compiler-guy

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by compiler-guy 10y ago
Exactly. All the Google cafes more-or-less destroyed demand for the restaurants that used to exist around the old SGI headquarters. One could argue that the cafes do replace those businesses, just in a different form. And one would be right
1622.
by compiler-guy 11y ago
Somewhat before (but not completely before) the crazy 24/7 internet-news-cycle started, I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about an activity I participated in. For about two days after it was published, I got calls from vario
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by compiler-guy 11y ago
I doubt I'll use this technology myself--I generally prefer to see movies as they were created--but recuts and derivative works can be works of art in and of themselves. One could have use this technology to create "Star Wars--the
1624.
by compiler-guy 11y ago
The apple Newton didn't run the Mac OS, but rather the Newton OS, which was almost completely unrelated. It was comparatively modern for its time, although quite quirky.
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by compiler-guy 11y ago
Certainly, some of the facts are dictated by the engineering. However, the set of people "authorized" is not, at least not from a legal perspective. This is what the case law says. The fact that the set of people who technically _
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by compiler-guy 11y ago
Common sense is not a set of legal procedures and rules either. The legal world cares about how the law applies to the facts of the case, not about how common sense applies. Not saying I like it.
1627.
by compiler-guy 11y ago
You are confusing an engineering process with a legal one. Unfortunately, when the prosecutors come, they will only care about the legal process.
1628.
by compiler-guy 11y ago
Given the supplied instructions, it is not possible to write a program that handles floating point correctly, so my guess is that the failure conditions are non-integer numbers in locations 0 or 1. My code also doesn't handle negative
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by compiler-guy 11y ago
Your pseudo-code misses that there must be two branches in each loop. In a high-level language, it looks like there is a single branching construct: while (condition) { do_something } But in assembly, which is what we are writing, there are