VBprogrammer

38 ms·

1. 2401.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   An idea that just occurred to me while reading this is that shelving racking, such as you see in most shops, would be ideal for this situation. I have some shelves just behind my desk mounted on this type of racking which have steel bars ab
2. 2402.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   I don't want to put words in the OPs mouth, but in my experience knowing that you should use a recursive solution probably puts you ahead of the curve. Being able to produce a solution which has the correct general form possibly after a lit
3. 2403.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   Well VBprogrammer is a moniker I've used since I was 14. I now work for a company building websites which have thousands of hits a minute, require PCI compliance and use a variety of tools, none of which are Visual Basic. Given that you res
4. 2404.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   You're thinking way too tin hat. While we're there we better do something about all those people using radio jammers to down auto-landing aircraft. Also, you better hope their are no vulnerabilities in the automatically driven mono-rail / t
5. 2405.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   Given the correlation between education levels and income, it is easy to see that the more you earn -- or potentially earn -- the more likely you are to take at a walk down the aisle. Well, that sounds like science to me. I know "co
6. 2406.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   Whoops, I see someone below beat me to it.
7. 2407.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   Little bug fix, apples can appear under the snake.. --- snake.html 2011-12-09 08:03:47.000000000 +0000 +++ snake.html.2 2011-12-09 11:40:54.414774460 +0000 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ var n = AP(s[0],d); (OB(n) || TC(n)) &&
8. 2408.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   To say change to truck (I assume you mean the Heavy Goods Vehicle, rather than the pickup variety) quality bearings is a vast simplification. Cars manufactures over the years have been striving to reduce the cost of producing cars, the weig
9. 2409.▲
   by VBprogrammer 15y ago

   I'm lucky to work in an extremely liberal work place in London, to the point of unlocked computers being sabotaged with a fairly well known website showing old men conducting sexual acts on other old men. Saying that, I've worked in other p
10. 2410.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I'm incredibly impressed at the willingness of these companies to stand up and be counted, to show an awareness of current events and to empower their users to do something about it. If only this was the way politics worked across the board
11. 2411.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    What annoyed me is not the suggestion that the chef is in someway less entitled to the money than other employees, or that he didn't work as hard. It is that it is just factually wrong. How many great people joined Google when it was an up
12. 2412.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Without sounding like a snob, I would hesitantly suggest that those people who held out for a free iPhone 3gs are less likely to go spending a huge amount of money in the AppStore.
13. 2413.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I have never heard of the user who submitted this. We both agree that the video stimulates our intellectual curiosity. The means by which this ended up on the front page isn't a concern.
14. 2414.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Not to sound harsh, followed by something quite sarcastic and judgemental isn't a particularly nice way to address someone you don't know. I for one would speculate, not to sound harsh, that if you haven't made silly errors like this then y
15. 2415.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I think this is akin to drawing the Mona Lisa in MS Paint. Yes, it's impressive that it can be done. That doesn't mean you should do it and it's still outside my skill and patience level.
16. 2416.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I've just emailed the email from the contact page, have a VPS which is doing nothing. I would be happy to help her get her website up and running again. Also, noticed this was posted on Reddit and a few other places so its probably being ha
17. 2417.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Actually, that was a username I've used for 13 years. Currently I'm mainly developing in TCL professionally and Python personally.
18. 2418.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I think one of the biggest errors a bad programmer makes is seeing 'bad' code everywhere. Sure, some code stinks but just because some code doesn't do something the way you would have done it doesn't make it bad. If you do have to complain
19. 2419.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Given that my socks are partitioned into two sets (washing basket and drawer) and as I mentioned above I would throw them out if the failure rate became high enough to impact the asymptotic behavior I'd say that O(1) is probably correct.
20. 2420.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    On a more practical note but along a related thread, a couple of years ago I threw out all of my socks and bought a stack of the exact same plain black socks. Now I never have to worry about matching socks, when a hole appears I just throw
21. 2421.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I would go one step further and just send me back to the homepage.
22. 2422.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I don't know whether this was a one off, a subject which he was able to knock out of the park or if you are right. I do think someone should pay him a lot of money to find out.
23. 2423.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I'm not sure what that anecdote was trying to say. I think the majority of the 2 hours would be getting to grips with the codebase, given that he probably hasn't had time to look at it in years. I've never seen anything to suggest that Zuck
24. 2424.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I honestly think that would be a bigger story, an author of an open-source library telling a potential contributer to take a hike (well, words to that effect) without reviewing their potential contribution. My personal interpretation is tha
25. 2425.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    A good friend of mine owns a Rotax 503 powered Flash 2 Alpha flexwing. I've been flying quite a few times, once after doing its 50 hour overhaul. Really interesting and simple engines. Pretty cool way of spending time!
26. 2426.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Actually, microlights of the last decade were built around 2 stroke engines originally designed for snow-mobile use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotax My main concern is that an engine failure in that design is an instant crash from what
27. 2427.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Oh come on, half those people are typing one handed. Sorry.
28. 2428.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    Yeah, that is a pattern I occasionally use but I prefer what I have written above as the control flow is more explicit. A missing return (or even one which is quite deliberately omitted) is much harder to spot.
29. 2429.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    For what it's worth I couldn't disagree more. I use the guard pattern very often (as described here http://video.ias.edu/webfm_send/1207 [Video]). Rather than writing: if (argc == 3) { if (fname) { /* Do stuff */
30. 2430.▲
    by VBprogrammer 15y ago

    I would rather they report the news while staying on the correct side of copyright law. If the author of the original post was a professional photo journalist who happened to post some of his photos to twitter would it be fine for the BBC t