dexen

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901.
by dexen 15y ago
There'd be a whole lot of programs. There's a good reading that approaches a related subject, but isn't specific to C programs: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html In short, `busy beaver number' -- number of steps that
902.
by dexen 15y ago
Influx of new developers != increasing utility of the language, especially for seasoned devs. As the OP notes, It seems as though the whole philosophy of .NET centres on catering to the novice, but even as the novice evolves into the “adva
903.
by dexen 15y ago
I love how ``It is always possible to add another level of indirection'' is described as corollary to moving problems around instead of solving them :D
904.
Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ(flightlab.com)
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by dexen 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principl... describes nature's limit to precision of measurement of position and speed vector of objects. In physics, it does not make sense to discuss position (nor boundaries) of objec
906.
by dexen 15y ago
Type coertion is a language feature just like some other risky-yet-helpfull features. Take for example pointers: any programming language without pointer is safer†, but pointers help you express certain things concisely and thus avoid some
907.
by dexen 15y ago
Details of strategy sure are important, but, above all, do negotiate. A comment† by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jfoster that really opened my eyes: > You might also look at it another way, and Google probably will, too. If
908.
by dexen 15y ago
Doesn't take a hacker to watch through a webcam. Lets not forget the 2010 story of school spying on students at home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_... They even disciplined the student for breaking some scho
909.
by dexen 15y ago
`troll' would be the unkind/weak, and `leader' would be the kind/dominant, right?
910.
by dexen 15y ago
The comic, however snarky and cute, manages only to obscure the point further. The (E) [in the comic] is different than other ones, because there's no exchange of goods nor services for the money between the company and its owner, the Share
911.
by dexen 15y ago
Thanks for framing it that way; I felt this relationship subconsciously but never could name it clearly. Btw., that's pretty much what happened at my current workplace: after two years of employment I negotiating salary increase -- basing o
912.
by dexen 15y ago
Don't hold your breath just yet. If the new thing gets funded chiefly by ad revenue -- and that's the popular way of funding freemium now -- it will remain regionalized. Ad sponsors prefer certain demographics and third world countries aren
913.
by dexen 15y ago
It's somewhat troubling to me due to the `real name' requirement of Google+. Seems I can't create a semi-anonymous email at gmail anymore?
914.
by dexen 15y ago
Not a coincidence. Simple to implement != simple to explain to your boss ( `it's standard industry practice' ). The name is meant to sell the standard to non-techies.
915.
by dexen 15y ago
join is also worth mentioning: as expected, performs relational join of supplied input, equivalent to SQL's STRAIGHT / LEFT / RIGHT JOIN. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/join
916.
by dexen 15y ago
Which headline you'd rather see in NYT tomorrow: > A leading enterpreneur community website goes black to protest SOPA. ``Our jobs would be endangered'', says PG. or > While discussions rage on the merits of SOPA, a l
917.
by dexen 15y ago
> Instant access to all music (or, a very large subset) all the time means ... a big shift in how people consume and think about music. Once all the technical barriers are gone, there still remains limitation of one human's capacity a
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by dexen 15y ago
Plan 9 from User Space is active; it both tracks mainline Plan 9 distribution and includes own improvements. I'm using it daily, both at work and privately; I especially love using Acme over networked X11 protocol -- great performance for a
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by dexen 15y ago
Can't find the quote either, but there's a good take by Linus on cat-v.org: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus ...and by others, including PG: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
920.
by dexen 15y ago
Tee writes in one-thread-per-file level of parallelism; simple experiment: $ tee foo.bin bar.bin baz.bin < /dev/zero writes to all three files `at once' (in small time-slices, actually). Used GNU tee from coreutils-8.10. Perhaps
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by dexen 15y ago
The only problem with `tee' is that it's hard to find it unless you know where to look -- took me some 2 years. <snark warning> Perhaps the real challenge here is sticking with the team that produces incredible qunatities of code ,
922.
by dexen 15y ago
> you're going to have to work within the framework of the govt. The last thing one can say to the dear Internet: that we are limited to what we've got now. The dear Internet, being the posterchild of disruption of old playbooks, shou
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by dexen 15y ago
In other words, upgrade your job in place . I like this angle much better than the you’re in the business of unemploying people from a recent blogpost.† Also, the up or out ‡ approach from certain companies suddenly made sense to me. --
924.
by dexen 15y ago
Black on light sandy color #FFFFEA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acme.png
925.
by dexen 15y ago
> (...) most of the "seniors" I know are running $200k plus. Guess asking half the market rate was a serious blunder. Makes OP seem unfamiliar with current salaries of senior-level devs -- and so HR drones assumed he doesn't have any
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by dexen 15y ago
> Playing devil's advocate: (...) No you aren't. The parent post is playing devel's advocate; you are a down-to-earth, honest, practical user of software.
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by dexen 15y ago
Losing access to Chromebook is an interesting case. Where did we go so wrong that breaching particular point of AuP causes our own hardware to become inaccessible? People rally against zealous lockdown of PC (recently restricted boot in E
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by dexen 15y ago
> there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than median developers at any timescale, I beg to differ, using examples of Fabrice Bellard creating QEMU, Brendan Ei
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by dexen 15y ago
> why didn't you learn the skills yourself instead of manipulating Paul into doing stuff for you? Perhaps the reasoning goes, ``manipulating others buys you any skill you need any time you need. makes a better investment than the prog
930.
by dexen 15y ago
> Giving a variable char size encoding such as UTF8, plain Boyer-Moore isn't possible (...) That you get UTF-8 input and produce UTF-8 output doesn't imply you are better off using UTF-8 for processing. Translating UTF-8 to fixed-widt

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