bediger

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1. 691.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   I hope this guy writes in some kind of shorthand/code that conveys meaning to some subculture, cause it didn't make any sense at all to me.
2. 692.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   You really can't say too many good things about John Tromp's remarkable paper.
3. 693.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   This is just another retelling of the "Four Horsemen of the Internet Apocalypse": Child Porn, Terrorism, Drugs and Identity Theft. Absolutely no outgoing links to add verisimilitude, either. Bad PR person: no latte.
4. 694.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   This smells like an MSFT PR hit. I bet this goes the way of ".NET" or "HailStorm" or some other all-encompassing, vague-enough-to-impress-corporate-types acronym-laden "vision".
5. 695.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   I'd really rather not look inside anyone's toolbelt. Their toolpants just might slip down. That would be embarassing for all concerned.
6. 696.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   Personally, I couldn't believe that they put generics in Java, after the weirdness with C++ templates, and all the problems they buy you. Java very definitely jumped the shark when they added generics.
7. 697.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   Great. Posix threading (via libray) doesn't work for C or C++. I presume that's true for Cthreads and Solaris threads, too. Why don't we see more problems in practice? I mean, I've done lots of threaded programs, and experienced lots of
8. 698.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   This is just the sort of self-important self-congratulation you would expect from "Forbes". I would suppose that "Forbes" readers are upper management, and, like George Will, only own a single pair of jeans worn once yearly. Of course look
9. 699.▲
   by bediger 17y ago

   Good Lord, I should hope software does replace sports "journalism". Pick up a major city's paper. Read the first section. Then read the sports section. The quality of reporting is so low as to be laughable, but the sports section IS EVEN
10. 700.▲
    by bediger 17y ago

    This article misses quite a few important details. Most importantly, the first 6 digits of a Visa numer constitute a "BIN" (Bank Identification Number). I have heard that MasterCard uses variable number of digits for BIN, but I don't have
11. 701.▲
    by bediger 17y ago

    This is just crying over spilt milk, isn't it? Java got to be the COBOL of the 21st Century because of the boilerplate & etc, not despite it. Immoral MegaCorporations like Java because they can segment large jobs and have armies of dron
12. 702.▲
    by bediger 17y ago

    Hey, wait! Where's the "Market Share" argument when you need it (and it works against IE)? Doesn't Doctrine and Dogma inform us that a larger share of the flaws just mean a larger market share? I mean, I hear that all the time about Windo
13. 703.▲
    by bediger 17y ago

    Slackware.
14. 704.▲
    by bediger 17y ago

    Isn't the use of checks in the USA partly path dependent? They worked fine as long as humans were in the check processing loop. Right now, businesses in the USA like to use them because they have lower transaction costs than credit cards.
15. 705.▲
    by bediger 17y ago

    fork() by itself - inelegant. fork() - do ARBITRARY stuff in child process - exec(), now that does all kinds of things that a spawn()-type process creation cannot do. fork() allows the ability to do anything before exec(), setting up light