emeraldd

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by emeraldd 13y ago
Looks up to me.
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by emeraldd 13y ago
If you find that interesting, you should probably take a look at this: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction I had fun following along with him. Now, if he (or I can get my shot at it finished) c
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One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by emeraldd 13y ago|1 comments
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New Xbox 'a sin against all service members'(armytimes.com)
1 points by emeraldd 13y ago|0 comments
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by emeraldd 13y ago
To me, this means that any electronic device you carry across the border should be considered, as much as possible, throw away. Not that I cross the border all that often.
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Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches(washington.cbslocal.com)
18 points by emeraldd 13y ago|10 comments
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by emeraldd 13y ago
It seems a little buggy. There seem to be several state combinations that cause it to lock up.
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by emeraldd 13y ago
And there goes my morning productivity!
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by emeraldd 13y ago
If you remember, the Xenomorphs survived being nuked ...
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by emeraldd 13y ago
Being relegated to php lately, I've been using Silex/Twigg/composer for most of my projects. Silex is built on Symfony2 Components, Twigg is a php port of Jango Templats, and composer is a nice Bundler like dependency manager for PHP.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
Seems to be working for me in: FF 19 (Really need to rebuild that ...)
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by emeraldd 14y ago
Something really bugs me about this. Unless I'm mistaken, Bernoulli's principle doesn't say anything about throwing air down .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoullis_principle#Applicatio... http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/airfoilmyth.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
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by emeraldd 14y ago
I run it on both, but I don't do much on battery on the laptop.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
Is anyone else seeing a mixed mode warning? I'm seeing a large number of warnings about of them on http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif
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by emeraldd 14y ago
I've run Linux exclusively for the last 10 years or more both at home and on work machines. The last 6~7 of that have been various install of Gentoo. I'll admit that I run into issues every so often with a broken upgrade or some other lit
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Teleport Us - Litreactor's Sci-Fi Writing Challenge(litreactor.com)
1 points by emeraldd 14y ago|0 comments
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by emeraldd 14y ago
What about something like Sphinx? It uses ReStructured text and a Makefile to control most of the stuff.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
Apple's walled garden and restricted hardware choices bug the crap out of me. If not for that, I might actually look at one.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
I usually run eight desktops on my machine. Most of the time, half of them sit empty until I need to switch tasks. In my previous day job, I'd keep email up on one, a development set for my local machine (editor, logs, browser, etc.), win
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by emeraldd 14y ago
I've been a Gentoo user now for a good 7~8 years and every time I've tried playing with Windows again the one thing that I immediately notice and immediately get annoyed about is the lack of 'work spaces' ( http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/
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by emeraldd 14y ago
If you ban plastic, someone will figure out a way to do it with metal. Besides, the only way a plastic magazine would be undetectable is if it were empty, which make it effectively useless anyhow.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
This reminds of the Phase Locked Loop/VCO setup you find in synthesized radio's but not. I wonder what impact the accuracy of their laser source has on the accuracy of the clock ... Anyone have a reasonably simplistic explanation of how th
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by emeraldd 14y ago
The common case is going to be many readers with a few or even a single writer. In that scenario, a read locked database would destroy any chance of operating at scale.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
If I remember correctly, one of the ways around this is to do a no-op update before querying. So you'd update a field in the goal table to it's original value, which would cause the database to lock the table for the duration of the transa
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by emeraldd 14y ago
Here's one I used in a GC implementation a while back. That last 'uint_8t obj[]' is used to hold the object that was actually allocated. struct meta_obj { meta_obj_type *next; // next object in our list mark_type mark;
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by emeraldd 14y ago
> Wouldn't that imply that a variable of one type could be coerced into another type? Yup! It's quite common to cast things from a void * to a more specific one. You do it every time you call malloc.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
> When Java, or C++, or Erlang, or Common Lisp, or Haskell programming becomes unbearable, it's almost always because the chain of abstractions overwhelms the person building the system. I ran into a bug in an XOrg driver for an old r1
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by emeraldd 14y ago
Sounds like someone at Adobe is having a very bad day.
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by emeraldd 14y ago
The kindle DX was a 9.7" screen last I checked. It was big and, from what I've heard, had a tendency for the screen to get broken. It was also over $300. Looks like Amazon has dropped it off their list as well. My guess is there wasn't e

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