demallien

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by demallien 12y ago
We didn't do that; instead, we let threw out all of that knowledge, the good and the bad, and we have 100 million sick people in the US and over a billion around the world. I'm not sure what you expected scientists to do. None o
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by demallien 12y ago
Yes, linux geeks can school Apple on systems engineering when they can deliver laptops with a better battery life than Macs get. As for this latest release, what, adding a new systems programming language and a whole new graphics API isn&#x
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by demallien 12y ago
whaaaaat? My 2012 MacBook Air with 4 gigs of RAM and SSD is lightening fast. The thing that kills performance these days on Macs is if you still have a spinning platter of rust as your storage. Don't do that. (Aside: this is not sur
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by demallien 12y ago
Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure that it's NSImage that holds the actual pixmap, which definitely makes it part of the GUI stack.
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by demallien 12y ago
Like 3pt141597, I remember everything about high school trig. Not only do I remember it, but as it turned out, 10 years after leaving school, I actually started having to use it regularly (graphics programming). I also remember high schoo
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by demallien 12y ago
Just reposting TempleOS's post (which, being hell-banned, many won't see). Plus, it's a little less ranty than usual :) Without further ado: ---------- To me abstraction above the hardware is like condoms. Some people say &q
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by demallien 12y ago
True enough, but there was an accord signed with the unions substantially limiting the use of email after hours, which I imagine the OP wax referring to.
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by demallien 12y ago
And FYI a peaty whiskey is a whiskey tourbé :)
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by demallien 12y ago
Http://crackmes.de They have lots of challenges, with difficulty levels going from 1-10, and each challenge has an annotated solution explaining how to crack the program.
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by demallien 12y ago
Not really. If you assume a relatively even distribution of the rate at which people sell homes. For example, let's take those 100 people and assume that on average they sell their home every ten years. In any given year, 10 of those p
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by demallien 12y ago
You know what? I don't think it is easier to learn to program now. Many years ago when I was a child and I got my first computer, it booted straight into a BASIC interpreter. The computer also came with a manual that taught you about
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by demallien 12y ago
Apple have always had flaky products when it's something new. The first PPC macs, the first Intel Macs, OS X 1.0, and so on. Those of us that have been in the apple universe for a long time remember "don't use rev 1 of a prod
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by demallien 12y ago
"Hardware has gotten orders of magnitude faster, yet the experience, as a user, hasn't changed nearly that much." I see what you mean, but I feel that this misses out an important fact - a lot of those speed increases are onl
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by demallien 12y ago
Or C-x a after launching GDB. Followed up by "layout regs" and "layout split" and you have a pretty decent debugger.
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by demallien 12y ago
The most obvious Larry Niven book for this concept would have to be Footfall - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall Humans beat up on some invading aliens that got their interstellar tech from one such reboot librar
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by demallien 12y ago
Take a look at Chromium as an example. Every tab gets it's own process. The GPU gets it's own process. Every plugin object gets its own process. Page loading is done in a separate process. Web workers run in a separate process. Ch
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by demallien 12y ago
My understanding is that it is impossible to have a NULL reference. Can you show us some code that ends up with a NULL reference? I'd be curious to see how that can be done!
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by demallien 12y ago
For 1), modern C++ style generally frowns upon NULL pointers, preferring to use references, which are guaranteed to be non-NULL.
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by demallien 12y ago
Heh. The one and only time that I ever wrote a parser in my professional career was for a build tool. In my defence, at the time I didn't know much about command line tools, and had only really programmed in IDEs. So when the new pr
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by demallien 12y ago
You're selling the US short. When I was there last year, I was passing through Gettysburg, and stopped to get something to eat. You might expect a town like Gettysburg to be really over tourists, but whilst I was trying to figure out h
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by demallien 13y ago
Yes, this was my first thought too. The results need to be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism when there is no double blind and the interpretation of the result is subjective.
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by demallien 13y ago
This is true, but inferences from silence are much more problematic when you haven't said anything . If I tell the police a story about what I had been up to that afternoon, and then they say "right so if that's true, why w
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by demallien 13y ago
Object.defineProperty with 'writable' = false?
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by demallien 13y ago
Because as with many things, it's a matter of perspective. For Kay, this code works as intended. So if you want him to change it, don't open a bug, discuss it on the mailing list. This does not seem like a completely unreasonab
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by demallien 13y ago
That overlap is more than large, it's actually the most important factor in the calculation. You only need to go back about 6 generations (200 years), and there is practically no interchange between geographically separated groups, wh
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by demallien 13y ago
Yup, it's a common problem. My technique is to have nothing but work stuff installed on my work laptop, and then I go and work in a cafe, away from my TV, games console, and permanent network connection (although I can still turn my p
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by demallien 13y ago
I tend to think of Linus as being similar to Steve Jobs - brilliant but arrogant srseholes whose products I enjoy using, but I would never work with them without some very serious compensation for putting up with the shit. Which is where th
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by demallien 13y ago
Ahhh, very cool! If you want to sell about 10 times more though, make it capable of exporting to iMovie...
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by demallien 13y ago
If you take the travelling salesman problem, you can dramatically simplify the problem by constraining the salesman to visit all of the cities within the same state sequentially. Similarly, you can reduce the complexity of routing calculati
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by demallien 13y ago
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