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by dded 13y ago
> Using the term "scripting language" to describe things like Python and Ruby fell out of favour quite a few years ago. Which is unfortunate, because now we dance through phrases like "things like Python and Ruby". T
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by dded 13y ago
I see that the title has been changed to something that's neither the original title nor the current title of the article itself, but to something more straightforward and unbiased. That's all well and good, but I do wish that th
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by dded 13y ago
In HS geometry, our teacher started showing us basic constructions with compass and ruler: bisecting a line segment, drawing a line perpendicular to another line, and bisecting an angle. Then, at the end of class, he mentioned that no one
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San Jose's Nutanix nabs $101 million funding round(mercurynews.com)
1 points by dded 13y ago|0 comments
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by dded 13y ago
I cut-and-pasted the original title, which now appears to have changed.
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by dded 13y ago
Sure. But I doubt that said law firm would agree to cover GiantCorp's legal costs should we lose.
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by dded 13y ago
Sorry, I suppose "secret browsing window" is my default, and I did not notice any access restrictions.
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by dded 13y ago
I'm with you on the undesirability of sw patents. But nowadays, even hw patents are a problem. There doesn't seem to be any meaningful requirement of a patentable idea being non-obvious to "one skilled in the arts." Wh
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by dded 13y ago
Would this code not have run on the VAX 11-780? I think the 780 had a 512-byte page size (and therefore I think it ought to have offered write protection at that granularity).
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by dded 13y ago
I'm encouraged that patent trolls are getting knocked. But my fear is that patent law will hit such a state that only large corporations can wield them. If I'm a small patent holder, and I'm liable for court costs if I lose
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US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by patent troll(inc.com)
468 points by dded 13y ago|86 comments
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by dded 13y ago
> Straightforward C is slow; I've never found it to be so, and it's not a common complaint.
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by dded 13y ago
Nope. I doubt I did that, but even if I did, it couldn't explain the slowdown. Sometimes I needed to hold the netlist in memory (as a graph), and thus allocated space for every line anyways. (Actually, up to five times for each line
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by dded 13y ago
Is the "Microsoft" in the ad on p 111 the Microsoft? I don't recognize that logo. The address on the ad is Bellevue, WA.
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by dded 13y ago
> but I actually /do/ throw my letters in the trash You still send and receive letters? Somebody sits down, puts pen to paper and writes a letter ? Folds it, puts it in an envelope, adds postage, and mails it? Outside of hok
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by dded 13y ago
Slight? It would turn a 10-min run into over 2 hours.
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by dded 13y ago
Back about 15 or more years or so ago, I wrote all my small utility programs in C. These were typically small programs, but I often had a lot of (text) input data in the form of netlists. I started reading about C++, and getline() and som
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U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions up 2% (due to coal)(eia.gov)
6 points by dded 13y ago|0 comments
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by dded 13y ago
It at least used to be the case that GNU Readline was GPL-licensed, instead of LGPL, as to make readline a "carrot" to encourage GPL adoption. That shouldn't be an issue for bash, which is also GPL licensed.
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by dded 13y ago
One of the worst things about expiring links is that they punish you for taking the time to read articles and long discussions. If I'm just skimming through, there's no problem with expiring links.
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CES: Ford demos solar-powered plug-in car(siliconbeat.com)
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Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8(winsupersite.com)
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Sound Advice: 'High-def hostage taking' by Comcast(mercurynews.com)
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by dded 13y ago
Well, things have improved a lot, but there's way more truth in what you say than there should be.
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by dded 13y ago
In the hw world we debug with waveform viewers (Simvision, DVE, and the like). You can see the value of any signal at any point in time. Move forward and backward in time. Search for when a bus switches, or even for when it switches to a
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by dded 13y ago
And there are as many ways to spell "else if".
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by dded 13y ago
> Why aren't you using a terminal that can handle UTF-8? Perhaps they're still on RHEL5. Many of us are.
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by dded 13y ago
I heartily second Stiff's recommendation for Kernighan and Pike. (And being from the 80s, it assumes more of a multi-user Unix environment as apposed to a sysadmin p.o.v.)
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by dded 13y ago
"Most"? Really? Most of the XP machines I know of are being used like any normal desktop machine: email, browsing, office, thumb drives, etc. I know things are different with industrial machine control, they might be different a
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by dded 13y ago
You can put a pointer type into a library?

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