e4m

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by e4m 17y ago
"If, for example, I laid down some pretty useful code and open sourced it - then a startup came along, used it to bootleg their code and made millions I'd be pretty upset." I wonder if Linus is upset with RedHat?
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by e4m 17y ago
Even though it's fashionable to make fun of C++, I have to admit that next to Python, it's my favorite language ;)
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by e4m 17y ago
An omission of fact is a lie in a "strict legal sense" or any sense for that matter. Explaining the perfume smell on your clothes to your wife while leaving out the part about fucking someone else is an omission of fact... aka a lie. Try do
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by e4m 17y ago
I will bring Michael Jackson back from the dead if you give it to me.
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by e4m 17y ago
Clients? You mean IP. NAT anyone?
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by e4m 17y ago
Very neat site. I wonder if anyone knows of sites that show common windows dialog/message boxes translated in various languages? I'd like to see something like that. We often get requests to translate GUI's to various languages and a common
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by e4m 17y ago
Amen. The best decisions of my life were spur of the moment ones. You can't generalize. People are vastly different from one another. Two guys with the same degree from the same school will have varying levels of success in life. Personalit
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by e4m 17y ago
Many of the lost accounts opted for the economy plan that did not include backup... they got what they paid for. No backup unless they took it upon themselves.
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by e4m 17y ago
I once used that a lot on my C64. Made sense back in 1982 and in limited cases, makes sense today.
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by e4m 17y ago
The banks are not aware of the underlying organizations. Even if they were, they probably would not care. They only see the lawyer in the suit at the loan office signing paperwork on behalf of XYZ, LLC.
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by e4m 17y ago
Wow... thank you very much! I've never heard of this library. Looks ideal. I really do appreciate it. I've been struggling with WX.
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by e4m 17y ago
It's C++. I do have a GUI written using WXwidgets, but it's only 75% done. I thought I'd try to sell the CLI version first and if it is popular and pays for itself somewhat, then finish the GUI as I could then justify it with the wife.
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by e4m 17y ago
The wife told me I can't spend any more time working on it, unless I can break even on web hosting, etc. So to clarify. I have to pay for web hosting, bandwidth, storage... as those things cost me money.
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by e4m 17y ago
It calculates trajectory, drop, etc of a bullet depending upon caliber, grain, powder, etc. It's command line only. It's windows only. No GUI, but it's very simple to use and accurate. Very useful for folks who reload their own ammunition.
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Pricing a Simple, Useful Desktop App
28 points by e4m 17y ago|72 comments
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by e4m 17y ago
Brute force it. 5 chars... all numeric. There can only be 100,000 possibilities. Of course, they may have logon limits to prevent this. 10^5
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by e4m 17y ago
Ruby thinks it can... it thinks it can... it thinks it can. Maybe if it pretends "hard enough" that it is fast some day it will be. I'm just joking ;) but there is some truth to that.
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by e4m 17y ago
I find it easy. The bad thing about c++ is its size. It's large and that tends to make it complex. However, I find that I only use about 40 to 60 percent of what c++ can actually do. Focus on the parts that you use and you'll find a lot of
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by e4m 17y ago
I'm not sure that's accurate. c++ is a large language. Finding developers who use the parts of c++ that you need to get the task done is easy (boost, qt, stl, wx, etc). Finding developers that know all of c++ is next to impossible. c++ is l
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by e4m 17y ago
I have done this in c++... not write an entire web framework, just use compiled c++ code to do some heavy lifting on a shared web server. It worked great. Before, I was using python/django. c++/cgi did the same task and was about 30 times f
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by e4m 17y ago
Ma Kiz e Moe
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Tsutomu Shimomura of Kevin Mitnick Fame
3 points by e4m 17y ago|4 comments
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by e4m 17y ago
Can anyone link statically in XCode? Why did Apple break static linking in ld?
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by e4m 17y ago
You forgot that C++ is used in Jet Fighters, and other little inconsequential things such as that ;) cite: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf Edit... not just any jet fighter, but the most complex jet fighter ever devised
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by e4m 17y ago
Yes. Some folks do not have the aptitude to be serious programmers. That's not the tool's fault.
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by e4m 17y ago
I also do not like to waste as I have actually seen people in some parts of the world who are malnourished and always hungry... I can't leave food on my plate for that reason and I wish many restaurants would just server me less food. I'd s
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by e4m 17y ago
I'm not sure why C++ is the butt of so many jokes. Making fun of it just seems to be the in thing to do. I bet most of the jokers have never seriously used it. Personally, I get a lot of use out of C++ and actually enjoy using it. Sure, it
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by e4m 17y ago
PHP doesn't scale? Facebook has > 200 million users. It's written in PHP.
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by e4m 17y ago
Boost has portable threads for C++ right now... in fact, the next C++ release (due out this year) will include threads by default. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Threading_facilities

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