Total_Meltdown

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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
This is a good start, but if it's just Reddit going dark for a day, I don't think it'll amount to anything. It's not like Reddit hasn't heard of SOPA/Protect IP.
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
The guy took a stack trace of a segfault. If a guy comes up to me, tells me I have a glaring security flaw, and shows me a stack trace of my own code to prove it, I'd be an idiot /not/ to give him at least a few minutes of my time, no matte
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Remember, economics assumes rational actors. We have loads of students in school because they think they have to be, but don't treat it as an investment. For most fields, tuition is already way above equilibrium , because schools and stude
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What if we all changed our [Google+] account names to I am Spartacus?(plus.google.com)
5 points by Total_Meltdown 15y ago|0 comments
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
There was a comment earlier in this thread: > Nerds are unpopular in forced social settings like secondary schools because they're huge assholes, the kind of people that even 25 years later write essays about how really it was everybody
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Also fun: The only one of these that works when a callback removes itself from the event list in its own callback routine is C#. You get a hanging iterator in C++, and removing items from a table mid-iteration in Lua is undefined (though in
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the point here. It is perfectly possible to write awesome software in Java. With the amount of software out there, it would be completely insane for anyone to say that you can't do awesome things in Java.
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Texas Battlefield 3 launch LAN bans women from attending(borderhouseblog.com)
68 points by Total_Meltdown 15y ago|73 comments
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
I said what I meant. When you buy an iPhone, not only are you paying for the hardware, you're committing to a monthly fee. A $0.99 app is not even a day of cell service, let alone a 2 year phone contract.
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
But an app isn't an everyday purchase either. An iPhone, with the required data plan, is an everyday purchase. The hardware is more expensive once, and the plan is more expensive every month. Apps are purchased once.
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
> It's like assuming that owning a Ferrari means you can afford to eat at a $20 restaurant meal every night. Fixed that for you. iPhones are a luxury item. Cellphones are arguably necessary, but nobody's forcing you to drop $400 on a sm
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
You're talking about two different issues. If you're maintaining UDK or something, then yes, C++ is absolutely required. But people who maintain UDK aren't learning to program anymore. They know how to write solid C++ in their sleep, so the
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
I understand what the intent is, and I think it could be a useful mechanism, but as I've said in other posts, I disagree that exceptions are the way to go about it. I think something similar to exceptions, but intended for this kind of in
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Yes, first-class functions are what I mean. (I come from a lot of C# development, where functions-as-variables are called delegates.) As for sugar, I agree that it's nice sometimes, but I disagree with extending exception handling specifica
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
This seems like a solution looking for a problem. There is a whole class of code smell around using exceptions to direct logic flow. The only thing this does that can't be done with if statements and delegates is lower the importance of exc
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Right. I mean, I'm not the biggest Apple fan, but in the interest of fairness I thought it was worth pointing out that gaming isn't as much of an anti-mac argument as it used to be, which is what the mtw seemed to be implying.
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Google Docs is Office's closest competitor, but not outside individuals and small organizations, simply BECAUSE it's all stored on "the cloud". BitBucket and GitHub have the same problem. It's not that they're not good products, it's that t
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Steam.
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
I think we need to realize that PCs (laptops or desktops) and mobile devices (tablets and mobile phones) are good at different things, and going forward will be used for different things. For example, I'm sure everyone (especially on this s
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Delorme's inReach two-way GPS Communicator enables satellite texting for Android(engadget.com)
1 points by Total_Meltdown 15y ago|0 comments
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DeLorme announces "inReach" two-way satellite communicator for Android(blog.delorme.com)
3 points by Total_Meltdown 15y ago|0 comments
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
> A wireless network is essentially a hub, rather than a switched network, and as such all hosts on one leg of the network get to see all the packets transported through it no matter what their source or destination The article claims t
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
Oh, absolutely. It'd be awful if they did this. But it'd be fun to watch Lodsys try to fend off Apple's legal team.
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Free XBox 360s for students buying new laptops(windowsteamblog.com)
1 points by Total_Meltdown 15y ago|0 comments
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
I'm not sure what code you write or what it's for, but in the real world, sometimes we deal with buggy, archaic and downright bizarre code that we didn't write, and sometimes we have deadlines. So, yes. I use a debugger, so that I can spend
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by Total_Meltdown 15y ago
I stopped reading when I got to your "Comments" section: > I don't comment every line of code, but I comment in large quantities. Ok, I can relate to this. > I am of the mind set that code [...] You mean "mindset." > [...] shoul