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by SloopJon 11y ago
I couldn't reach the linked article, but it's about 74 years combined since 2012, as summarized by this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/418h2r/iceland_senten... Longest term
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Pull request, I assume.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
When you're done with The C Programming Language , read Expert C Programming , C Traps and Pitfalls , and The C Puzzle Book . Then tell me how simple C is.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I use Xamarin for Mac to write tests for a database client API, which I run with Mono for Linux using Jenkins. Not having used Visual Studio enough to compare thoroughly, Xamarin's not bad. I use Eclipse when writing a parallel set of
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The linked PDF describes a group project from the fall 2014 term of CS262a, a graduate computer science class. Here's the full list of papers, with links to more information about the class: https://www.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F
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by SloopJon 11y ago
thegeekpirate mentioned in the "Why I Love Rust" discussion that TIOBE filters out false positives for Go by only matching it along with "Google": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863654
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The "who pays you" FUD reminds me of the subpoena Personal Audio sought for a list of EFF donors in the podcasting patent case. The EFF is not a front for your competitors. People really care about this stuff.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I just upgraded my father-in-law's mid-2010 MBP from 4 GB to 8 GB, and replaced the HDD with a SSD. Total cost was about $150. Should be good for another couple of years at least, if it holds up, although battery replacement looks a
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Last commit was in April, with a couple of unanswered issues (including one from the submitter) asking whether the project is still under development. Also, not sure what the license is for this. The first thing this reminded me of is Conc
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The article also notes that the essay has been picked up by a publisher (now available on Amazon for $5 - $8), so I presume this copy is not authorized.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I just started using CompletableFuture last week. The way each method ties your lambdas together without a bunch of type boilerplate is really nice. I still don't have a great handle on all of its methods, though; e.g., what's t
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Speaking of the website, it usually has a row of shopping categories along the top (Camp & Hike, Climb, Cycle, etc.), but if your browser window is less than 800 pixels or so wide, it all disappears into a hamburger menu. I thought I w
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by SloopJon 11y ago
WinZip encryption is an extension to the Zip format that they defined: http://www.winzip.com/win/en/aes_info.htm
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by SloopJon 11y ago
WinZip made a similar choice with its encrypted archives: you could see the list of directories and files before supplying a password. I would prefer that my account info be encrypted, but I can't use the new OPVault format, because it
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Very well. They asked for a copy of the book.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I read this at my dad's wedding, five years after my mom died. Wasn't sure how an atheist's letter to his dead wife would be received, but it kind of spoke to me.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Having admired the Kinesis Advantage from afar for years, I got one from Massdrop. I've used it at work almost exclusively for the last couple of months, having previously used the wireless Apple keyboard (the small one). Biggest peev
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Interesting project. Not sure what prompted the posting now (last updated in April), but it's timely for me, as I'm evaluating lightweight JVM-based languages. Jython seems a bit heavy. Clojure is my likely choice, but I'l
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by SloopJon 11y ago
It doesn't look like Google's paper or the results on this site consider CloudFlare's zlib fork: https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by SloopJon 11y ago
> Servo is one of the most important software projects, since it will hopefully give us a secure or at least securable browser I'm very interested in Rust, and in Servo as a "killer app" that demonstrates its promise. But
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by SloopJon 11y ago
I always kind of figured that the first pass would emit the most general form of a jump, then shorten it if possible, but I guess it works the other way around too.
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by SloopJon 11y ago
While I appreciate the direct link that bypasses the email form, here's the page describing the report and its author: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/why-rust.csp "One of the original designers
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by SloopJon 11y ago
Great that they were able to recover this game. Kind of crazy that it will be copyrighted for another hundred years or so (assuming it's an unpublished work for hire), when the last copy was barely readable, and the owners probably don
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by SloopJon 11y ago
It looks like the NYCTaxi dataset is here: http://www.andresmh.com/nyctaxitrips/ Some background on this data: http://chriswhong.com/data-visualization/taxitechblog1/ And data for 2014 direct
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The output of the demo program, FWIW: $ ./demo Smooth |=====================================================| ETA: 0h00m06s Three Second Task with a long label |========================| ETA: 0h00m03s Fast |==========
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The picture of the photovoltaic deck led me to a page describing a catamaran powered exclusively by 512 square meters of solar panels: http://www.planetsolar.org/boat/sections/the_boat
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by SloopJon 11y ago
One of the first things I'm looking at in Go and Rust is compatibility with C. I haven't used D, but this page makes it look as good or better from that perspective: http://dlang.org/interfaceToC.html Can anyone
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by SloopJon 11y ago
The home page describes it as "the foundation for all our tools, with parts of the engine being available to licensees as stand-alone game engine bits." This post suggests that it is intended to compete with Unreal and CryEngine:
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by SloopJon 11y ago
As a Rust newbie wrapping a C API, I ran into a baffling error for something like wstr.s[0 .. wstr.len], where the s field is an array, and the len field is a u16. I like static typing with inference, but I'm still getting the hang of
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by SloopJon 11y ago
That is a bit of a bummer, but do I understand correctly that the driver only supports a yet-to-be-released version of Parallels?

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