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by antonyme 3y ago
Great article, and terrible idea. Wonder why the UI guidelines were bent here. It's astonishing how many web designers have no idea about the difference between inclusive and mutually exclusive options. I see checkboxes used all the ti
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by antonyme 7y ago
Pair Programming is a complete crock of shit. If you hire someone to do a job, either they can do their job, or they cannot. If you cannot trust someone to perform and deliver work up to a certain standard, do not hire them. Is there any ot
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by antonyme 7y ago
How can you write an article about this without mentioning that you should use a Decimal type for working with currency calculations? - https://dzone.com/articles/never-use-float-and-double-for-mo... - https:/&#x
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by antonyme 7y ago
Sorry, but I remain skeptical. The same people who use `float` for financial calculations are probably the same people who don't understand how/why to do the rounding described to avoid these problems. Way too many programmers thi
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by antonyme 7y ago
The core is simple, small, cheap or even free, requires few resources, has plenty of tool support, is well-understood and well-documented, and is easy to debug and deploy. The 8051 is perfectly sufficient for many simple embedded applicatio
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by antonyme 7y ago
What a damn shame. I use git when I have to, hg when I get to choose. The usability and ergonomics are just so much better. I've never had any performance complaints. I chose Bitbucket over Github specifically because of Mercurial supp
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by antonyme 7y ago
Likewise! FYI the actual paper is https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8425212 and you can get the PDF here: http://pdinda.org/Papers/ipdps18.pdf
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by antonyme 7y ago
Great points. I agree - the performance hit is simply the cost of being accurate and having predictable behaviour. I'm not suggesting we replace all our current HW with chips that implement posits (let's fix branch prediction firs
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by antonyme 7y ago
> Sorry, but you actually sounds like one those people who dosen't really know how FP work. LOL, sure ok. Worked on banking systems for 2 years and been doing scientific computing for many more. Pretty comfortable with fixed and flo
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by antonyme 7y ago
Very few developers truly understand floating point representation. Most think of it as base-10, and put in horrific kludges and workarounds when they discover it doesn't work as they (wrongly) expected. I shudder to think how many e-c
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by antonyme 7y ago
People still use Perl?
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by antonyme 7y ago
IMHO SCons had some nice ideas but it falls down in practice in non-trivial projects. Wrestling with eels is easier than doing cross-platform builds in SCons. And while I do love Python, I think using a fully-fledged language is a mistake.
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by antonyme 7y ago
"Yet another 'academic' claims to have cracked part of the Voynich code but doesn't realise how much they still don't understand" Fixed that for you.
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by antonyme 8y ago
It's not a bug - it's a feature: reserved filenames which have special features and functions. And it has been preserved through DOS, and Windows over the years as part of Microsoft's philosophy of "compatibility at all
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by antonyme 8y ago
Good grief, what a loaded headline. It's not a "tax" for a start. It's a fee. And what does the fee cover? PCI DSS Credit card processing services, secure web hosting, worldwide CDN-cached downloads, sales and download a
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by antonyme 8y ago
Unfortunately, the majority of technical details on the web on implementing VU meters in the digital domain is misleading, of not outright wrong. A while back, I implemented VU meters for some professional AV software. I started with the av
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by antonyme 9y ago
So imagine Apple starts to show warning messages saying "your battery cannot hold sufficient charge and is EOL - you should replace it now". We would have a different spin on Batterygate where Apple is greedily telling people to r
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by antonyme 9y ago
I developed on the Aibo years ago for Robocup robot soccer, writing software for object recognition, navigation, locomotion, etc. Much fun! It's surprising to see its return after a long hiatus, as Aibo has had several ups and downs in
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by antonyme 9y ago
Such a disappointment. Wunderlist was the best in a very crowded market. It would have been ok if they had launched with something comparable to what it intends to replace. But this is missing so many key features (yes, many are planned) th
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by antonyme 9y ago
It's impressive what you can achieve in under 16kB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVo-OffZD8
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by antonyme 11y ago
CMake, Scons, Ninja, Gyp There are many more, but these are more viable alternatives to auto tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_build_automation_softw...
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by antonyme 11y ago
CMake actually does platform probing (test compiling with code fragments to identify platform features and quirks) in a similar manner to autotools. But it is much easier to work with, and significantly better documented. I find the syntax
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by antonyme 11y ago
Yes, indeed. There are so many anachronistic features that bog it down with baggage and complexity and slowness. It is easier now than ever before to port code between the major platforms, and especially with frameworks such as Qt.
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by antonyme 11y ago
This documentation and video is good if you want to use autotools. But in 2016, you should really be asking yourself if autotools is the right choice. It is rather baroque, and there are many other choices these days that provide similar fu
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by antonyme 11y ago
Mercurial has to be one of the best examples of incredibly high quality Software Engineering out there. It is very well-designed, reliable, fast, easy to use, well-documented and has a great community behind it. Matt deserves huge kudos for
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by antonyme 11y ago
I've tried using many different online tools for tracking software projects and work (including Todoist, Trello et al) and eventually settled on Asana. It's not perfect, but it most closely matches the workflow I need. It's f
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by antonyme 11y ago
Decided to give it a try, and very impressed so far. Easy to set up, nice and clean interface. Most important of all, a fast workflow for processing email. I encourage everyone to support high quality indy projects like this.
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by antonyme 12y ago
Not only is text durable, but plain text data is universal. Take a document written in the word processor du jour 20 years ago. It is highly unlikely you could mount the physical media, let alone import the data with high fidelity. But plai
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by antonyme 13y ago
Ah great, ok. I'm really enjoying them, and would really like to finish both!
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by antonyme 13y ago
This is awesome! Except - I haven't finished the Matasano CTF yet! Too many flags, not enough time. :/

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