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by drbawb 14y ago
Someone posted this chart[0] on the mailing list[1]. It pretty-prints a chart that shows the different nil comparisons, and what they result in (true, false, or n/a being an error caught by the compiler). [0]: http://play.golang.org/p/7Goh
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by drbawb 14y ago
The imagery of pair programming with Carmack was just too rich. Thank you for the laughs, mate.
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by drbawb 14y ago
Just started my own transfer for one of my domains; I might let the other one lapse. This was the last kick in the pants I needed to get off of GoDaddy.
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by drbawb 14y ago
I also learned on a TI-83 (handed down from my sister) and a TI-92 (from the boxes at school). However, I much preferred my HP-50g, USER RPL was an absolute dream to program in, the USB interface was fantastic, an emulator was readily avail
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by drbawb 14y ago
This makes me a bit sad since I don't need software to make a heatmap. The graph would be two dots, split between 33% of my time at work, and 66% of my time at home. +/- a few percent to go and get groceries.
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by drbawb 14y ago
I should also point out that I only know what the "big red button" does because I use GMail. If I was seeing GMail for the first time in a completely foreign language: I wouldn't associate "red" with Compose/New Message. Colors carry signif
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by drbawb 14y ago
Don't worry: I have nearly perfect vision. (I say nearly only because I haven't had a checkup in a while.) And this site gives me a bit of a headache, too. Just skimming it, it's a bit too dark and a bit of a strain to read; part of that ma
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by drbawb 14y ago
Oddly enough, the first thing that comes to mind when I see the new `Outlook` is: "all text is actionable." Everything on that Outlook screen seems to be clickable, with the possible exception of the logo (upper left) and copyright notice (
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by drbawb 14y ago
True, I wouldn't give Facebook a free pass on this alone. Is it really so hard to imagine that somebody, somewhere fudged a query and accidentally ran [pseudo-SQL] "UPDATE posts SET type='status' WHERE type='private-message' AND date = 'x'
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by drbawb 14y ago
This fact alone may also add a bit of credibility. If they were originally wall posts, your "threads" of conversation would be comments, not individual posts on each other's walls.
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by drbawb 14y ago
This is where someone typically parrots: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." -- Eric Schmidt; Executive Chairman, Google, Inc. To which I reply: I'm sorry, but my p
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by drbawb 14y ago
I see a few messages on my timeline; thankfully they are all _really_ unimportant. (One liners like "hey thanks again.", etc.) In principal, though, this bug shakes me to the core. Had it chosen to sample posts from 2010+ rather than 2008-2
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by drbawb 14y ago
Not 50Mbps/50Mbps I take it. What's you're upload speed and ISP? I have TWC in the midwestern US; $65 (up from $50 after the introductory offer lapsed) for 35Mbps/5Mbps. I don't even want faster speeds than that; I just want something resem
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by drbawb 14y ago
A possibly cheaper option would be to get an unlocked cable modem that is compatible with their service. In my area anyways, I can go to my TWC "PayXPress" portal (e.g: your online billing control panel) and on their support page they list
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by drbawb 14y ago
For anyone interested, there's a visual novel that explores this idea. "Don't Take it Perosnally Babe, it Just Ain't Your Story." --- The driving motivation for the story is that this generation _raised_ on "4chan" and "Facebook" shares de
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by drbawb 14y ago
I think this also speaks volumes about the "dangers" of using large general-purpose social networks. Think about it for a second: if I'm ostracized (using my name or a pseudonym, it doesn't matter) from a `Club 3.14: Raspberry Pi Hackers` m
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by drbawb 14y ago
The thing that bugged me the other day is _just how far_ they seem to think their ownership extends. I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook, just to charge. -- This MacBook knows of my iPhone because they are both linked to one Apple ID. Howev
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by drbawb 14y ago
In re: dynamic linking. There are some rather clever solutions to this problem that don't require the complications inherent in dynamically linked binaries. It's easy to forget that, even on commodity hardware, Go (`gc`) compiles "Fast (tm
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by drbawb 14y ago
I too, am interested in this. From what I gather reading the synopsis and the relevant discussion here: I'm not so sure how useful it would be for me. At the very least: I think it'd be a challenging technique for me to pick up. It sounds l
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by drbawb 14y ago
I'm wondering if it might be easier for a language like Chinese or Japanese, perhaps, where the symbols and words are a bit more visually distinct. That being said: doesn't Rosetta Stone use a technique that basically relates pictures to co
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by drbawb 14y ago
Full disclaimer: I haven't done much UI (outside of HTML/CSS/JS, that is)... I dabbled with Visual Basic and the associated tooling (WinForms, at the time) during my college courses. Of everything you describe, I think the area I struggled
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by drbawb 14y ago
I'd also add that I don't think it necessarily violates "DRY". I think "doing it wrong" would be _porting_ the same code to 3 platforms. A blind port to three different mobile platforms is going to look out of place on at least 2/3 of them.
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by drbawb 14y ago
> Made in the past ~5 years. I'm dubious unless they've made serious improvements to the emulator since I last used it. (I haven't updated my SDK in probably 3-6 months.) I ran it on a fairly beefy laptop (although ~1.5-2 years at the
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by drbawb 14y ago
>just a web view anyways This. Go makes it fantastically simple to go from 0-to-web-server. There were a few projects I wanted to write in Go, but avoided because of needing a GUI. Then I remembered: I can just bolt a web-page onto my
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by drbawb 14y ago
What bugs me is perhaps even more fundamental: All those "superstar" programmers started somewhere. Whether they were a teenage-hacker prodigy or not is irrelevant, they were young, inexperienced, and foolish programmers at one point. Y
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by drbawb 14y ago
I've always wanted to get an Arduino myself. I also have an excellent book, it's very simple to understand if you follow it linearly, and it definitely starts from the "bottom, up." http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Elements_of_Compu
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by drbawb 14y ago
>just the current offset from UTC. Never gave it a second thought, but this actually explains a lot. DST, of course, shifts the offset by 1 hour, and I've often noticed that sites mis-detect my timezone by an hour with startling regular
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by drbawb 14y ago
To be honest: that was quite possibly the greatest part of learning PHP for me! PHP was the first language I learned; the fact that I could deploy it to nearly any shared host [of which there were a lot of freebies] allowed me to rapidly
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by drbawb 14y ago
I wouldn't mind using a simple regex or validator to check the e-mail addr for validity. It wouldn't be RFC-compliant, but it would catch 99% of typos. Instead of being an error when the e-mail fails validation though, it would say someth
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by drbawb 14y ago
This is what I've struggled with recently. To force yourself to reach out, to me, implies that there's something wrong with being an introvert (or wallflower). I don't like the idea of admitting that such a natural state of being is in an

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