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by cheatercheater 15y ago
The DIB engine is something I've been anxiously looking forward to for a long time now. It makes productivity suites.. work. For me the biggest thing was not being able to run Sonar and many VST plugins under Wine. Now I'm waiting for them
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Which do you recommend?
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Thanks for spelling it out, I am surprised there are people in this year and age who would not get that "C is close to the metal" is a trite joke.
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
This is not "extra stuff". It is how it works . x86 was made to be simple to hand-code, not to in any way reflect the hardware. And then, decades later, new developments to it are so that it's easy to compile to . The language went throug
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Yeah, but you're obviously arguing about that it's notable that you can learn about pointers. It's a tiny block of knowledge, really minuscule in comparison to other things which you can learn in the first year, such as the notion of an iso
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Can you show some examples of implementation that are 40 years old?
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Being the lazy type I ask that you answer those yourself and report back.
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
They put sprinters in vats of water and ice cubes after running to freeze their muscle so that they perform better, and they put thermometers deep in their butts to check for the exact point until which they can be frozen before they get hy
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
> It would be nice if we had a resource like "pitfalls to avoid as a contractor" You call that a lawyer. > with some real life examples Walk for one hour in a single direction and these real-life examples stop being relevant. That's
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
"You should write X in your contracts" is never a good idea. Putting every stupid detail in a contract is not the right way to go. The right way to go is to notice when you're working with idiots and stop doing that work ASAP.
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Put all of this in an email, sign with your name, fire off. See what they say and be open to continuing work if they promise to change and do come through with it. In other words, just be honest.
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Do you realize that with pipelining, preemptive computation, multiple levels of caching, opcode optimization, NUMA, massive parallelism, and all that other stuff x86 is to hardware what Java is to hardware interrupts? Answer: you don't beca
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
To everyone who was interested by pg's idea of a simple language for parallelism, check out pi calculus: http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2011/09/lambda-to...
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
> the way to solve big, world-changing problems is to start by solving ordinary, day-to-day problems "To build a house, put a brick down on the ground and see where that takes you. What's a blueprint again?"
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
You can learn things well being at a shitty uni. I did this. You miss out on the whole experience of being surrounded with awesome people with awesome ideas, though. It's a very important aspect, which is difficult to make up for if you try
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
> What used to take a few days of research in the library reading books is now a google search away. I own 100s of books the content of which is in no way googlable, available via ebooks, or anything else. They are undergrad level books
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Ever think experience with different people is not comparable?
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
You totally forgot that the evolution of messaging isn't linear. You skipped drums, which did not exist in europe, which almost monopolized technology as a source of inspiration. However, this anachronism is being reflected in modern commun
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
The right shift key is covered only by the pinky finger of your right hand. The ring finger has the forward slash. If you give it a try make sure to send your comments over via bitbucket or something :)
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
> But the more I think about it, the more I like C. It gives you the best understanding of what computations are actually being done by your processor Yes, because C is exactly how computers work inside! SO CLOSE TO THE METAL > the
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
TLDR: author starts out by comparing the human being to mythical cyber-creatures that never feel pain or hunger, then continues to exploit the comparison by supposing if you do enough coke you can live forever. Finally, humans are described
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
i have flashblock on. the only time i notice it's on is when... oh wait, I don't notice it being on at all anymore. For me, flash does not exist.
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
It works for horizontal enter as well.. the only key that is missing from a horizontal-enter keyboard is the one between left shift and z, which is just backspace, so you can disregard it. It's just that with a horizontal enter key, the ; k
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Yeah, I do that. One reason why I hate laptop keyboards!
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
I have created an ergonomic layout based on the us layout, called us_split. In it, Vim's hjkl actually are the home position. The layout works under Gnome. It's just like qwerty but a bit different. Basically the two columns from the righ
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
If you want to see multiple interesting solutions to the same problem, and use Vim as your text editor, then check out http://vimgolf.com
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Half of those are incorrect implementations that junk the stack and most of the rest are idiotic rebaked jokes from the late 90s. Nowhere near to http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html which is not only enlightening but
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
Software which is supposed to be installed by running under sudo a shell script wgetted from a site somewhere without ever reviewing it ends up leaking all passwords. As surprising as getting lice after you let a hobo sleep in your bed.
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by cheatercheater 15y ago
...with a bonus rant on FOSS! I have expanded the part after the asterism quite much after initially posting, it talks about Mozilla's and generally FOSS business practices in relation to the OS dev community. This might end up being split