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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I was vaguely aware of programming as a child, but had no education (unless you count mailmerge and a broken floor-turtle) and certainly no encouragement at school (in the UK if my spelling hasn't given it away). I too was very
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was reading stdio.h and stdlib.h yesterday, because I wanted to know the macro definition which prevents multiple includes. The code seems a bit 'organic', like it was cultured in a petri dish.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
We can encourage women to participate and welcome them with open arms, but that won't undo the thousands of years of ongoing cross-cultural practices that reinforce a woman's primary role as a nurturer (and I am not just talking
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
There could be an unintended side effect of this mess. People will get so fucked off with Cameron and Co., it could lead to a dramatic increase in (black) hacking activity in Britain. I've already bought a black hat in preparation (sim
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> This link should have a giant NSFW next to it. Alright, next time I will take that into consideration. > It would be interesting to read a blog post about the C code, but simply linking to a clip doesn't warrant discussion.
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C code in Ghost In The Shell(youtube.com)
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'm going to start mining rapper's gold teeth, with my steel toe-capped boot.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
This reminds me of the Red Bull X1 out of GT5. I remember going round a hairpin at 250km/h, that's bound to snap your neck.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I guess the reason it uses it is that it simpler and/or more portable. After more fooling around I see what you mean. The Open Group has one version of it, my Linux man pages serve me another. I skimmed over the GNU C website, t
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I noticed your gists used time.h . Coincidentally I have just been fooling around with sys/time.h because I find the former to be unreliable. From what I have read on the web many other hackers share the same sentiment. I'm sur
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Hmm, a new meme... "nothing matters unless that tinned shit works"
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Since every time there has been intervention by my boss prior to an apology, I have no idea if that was requested by my boss or not. Now that is interesting, I'm guessing that your boss was responsible for those "sorries&qu
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> ... but since I have learned attempts to resolve this on my own are at best futile or at worst provoke further attacks ... He sounds like a nutter, getting a new job sounds like a good idea. I was just thinking, he said sorry, which
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Well sure, but in that case hasn't the medium shifted to the meta, and what has to work is the explanation itself? Who cares, the artist is getting off on the fact he just sold a blank canvas. That's the real meta (or mark)
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I referenced Fontana specifically because he used to work with canvas. At least Piero was being honest about being dishonest (a common trait in post-modernist art).
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Sympathies, my dear hacker. > Few days later, I would be given a curt apology, reassurance that this wouldn't happen again, and Jerry would ask me to forget all about the incident. Jerry would then treat me as if nothing had happen
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Evidently you have never tried to do this before. No I haven't tried this, I have better things to do, like working out how to use the POSIX library. But Lucio Fontano did something very similar, and it worked.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I cannot think of a single C keyword that returns a value.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> "Nothing matters unless that shit works" applies to painting as well - the paint still has to stick to the canvas. Any artist with half a brain cell can get round that conundrum, just sell the collector an empty canvas and
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I just say what the dictionary entry is for recursion: see recursion. Paraphrasing Simon Cozens, that joke is so old it is growing hairs. Explaining recursion will not make you cooler, unless you say beforehand that you used to be a
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
PG: ”Hacking is getting a lot cooler now. But I think it is probably better for picking people up at parties if you can say you’re a painter.” At a party, I say I used to be a painter, but gave it up because I can paint utter shit and still
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
If you said that to a C programmer that would translate as: I would like to see you rewrite the C standard library in assembly then boot your own optimised C compiler. Said C coder will be so incensed that they will suffer a stroke, then
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
"Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience." This should be applied across all aspects of life. It is a very obvious point, if you need to be told this there is something not right.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
People get angry at Glass. They get angry at you for wearing Glass. They talk about you openly. It inspires the most aggressive of passive aggression. I'm genuinely surprised at how controversial these glasses are. Soon we'll se
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> ... with strong parity to mitigate transcription errors. How would you deal with coffee stain errors?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> What a weird comment. How would this be worse for girls than for boys? I didn't say it was worse. I simply posted it because nobody else has mentioned it. Teaching computing these days is seen as a joke, much like learning to co
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
If you want to get girls coding, get Windows OSes out of schools. They kill interest in computers before you have time to get interested in them.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
>> And how would "preferred form for making modifications" be defined? > In the same way that you define source code, or what modifications means. That is obvious, why are you telling me this? > However, I think a
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> The GPL does mandate that the source code must be in the preferred form for making modifications to the software, which forecloses on people releasing obfuscated source code and claiming to be in compliance with the GPL. Would you be
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I don't think I have ever heard RMS talk about this issue.

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