Sophistifunk

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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
TBH The best advice I can give is to move closer to Melbourne. I don't care for it here, but there's not a lot of dev jobs back home in QLD, either.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Yup, I have one too. It's timeless, does not resemble any sort of contemporary physical artifact of technology, like a bar code or a circuit board, and to anybody who doesn't recognise it, it's just a small decorative piece.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Scour the archives of the VPRI mailing list, it's where I get most of my scans of old Smalltalk stuff (unsurprisingly). Any web search that's even remotely Smalltalk-related quickly ends in circular links and/or 404s.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
No, no it can't. I'm glad that it works for you, but for me the part of my brain that focuses on voices turns off the part of my brain that turns thoughts into code. It doesn't matter if they're talking to me or not, but
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
What's the license on this? I'd like to steal your tab bar for something I'm building :)
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
What about those half-height cubicles? That's what I've dealt with in almost every enterprise/gov position I've been in over the years in .au
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
cough Segway cough
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
No, they're mostly designed to keep a few Italian men in white hats in charge of 16th century Europe. We should probably take a long hard look at them.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
The rest of the gun doesn't matter. A two inch barrel leaves almost no space for the propellant to expand before it escapes containment (and all its remaining energy is wasted), and no chance for any useful rifling.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
A gun with a 2 inch-long barrel is going to be pretty useless at not much more than a dozen feet. Good for mugging somebody I guess, but not self-defense or fighting the next revolution. And you can mug somebody with a knife.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
There's a tiny computer inside your iPhone running Java. It really is everywhere.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Playing Rugby? What else would they be doing?
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
We have a bunch of old rotary race cars in the showroom at the 9-5, you wouldn't believe how much noise and oil they put out the back whenever they need to be moved around :) wank-wank-wank-wank-BANG!-wank-wank-wank-wank
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
FWIW (anecdote warning) I have the Galaxy Note Tab 2014. The Stylus works great, but I only use it for drawing, and definitely wish I'd just waited for the Surface 3.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Because you want to. If not, don't.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Seems unlikely, I imagine a lot of the users live behind extremely restrictive firewalls.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Yes. And the efficiency of "food calories - shit calories" varies wildly between individuals and across time for individuals. The number of calories you see in a food database is calculated based on how well a few macronutrients
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
It's my understanding you need to be a multi-million-dollar company to even get NVidia to answer your calls to talk about showing you the NDA you need to sign to get access to register-level Tegra programming docs? If I'm wrong I&
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Personally, I love the idea of low-spec 86 chips being available at rock-bottom prices. It's an architecture that while far from perfect is well known, and most of us here have a boatload of experience with it I'll wager. I'd
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
This is why we can't have nice things.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Oh lord what have you done? I'm going to lose dozens of hours in there over the next month.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
I think the descriptions of endianness are off. Endianness doesn't affect the order of an array of bytes at all, only the rules for converting longer words to/from a byte array. [0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF] will always be the same arr
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
I was wondering how this thread got so long without anybody linking to ERB :)
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Nobody seems to mention that these guys aren't patent trolls . It might be a stupid patent, you might think patent law needs an overhaul (I'm with you on both counts) but PA are the people who "invented" the patented ma
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
It's like a Body Corporate, but they tend to be a lot more intrusive, both in their reach and how much they wield their power. They do stupid shit like fine people for not having perfect grass, even during droughts, that sort of rubbis
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
Where the hell else will rental properties come from?
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
... or anybody who doesn't think it's a good idea to rely on Google's future good-will to maintain a useful device, privacy concerns aside.
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by Sophistifunk 12y ago
It's a crying shame that for the people in charge of purchasing, the most important criteria seems to be keeping the poor saps using the devices from doing what they want with them.
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by Sophistifunk 14y ago
It's true, with the one caveat that you actually have to want to learn to like it, you can't be forced into it by your parents once you're older than 2 or 3. The social difficulty of not eating potatoes is what set me down that path initi