SloopJon

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by SloopJon 12y ago
> Another language worth mentioning is Bliss I work with a former member of the DEC compiler team who brings up BLISS from time to time. One feature he liked was the control over register assignment, making it easy to keep frequently us
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Very cool. I can now go from feeling guilty about not finishing a project in Unity Indie to feeling guilty about not finishing a project in Unreal. Seriously though, I'm kind of interested in using this as a playground for the Leap M
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I had to look this one up too. I've always called them proctors.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
An instrumented fuzzer like AFL purports to do this: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ This blog post is a fascinating description of its potential: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-j
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Have you looked at CodeMirror? It might be a better fit for highlighting editable text.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I've been meaning to try something like this at work for training and documentation. Haven't yet, but here's the previous discussion of showterm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6190600 A couple of inte
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Yes, I've written tools for existing languages, and found just getting the parser right to be a challenge, be it with Emacs highlighting, flex/bison, what have you. Real languages aren't as tidy as the textbook examples.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
This icon style is called Sifr. There are five other styles available in the View section of the Options dialog, which seems like at least three too many. I'm trying Oxygen for now.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
One thing that won't show up in screenshots is the UI interaction. On my Mac, the tools on the bottom and right edges can't keep up when resizing the window. Sometimes it's a fraction of a second lag as I drag, sometimes it
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Funny you should mention Mass Effect, because I'm playing that for the first time as well. Evidently there's a romantic sub-plot, making it even more relevant to this story. Will I get an Xbox achievement and 25 gamer points if
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by SloopJon 12y ago
> It didn't work, but had it work it would have set a dangerous precedent for any properties that could make a similar claim. Why do you say it didn't work? From what I've read, the court has ruled in his favor so far.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
> No matter how deeply we trust our logical conclusions, our emotional response remains the same. We can't help but feel worthier when we're being praised (even by computers ...), hurt when we're being insulted, and connec
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I'd love to be proven wrong, but all Lua lets you do is typedef to another built-in type. Swapping in something like Python's long type would not be a simple matter.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
One of the comments links to a Daily Mail article written by Martin, the subject of the story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2010610/The-Ghost-...
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by SloopJon 12y ago
> > Well, among the key facts necessary to understand that is that the "safety features" are not pure cost-free benefit, and the NRA believes the costs outweigh the benefits. > Sure. Advanced safety features in cars proba
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by SloopJon 12y ago
ODE seemed promising when I looked at it several years ago. Bullet is also quite popular. Searching for a comparison of the two led me to An Evaluation of Open Source Physics Engines for Use in Virtual Reality Assembly Simulations : htt
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by SloopJon 12y ago
One of the side effects of the lackluster speed bump the rMBP got for Mid 2014 is that you can get a cheaper, nearly identical Late 2013 model without Yosemite.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Although I knew that "organic" is regulated, I did not know that it implied free range, which is theoretically better than the cage free that I usually buy. An additional note from the organic egg scorecard, linked from the articl
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I use M-/ for this purpose, which I think is bound by default. It expands based on whatever buffers are already open. Not syntax aware or anything, but useful nonetheless.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
It seems like this project is basically just fake-factory applied to a few different databases. It doesn't look that useful on its own, but it's a nice demo of those packages.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Boca Grande near the mall is okay. MIT has a cafe near Mass. Ave. with slightly better burritos. Best pizza is at Emma's near Draper Labs. Downtown, Central, and Harvard are close enough for a lunch break. I got a season pass for ka
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Off topic, I guess, but color me unimpressed by the guy claiming he would fire someone for rejecting a pull request that does nothing but advance a political agenda.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I'm confused by the usage of the utility itself. I ran it on the hello.js, and it reported the expected type mismatch. I then tried to run it on the file in the answer sub-directory, but it kept telling me about the previous file.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Wow. That explains dima55's comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8617027
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I mostly listen to albums start to finish from my own largish collection (~90 GB when encoded as 192 Kbps AAC), so I can't really comment on the consumer experience. As for the artists, Taylor Swift's stance reminds me of Metalli
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I use etags in Emacs to navigate our C source code, which is so much more effective than the brute force search I often see people use. I don't have as good a handle on our C++, C#, and Java, so I'll give this a try.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
In 4.x, the decryption password is the same as the unlock PIN. I'm hoping it's possible in 5.x to separate the two, so that the password can be stronger than the PIN.
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by SloopJon 12y ago
Leave it to Microsoft to complicate licensing. I've long used the compiler included with the Windows SDK for automated testing of our C API. Since the latest versions of the SDK no longer include a compiler, I'll need to use some
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to find that our company's product, an enterprise DBMS, works under crouton with a Toshiba Chromebook 2. I can get to the web administration page from the Chrome OS side, but I'm not sure how to get to
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by SloopJon 12y ago
I wasn't aware of that. The hackintosh I built using TonyMacx86-recommended parts is sitting at 10.8.5 until it absolutely needs something newer. When it does, I'll check out myHack.

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