edmccard

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by edmccard 12y ago
>The amount of advertising... ...was a reason people subscribed to computer magazines in the days before the internet, because it was one of the best ways to find out about (and purchase via mail-order) new stuff.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>This always copies and will lead to quadratic performance In D, "a ~ b" always copies but "a ~= b" might not. Also, appending using ~= will grow the array exponentially, so the amoritized performance will be better t
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by edmccard 12y ago
>the other 9 candidates who are waiting in line don't want that [to wait for the first candidate to contemplate the offer] If any of them have other offers, they might appreciate _some_ extra time to decide between them. EDIT: Never
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Whenever I've offered an exploding offer in the past, it's because I had several candidates: an extremely strong candidate and several strong but somewhat weaker candidates. If you had several candidates of equal ability, woul
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by edmccard 12y ago
>There isn't really an explanation anywhere, but the colors that the game changes to in pride-mode... ...are a rainbow, a symbol of gay pride[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_pride
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by edmccard 12y ago
On the PS1, Final Fantasy VII was O=yes, X=no, and so were a bunch of the less mainstream JRPGS; also, Metal Gear Solid games were O=yes, X=no at least into the PS2 era.
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Monkey’s selfie at center of copyright brouhaha(arstechnica.com)
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by edmccard 12y ago
>there are a lot of articles from the newyorker which make the HN top? There has probably been a higher frequency lately since the New Yorker has gone no-paywall for the summer.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Twitter has verified accounts... Which is something else that William Shatner has strong opinions about: http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/william-shatner-twitter-verif...
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Their job is to lie to you, your job has to be to lie right back. I usually use some variation on "I'm moving in with my girlfriend, and she already has <type of service I'm cancelling>"
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Queues and databases(antirez.com)
197 points by edmccard 12y ago|40 comments
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Elegant Pharo Code(medium.com)
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BBC staff told to stop inviting cranks on to science programmes(telegraph.co.uk)
10 points by edmccard 12y ago|3 comments
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by edmccard 12y ago
The IeSF has now changed from separate male and female divisions to an "Open to all" division and a female division. http://ie-sf.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=iesf_notice&wr_id=10...
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ACM and the Professional Programmer(queue.acm.org)
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The Transactional Memory / Garbage Collection Analogy (2007) [pdf](homes.cs.washington.edu)
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by edmccard 12y ago
>So, apparently, luck and timing are huge factors in what does well here. Here, and everywhere else too :)
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Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers(ulaff.net)
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by edmccard 12y ago
Another interesting lo-res (40x48) game is "Escape from the Homebrew Computer Club", a "modern(ish) raycasted 2 1/2 D game for the Apple II"[1] [1] https://archive.org/details/Kfest2011-DavidSch
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How much game can you fit in 32x32 pixels?(boingboing.net)
1 points by edmccard 12y ago|1 comments
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What, if anything, have we learned from C++? [video](channel9.msdn.com)
63 points by edmccard 12y ago|19 comments
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Mysterious disease rides on the winds across the Pacific Ocean(arstechnica.com)
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Wehrmacht Veterans Created a Secret Army in West Germany(spiegel.de)
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Why does my code not crash?(blog.coverity.com)
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Isn't it also possible that the photos were taken at slightly different times and the path of the lightning bolt shifted... In the time it takes for the light from a lightning strike to fade, the bolt basically doesn't shift a
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Modern source-to-source transformation with Clang and libTooling(eli.thegreenplace.net)
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by edmccard 12y ago
There is a difference, though, between a finite state machine and a Turing machine with a finite amount of memory. An FSM cannot recognize context-free languages, but a Turing machine can--even when it's implemented on a computer witho
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Foursquare Founder Sorry for Wife Stealing Boston Marathon Bib Number(news.yahoo.com)
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by edmccard 12y ago
>we haven't seen a brain injury epidemic during that time but certainly we've seen social and economic policy changes during that time That doesn't rule out a correlation between brain injury and homelessness; the social a
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by edmccard 12y ago
>It COULD make sense if lead only causes problems when inhaled I think inhalation of engine exhaust is the main "delivery method" for lead pollution from leaded gasoline.

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