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by epsylon 13y ago
It's not that surprising. These are the cheapest option if you want a decent computer.
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by epsylon 13y ago
?- like(prolog) yes
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by epsylon 13y ago
The book 21st century C talks about that trick: http://books.google.fr/books?id=_EdbrocXX9MC&lpg=PA183&ots=D...
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by epsylon 13y ago
It would make sense if the author had meant do clause instead of if clause . Something like that: do { switch (bleh) { case MEH: if (derp) { break; /* supposed exit the do..while loop early...
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by epsylon 13y ago
In the debian fiasco it's mostly a case of "manual code elimination" [1]. However there are plenty of examples of compilers aggressively removing code that causes undefined behaviour. Basically, when the compiler encounters U
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by epsylon 13y ago
The thing is most Firefox users don't even know what an extension is. If my parents' Firefox ships with support for DRMs, they won't care about it. Once it becomes widespread, there's simply no way to start "un-supp
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by epsylon 13y ago
I find it incredibly ironic that in the process of investigating against Snowden's leaks that the NSA is spying on netizens, we see such court orders where feds ask for broad unregulated surveillance where a single targeted tap would h
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by epsylon 13y ago
Have you ever tried Eiffel? I've always found the approach taken by Eiffel as OOP done right (compared to C++). I wonder how Eiffel and Smalltalk compare together.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Thank you for that. Why do the US legal system still use typewriters in 2013 ?
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by epsylon 13y ago
> it was a dumb choice On the contrary, I think it's a great choice. Ubuntu has one of the best, if not the best out-of-the-box experience, especially for unexperienced users. It's not a coincidence that it's been adopted
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Valve is poised to finally revolutionize things is pretty despicable. Valve's announcement is only a few days old. Mir precedes it by months.
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by epsylon 13y ago
For history and bookmarks, I use xmarks to synchronize between Firefox and Chrome, on various machines. It works great.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> A bit of trivia, which makes the title actually wrong: it's "Gendarmerie Nationale" (which is a military corps, handled by "Ministère de la Défense" ~ DoD), not "Police Nationale" (which is not a mili
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Venice/Santa Monica I bet you have a few surfers there! I'd kill to work next to the beach. Nothing beats a good early morning surf session. (Figuratively, of course)
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by epsylon 13y ago
> MBTI MBTI is a commercial product based on old theories. It sells well because the results are usually presented as only positive and desirable traits (the archetypes). For a more accurate representation of personality types, the Big F
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by epsylon 13y ago
If you don't have a beefy machine, then you're probably not using Steam much anyway, which means you're not in their target demographic. (And if you were playing old games or small indies, you won't need a beefy machine
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by epsylon 13y ago
It doesn't work when logged in to google services. (I think it's been 2 years or something since it doesn't work anymore in that case)
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by epsylon 13y ago
A) Well if he's smoking weed or drinking alcohol, he'll probably just won't answer your call or tell you to f * off. Kids, and teenagers especially will outright lie to you when confronted. B) Taking a ride with a friend? Ha
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by epsylon 13y ago
> security risk That's bullshit. The only security risk is if as a parent, you don't know where your child is and who she is with. I've no scientific data to show for this, but I'm pretty sure that phones are detrimen
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by epsylon 13y ago
Isn't Python with PyQt any good? (That would be my first choice if writing a web app is infeasible, but it's been a while since I've followed the project.)
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by epsylon 13y ago
> state-of-the-art 3D PC gaming engine in C#. How does it compare to Cry Engine, Unreal Engine, Frostbite, ...? Because these are the state of the art gaming engines these days.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> lack of template metaprogramming What do you use template metaprogramming for, except to compensate C++'s flaws? (I agree with you on automatic GC and lack of generics, but not on C++'s template model in general and especiall
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Having the exact same computer following us around without transmitting everything to Big Brother would have a certain amount of appeal if not for the greater danger of losing everything with our phone! So, what's next? Who said y
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by epsylon 13y ago
And Epic's demo was their previous gen engine, Unreal Engine 3, which targets mobile platforms: iOS, Android, PSP... Meanwhile, the state of the art UE4 is only aimed at next gen consoles and native PCs games.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> antisocial Nope, just introvert. If you don't know what an introvert is, here is a quick guide: http://i.imgur.com/f2BmB2x.jpg I also recommend reading the book "Quiet" by Susan Cain. Even if you're
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by epsylon 13y ago
I wear glasses and I have yet to find a pair of sufficiently isolating headphones that doesn't become painfully uncomfortable after 1 hour. And I've tried various high-end solutions.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> What in particular is broken about const correctness in C++? The lack of transitivity for one. Const pointers shouldn't be able to modify the pointed objects (that's the default in the D language). The fact that working with
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by epsylon 13y ago
> C++'s C heritage Well, at this point it's more like C++'s C++ heritage. > const correctness It certainly exists in plenty of other languages, but in a non-broken way. C++'s const correctness model is mostly broke
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by epsylon 13y ago
Relevant abstruse goose comic. http://abstrusegoose.com/531
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by epsylon 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the sort solution would be an order of magnitude faster on any reasonably sized string. Big O's are Big O's : they are irrelevant when n is small, and for anagrams we're talking something like n < 45.

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