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by _stephan 13y ago
JetBrains has actually open sourced the complete IntelliJ Community Edition IDE/platform: see http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Home and https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-communit
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by _stephan 13y ago
The non-value preserving implicit conversions -- both the signed-unsigned conversions and the narrowing conversions -- are one of the biggest language warts in C++ (which it inherited from C). However, you can basically avoid these issues c
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Principles of Lighting and Rendering with John Carmack at QuakeCon 2013(youtube.com)
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by _stephan 13y ago
incero and securedservers don't seem to offer hourly billed dedicated servers. Monthly billed dedicated servers are a different market.
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by _stephan 13y ago
Hourly billed "bare-metal" cloud servers from Softlayer seem to be cheaper still: http://www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer/computing
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by _stephan 13y ago
Has anyone seen performance measurements for hardware lock elision? What's the performance gain/loss in the uncontended case? How costly is an aborted transaction?
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by _stephan 13y ago
What "internet war" are you talking about? And although the NSA is an agency of the US DoD, I don't think they would consider all targets of their eavesdropping measures as "military" targets.
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by _stephan 13y ago
Eavesdropping or even "hacking" attacks don't have to be military in nature.
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by _stephan 13y ago
"Angriffsziel" in general is not synonymous with "military target". I'd translate it simply as "target".
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Native Code Performance and Memory: The Elephant in the CPU(channel9.msdn.com)
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by _stephan 13y ago
See the correction in the text: [Correction 2013-04-24: Parliament did not yet adopt the motion, but rather decided to pass it to the parliament committees for further consideration.]
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by _stephan 13y ago
It seems the report was written by a German. When the report was written (apparently around 2000-2001) "computer freak" was commonly used in Germany to describe what today would be called "nerd" or "geek". Ther
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by _stephan 13y ago
They don't need to access to all network traffic, just the interesting bits, like e.g. the internal traffic for the storage/backup systems used for GMail or Google Accounts .
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by _stephan 13y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by _stephan 13y ago
Do users who abuse the flagging feature get penalized?
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by _stephan 13y ago
I'd like it better if this kind of moderation would be more transparent.
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by _stephan 13y ago
Can somebody explain why HN's ranking algorithm has already pushed this submission to the second page? This seems inconsistent with its points, age and level of discussion relative to the articles ranked above. (I'm just asking out of curio
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by _stephan 13y ago
Does anyone know whether one can host open source crypto code on GitHub without risking violations of the US Export Administration Regulations? One issue could for example be that GitHub doesn't block access from countries under US embargo,
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by _stephan 13y ago
At some point city planners should ask themselves how many billions of dollars of higher rents per year the benefits of a flat city skyline are worth to its residents (and how to fairly balance the interests of property owners and renters)
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Trip Report: ISO C++ Spring 2013 Meeting(isocpp.org)
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by _stephan 14y ago
> his psuedo-socialist, big government, leftist ideology What are you talking about? What part of the article made that impression on you and why?
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by _stephan 14y ago
Please read up on public goods, natural monopolies and externalities before you claim that the capitalistic market outcome always reflects what a good is worth to society.
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by _stephan 14y ago
Where does Krugman state that Big corp is evil? Are you talking about banks? Krugman doesn't state that Google is a monopoly and he certainly isn't disingenuous here. He's just using the Google Reader situation and an article by Ryan Avent
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by _stephan 14y ago
How could anyone introduce such a rating/firing system? Is that the way you would want to be treated as an employee or contractor?
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by _stephan 14y ago
If there's no other way to reduce your workload, get a certificate of illness from a doctor and delay some of the work or examinations or whatever is stressing you out. Don't ruin your health. If exam preparation causes you so much stress t
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by _stephan 14y ago
Close is annotated as a blocking syscall in http://golang.org/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_linux.go#L810 Is there a guarantee on Linux that close can't block? (I suppose it depends on the file type and the definition of blocking.)
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by _stephan 14y ago
From http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/installat... "No iOS simulator on Windows. The iOS Simulator runs on Mac OS X, so it’s necessary to switch to the Mac’s screen when testing on the simulator."
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Oculus Rift Headset Aims for Affordable Virtual Reality(nytimes.com)
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by _stephan 14y ago
Though I sometimes suspect that radio stations wouldn't play certain songs during the day if the average listener actually understood the English lyrics. (I'm from Germany.)
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by _stephan 14y ago
I'm curious, what Java IDE is 10K miles ahead of Visual Studio 2012/C# in your experience? Have you recently used VS with C#?

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