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by gamache 17y ago
I hope so, at least for a few days, because the hard drive on my MacBook just went sour.
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by gamache 17y ago
All these disproportionately strong reactions show that Tim Ferriss is still relevant and still very good at what he does Correct, if Tim Ferriss is a professional annoyatron.
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by gamache 17y ago
Also see the more advanced Bit Twiddling Hacks page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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by gamache 17y ago
HA, "methods". This was the late 50's, kiddo. OO was fifteen years off... hell, high level languages were not even there yet. You were lucky if your computer had a keyboard. Your precious "unit tests" would have also been written in hex
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by gamache 17y ago
Where is this "one allegation" coming from? To me, this sounds like a righteous rant against something that didn't happen to the author or anyone he knew, and rarely happens at all.
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by gamache 17y ago
Oh, heredocs absolutely still have a place. It's the right choice for any multiline string which might contain quoting characters. And what's so complicated about the syntax? Even if you have never seen a heredoc before, it's generally ve
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by gamache 17y ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame Apple for their policy. Wonky RAM can cause all sorts of weird bugs, so Apple is right to avoid the diagnostic nightmare.
578.
by gamache 17y ago
So in other words, Apple wouldn't deal with your problem while you were using non-Apple RAM. I think we agree here.
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by gamache 17y ago
But honestly, what do they care if a third-party battery explodes in the user's hand? IMO a better way to deal with this would be for the firmware to record when a third-party battery is used, but not prevent it; in this way, Panasonic cou
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by gamache 17y ago
I think the article counts as "sparing".
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by gamache 17y ago
You would be just another dirty domain squatter, yes. (And as such, I would wish the universe to burn fire upon you and your distasteful little enterprise. I am not alone in this.) I will never give a squatter a dime. If you squatted a n
582.
by gamache 17y ago
Without wires, and without a dock. It's drawing power from ambient radio waves; this is brilliant. This isn't another one of those wireless charging attempts where you need a dock to blast it with EM radiation.
583.
by gamache 17y ago
Yes, I am talking about using regexes where a "standard" parser would use getc() and switch statements all over the place. You can't just write a clever regex and wrap it in a while loop and have a parser to go; as you mention, this is the
584.
by gamache 17y ago
That statement is content-free. Robust parsing can be achieved using regexes as a tool. I want some reasoning better than "ew, regexes!"
585.
by gamache 17y ago
I'd call that loop use. This might as well be the poster child for why LOOP is an awesome macro.
586.
by gamache 17y ago
Why? Sane regexes aren't all that inefficient, and here efficiency doesn't matter much anyhow.
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by gamache 17y ago
Did they FTFF too, or did they just rewrite it? I have not tried Snow Leopard.
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by gamache 17y ago
First google link is: http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1568.html The studies mentioned there give figures close to 2:1 when comparing men vs. women; quite believable, when considering my personal experience and accounting for what is un
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by gamache 17y ago
As a non-user, you would be genuinely surprised at what strategic use of certain psychedelic drugs can do, even -- especially -- if your brain works great just the way it is. Reliance on drugs is unfortunate, and in the case of psychedeli
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by gamache 17y ago
Another interesting data point: Kary Mullis, the inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR, aka DNA amplification), credits LSD with helping him to make his discovery -- and thanked Albert Hofmann, LSD's inventor, personally. LSD is a tool
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by gamache 17y ago
the only such large gender differences that have been found are in masturbation Citation Needed. !!! What I know empirically leads me not to believe you, not even a little.
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by gamache 17y ago
There's plenty of fuel for speculation in this particular case! There is the open question of whether Last.fm/CBS handed user data to the RIAA (covered at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ ). Fast forward a month fr
593.
by gamache 17y ago
That has to be the most pointless "interview" I have ever read.
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by gamache 17y ago
I play primarily drums, though often I putz around on whatever gut-harp is within arm's reach. When I was playing in a band, we were a two-piece grind/death band; we were also another two-piece doing instrumental rock. I also play in a ro
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by gamache 17y ago
Caliper brakes are old tech. V-brakes work great on tandem bikes; I'm sure that thing isn't going any faster than a tandem on a downhill, and it weighs about half as much. That said, good caliper brakes will slow a solo rider down just fi
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by gamache 17y ago
We don't use source control on our production machines (which I think is crap), so I use an rsync script from my dev machine. Many people just scp the files over every time they make a change. (There was once a tendency by a few folks to
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by gamache 17y ago
The finished product will just use an AVR, not a whole Arduino.
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by gamache 17y ago
It will absolutely be open source. I just need to complete it first. :)
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by gamache 17y ago
I'm using mine to replace the ignition system on my motorcycle (1979 Honda CX500). The original system is a lovely piece of electrical engineering, but is prone to stator coil and capacitor failure (respectively, by heat and age). The Ard
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by gamache 17y ago
It's a lot easier to get going on a project with a prototyping board. There are also many "shields" (daughterboards) which are designed to fit atop the Arduino: things like motor controllers, GPS modules, wireless ethernet cards, etc. Onc

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