faragon

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901.
by faragon 16y ago
What about side effects such as heap memory fragmentation?
902.
by faragon 16y ago
We'll see. Not everyone lives in a rich country.
903.
by faragon 16y ago
It's about the cost: 2GB RAM, 2-core 2GHz ARM CPU, GPU, 160GB hard disk, for just 100 US$. Add another 100 US$ for a case, keyboard, mouse and a cheap monitor... the whole desktop computer for just 200 US$ (!)
904.
by faragon 16y ago
IT jobs will be where the skill is. Countries should enforce their education systems in order to avoid losing/forgetting their capabilites.
905.
by faragon 16y ago
C: Simple and powerful. C++: Nice library (STL) and RAII. Java: Simple and fast enough for most tasks. Bash: Great Swiss knife scripting. Perl: Great all purpose hacking language. Python: Is a very expressive language. Ruby: Simple and expr
906.
by faragon 16y ago
Cynical.
907.
by faragon 16y ago
Can be done on 10$ (flow shop, >100k units (?)): ASIC or system on chip including three ADC, memory for one row (e.g. 2048*3 bytes) and a PLL clock generator for matching DVI serial port clock. Any electronic engineer in the room for PL
908.
by faragon 16y ago
Better attack: reduce the credit card usage, and try to pay more with cash. Spread the word.
909.
by faragon 16y ago
Better attack: reduce the credit card usage, and try to pay more with cash. As both MasterCard and Visa (the ones against Wikileaks) take the gross of its revenue from retail and pay by credit, that could really hurt them... but without doi
910.
by faragon 16y ago
Star Trek TNG is the best Star Trek ever.
911.
by faragon 16y ago
No, it is not even a line-based framebuffer. Starting on every H-Sync interrupt, the CPU has to change the TIA chip latches with accurate timming for "producing" pixel output. So, there is no framebuffer at all.
912.
by faragon 16y ago
Framebuffer? There is no such thing in the 2600 (see "Atari_TIA" Wikipedia entry for details).
913.
by faragon 16y ago
YAHS (Yet another Hari Seldon).
914.
by faragon 16y ago
Not that hard. It is like other professions: you need skills and intelligence. With a strong math and computer science knowledge base, plus 10 years of programming experience, should be enough for addressing most difficult problems.
915.
by faragon 16y ago
I still find enjoyable the following: Star Force (1984, Tehkan, Arcade game) Black Tiger (Capcom, 1987, Arcade game (2x Z80), 7 megabit ROM set) Ninja Kid II (UPL, 1987, Arcade game) Legend of Hero Tonma (Irem, 1989, Arcade Game) Parodius D
916.
by faragon 16y ago
For the UK/US-equivalent Secondary, in Spain I did BUP (Secondary) and COU (College orientation course), and not ESO (new Secondary Education arrangement). Younger people at work seem to be OK in reasoning (computer/software engineering fie
917.
by faragon 16y ago
I disagree. Being Spaniard myself, my education has been based in reasoning, at least in High School and College (engineering degree).
918.
by faragon 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
919.
by faragon 16y ago
C++ it's getting ridiculous, just like strange mix becoming a Tower of Babel. P.S. I've working with C++ for more than 10 years.
920.
by faragon 16y ago
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi
921.
by faragon 16y ago
I hope this become wrong as well.
922.
by faragon 16y ago
Unfortunately, it is not. TFS has source control built-in, which is slow and buggy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server
923.
by faragon 16y ago
In my opinion, they deserve that pain: TFS SCM is a big shit (Visual Studio is OK though, when using it with Git/HG/SVN). http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
924.
by faragon 16y ago
But does it run on Linux?
925.
by faragon 16y ago
And git?
926.
by faragon 16y ago
Well, if He's not the one demostrating P = NP or P != NP, some other will have to take the token. That's life. Anyway, Knuth is a great hacker, having my respect and admiration.
927.
by faragon 16y ago
Can you wait for a month? http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1257488
928.
by faragon 16y ago
For this case, the required x86 opcode could be "rep stosX" (just write), and not "rep movsX" (copy). Anyway, on x86 processors, "rep movsX" was faster from 8086 to 80386, but since the 80486, it is faster to do assembly unrolling for reduc
929.
by faragon 16y ago
Excusatio non petita, acusatio manifesta (main tool for Columbo)
930.
by faragon 17y ago
3mbps (509kbps upload) 41.64 euro/month (~56 USD/month) Spain (Europe); ISP: Jazztel (in my opinion is too much expensive)

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