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by dexen 14y ago
Polish Post Office provides a service solving this very problem: the sender can marked the parcel with ``recipient opens the parcel in presence of mailman before payment and can return it right away without payment if she so wishes'' option
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by dexen 14y ago
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure. Documentation and code can, and surely will, diverge from one another, leading to all kinds of nasty misunderstanding. As long as there aren't any rea
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by dexen 14y ago
> It's git that is unfriendly to others... I have some code in Git with my custom patches, with upstream being Hg. `git-hg' works like a charm -- simple, clean etc. etc.. Dunno what you are talking about here. Git provides git-fast-ex
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by dexen 14y ago
http://HasTheLHCDestroyedTheEarthYet.com/ <script type="text/javascript"> //Technically, this will be accurate... try { document.write("NO"); } catch(err) { document.write("YES"); }
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by dexen 14y ago
Slackware is, and most of its derivatives like SalixOS. The mainline comes with older KDE version: 4.8.5 -- but a longtime contributor, Alienbob, provides recent compilations at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/
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by dexen 14y ago
GET /news.html HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) HTTP/1.1 200 OK vs. GET /news.html HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http:
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by dexen 14y ago
The question could be phrased better, but the gist is: (number of married with children) / (number of members) in the population of ``middle or upper-class background, 40 years-old on average, high academic performance''. I.e., does being a
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by dexen 14y ago
Pretty much the same as a home-grown system we're using at workplace :-) The only difference I could find is they use sprintf("%d", $nr) file naming schema, while we use sprintf("%03d-%s", $nr, $login) -- the $login part is to have natural
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by dexen 14y ago
A fine example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule at work.
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Pfizer caught "gaming the system," loses Viagra patent in Canada(arstechnica.com)
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by dexen 14y ago
Good old 1600x1200, here it goes: http://www.laptopmax.com/HP/reviews/34/HP_Compaq_NC8000_revi...
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by dexen 14y ago
It's not about volatile; marking the array as `volatile' caused warning, and the call is still optimized away: a.c:14:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘memset’ discards ‘volatile’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by defaul
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by dexen 14y ago
Whether memset(), or any other function, gets optimized away by GCC should depend on function attributes (1) -- more exactly on the `pure'; possibly some others. However, GCC (tested with 4.7.1) somehow considers memset() pure regardles of
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by dexen 14y ago
An official group is yet another milestone to having Steam on Linux. Also, there's a prominent `Join' button for them early adopters :-)
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by dexen 14y ago
Dear benologist, you must be new around here. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In particular, the gist of your post is better expressed by flagging OP. [edit] On a related note, a post ``how others are gaming HN ranking algorith
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by dexen 14y ago
Regarding the movie -- to show the 3rd level just as well, camera should pan out to include the programmer ;-)
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by dexen 14y ago
> Here's a "hard fact". There are a lack of women in IT. Agreed, there's significant disparity. My whole point is, that's all clear by now, no need to re-iterate every other day on top of HN. Now we want hard data and plans to act up
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by dexen 14y ago
Linkbait -> flagged. It's merely another ``There is misogyny in CS, we gotta do something''. Lacking in OP: - hard facts how it impacts us, - useful proposals, - *any* insight.
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by dexen 14y ago
Thank you a lot -- I was looking for something exactly like that :-)
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by dexen 14y ago
Supposedly, `There is no such thing as bad publicity' [1]. In case of Nokia's recent phones, I agree wholeheartedly -- we wouldn't have heard of Lumia 920 on HN if it wasn't for the faked ad and resulting chatter in the blogosphere. [1] ht
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by dexen 14y ago
> only mobile computers that run silently without a fan or no mechanical keyboard and hinged screen (from google translate) While `run silently and no mechanical keyboard' has at least some merit, what's the point of mentioning hinge
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by dexen 14y ago
Windows? Come on . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
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by dexen 14y ago
Previously: fungus zombifies ants: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392038 (and other stories at http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=zombie+ant&... ) Unlike the seemingly-confused bees in this story, the mind-controled
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by dexen 14y ago
Dear Lazyweb, the `Controler' part of my main codebase consists of interwoven PHP and MySQL. Is there static analysis tool that understands both, one in relation to the other?
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[1982] US Patent D281,686: Phone(google.com)
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by dexen 14y ago
> The case for sacrificing flexibility for performance microptimizations gets weaker by the day, and it's certainly not worth the transitions cost I'm at loss here -- how is micro-optimization not necessary anymore? Both the CPU, the
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by dexen 14y ago
Time and time again, don't `trust' user data -- sanitize it before passing to subsystem or DSL. No matter how unprobable it seems for user to be able to insert unexpected characters.
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by dexen 14y ago
Back in the day, when my (central-european) country was under soviet rule, people would queue and wait for hours to get essentials: from meat to toilet paper. Today -- this. Honestly, I can't comprehend -- either end of equation. Why is the
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by dexen 14y ago
Two handy picks for software development: Verschlimmbesserung (German) - A supposed improvement that makes things worse. Maya (Sanskrit) - The belief–often unfortunate–that the symbol of a thing is the same as the thing itself.
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by dexen 14y ago
It's a far cry from a nitpick, because disparity between inertia and gravitational pull makes all the difference when trying to slow down or come to stop. Suppose a moon explorer needs to slow down rapidy, for example upon encountering an o

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