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by drv 15y ago
Techies like DMCA? I hope not. The anti-circumvention provisions are ridiculous. Decrypting a DVD you own is illegal - even posting a link to circumvention software is enough to violate the DMCA. Web sites got C&D orders for hosting a
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by drv 15y ago
Emacs had them first; shells copied them.
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by drv 15y ago
But then you write int* foo, bar; and the troubles begin...
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by drv 15y ago
I have not encountered this definition of "realtime" before; what does it mean in the context of web applications? (I expected something closer to what is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing - RTOS and similar
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by drv 15y ago
A Google study about hard drive failure indicated that they couldn't find any conclusive relationship between temperature and failure rate. However, they did mention it had some effect at the extreme high end of the temperature spectrum (b
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by drv 15y ago
Indeed, except that one doesn't print "Hello world". :)
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by drv 15y ago
The classic resource for this (does the same sort of tricks, taken to an extreme: code overlaid with tables, tables overlaid with other tables, etc.): http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/ (62-byte hello world among other thi
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by drv 15y ago
Several of these features are already available in current Windows versions (perhaps less discoverable, but there nonetheless): - "Add to favorites" is an option in the right click menu on Favorites in the left panel, works the same way as
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by drv 15y ago
The actual QuickBASIC compiler allowed any case for keywords. The lack of line numbers was a bit confusing too - my first inclination when seeing a BASIC prompt is to type 10 PRINT "hello" 20 GOTO 10 Aside from that, it seems to wo
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by drv 15y ago
The article seems a bit misinformed. All of the UEFI systems I have encountered have native UEFI firmware in flash. On top of the UEFI environment, most shipping systems have a compatibility layer (CSM) that exposes a legacy BIOS emulation
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by drv 15y ago
Who's "Mandoff"?
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by drv 15y ago
This is broken in a different way (assuming you mean something like the following): int c = this.MyControl.TabPages.Count; for ( int i=0; i < c; i++ ) { this.MyControl.TabPages.Remove ( this.MyControl.TabPages[i] ); }
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by drv 15y ago
Gems like "gew the fasted" make me wonder if anybody proofreads anymore (surely the spellchecker should catch "gew").
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by drv 15y ago
The King lives, and he's keeping busy by reverse engineering codecs... author Elvis Presley <elvis@e.p>
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by drv 15y ago
What's up with the angle quote /usr in the title?
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by drv 15y ago
"IRC" is a bit of a misnomer; it looks like it's web sockets connecting to a custom server, unless I missed something.
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by drv 15y ago
The title says "120 megs of RAM", but I wonder if that's at all comparable to a real machine with 120 MB. I imagine that the "120 MB" VM is running on a beefy host with tens (or hundreds) of gigabytes of RAM shared between the guest VMs an
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by drv 15y ago
A paper that would be on my personal list is "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" (Goldberg): http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_go...
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by drv 15y ago
The premise is interesting, but why compare results running on general-purpose CPUs when the goal is to run on a GPU? At this level of optimization, comparing two vastly different architectures and compilers would make any results pretty i
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by drv 15y ago
I found the part about designing the system with flowcharts in Visio and generating code based on the flowcharts, and apparently the model is validated based on the flowcharts as well.
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by drv 15y ago
I don't want to be too pedantic, but I thought you might want to know "discrete" is not a verb.
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by drv 15y ago
Since I had to look it up, I might as well share: chattr +a sets the "append only" attribute on a file
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by drv 15y ago
It happens the other way around too (German to English), and sometimes you end up with non-words like "somewhen". It's an interesting exercise to determine a writer's native language by the oddities of their writing.
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by drv 15y ago
No, "Do you know where we are going?" is correct; however, without the "Do you know", "Where are we going?" would be correct.
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by drv 15y ago
It does appear to have been merged now: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git...
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by drv 15y ago
Ulrich Drepper is the maintainer of glibc; I don't know what the comment is intended to mean, though.
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by drv 15y ago
Ogg, not OGG.
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by drv 15y ago
Several games I hadn't heard of before are in this list, some rather interesting. However, it is a bit disheartening to see so many games that are ported engines for old commercial games, or improved clones of the same, rather than new, cre
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by drv 15y ago
You probably mean "irrelevant".
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by drv 15y ago
Just Java by the same Peter van der Linden was also quite good humor-wise, although I haven't read it in years (it was released around the same time as the first JDK). It's significantly thicker, though, since it covers a broader range of

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