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571.
by colomon 15y ago
No idea, and I'm kind of scared to ask.
572.
by colomon 15y ago
And in the (rather depressing) real world, I have gotten flack in the past year for making changes to my source code that required C++98 compatibility, which made said code no longer compile on Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0.
573.
by colomon 15y ago
Heck, I spent my first four years programming on a 25*40 screen displayed on a crappy old TV set... When I finally got 80 columns, it seemed like magic.
574.
by colomon 15y ago
Was just thinking that, no matter how George Lucas messes up Star Wars, it can never compare to the damage done to the original Foundation books by Asimov's ham-fisted tying together of everything.
575.
by colomon 15y ago
Though I think I prefer Long Sun and Short Sun. :)
576.
by colomon 15y ago
"Regardless, the book has been absolutely foundational to the genre. Nearly every convention of the modern space opera can be traced back to Dune." Examples, please? I haven't read Dune, so maybe there's something here I don't recognize, b
577.
by colomon 15y ago
No Connie Willis (11 Hugos!) either, and Roger Zelazny represented by the fantasy series Amber rather than the almost universally recognized as superior science fictional Lord of Light? There are a lot of good books on that list, but a lot
578.
by colomon 15y ago
One reason is simply that some tests can be very hard to write -- or outright impossible.
579.
by colomon 15y ago
I don't think it would have helped here. The problem is that the code actually goes through the entire massive list of possibilities to determine the best result, and that list will rapidly get too long to be practical no matter how fast t
580.
by colomon 15y ago
It seems like it is very simple to me: You should always code with your performance requirements in mind. But you shouldn't do detailed optimization until you have some sort of profiling feedback. You have to do your basic coding with your
581.
by colomon 15y ago
Why Larry?
582.
by colomon 15y ago
Thanks! I thought I'd tried . but since it clearly works I must have done something wrong the first time. I haven't done any serious Forth programming since about 1988, I must be a bit rusty.
583.
by colomon 15y ago
Errr... what's the word for printing the top of the stack? Or some way of getting a result back out?
584.
by colomon 15y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if Skyping with their grandchildren is stronger. ;)
585.
by colomon 15y ago
One example of which would be a doubly linked list, which (according to Wikipedia) goes back at least to IBM's TSS/360 operating system (1967), and was discussed in The Art of Computer Programming volume 1, published in 1968.
586.
by colomon 15y ago
That assumes that the string characters are not adjacent to the string length field in memory... (Edited to add) More explicitly: Grandparent specified length-prefix strings, where the string's length is stored in memory immediately before
587.
by colomon 15y ago
And think of the classic code for copying a NUL-terminated string. Unless I'm missing some clever optimization, replacing it with a length-based version would require another counter variable -- meaning the algorithm would use another regi
588.
by colomon 15y ago
Err... maybe I just didn't read the article closely enough, but if both the music and the words predate 1900, how can there possibly be a valid copyright on it today? I mean, I'm sure it would cost big bucks to prove in court that it shoul
589.
by colomon 15y ago
Errr.... you have occasionally been in convenience stores and supermarkets, yes? Restaurants that serve both Coke and Pepsi are rare, yes, but stores where you can buy either are an everyday thing for most of us...
590.
by colomon 15y ago
I feel that both forms are missing the mark for my taste. Essentially, they represent two of the classic failures in crafting a good ("pencil and paper") role-playing game: This game is all fighting and This game is all puzzles. The reall
591.
by colomon 15y ago
Technically speaking, the score isn't identical, judging by the bits I heard. But the melody lines certainly were, and that's all you need to trigger the need to license the music.
592.
by colomon 15y ago
It certainly seems very fair to say that most dynamic languages have most of the features he's bragging about. That seems to be the a repeating pattern of the last several Scala articles I've seen here: The author is all excited about how
593.
by colomon 15y ago
Isn't that about the level where it gets interesting? My car can go something over 400 miles on a tank of gas right now. If their new batteries can get 40 miles on a "tank", and be refueled as easily as my car can now, that seems right on
594.
by colomon 15y ago
I just flashed back to one of many times in the last few years that the person behind the cash register couldn't handle basic making change without the machine telling him how to count. But then, if we're seriously talking about "the classi
595.
by colomon 15y ago
Oddly enough, your first analogy there nicely explains why I find this issue a big yawn. I cannot in a million years imagine having as much interest in sound quality as in lyrics. That's not to say I don't like good sound quality. But an
596.
by colomon 15y ago
That's what's so surreal about this entire discussion. "I have 7 weeks paid vacation!" as if employers were paying them for 52 weeks' work and then were shocked every year to discover that they only get 45 weeks of work.
597.
by colomon 15y ago
"A low carbohydrate group (LoCHO = 1800 kcal for men; 1500 kcal for women), a low fat group (LoFat, 1800 and 1500); a third group also consumed a low carbohydrate diet but an additional 300 kcalories were provided (LoCHO+300, 2100 and 1800)
598.
by colomon 15y ago
Errr.... consuming 6000 calories and burning off only 1300 would cause you to gain more than a pound. That might be a daily intake for someone weighing 600 pounds, but it's hardly the situation for your run-of-the-mill fat person. Putting
599.
by colomon 15y ago
Huh? Just because one can binge so much that the difference is irrelevant hardly means that the difference isn't important in general. The study this cites early on suggests that a low-carbohydrate diet with N calories a day is roughly equi
600.
by colomon 15y ago
See, here's the thing: I like Finder. It's not perfect, but sometimes it is very handy. Even if TermKit ends up implementing the complete functionality of Finder, I'm not sure why I'd particularly like to have that functionality in my ter

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