VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   I mostly agree with you but I don't think I'd apply for a job specifically programming in C++ without knowing the appropriate use cases for the majority of the language features. Obviously different if you are only listing it as a language
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   That is only a problem if and only if that method is being called in a very tight loop and its body is not particularly time consuming. A person making optimisations like this without first timing the code or at the very least spending some
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   While I thought the new look was pretty nice for about 10 minutes I soon found that it just clashed with everything you ever use. For example, you end up with a bright white webpage in your browser against all the dark grey in the menu's. D
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   But in terms of their 'real business' it is not the number of customers they have but the number of they have but only their employees who will be using their systems. The purchase records, products and credit card numbers are closer to Twe
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   I found the comparison with 'Real Businesses' particularly funny, given Wal-mart have have 2.1 million employees worldwide and Twitter has 75 million users...their scaling requirements are different by a factor of 35.
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   I've just installed Ubuntu 10.4. I didn't spend much time in the new theme. I found it just looked ugly against the background of most website backgrounds. It didn't have any delimiter between different parts of the toolbars etc. I was very
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   Wikipedia suggests that Ryanair release these outlandish ideas once in a while to get some free publicity. While I obviously can't verify that I'm personally inclined to believe it. Since even restaurants have regulations which force them t
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   Obviously its not a water-tight proof but its generally safe to assume a correlation between smart people and intelligent implementations.
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   by VBprogrammer 17y ago

   If under your definition the USA is a heading towards being a third world country then perhaps you should consider your definition of a third world country inadequate.
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    "Skulpt surely isn't done yet...I'd call it something like 0.12 alpha if it had a version..."
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    Exactly, its practically a miracle when a team gels well enough to actually work well together, never mind being so well integrated that they would come up with something this clever to try and continue working together rather than taking
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    Honest question: Is rendering really a bottleneck in a browser? It seems to me that the overhead of one or two HTTP handshakes would surely out-weigh any performance benefit in the rendering code?
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    When I was about 14 I found writing a floppy disk boot loader in x86 Assembly to be a good way of learning how a computer really works at the most basic level. Including reading FAT12 to find the start of your next piece of code and even di
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    I only count 3 types of email, I have yet to spot an example of the 'ideal email' in the wild!
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    You can blame the electronics all you like but the truth is cars can have faults, both mechanical and software I once drove a Vauxhall Cavalier were a small wire had got in the way of the throttle input lever causing it to have a very high
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    Regardless of whether the CTO is correct or not, the tone and poor attitude of his posts have convinced me that he is not someone I would want to do business with.
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    I alway found that the courses that had large restrictions on the amount of collaboration they allowed (for example, don't discus it with anyone) were the courses that had very poor quality course work, often featuring a 'trick' or simply f
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    > nearly all applications will be web-based in the next 5 years I sincerely hope the author is wrong. I think the almost all the applications which function well on the internet have communication as their core function. I sick fed up o
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    Skype Sign in server problems(heartbeat.skype.com)

    1 points by VBprogrammer 17y ago|0 comments
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    In my own personal opinion, the fact that Google have brought to the forefront the need for a new systems language is way more important than the exact feature set they have chosen to include. Even things like garbage collection and array
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    While I find letting the 'cheaters' in grates too hard on my soul I alway try to practice driving at the average speed and avoiding using the brake. If for no other reason than to avoid wear on the car (in the UK most cars are still manual
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    An article complaining about a single failure mode, which I personally have never experienced, and how that makes all of Linux completely unusable. I have to wonder, if the author is happy with Windows and its gold plated video stack why do
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    His proposal seems fair enough to me. But I don't use an ad-blocker. I vote with my feet as they say and don't revisit sites which have a poor signal to noise (useful content to annoying ad) ratio. I personally find those sites which have g
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    I completely agree with you. Lets think of a few things which are also medieval or even older! Well there is farming, should probably stop that, oh and preserving food, should probably stop that too. What the author seems to have completely
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    Swordfighting is a lot like sex. Often it's not what you do - but what you say. A: Soon you´ll be wearing my sword like a shish kebab! B: First you better stop waiving it like a feather-duster.
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    There are two things which can be taken from that graph. Americans eat quickly and Americans have an obesity problem (certainly along with Mexico and the commonwealth). I'm sure that any correlation is a by product of a deeper difference in
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    Ok, I agree with that. I'm sure it was a side effect of some library rather than a deliberate choice though. Not to worry, as other commenters have pointed out, this has been fixed for some time.
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    In what way is suggesting that the level of security used is probably more than sufficient for the value of the data its meant to protect irrelevant?
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    I'm not particularly familiar with this software but it appears to be some kind of project management software. I think the odds of someone beating an 8 character well chosen password are less than the value of the data protected by said pa
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    by VBprogrammer 17y ago

    For those of you that don't know a Stirling engine is an external combustion engine that generates movement by alternately heating and cooling a sealed volume of working gas. Due to the lack of high-velocity gas moving around these engines