bnastic

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by bnastic 10y ago
We knew for quite a while that the trigger will happen end of March. If you're depressed it's not because of the current news.
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by bnastic 10y ago
What were they supposed to have achieved?
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by bnastic 10y ago
Ordered, delivery in a week. I have a couple of Bluetooth earphones that are all pretty poor in UX department and not-so-horrible-but-still-subpar in the sound quality department. I am hoping these will prove to be much better in both.
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by bnastic 10y ago
It's exactly opposite with Linux, where stable kernel API/ABI are avoided as a matter of principle
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by bnastic 10y ago
"C with classes". (I'm not joking)
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by bnastic 10y ago
Completely wrong in my experience. Time Capsule was the only solution I could use with my less tech-savvy relatives to get them to actually back up their laptops. It is very much fire-and-forget.
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by bnastic 10y ago
I use one (Time Capsule), and have used them for years. They have a pretty convincing value add story... let alone the fact that I also have a few Express stations around the place for music streaming.
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by bnastic 10y ago
This is a terrible article, in every way. Mechanical keyboard jerking has reached the peak, it's not even funny anymore.
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by bnastic 10y ago
The number of entepreneurs is insignificantly small to matter in this study.
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by bnastic 10y ago
That's not how enterprises work.
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by bnastic 10y ago
Not sure why you put Europe in the same basket. I get all these things in the UK. The rest about "higher IQ people" is utter nonsense.
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by bnastic 10y ago
I don't dispute that, but instead the tone of the article that makes it sound as if it's such a huge quantity of data that NSA is struggling (or was struggling) to capture it all.
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by bnastic 10y ago
> The NSA cannot know in advance which tiny fraction of 1 percent of the records it may need, so it collects and keeps as many as it can — 27 terabytes [...] The location programs have brought in such volumes of information, according to
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by bnastic 10y ago
Seriously, how did you (and everyone else) end up in this mess? Imagine your printed edition where your editors have no idea what sort of ads are printed in your paper, because it's all added at the printing firm by some shady charact
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by bnastic 10y ago
In the UK Apple Pay is everywhere. And you don't have to do anything, just tap the phone. No receipts, no signing.
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by bnastic 10y ago
Yes, lots of people used this on Atari ST and Amiga (Tempus editor on Atari comes to mind, which used the highest byte of address registers as additional faux registers). Same tricks are used even today. E.g., have a look at Facebook's
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by bnastic 10y ago
Is RCU still patent encumbered, though?
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by bnastic 10y ago
s/China/<every large company on earth>/
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by bnastic 10y ago
Also your compiler/libraries/OS used to come with some pretty exhaustive documentation and lots of reference books. We're talking thousands of pages here. Armed with that, and some carefully chosen 3rd party books (who can fo
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by bnastic 10y ago
Tree traversal is such a basic algo that anyone who's done any amount of programming shouldn't have trouble working out how to do it, depth- or breadth-first, even if they haven't done that before. If a potential candidate ca
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by bnastic 10y ago
Yes, people will write them; the fact that you do not means nothing. Software field is large, do not project your experience onto the rest of the industry.
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by bnastic 10y ago
> most applications have already moved on from C to safer languages What applications? I don't think I have anything in my computer that's running on these "safer" languages (not considering C++ or Obj-C "safer&q
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by bnastic 11y ago
That is not the case in any city, period.
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by bnastic 11y ago
Software developers across banks in London are well paid. Consultants even more so. 40 hours or is normal, it's not an exception. (Source: been doing it for many years, at many banks)
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by bnastic 11y ago
From what I remember, it might have to do with the fact that they had to refactor the whole thing to not rely on P2P, which was its original model, since the rise of smartphones and unstable mobile networking? I think it now runs similarly
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by bnastic 11y ago
I am a bit on the compulsive side, so I have (or had) them all - all the Thinkpads, all the Macs... currently X220, X1 Carbon, a Macbook Air and a Macbook/Retina. I use them all regularly, but I have to say that Thinkpads are not what
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by bnastic 11y ago
Because it clearly works for them?
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by bnastic 11y ago
Every couple of years Intel hardware keeps changing my mind from "I'll just rent everything in the cloud" to "I should build a server from this and keep everything in house!". And vice versa.
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by bnastic 11y ago
The Times website sits behind a paywall, so their print circulation is not telling the whole story
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by bnastic 11y ago
When the original article was written (and I remember reading it many, many moons ago) variadic templates were not yet available. And this project seems to have been last updated 4 years ago, so a lot of boilerplate templates is understanda

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