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by dustmop 17y ago
Well the term is not very precise if the way that you're using it and the way the article is using it are completely different. The article makes it clear that the term "pass-by-value" refers to the fact that the callers' references cannot
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by dustmop 17y ago
Hence the word "traditional" in the article.
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by dustmop 17y ago
I reason I think this discussion is ever a problem is because in C++ "pass-by-value" has an extra meaning: that a deep copy occurs. There's no precise term for this, so people started (incorrectly) using "pass-by-reference" to talk about pa
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by dustmop 17y ago
What is the user action for opening a program or document on the desktop?
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by dustmop 17y ago
Looks to me like CD sales were a bubble, and there's no reason to expect the music industry's success to continue as it has for the prior decade.
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by dustmop 17y ago
I've heard from a few family members that ever since they've started using their cell phones, they can't remember anyone's numbers, and they felt this was making them stupider. As if memorizing sequences of 7 digits is desirable and conduci
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by dustmop 17y ago
I'm one of those few people who completely hated Primer. I found it to be masquerading poor narrative as intellectual mystery. It's possible to present an intricate, complex logic puzzle as story without being totally incoherent, but Primer
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by dustmop 17y ago
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/246/
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by dustmop 17y ago
The common mistake the opposition makes is that the complement of "determinism" is "randomness". In fact, the complement of "determinism" is "non-determinism", of which "randomness" is only one possibility; ostensibly "free-will" is another
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by dustmop 17y ago
Also, Password Gorilla, which is java and runs everywhere and is compatiable with passwordsafe's databases. I do what Joel recommended, keeping the db in Dropbox so that newly added passwords are replicated and up to date.
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by dustmop 17y ago
If the grey were made white instead I would have gotten this immediately.
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by dustmop 17y ago
After watching this video: http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14310459/kodu/videos/ces2... it looks to me not like Logo, but like all the existing Windows game creators - Game Maker, Klik & Play, Multimedia Fusion - but with a nicer U
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by dustmop 17y ago
This isn't meant to be my view, this is how the internet is viewed by the average non-techie. Yes, I realize how West-centric the point of view is, and that's unfortunate. But it's exactly why we have "dot-com businesses" and the "dot-com b
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by dustmop 17y ago
I've found I sometimes type domain names into the search box just because my fingers are better trained to use "Ctrl-K" than "Ctrl-L" or "Meta-D". Especially since "Ctrl-K" is pretty cross platform, while shortcuts for the location bar vary
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by dustmop 17y ago
Having names ending in ".com" is great - it says explicitly that the thing is a web address. Just like how the hyphenation of a phone number 123-456-7890 tells you right away that it's a phone number. This is part of why ".com" is more desi
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by dustmop 17y ago
Sounds like the conclusion is that Chrome OS is Linux, but only in the strict sense - the kernel and not the distribution.
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by dustmop 17y ago
Given that it's been soaking wet all summer long so far (and looks to remain so), I guess it'll be a safe summer in New York.
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by dustmop 17y ago
I don't buy the cause and effect with regards to 360 degrees in a circle. If anything, 360 comes from the close approximation to 365, since pre-civilized humans would care more about the length of a year than divisibility. It's possible tha
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by dustmop 17y ago
A company I was at created huge arrays of data structures, many of which contained nested arrays of data structures, which were eventually serialized and rpc'd to another server. Since this was written in C, and they felt malloc was too har
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by dustmop 17y ago
My current favorite political thinker, George Lakoff, has a whole body of work related to this subject. Conservations are focused on authority, while liberals are focused on empathy, and his theories conclude that the difference is based on
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by dustmop 17y ago
It's afraid.
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by dustmop 17y ago
Same idea: http://www.ok-cancel.com/archives/link/2004/09/google-answer... Guy's blog, named "Ok/Cancel", has a story about Google, and thus comes up first for the search of "Cancel Google". He gets inundated with comments from people try
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by dustmop 18y ago
In Firefox, View Source -> View -> Wrap Long Lines. Still 3 annoying steps, but its better than 5.
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by dustmop 18y ago
defmacro doesn't post very often, but I always enjoy when he does.
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by dustmop 18y ago
I much prefer this multi-perspective article: http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2007/01/20/13-ways-of-lo...
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by dustmop 18y ago
Why do you think Al Gore started using the term "climate change"?