Rexxar

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721.
by Rexxar 11y ago
The author just probably like Leibniz a lot and prefer to make the citation in the original language of the text. Would you have preferred Latin or German ? Leibniz used them too.
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by Rexxar 11y ago
I'm not a native English speaker and I'm no sure I understand this part correctly : "..., not better serve the C++ programmers, ...". Does it means that improving c++ is not done to help c++ programmers ?
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The Birth and Death of JavaScript (PyCon 2014)(destroyallsoftware.com)
3 points by Rexxar 11y ago|0 comments
724.
by Rexxar 11y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prey : 3. A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
725.
by Rexxar 11y ago
That's why plants are moving so fast now.
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by Rexxar 11y ago
It's true, but telling this to someone who thinks that doing some additions is doing mathematics will not help.
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Julian Storer: Refactoring Zlib from C to C++(youtube.com)
5 points by Rexxar 11y ago|0 comments
728.
by Rexxar 11y ago
I wonder how they decide which article have such animation. Is it the journalists that ask for an animation or a graphic designer that looks at all articles and propose to add animations to some of them ?
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by Rexxar 11y ago
Meta comment : it's always surprising to see how different is the destiny of a submission based on timing and randomness. For example, my previous submission of this link got only one vote. ( https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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Buffett vs. Musk: Who owns the sun?(bloomberg.com)
4 points by Rexxar 11y ago|0 comments
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by Rexxar 11y ago
... and spend the rest of your time at BigCo playing bullshit bingo with the pointy-haired ones. So your solution is to become one of them ? (the pointy-haired ones) It would be nice to find a solution that doesn't increa
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by Rexxar 11y ago
I don't know if this project is bull-shit or not. But a big part of solar electricity cost is installation cost and emplacement cost, not the solar panel. By using "free" space and installing those panel while building/r
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by Rexxar 11y ago
I vote for LiGNUx. (Always add one more option when there is already a lot of confusion).
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by Rexxar 11y ago
Why do you want to generate code with undefined behaviours ?
735.
by Rexxar 11y ago
[...] a whole bunch of engineers tried to figure out not how to fix the problem but why the problem happened in the first place. This is exactly what debugging is. My friend was quite obviously an accomplished hacker
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by Rexxar 11y ago
I don't understand the interest of such discussions about cell count in human body (scientifically or even philosophically). It seems a meaningless metric to me.
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by Rexxar 11y ago
I don't see any question.
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by Rexxar 11y ago
IMHO, the main parameter seems to be how many time is needed to fill/empty the dam and to apply a reasonable ratio to ensure the dam is working 95% of the time. From Wikipedia on Hoover Dam: "Filling of Lake Mead began February 1,
739.
by Rexxar 11y ago
With a small dam the water can sometimes be drained, allowing repairs to be done safely. But imagine trying to drain the Hoover Dam to repair cracks at the bottom--it can't be done I don't understand why th
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Adobe’s Record Revenue Proves Successful Business Transformation Is Possible(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Rexxar 11y ago|0 comments
741.
by Rexxar 11y ago
They never consider this. All the fuss was about a "wish list" collecting all propositions from police and gendarmerie. So yeah, at least one guy working for government though it was a good idea and ask for it. So what ?
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by Rexxar 11y ago
> So Bosch is not all together innocent. The Bosch software was designed mainly for testing purpose not to be used on real cars. It's perfectly legitimate to build this sort of software and give it to your customers. When someone us
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by Rexxar 11y ago
I'm not sure if Jira is inherently bad or if Jira is destroyed by project managers that force developers to use it as a reporting/management tool and not as a bug-tracking tool.
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by Rexxar 11y ago
France doesn't consider anything. If you speak French, just read the original article on lemonde. It's just a wish list from people working in police and gendarmerie. Etabli mardi 1er décembre par la direction des libertés p
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by Rexxar 11y ago
Rexxar's law: systematically downvoting people who mention betteridge's law doesn't prevent them to mention it systematically (sadly IMHO).
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by Rexxar 11y ago
The linked diagrams are interesting but a little overwhelming: - https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/zoology/diagram.xml - https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/zoology/diagram.pdf
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by Rexxar 11y ago
Do you use add-on to block third party requests/ads ? If so, you have to unlock " http://www.highcharts.com/" to display the results.
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by Rexxar 11y ago
Looks potentially better but I experience lots of crash/freeze
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by Rexxar 11y ago
Wonderful, you just make aware of the software that do exactly what I need today :-)
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The Busicom 141-PF calculator and the Intel 4004 microprocessor(vintagecalculators.com)
6 points by Rexxar 11y ago|0 comments

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