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by dtf 17y ago
Perhaps they could swap those climbing shoes for a pair of Vibram Fivefingers and teach it to walk toe-heel.
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by dtf 17y ago
If he's receiving payment for those lectures, he may need a work visa. They're pretty strict about that stuff at the border.
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by dtf 17y ago
Me too. Ted Ts'o (ext4's maintainer) has said the btrfs is the future.
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by dtf 17y ago
Another interesting factoid I read somewhere today: on average only 15% are fit enough to even reach the egg. Yet sperm fitness has been measured to increase after exposure to pornography involving men and women, while this effect is appare
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by dtf 17y ago
Ugh. Try attacking the vector math required for most games programming these days in C, using macros and magic instead of classes and templates and operator overloading. I'd rather blow my own leg off with a bit of C++ any day.
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by dtf 17y ago
Press releases are for the investor market. They have to sound like this, because all press releases sound like this - it's the language of investors. It's the same way that all agency job descriptions sound the same, and certain types of r
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by dtf 17y ago
Here's the chapter as published in yesterday's Sunday Times, although I'm not sure how this text compares to the print copy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article687...
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by dtf 17y ago
Someone linked to this post in the comments, which I'd never seen before. It's by the guy who wrote the Vista shutdown menu, and it's pretty depressing reading: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
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by dtf 17y ago
rtorrent is written in C++, as is the underlying libtorrent library. Check if those binaries are stripped though.
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by dtf 17y ago
Well, the 'everyone' he is talking about are some of the most respected people in the computer world, that should count for something. And while they're busy bitching and hating and pontificating, humble unknowns are getting things done a
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by dtf 17y ago
Exactly, and this is also the reason many people are still using IE6. If your computer does the things you want - sends email, browses your favorite websites, lets you write a letter, maybe plays music - then what's the point? Until recentl
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by dtf 17y ago
Now I'm really salivating. Good work!
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by dtf 17y ago
It's almost an application of the old business maxim, "underpromise and over-deliver", although I can't really imagine it being done on purpose. Now I have this image of Steve Ballmer storming in to Danger HQ after reading all the headlines
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by dtf 17y ago
Looks very cool. Any thoughts on adding closures?
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by dtf 17y ago
Thanks for the links, I've never seen those before. I read the agg code without the docs, but it would have been difficult without the example programs. The docs definitely help when looking at some of the algorithms though. I remember spen
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by dtf 17y ago
These look great. Anyone know any similar examples for Django?
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by dtf 17y ago
Save for their fox talk, which sounds like a thousand babies being put to death in the fires of hell. (That's how they talk in London at least. Perhaps Oxford foxes have more couth?)
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by dtf 17y ago
All the more heartbreaking that it was forced to don the hideous mantel of the Win32 API (itself further scarred from numerous assaults such as C2 compliance!)
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by dtf 17y ago
What a massive inferiority complex! One person does not like Memphis. I thought the very same after the first paragraph! But reading on and between the lines, it becomes clear that the letter is less a jibe against @keyinfluencer and his
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by dtf 17y ago
One project I found fascinating reading a while back when I was working on graphics, is AGG. It's a vector graphics toolkit, a bit like Cairo, Quartz 2D or Java 2D. It uses a particular style of C++ - a mixture of template programming toget
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by dtf 17y ago
Carter-Ruck, "London's best-known and most feared libel lawyers", obviously still have a thing or two to learn about PR in the internet age. If Trafigura are trying to shy away from their their bad guy image, this isn't helping.
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by dtf 17y ago
Actually I think the question on many people's lips is not whether whether some "mostly competent guy" will be scapegoated, but whether VP of Mobile Experiences Roz Ho will manage to keep her job. First we had the leaked details of the dire
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by dtf 17y ago
It seems kind of odd for a UK company to launch a table fan at the start of our winter. Summer's been so hot here too - I'm sure they'd have made a killing if they'd got this in the shops 6 months ago. Alas, this is the kind of novelty prod
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by dtf 17y ago
Word on the street is that it was a botched SAN upgrade by a Hitachi tech. Of course, the fact that the Danger admins hadn't backed up the SAN before the upgrade made that fatal. Not even an offsite backup... crazy.
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by dtf 17y ago
Forgive me if I missed something, but where exactly does it say they're switching to Java? The slashdot blurb says they're "ditching .NET for GNU/Linux" (which doesn't even make sense to me - it's kind of like saying we're ditching Python
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by dtf 17y ago
Yet the maker of a software product can aid or hinder your ability to modify it by choosing to distribute as source or binary. That particular "right" requires no law. I often wonder what RMS would do if he had the power to enact a law mand
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by dtf 17y ago
...of all the business clichés in the world, there is none that I hear more, and that I hate more, than the vague, poorly-defined and generally ill-conceived notion that "execution" is more important than "the idea." Oh, how the truth hur
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by dtf 17y ago
Map some "leader" commands for common operations, eg: let mapleader=',' let g:mapleader=',' nmap <leader>w :w!<cr> nmap <leader>q :q<cr> nmap <leader>f :find<cr> map <leader
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by dtf 17y ago
Crazy. What on earth are Vivi Down hoping to achieve? EDIT: ok, it appears they want Google Italia to switch to premoderation.
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by dtf 17y ago
True, the court system is rather unpredictable in this new territory. To me it seems reasonably fair though - as the owner of the account was unreachable, and many other people's private data was at stake. I would say that Google followed t

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