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by NAFV_P 13y ago
May I ask how common is this uncouth behaviour? I do remember this [0] being posted a few months ago, apparently "penguin" is an expletive (what the fuck?).
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
$ Very neat, though it's a pity that the warning about crypto in the lower-right is so hard to notice. After reading your comment I had another peek... I think the background colour is inappropriate considering the surroundings, I h
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
$ A lot of suicides result from academic pressure and failure (plus the environment/parents hinting that you can't succeed in life if you can't do X, Y or Z properly). Heavy debts are a significant contributor to suicide ra
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> The problem is that Scheme and C were both trying to solve the 'decent high-level language' problem, but since C came out first, fewer people cared about Scheme when it eventually came out. In the mean time they'd moved
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Why another legal process, when the end result is indistinguishable? That was my exact point of thought.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I thought this would be a (common) business oriented (language) presentation, so I was quite surprised (relieved). Recently had a great idea regarding binary search trees, which came to me while felling a (real) tree, odd.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
IIRC make has a lot of macro.
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Avoiding malloc()/free() APIs in military/aerospace embedded code (2011)(mil-embedded.com)
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I'm referring to the legal distinction between single and married people, and the benefits married people get. We need to be accurate here, "the legal distinction between married and unmarried couples". The benefits fr
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Irrespective of the proposition in question, Mr Eich debited $1000 to the influence of politics. His financial position gives him more political leverage than myself. Bang on, you read my mind.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Since this is a politically charged issue, I will say that while I am personally in favor of abolishing marriage altogether, I think actively working to deny gays the right to marry in the interim is an exceptionally absurd idea. Whi
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I think I noticed a serious flaw, have a peek at the includes in the C source .... #include <time.h> The program is using its own standard library to time itself, and I presume this applies to the other specimen languages. In o
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Perl is strictly speaking, compiled.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> If told this to my Dad, he'd probably say "buffers don't sound like good ideas then. Why bother? Just put things where there's space in your computer's 'memory'." The SO post missed out one cru
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> "Education is a process of ruining subjects for you and the last subject to be ruined determines your profession" that makes a lot of sense to me, and partly explains why I'm in IT / computers now Being unemployed
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Is the name "Duktape" a reference to Perl [0]? [0] http://www.salon.com/1998/10/13/feature_269/
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I couldn't find kylin linux.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was thinking of looking into radix sorts, because it sounded better than quick sorts.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> To a certain extent I think the whole STEM construction is based fundamentally on trying to hand-wave across this gap: math and physics are prestigious and perceived as hard/rigorous, while computer programming is in demand. The
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
It would be hard to detect high energy photons accurately, x rays have a refractive index lower than unity.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Because HN is now full of people who already know the answer and who like to troll HN. I thought submitting or referring to a good (possibly obscure or unknown) article would be more helpful in that instance, including to myself.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Is this an idea for a startup?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I understand what he says, but from a grammar perspective, he's wrong. He complains that Agile, which started out as an adjective, has been turned into a noun. He wants it to be an adverb instead, so he introduces agility, which
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Of course, this involves a fair amount of thinking, and the basic loop is nested fractally inside itself many times as you focus on everything from variable naming to long-term delivery, but anyone who comes up with something bigger o
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was wondering if received pronunciation was an available option.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A regex monster: http://blog.codinghorror.com/regex-use-vs-regex-abuse/
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Where on Earth is integral calculus?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Newton originally expressed using differential calculus as F = dp/dt, and developed his second law as an application of his newly-developed calculus. You used Leibnitz notation, Leibnitz kicked Newton's arse, and Newton was
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> It's a fragile model and does not deserve to be on the same list as these beautiful and useful ideas. I have a copy of the book at home, Ian Stewart is a very good populariser of maths. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Se
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Has anyone heard of this one: http://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper.php A roguelike using hyperbolic geometry. Looking at the screenshots it instantly reminded me of M.C. Escher lithographs.

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