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by Teckla 13y ago
It's hard to get more boring than C. C... boring? I don't think so. Not with 200+ undefined or implementation defined behaviors. Not when even something as simple as "a = b + c" can evoke nasal demons. C is so loosely
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by Teckla 13y ago
OS X always worked well with multiple displays Not if you want multiple independently color corrected displays... (unless they added that feature post Snow Leopard)
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by Teckla 13y ago
Start watching a YouTube video. Pause it. Come back hours later. Hit play. It'll play a few more seconds and then fail to continue. I'd call that a major Google product with a major failure, though our definitions for major may di
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How the Freaky Octopus Can Help us Understand the Human Brain(wired.com)
2 points by Teckla 13y ago|0 comments
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research(docpelletier.com)
1 points by Teckla 13y ago|0 comments
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The Problem with Threads(eecs.berkeley.edu)
1 points by Teckla 13y ago|0 comments
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The multicore dilemma is worse than you think(flowlang.net)
7 points by Teckla 13y ago|4 comments
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by Teckla 13y ago
I'm really, really sorry that most of today's developers (it seems) consider checked exceptions to be a bad practice. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world still advocating their usage. You're not alon
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by Teckla 13y ago
Go has interfaces that you implement just by having the methods, without declaring that you're implementing the interface (e.g. "implements" in Java). How well does that work with tooling? For example, in Java, I frequently ask my tools,
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by Teckla 13y ago
Unlike C, Go isn't overloading what is returned In C, you can write code that doesn't overload errors and return values; e.g., err = someFunction(&returnValue, param1, param2, param3); I'm not saying this is common -- and in fact the
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by Teckla 13y ago
In fact, give me a single big desktop software project made with a language that is not C or C++. I find your requirements odd and vague (why big? why desktop?), but speaking just for myself: Eclipse, jEdit, CyberDuck -- all written in Ja
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by Teckla 14y ago
Dark Ages would imply that progress was set back significantly by some catastrophic event (ie: the fall of Netscape). Some of us would argue that JavaScript itself was that catastrophic event. No, really -- I'm not trolling. It's no longe
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by Teckla 14y ago
The technical knowledge required to setup, secure, and maintain your own server sets a pretty high bar. What's really needed is a turn-key solution.
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by Teckla 14y ago
But the reality is that Apple makes the lions share of profit in the industry and that is unlikely to change any time soon. How long will that continue to be true if Apple definitively loses the platform war?
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by Teckla 14y ago
"Checked exceptions won't solve your problem here at all. If you need an instrument to force developers to think about things that could go wrong your team is screwed anyway." It isn't about needs, it's about programming languages making it
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by Teckla 14y ago
It's probably too late to ask now (the story was posted 19+ hours ago, as I write this), but -- do you know what happened to Google Groups digest emails? They just stopped working for me a long time ago, with no communication about what hap
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by Teckla 14y ago
"This post is clearly written by someone who is new to Java" That was uncalled for. But, since you've decided to immediately call into question people's credentials, let me start with mine. I've done a little over 30 years of software devel
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by Teckla 14y ago
There's absolutely no reason for Chromebooks to use x86 chips. What about people that prefer trading some battery life for some performance?
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by Teckla 14y ago
The contacts get dirty, they dont fit some USB ports properly, they die regularly, are absolutely no good if you don't have a USB port handy (my desktop for example doesn't have a USB hole in the front or on the keyboard or monitor, result
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The Truth about Violence (2011)(samharris.org)
6 points by Teckla 14y ago|0 comments
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The Riddle of the Gun(samharris.org)
8 points by Teckla 14y ago|0 comments
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by Teckla 14y ago
"I wonder if that's when Google started recognizing that "C#" wasn't a typo of "C". :-) C# has always been a PITA to search for (although, maybe not as bad as 'Go')." When searching for Go related information, use "golang" instead of "go".
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by Teckla 14y ago
Those kind of links are a great irritation for me when browsing and reading HN. My work around for the "unknown or expired link" bug is to open page 1 of HN, then immediately open pages 2, 3, and 4, but in separate tabs. That way, I never
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by Teckla 14y ago
I don't know the answer to your first question, but in response to your second question, yes, formatting is preserved.
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by Teckla 14y ago
Does anyone have a comprehensive/good solution to how to move all your stuff out of Gmail? I use Thunderbird + IMAP to sync a local copy of my Gmail email every week or two. It does not sync anything except your email, but even that much
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by Teckla 14y ago
You can open Compose in a new tab with Control-click for Win/Linux or Cmd-click for Mac. You can also click on the Compose button normally, then click on the "In new window" icon, in the upper right hand corner. Most web browsers then off
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by Teckla 14y ago
Personally, I've grown bored with the apple store and don't have a reason to visit any longer... My family owns one Mac and two PCs. When the Mac needed some minor servicing, the value of a local Apple Store became really apparent: we c
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by Teckla 14y ago
My situation is not a common one, but image sliders / carousels really hurt Remote Desktop / VNC / X performance, as well. There have been a number of web sites I could not interact with because the carousel swamped my bandwidth with the co
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by Teckla 14y ago
I thought a bug extreme enough to reset an iOS device deserved some attention. I'm sorry you don't agree.
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by Teckla 14y ago
With all due respect, your insistence on constantly using the phrase "tax burden" instead of "tax rate" makes me doubt your honesty. It's a shameful rhetorical trick that degrades the HN experience.

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