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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Snap (sort of). My sister's father in law used to work for AT&T. He was based in England working as a project manager, but he travelled all over the place. Next time I see him I'll ask when he worked for them, since it was aro
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Rust gives me the same feeling I had when learning C. I started with BASIC, then learned Java and a bit of Pascal, Perl, etc., but C was my first language with pointers. Now it seems silly, but understanding pointers was a huge step t
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Recently I started stating people's ages in binary, then everyone sounds old. I'm 100000 years old, my father is 1000100, while my nephew is 1000 and my niece is 101. Oh yeah, Mark Zuckerberg is 11110 years old, but he doesn'
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Performance is tough. I feel most often C++ is not chosen for its inherent cleanliness, elegance and beauty, but because there are no viable competitors at the given performance point. I don't think there are many popular high l
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> So I can do COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Turbo C, Ada, and a lot of other misc languages that the current graduates and drop-outs don't even know. I'm interested because you mentioned Turbo C, It's usually the ANSI flavour
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Text is too small and hard to read. I would totally agree on that point, but I just use zoom.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Deranged nutter here, glad to see mental illness being discussed in a mature manner on any website. Ignorance of mental illness is widespread, but what is becoming more popular is abusing the terms to describe your own problems. When the te
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I wish people still wrote so eloquently in their everyday correspondence. To write in the manner you mentioned might give the impression you are a 'snob', which regrettably is why I often avoid doing so. When someone hears
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
A very good example of website design [0]: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/news
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I'm not a mathematician (I got a B in my GCSE Maths for Christ's sake) and now I have to implement code that works out the solar irradiation using tilt, latitude, solar_declination, a dozen look up tables, some hairy trigono
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
NAFV_P@DEC-PDP9000:~$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:58:35) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information >>> t=54*2*
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I use either my coffee or dining table, both made of solid oak. If neither are available, I use the floor. Being a big music fan, I often drag a pair of portable speakers and a broken ipod around (currently hardcore, breakcore and Scott Jop
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The main bit of evidence, the surveillance tape, was thrown out because they seized it without warrant (out of concern it'd be destroyed while waiting for one). I also think that is the main point in this story, along with the s
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Thanks for that, it was my first time on flickr.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I love Minecraft and have played it since alpha, but it's always bothered me that it's built in Java - and that it runs horribly slow once Feed the Beast comes into play. I have never played Minecraft, so I can't comme
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. Well, I'm a cheapskate I play Minetest, not Minecraft. I'm fairly certain that Minetest has a larger hei
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I've just given it a go, I look lush. I tried changing the width and height but it came out the same size, I think I will have to play around with it.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
You reminded me of the "Black Summer" of 1986 on K2, but I'm trying to find a decent article on it. IIRC at least two dozen climbers were killed during the period. The story of Alison Hargreaves' life and death is especi
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> There is no "completely new". I tend to agree with you, the language I know best is one thousand and one years older than me. (N.B. I am nearly 100001 years old). Hmmmmmm, You mentioned COBOL , I can't remember the la
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> If you start copying the enemy's tactics, they have a way of making it look like you started it. Not merely copy, copy then adapt. I think they were not aware of the hypocrisy, merely highlighting it is often enough to stop peop
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Forget looking at my ugly face, how do I watch movies in my terminal? Everything looks beautiful when rendered in ASCII.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I burned out around six years ago, due to constant insults, being shouted at, sworn at, criticisms (not constructive or analytical in any shape or form), taking the blame for other people's mistakes, threats of being "blacklisted&
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Thank you, I will remember that.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
As of 23:52 BST this article has 63 comments, 18 of which have been downvoted.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Between 1966 and ’67, five Lunar Orbiters snapped pictures onto 70mm film from about 30 miles above the moon. The satellites were sent mainly to scout potential landing sites for manned moon missions. Each satellite would point its du
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Louis CK used "cunt", what a guy. I would love to hear his version of "the aristocrats". The thing is I'm from the UK, and I get the impression that "cunt" is considered a severe taboo in the US (I might b
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I was thinking that hurricane type storms would have been even worse 50m years ago.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Most jobs occur during the day, but would data on night workers reveal anything? It is still a significant slice of the workforce, often in vital areas: Medical staff working long shifts Firemen Security guards, military personnel a
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Lots of "fucks", only one instance of "cunt". I am very disappointed.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Well, Haskell has rather helpful strictness analyzer in its compiler that tries to determine automatically where strictness has to be enforced. I wasn't aware of that, cheers for the heads up.

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