daemin

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901.
by daemin 10y ago
I'd argue that a memory leak is when you've allocated memory that you are not using any more but it has not been freed for some reason. If this happens because the reference has been truly lost, or if there's something else (
902.
by daemin 10y ago
That's the classic example of a memory leak in a GC language. Where you add objects to some list or map so that they can be looked up quicker than being created again. Some people call it a cache. What people forget though is some way
903.
by daemin 10y ago
This is similar to the election in Australia just after Julia Gillard took power from Kevin Rudd. Basically to quash the people complaining that she didn't get voted in and just usurped power instead.
904.
by daemin 10y ago
How can they charge you that fee? All it would mean is that you won't board the plane and instead take another flight. I have done this before because buying a new ticket cost me less than moving the existing ticket. So I just didn&#x2
905.
by daemin 10y ago
Sounds like people don't realise how much leisure time we have in our current lives (Myself included). People used to work over 40 hours a week just making sure they could survive through the winter months.
906.
by daemin 10y ago
This depends on the company. Where I work now we do get paid for overtime, but we have to organise it with our managers and producers first, and it has to be for a good reason. At the moment we are not in "crunch" so we only do ov
907.
by daemin 10y ago
Well the VP probably knew that 1) The company (couldn't afford | didn't want to spend) to build a new replacement system. 2) New people would be needed to maintain the existing system 3) Students don't know how much their se
908.
by daemin 10y ago
Schools were around before washing machines. So just because a woman didn't have a job at an office or other place of employment, she did have a lot of work to do around the home.
909.
by daemin 10y ago
Larger means contribute a bigger percentage to Australia's economy. GDP makes sense but I cannot recall 100%.
910.
by daemin 10y ago
Basically people will have to drain their super to afford to buy a house, then when retired they will have to sell (or reverse-mortgage) their house to afford to live.
911.
by daemin 10y ago
Really? I would consider Adelaide a much easier place to afford to buy property. It has not really seen as high or as long period of price increase as the eastern state cities. But I guess that's the case everywhere in Australia. The p
912.
by daemin 10y ago
One of the big ones should be removing negative gearing on existing non-primary-residence properties. This is a fairly big reason why the boom is continuing.
913.
by daemin 10y ago
Yeah, the option of allowing super to be withdrawn as a house deposit seems very much like stopping a fire by shovelling coal on top of it. This is just like the first home owners grant, which only made barely-affordable houses that much mo
914.
by daemin 10y ago
I think the current government was looking into that at some point, but I don't know what happened with that. I remember when I worked at a startup the choice when I got stock options was - pay the tax up front based on the current str
915.
by daemin 10y ago
Yes, despite it being the poster child, the mining sector only comprises 16-18% of the economy. I would say all of it was from exports, since Australia doesn't really do much smelting any more. Aluminium smelters have closed down, no m
916.
by daemin 10y ago
As has been said in the article, because Australia avoided the worst hardships of the GFC, it also avoided the cleansing that it provided. I would whole-heartedly agree that the Governments (both left leaning Labor and right leaning Liberal
917.
by daemin 10y ago
So this looks like a story to get some attention for the architecture firm. They basically want to build a space elevator and then suspend a building from it. Also geostationary and "over New York" can't happen according to t
918.
by daemin 10y ago
I've heard two different versions of this. The first being that the Royal family actually makes the UK money because they cost less to maintain than what is made up for in brand image and tourism benefits. The second is that because th
919.
by daemin 10y ago
I think that is due to the thickness of a laptop compared to an ipad and some x-ray machines not being powerful enough. One time I've had to take out my tablets, out of my bag and out of their case even.
920.
by daemin 10y ago
The media can't really challenge the government any more, unless the government has done something truly unpopular. If they do challenge on something which doesn't have strong public opinion then they [the media] risk losing inter
921.
by daemin 10y ago
More likely they would say they want to do it because it would be "helping the police and security services to do their job" and be "protecting the people".
922.
by daemin 10y ago
I get the feeling this comes out of the divide between people treating programming like a craft, and those treating it just as a means to get something working. Those that treat it like a craft aim to understand what they are doing, how to
923.
by daemin 10y ago
Because airports charge a lot of money to the businesses that are there [0]. So the businesses have to appeal to the widest selection of travellers, so you get the most well known international brands and most general, safe, and average foo
924.
by daemin 10y ago
It's the way that consumer culture can grow, because you use your line of credit to buy a second or third car, nicer car, jet ski, boat, canoe, etc. Then when you have all of this stuff you have to buy a bigger property just so that yo
925.
by daemin 10y ago
Indeed, in AU there is also the pressure of negative gearing, which enables a lot of high earners to buy many properties. Even removing negative gearing from properties is a really tough ask to get through politically.
926.
by daemin 10y ago
That's what I noticed in two countries that I have lived in recent years. There is a big craft brewing scene both in Australia and in Poland. While it would be nice to get Polish craft beers in Australia, and also Australian craft beer
927.
by daemin 10y ago
I always considered the people that drive for Uber to be more of a means to an end for Uber. To me Uber wants people getting used to ordering a car service with an app and then being driven to their destination. So really having people as d
928.
by daemin 10y ago
If you use this tool to find the outliers which just break the cache badly, then you can apply some human introspection on the data and figure out what is a problem and what is not. Trying to add in a prefetch handler would be painful, time
929.
by daemin 10y ago
Yes, consoles have their own rendering libraries, well for the XBoxOne it's DirectX, but for the PS4 it's a proprietary library (Source: currently working at a AAA studio). But that is a technicality, because most developers that
930.
by daemin 10y ago
I know, I had the exact same thoughts while writing it, so it's heavily influenced by what I do. But on the other hand car engines aren't that complicated either, not a lot of people tend to look under the hood and tinker with the

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