?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Totally agree, I would rather have heated arguments about error handling and unrolled loops.
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> I'm kind of OK with creator of the original Duke Nukem character getting royalties for uses of his character, I'm less OK with him being able to forbid anybody else from ever making a 'cover' of his game. Duke Nuk
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> It's not impoverished, it just has a different function. Its primary function is to make money. Compare that with the primary function of dance music from twenty years ago, which was to blow the speakers and give the listeners h
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Typewriter Art(keirarathbone.com)
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Reminds me of this: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/c-plus-equality-c
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Cheers, I had a look and I found this, very interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Hiedler
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> ... I can't come up with an idea that doesn't suck...yet Don't be hard on yourself, Sir James Dyson's invention of the bagless vacuum cleaner sucked loads, yet he's made millions.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Why would you think people would view you as a retard? In the past, I have been classed as dumb by many different people. The term "intelligence" is hard to define, especially these days with lumps of silicon and metal bein
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Just to clarify a bit, C++ and Objective were not written in the C pre-processor, but rather implemented as their own pre-processor program, analogous to Qt's moc. I bet these pre-processor programs were themselves written in C.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
There is a drawback to having really small computers, they are easier to lose.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
This goes into more detail on pointers than some tutorials on C++, pointers are bread and butter in C. The article should have given a link to: http://cdecl.org The last time I visited that site I ended up crossed-eyed, incontin
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
You mentioned that your name is common, and reminded me reading about the frequency of certain Chinese surnames. So I looked up this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames I'm making an assu
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was recently told by someone who works for an IT recruitment agency that I would find it very hard to get a job unless I already worked in software development. Employers want people with experience. I think Jeff Atwood has written about
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Great for catching moments like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FxI3aVBOs
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I worry a lot about others thinking I'm a retard. I have practically no chance of getting a job in software development or something similar. I'm prone to being misquoted, which is probably worse than being misunderstood (I learnt
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Cheers, your comment has just fried my neurons.
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Wow, it's surprising what you can do with it.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A few months ago I got fed up with losing track of what I had written in C. So I knocked up some python scripts to write templates for me, it displays the date and time the file was created and the filename in a comment. This concept can be
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> "It is unfortunate Silk Road continues to make the headlines in association with Bitcoin - this is the dark side of Bitcoin, which the vast majority of digital currency users have no association with." Every currency or com
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Any guesses? I'm guessing a small proportion of the Earth's population will be cyborgs, but I am a Ghost In The Shell fan. Thought I'd work out how much mass in UK copper coins would be required to buy 19 Crays ... j
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Exactly in a same way that GPL "violates" freedom of those not willing to provide a source for a binary blob. The compatibility of licences seems to be where most of the issues occur. I've never heard a high-court judg
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Thank you for correcting me.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> In essence, the way I understand it: Say you're running your homepage on "GNUpache", a hypothetical AGPL Apache clone. Then you must have a "download source" button somewhere on your homepage. (This button mig
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I think you forgot to provide an actual argument to back up that claim. I purposely refrained from giving one because it is a hypothetical situation. If you want a potential example I had a quick scroll through the GPL FAQ: > &quo
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Thanks for replying, but it seems to me that under AGPL you relinquish full control of the distribution of the source, which is different than having partial control of the operation of your own server. I'm not disagreeing with you as
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I have just thought of a hypothetical scenario: Someone writes a revolutionary piece of software, then it is released under .... 0 > a closed source 1 > a bsd style or 2 > gpl v3 .... licence. I think the last choice would have a f

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