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Fans Muscle Into Sports Bars to Watch Pro Videogamers Do Battle on the Tube (online.wsj.com)
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Over the years I think I've done all of these. They're all a little painful. Being in Australia means that latency is an issue, I'm sure fast DSL in California is different. If you're using SSH, an editor and terminal that supports GPM mous
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I just switched to the Chrome beta stream, and NaCl still seems to be disabled by default. Is this what others are seeing? (Chrome 14.0.835.35 beta-m on Windows)
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Mozilla isn't marketing anything here. A journalist dug up information from a personal blog and the developer wiki.
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gzip and zlib HTTP encodings (different containers for "deflate" compression) include a checksum of the uncompressed content (a CRC-32 variant and Adler-32 respectively). If compression isn't wanted, you can wrap uncompressed bytes with a d
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by andrewf 15y ago
Probably worth noting that you can seamlessly boot Mac OS X from external USB storage. Just plug the drive in before booting and hold down the "option" key when you power on.
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Fonts and interface chrome always seem to take up a tiny bit more space on OS X. Not usually an issue but I'd take it into account if, on Windows, a given res is barely usable. I have a 13-inch air; the pixels are tiny . If you try 1440x
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I've seen it done for years in a reasonably sized team. It actually works really well in a fulltime scenario on a large project, on decent desktop boxes in an office environment. Developers appreciated that significant config changes boiled
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I mainly use iTerm2 because, unlike Terminal.app, it has gpm support. Being able to use a mouse while editing files over an SSH connection, without having to think about it, is a big win.
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Many developers need to read and understand this. I note that the question was migrated from StackOverflow to security.stackexchange.com. After all, this is an issue that the security nerds care about. Why bother ordinary developers with
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CS professors always bring up the tape example, but it's true for any medium where linear access is faster than random, which becomes applicable as you move down from L1 cache -> memory -> local disk -> network. Linked lists, to
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It's called skeumorphism. You're not the only one. http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/what-apple-needs-t...
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Is anyone brave enough to put the most-degraded image (the four squares) on a tshirt?
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Apple has announced that, for now, WebGL on iOS will only be available to WebKit when it's displaying advertisements through iAd (where Apple controls which ads are distributed), and not to web pages generally. http://www.theregister.co.uk
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Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://apps.facebook.com/cityville/?installed=1 from frame with URL http://fb-0.cityville.zynga.com/flash.php?isOuterIframe=1.. . INFO HERE CUT OUT]. Domains, protocols and ports must
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by andrewf 15y ago
Just a hunch - I bet a lot of the printers from the 80s (eg the TRS-80 one) speak plain ASCII over a standard parallel port, with CHR(10), CHR(11) and CHR(13) for line feed, page feed and carriage return. (Although I'm guessing, so check be
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by andrewf 16y ago
Just an extra data point: public transit timetables for Western Australia's capital, Perth, are provided to Google, and any member of the public can download the same data from a website. Conditions attached but no questions asked. http://
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by andrewf 16y ago
Looking at the Doom source, it seems that the actual 3D game view was rendered into a linear buffer, and subsequently blitted onto the mode X surface. Some UI elements went straight to the screen. (The DOS Doom source was never publicly rel
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by andrewf 16y ago
Makes sense given that a year from now, MS won't be supporting Vista at all (eg with security updates) if you don't have some enterprise-y extended support contract. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycl...
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Not entirely; it means the comparison was effectively between single-precision and double-precision logs from the C library.
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Imagine if all of those smart people were doing something productive instead of helping people buy and sell options 1 microsecond faster. From each according to his ability?
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by andrewf 16y ago
user: weixiyen created: 1147 days ago If this is astroturf, then http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=weixiyen is really impressive ground work.
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"Passive aggressive" hits the nail on the head. If someone truly believes you should break software that made bad assumptions about memcpy, as a matter of engineering principle, then just stick this at the top of memcpy and be done with it:
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It is Cornell. They run arXiv and host its primary mirror.
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I'd wager that 90%+ of the time, people fix "comparison between signed and unsigned values" warnings by casting one side of the expression. But if you really want to eliminate the potential for a bug from this warning, you have to go back t
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Maybe they did. The general public has no way of knowing what Color's investors have seen.
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Some money changed hands too. http://wxwidgets.org/about/name.htm No doubt there was both a carrot and a stick, but who knows whether the stick would have held up in court. Trademark law could also well be different in the UK.
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There's obviously some shared art assets and toolchain, but it doesn't sound like the actual rendering code in iOS Rage has much, if anything, in common with Rage proper: http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/29/john-carmack-discus...
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Varnish also came out of a newspaper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History
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If it would take a recruiter more than 20% more effort to get your salary up by 20%, they are better off putting their time into placing as many people as possible. Because they can increase their total commissions by 20% if they increase

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