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121.
by drv 15y ago
The author uses "glut" when he means the opposite.
122.
by drv 16y ago
It's amusing that the "Avoid unnecessarily inflated words" section misspells "implement" as "impliment."
123.
by drv 16y ago
As far as I know, C only has one; perhaps you are thinking of C++?
124.
by drv 16y ago
The README says: "In our tests, Snappy usually is faster than algorithms in the same class (e.g. LZO, LZF, FastLZ, QuickLZ, etc.) while achieving comparable compression ratios."
125.
by drv 16y ago
And once you've moved it with an arrow key, you can then move it freely with the mouse until clicking.
126.
by drv 16y ago
How can an image be "pixel perfect" if the original is not made of pixels? I can understand pixel-perfect image scaling or the like, but a pixel-perfect map of the real world is impossible.
127.
by drv 16y ago
Grammar nitpick: All of the uses of "1000-hours" in the article are incorrectly hyphenated. You should write "a 1000-hour project" but not "1000-hours of work."
128.
by drv 16y ago
I can't really read anything that small on a modern high-res monitor anyway, but I found this bit at the end interesting: "in most jurisdictions bitmap fonts are not copyrightable" Is that really the case? A quick Google finds some articles
129.
by drv 16y ago
At first glance, I didn't see anything wrong with the code shown (aside from using << instead of >> for append). I must be one of those ugly old Perl hackers; I probably have an old edition of the camel book somewhere. Cons
130.
by drv 16y ago
I don't have any first-hand experience with the non-native English aspect, but I doubt such a person can remember how to spell MaximumPhysicalAddress without looking either. If you stick with a consistent mapping of terms to shortened versi
131.
by drv 16y ago
Interesting, I didn't realize it was written by Stoll (the article doesn't even seem to be attributed to him anywhere on the Newsweek page); his writing is quite good (The Cuckoo's Egg ages pretty well, even though the technology is outdate
132.
by drv 16y ago
Seems to be about 3 miles from most of the launch pads to the VAB, so about 377 gallons for a one-way trip ( http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/nasafact/count3teaf.htm ) The crawler can travel about 1 MPH loaded; the tour guide at KSC (at least wh
133.
by drv 16y ago
This is a neat hack, but the title is a little misleading - most of the real work is handled by inetd, not the shell script.
134.
by drv 16y ago
The best part of every OpenBSD release: the release song. http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
135.
by drv 16y ago
There is a navbar that appears when hovering near the bottom of the page (or just use the arrow keys).
136.
by drv 16y ago
0.1 is perfectly representable "on a computer", just not in binary floating point.
137.
by drv 16y ago
Copying the concepts in a piece of code doesn't fall under the restrictions of copyright, so the license is irrelevant; there's no copying of the actual code involved here.
138.
by drv 16y ago
I haven't thought about it deeply, but my first guess would be that the seek time of hard disks is what makes serving 5000 requests per second difficult; consumer-grade hard disks can perform something in the range of a few hundred (randoml
139.
by drv 16y ago
The article doesn't say, but it looks like SimCity 3000. I haven't kept up with the more recent iterations of the game, but the complexity of the simulation seemed to increase with each new release (2000 added a water system, and 3000 adde
140.
by drv 16y ago
Maybe next someone will write a competing implementation and call it Turbolisp...
141.
by drv 16y ago
Tiny Core is also a nice small, and therefore fast to download, payload for a network-booted system with gPXE: http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/tinycore
142.
by drv 16y ago
I'm pretty sure you made an apostrophe mistake in "apostrohpe's" - the "s" is making "apostrophe" plural.
143.
by drv 16y ago
At least the unshortened links have a chance of being scraped by things like archive.org; I wonder if it scrapes anything meaningful from the popular URL shorteners.
144.
by drv 16y ago
There's no way this will catch on; the slight image quality per bit improvement is not nearly enough to counteract the huge momentum of existing JPEG use. Certainly JPEG isn't the best possible image codec or even all that good, but it's g
145.
by drv 16y ago
Now write it out a hundred times!
146.
by drv 16y ago
It's been a while since I used either IPv6 or Windows XP, but if my memory serves, IPv6 on XP worked just fine. It did require a trip through the install-a-protocol dialog box, which I agree is rather clunky; however, it did work, and once
147.
by drv 16y ago
The article mentions hashing the same data with multiple hashing algorithms; I would think this would be effective at preventing collisions (presumably different hashing algorithms are not vulnerable to the same collision attacks).
148.
by drv 16y ago
Seems like a neat idea, but the retina-burning color scheme is a bit much. (For anyone working on the site that might be reading this, there's a "where" that should be a "were" and an "it's" that should be "its" in the first paragraph; I st
149.
by drv 16y ago
I was a self-taught programmer (with a little parental help) long before I took a programming course in school; I started when I was about 9 years old. I breezed through the college freshman-level programming courses (and pretty much all of
150.
by drv 16y ago
Agreed; in particular, the quotes read like poorly-transcribed scribbles that don't even form sentences.

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