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by fhd2 13y ago
> 2. If games have to be rewritten to operate on Linux, most existing games never will. Most games, once their sales have ceased bringing in cash, are abandoned and never updated again. Legacy gaming support is important. A lot of people
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by fhd2 13y ago
The author is obviously using colloquial definitions of "intelligence" and "stupidity", but those are even more flawed than the scientific definition attempts. Is a lack of ambition really caused by low intelligence? Can
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by fhd2 13y ago
> Mass surveillance is watching everything and fishing for illegal activity. That is not the same as filing subpoenas for data on persons of interest. There are several cases of exactly that, fishing people's online movement profile
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by fhd2 13y ago
Depends on what you want. If you just want to make games, you might be best off looking into an engine that supports the kind of game you want to make and start with that. Haven't gone down that road, so I cannot recommend anything. If
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by fhd2 13y ago
Well, we have daily update requests (it's not a web app), so we knew the number of daily users already. But we really wanted to know the monthly users, gives a way better idea of the actual user numbers. What we ended up doing is to tr
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by fhd2 13y ago
> This is trading imagined harm for a real harm. You trade off a loss of privacy that has zero practical implications currently for almost everyone (a few terrorist suspects might have to worry) against lost time due to inferior search r
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by fhd2 13y ago
Working for a company that takes privacy very seriously, I can say that it can be a PITA. Worth doing, but still a PITA. We had to resort to some clever trickery just to count monthly active users without any sort of unique identifier. I be
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by fhd2 13y ago
Agreed, also goes for Emacs. Not a fan of starter kits, they tend to confuse experienced users and newbies alike.
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by fhd2 13y ago
> That's a nice thing in some ways, but my guess is that when you try and edit, say, Erlang or something else, those big IDE's are just going to sputter and flail because they're outside their comfort zone. Yup, as much as
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by fhd2 13y ago
Interesting, I thought it might be pretty hard to do some things efficiently without inline asm.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Considering that you can't even write an OS kernel in pure C (Linux has a lot of inline asm IIRC), writing one in Lisp seems like a fairly unrealistic, slightly weird dream. But "Operating System" is being used ambiguously. C
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by fhd2 13y ago
Well, you can turn Emacs into an IDE, but then you have an IDE, which seems to inevitably include slowness and bloatedness. That's what CEDET is, basically, I couldn't bear using it. I don't find it hard to live without auto
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by fhd2 13y ago
RSI is a complex thing. Some people have pain that is fixed by uniquely shaped keyboards, others need to just switch ctrl and capslock, get rid of the numpad or whatever. I don't think there is such a thing as a keyboard that cures any
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by fhd2 13y ago
> rather that he's found a way to make money off his sycophantic fan-base of mediocre programmers who take his word as gospel. From all I know, he was making a decent living from his blog alone before he started StackOverflow. And l
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by fhd2 13y ago
It forced me to either move the keyboard too far to the left or the mouse too far the right, the former causing wrist pain in both hands, the latter causing pain in the right wrist. So, what fixed my pain was the smaller keyboard, not the l
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by fhd2 13y ago
As someone who has suffered from RSI, my advice is to not fix a problem you don't have. I've been there, and it just cost me money. In my case, I didn't need a curved keyboard or a split keyboard, those things ended up in the
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by fhd2 13y ago
Ouch, I should have bothered actually looking for one instead of going ahead with assumptions, thanks!
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by fhd2 13y ago
Edit: Turns out they have a variant without the numpad, should have bothered looking for one! So, actually an interesting device. http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/code-87-key-mechanica... I'd be interested i
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by fhd2 13y ago
Looking at the commit in question, they're not only removing it, they're planning to have a new function for middle clicking: > The middle-click will be used to start selections, and provide text contextual menus (such as word
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by fhd2 13y ago
> Personally I think the notion that C++ offers "precise control" as you call it is overrated. For instance flexiblememory allocation is touted as an advantage, but in practice this is limited by the fact that there is only one
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by fhd2 13y ago
> ActiveX is not the best technology, but it paved the way for the AJAX programming that everyone does today. You can safely add AJAX to the list, XMLHttpRequest is from Microsoft as well. I never had much symphathy for Microsoft, but I
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by fhd2 13y ago
> That simply limits myself and has no effect on them. (as stated by others, we are a tiny blob in Google's userbase. Our negativity does not even tickle them) So just because Google doesn't care, people shouldn't complain
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by fhd2 13y ago
anon1385's point was that it's very likely that all new Google projects will be tied to Google+, so either it's not a good indicator for what's going to be shut down, or they won't shut anything down anymore.
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by fhd2 13y ago
> attending to conferences does not make a huge difference in the process of becoming a good programmer. That's probably why it's called "Women in Tech Conference and Travel Grants", and not "Women in Tech Become
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by fhd2 13y ago
Sexist = discriminating. Assuming you're male, do you feel discriminated because Google wants more women to attend conferences? I don't. Now if the site would say that men in general shouldn't bother going to tech conferences
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by fhd2 13y ago
One requirement is puzzling: > Have a strong academic background with demonstrated leadership ability Why the need for "demonstrated leadership ability"? Doesn't that completely rule out CS students and junior workers, as
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by fhd2 13y ago
> but not compatible with the GNU GPL. That doesn't mean much, the GPL (v3) is incompatible with itself (v2). Not a GPL hater, just pointing out that it's not a big deal for licenses to be incompatible with the GPL.
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by fhd2 13y ago
That's how people manage to make games despite GC, but I always thought it's a huge hack, having been there. If all you do with your GC is fight it, is it actually a good idea to have it? One thing that makes me excited about Rust
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by fhd2 13y ago
> looking on example 1, I wonder why don't languages like C++ or D or Go just add a "pure" keyword for functions that don't modify the global environment or their arguments? The function in example 1 is modifying a me
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by fhd2 13y ago
Frankly, if the internet had been driven by the desire to make profit in the early days, we wouldn't have TCP/IP, the web, email or any other open protocol for that matter.

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