Seth_Kriticos

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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
For the frequency of the news about Kinect hacking I get the feeling that the homebrew software for Kinect will soon boost with much more professional features than the official software, esp. since it's pushed with games. As Microsoft sell
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Yup. There are people with the logical mindset and problem solving ability to just naturally pick up coding. But most are not, and that's just an ability that's very hard to develop in later phases of life. In most cases it develops during
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Looks like a good room heater. 244W TDP! tl;dr: Outperforms other graphics cards in most benchmarks. The dual core ATI HD something is ahead in some cases though.
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Silent prayer for your soul, only $1, no shipping cost! No, seriously, I like his crazy optimistic attitude. Probably get some fun stuff out of it. Non the less, there are really people selling this kind of enlightened service on eBay, not
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I did not say that I fed it with any real information about me. About the only thing they got was my e-mail address, and they could have gotten that with a better webcrawler.
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I guess I'm one of that four than. I had one briefly, but I never grew sympathetic of them. I deleted it a few weeks later, Facebook is just too creepy in their way of data handling.
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Well, yes. But the style guide was written for plain C, in which the program logic starts at the first indentation in functions. In Python you have very different characteristics, and have to adapt styles. You should not get deeper than 3 l
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Ever heard of sarcasm?
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Um, no, K&R braces after function declaration are in the next line, because they are special. Braces after if, for, while, switch, etc. are on the same line, and yes, it was to save space on the 80x24 screen. Get a copy of "The C Progra
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I absolutely agree! There are about 104/5 keys on a keyboard, and the most accessible are within the alphanumeric range, around 48 + the main control keys. This is basically the effective writing area, with a core areas of the baseline and
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I don't care much about Symbian or MeGoo, nor do I for KDE. Qt is wonderful though. I can develop applications on my Linux machine and just compile them on Windows without having to have to run it. Also, it's quite mature with a good featur
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Don't think the number of clever kids changed much over the year. It's just much harder to spot them, because everyone and their dog is "doing computers" now.
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Not a bad idea, I was skimming around the LibreOffice sources recently and it really could use a big scrapping everything and rewriting it. The best language choice would be C, or maybe C++/Qt for portability. Not that it will happen, but h
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Is it just me, or are the OOo .. eh, LibreOffice sources somewhat messy? Just checked out the build repo and the writer repo ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice ), and I really have to wonder if this kind of arrangement is workable at
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Oh, most of them are, but the ones with textures seem to be awfully slow (the earth one for instance). Works nice in chromium though. I guess that has to do with hardware acceleration. FF3.x does not have that yet, so it's falling back to s
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I don't know how you are working and what your typing characteristics are, but you are probably not doing a lot of fast typing. Once you type reasonably fast (>30wpm), the time you have to invest to reach for the mouse, do some funky th
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Nice, I got a feeling what your main line of programming is from the source. That's somehow fun. Anyway, might as well join in too, here is my vimrc: http://gist.github.com/144742#file_gistfile1.vim
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Since their bank account got raped the first time?
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I don't get it. What prevents him from writing a simple shell/python/whatever script that uses a simple hash-table with tag associations for different repositories for synced checkout via git hooks?
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
You are kidding, right? Powershell just does not conform to the original UNIX sh standards, which is why even console wizards will avoid it. Same reason why tcsh and ksh didn't get traction, and they even have merit to them. Who is the targ
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Ok, this is kind of old shoe, but let's discuss the Windows usability a bit. I have to endure some amount of XP and 7 on a regular basis, so I have some understanding on how to work with them (well, mostly how to set up or correct things).
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
I agree. Learning the programming language is just a very small part of programming. More importantly you need to understand programmatic problem solution concepts, work-flow and maintainability. Creating GUI's with gui editors is already t
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
This article raises good points, but I'd like to argue / disagree with it in several points: It doesn’t mean that your users are stupid, just that they haven’t spent the thousands of hours in front of a computer that you have. Like office
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
The list of supported Linux architectures (form kernel.org): Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), today Linux also runs on (at least) the Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, ARM, Hitachi S
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Cheap Linux/x86 servers own most of the web space. oh, and supercomputers: http://www.top500.org/stats/list/35/osfam
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
True, to be more precise, the GNU C library has it in the sysdeps/unix/mkdir.c file: [..] char *cmd = __alloca (80 + strlen (path)); (mkdir command line parsing) status = system (cmd); [..] That's right, it just relays. I'm not sure how it
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by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
The keyboard originated with the first typewriters, end of the 19th century (100+ years). Nothing much changed with them, not even the layout. And you are right, the mouse won't leave us any time soon. It's very ergonomic. You can use it wh
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by Seth_Kriticos 17y ago
Yup, won't run on my machine either. Though to be honest, I wouldn't run it even if it would.