dzamo_norton

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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
The author feels that his height counted against him, but did anyone actually say "sorry you're too short?". It would be strange client or employer who insisted on a tall developer while age I can accept is a factor for peopl
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
The use of \mathbb{R} for floats acts to obscure things for me I'm afraid. It loads up dusty old stuff in my brain about the reals that is not true of floats from the slow tape archive storage in my skull, and _doesn't_ load up s
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
You don't need all that many mental tools to reason about TH, TR and TD tags.
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
s/complement/compliment/g
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
It could be a nice option to have for people stuck running really old legacy Windows software.
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
effect
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
To me this sounds unlikely. The CPU will spend all its time in codec library code here so how much of a role will the OS get to play? More likely the difference is coming from some departure from fairness in how the software codec was compi
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
s/tenant/tennet/g
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
We would want to see what a bluffing shrimp did _when called on its bluff_. If it ran away then what's happened is different to the small dog which appears to actually _believe_ it's bad enough for the fight. And in this case I
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
It is parsing text, but that text does have some consistent structure. Contained within it are properties. One can make the same comment of reading JSON or XML but I'll admit those are more like what you'd choose for an API. In
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
Yes. Imagine a current flowing exactly as fast as you can swim and you must swim one lap with it and one against it. You cover the lap in half your normal time when it's helping you and then when it's against you you cannot _eve
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
It's not a necessity that the machine must slow down with each OS update. Boot an XFCE on Linux image to establish a baseline level of performance. Make that your OS and you can _buy_ from guys selling 2012 computers.
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by dzamo_norton 10y ago
You draw a clean divide but be wary of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
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by dzamo_norton 11y ago
For a long time I ran Debian in VMware Fusion in fullscreen mode on my iMac. There's a penalty but it's faster than you might think. My interest at the time was an effort to recover some sense of control over data privacy. Gra
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by dzamo_norton 11y ago
Adding to your question: who would accept a computer that only executed programs written in a single language? I remember people talking about CPUs that would run Java bytecode natively back when the Java hype cycle was near its peak, say
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by dzamo_norton 12y ago
Standards defiance notwithstanding, the web client appears to work as advertised and will surely save many a neck and thumb from premature aging. It's interesting at this point to think about identity and authentication in WhatsApp. T