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by gchpaco 16y ago
git (sensibly so) refuses to permit aliases like that.
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by gchpaco 16y ago
Unfortunately that particular override comes up a lot when doing "smart pointers". Smart pointers are crazy difficult to write and fail in all kinds of subtle ways.
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by gchpaco 16y ago
Chrome, Firefox and Safari all render beautifully on my machine, with Safari experiencing some rendering errors; Firefox even does ligatures correctly, which is something I've had trouble with before with fontsquirrel and the like. Whereas
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by gchpaco 17y ago
If his algorithm is correct, it is known that it is possible to guarantee a loss in truly random Tetris with the right sequence of Ss and then Zs; you can force a hole, and this means that the player must eventually use. Now, he may not be
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by gchpaco 17y ago
Correct dependency handling and implicit rules, for one. The amount of effort required to translate %.o: %.c into ant is unbelievable. You can use the depend tasks but those require you to know your dependencies ahead of time and t
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by gchpaco 17y ago
It can, however, be arbitrarily long.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
It's not atomic at all although you're unlikely to notice in most situations. Not what I would use in a script, though.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
Do note the Ken Jones comment on that article basically repudiating the crude editorializing of the main article.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
Not exactly the best written introduction to the tool, but we use Sonar locally and it's pretty decent. Everything it does is done by some individual component, the advantage of Sonar is that the results are more generally accessible. I d
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by gchpaco 17y ago
Sed is actually Turing complete. You'd never want to do it, but you can. It's in the same class of things as the BASIC interpreter written as troff macros, really.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
ELPA appears to be the one that they're going to merge into Emacs 24 (see comment about Tromey et al, and know that Tromey is the main guy behind ELPA...).
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by gchpaco 17y ago
This is one of the first things I've seen—for any language—that could be more useful and powerful than Smalltalk environments. The most useful feature IMHO is the chaining but having find references and the like in there is extremely attra
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by gchpaco 17y ago
I ended up giving four months notice before going to grad school in 2001. Company was too disorganized to really make use of it, but they appreciated the gesture.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
That semicolon-omitted-after-struct error used to happen to me irregularly but frequently enough to really piss me off. It's annoying precisely because it's nonlocal and it interacts badly with the C preprocessor model.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
One of the problems I've run into in my current work is that statistics deals with problems a lot like the drunk man looking for his keys under the lamp. As far as I can tell there is one man in the entire world who works on stable distrib
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by gchpaco 17y ago
That's a very large question, but I'll take a stab at a quick summary. - All resources in Plan 9 are accessed through the file system. Want to get a screenshot? Read from /dev/window. Want to get access a file on a machine halfway around
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by gchpaco 17y ago
This is superficially true but I think ignores how usable sam is. The rationalized command language, the fact that you can see what you're doing, unlimited undo even across files (even across file I/O), and the ability to go to the file in
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by gchpaco 17y ago
"Stop delegating" had me thinking of that "micromanagement is god" jackass a couple weeks back. The gist of this is that DePinto spent a bunch of time working at doing the same stuff normal worker bees do to learn more about the business,
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by gchpaco 17y ago
That argument works against any sort of unionization. Employees should be allowed to associate in unions, period.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
R, while an excellent toolkit in many ways, suffers somewhat from a deficiency of useful programming tutorials. It's not as though I'm new to that style of data manipulation—I loved APL when I was younger—but almost all R documentation o
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by gchpaco 17y ago
I've had my Mac through these folks for a while; I was unwilling to give up the idea of owning the gear (so VPSes were out) and was pretty happy with the thing in general. I run Linux on it.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
A lot of folks looked at it, went "Cool!" and hand wrote their own, buggy, insecure encryption software. Basically it didn't say enough (or, for that matter, very much at all) about library design, which Practical was much more about, and
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by gchpaco 17y ago
They haven't gotten any less temperamental or brittle. The default tokens have a rude tendency to store the entire input stream as it is being parsed, which was a really rude surprise for us (had to rip it out and do LL(1) by hand, with mi
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by gchpaco 17y ago
Big problem with plums is that as far as I can tell the entire tree goes ripe the same millisecond, and you have about three days to pick them all and figure out what the hell to do with a million plums before the birds get to them and they
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by gchpaco 17y ago
The part about this that I find the most interesting is the way it explains how a differential can be thought up, rather than presenting it as some bolt from the blue.
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The Simple Truth(yudkowsky.net)
3 points by gchpaco 17y ago|0 comments
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Hooray for Amazon(bradhicks.livejournal.com)
17 points by gchpaco 17y ago|3 comments
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by gchpaco 17y ago
But UTF-16 is far more advantageous an encoding if you speak Chinese, Arabic, Russian, or Japanese; UTF-8 can take up to four bytes per character for some of those.
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by gchpaco 17y ago
It's interesting that UTF-8 has largely achieved its success amongst English speakers and Latin-1 languages--almost everything else has remained more or less static or has a slow downward trend. Since we're not seeing an increase in UTF-16
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by gchpaco 17y ago
98% of smartphones use at least one ARM CPU. Intel is and has been for a long time a joke in the embedded scene. The only thing that's been propping them up in laptops has been the need to use Windows, IMHO; as such they're in trouble.

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