dannywoodz

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by dannywoodz 12y ago
Interestingly, it works if you request the desktop site: they're explicitly blocking Firefox Mobile.
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by dannywoodz 13y ago
Bear in mind that the comparison here is against ProRes 4:4:4, which encodes I-frames only. This is basicaclly just compressed whole-frame snapshots--like a slide-show of JPEGs--with no exploitation of inter-frame/temporal similaritie
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by dannywoodz 14y ago
Isn't the very first example in that article flawed? void decrement_reference_counter(rc_base* obj) { if (0 == atomic_decrement(obj->rc)) delete obj; } This is classic test-then-act, isn't it? What
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by dannywoodz 14y ago
> For instance, what if there are a pair of processes that work in unison and one of them dies? That would depend upon whether the programmer linked them or not. If they're linked, the exception propagates and potentially kills the pee
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by dannywoodz 14y ago
Microsoft should release their own Linux distribution along with it. Imagine how attractive that might be: a version of Linux, with support contracts, that is guaranteed to work with Microsoft Office. The only drawback, of course, is that
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by dannywoodz 14y ago
To a certain extent, he did. From the article: "Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four ce
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by dannywoodz 16y ago
Absolutely. Explosions in the Sky and Monkey3 are favourites of mine for coding. It's also easier to deal with lyrics in foreign languages, simply because my mind can't latch on to what's being said: Sigur Ros (an Icelandic band) are also
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by dannywoodz 16y ago
The team responsible for the JIT in Self went on to develop HotSpot (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot#History ). Probably just to prove the point, someone wrote a Smalltalk implementation in Self which outperformed the commercial
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by dannywoodz 16y ago
Titles can be important for dealing with clients. Many organisations won't even give you time on the phone unless they see that you're a 'Managing Director' or 'VP of Sales'. If you impress your client with your product, you'll inevitably
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by dannywoodz 17y ago
Strangely, the investment bank I used to work at relied heavily on Perl, without most people even realising it. A huge volume of live rates information formed the basis for a large number of Seriously Enterprise Applications, all with arch
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by dannywoodz 17y ago
Agreed. The system I worked on had scheduled releases every two weeks, with a smattering of emergency releases in between. In some cases, simply being able to reliably price a given trade put you ahead of the competition, particularly in
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by dannywoodz 17y ago
I spent four years writing Smalltalk (VisualWorks and GemStone) at an investment bank, and didn't look at a line of Java the whole time I was there. We were a wart on the architecture board's bum, not fitting into their Grand Unified Visio
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by dannywoodz 18y ago
+1 Scotland (Glasgow area)
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by dannywoodz 18y ago
I use Emacs on Windows, Mac and Linux, so I generally like the normal Emacs keybindings on everything. That way, it's equally alien/consistent on all platforms, and I just start 'thinking in Emacs'. I use Carbon Emacs on the Mac. I keep my
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by dannywoodz 19y ago
Start with Squeak, and grab one of the pre-packaged images from http://www.seaside.st/ . These just require that you start the image and point a web browser at the host and port that's usually been left in a message on the transcript befor
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by dannywoodz 19y ago
Yes, as long as 'building' includes 'extending and maintaining an application that's been in service for 12 years'. The whole thing's a financial application written in Smalltalk, interfacing to pricing libraries written in C, with the same