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by gcv 18y ago
Any idea why it installs itself in "C:\Documents and Settings\User Account Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"?
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by gcv 18y ago
It's a tough call. I almost pulled the trigger a year ago and then cancelled my appointment two days before the surgery. My reasons: 1. Google around for LASIK horror stories. Most people are happy, but I did not want to become a statistic.
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by gcv 18y ago
[Mozilla] leaks like crazy Disturbing. unref, free, g_free One of my professors joked that all non-trivial C and C++ projects begin with hiring a guy who already wrote a garbage collector.
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by gcv 18y ago
Haskell. I tried three times so far, and stalled each time once I reached monad transformers. Scratch that: I consistently stalled at understanding monads. I understand the Maybe monad, but I couldn't wrap my head around the implementation
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by gcv 18y ago
But I fear that it a typical team is told to check their changes in every few hours, this is going to cause more harm than good. Let's examine the "typical team" scenario. 1. Can't tell everyone to check in changes every few hours, becaus
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by gcv 18y ago
The new standard basically has nice improvements over the current one. I use C++ occasionally, when I need to write low-level code and when I think the STL will save me time over plain C. Unfortunately, the new standard won't be too useful
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by gcv 18y ago
What's the current state of the MinGW port? I saw that the release notes for 1.6.0 mention that it was being integrated, but it doesn't sound like an all-out supported release. On Windows, I've been using the Cygwin port. Everything I need,
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by gcv 18y ago
Do you not do any programming in your spare time? Give that a shot, and try using something other than Java or C#.
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by gcv 18y ago
I guess I always understood the principles behind full-on REST using all the neglected HTTP methods as a way of enforcing clean API design. Good programmers can, of course, just use POST methods for an API, and not cause grief. Others might
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by gcv 18y ago
I think the author still has a lot of work to do to defend his case. BMW doesn't hesitate to make concept cars (see, e.g., http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1890/69/ ), but it has brisk sales and an enviable brand cachet. It's tempting t
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by gcv 18y ago
Based on your comment, you basically agree with Steve's argument. You agree with him that "grilling" and "role playing" don't work. This is precisely what he meant. He then goes on to argue that people should build products that they want f
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by gcv 18y ago
True enough. I deal with "enterprise" software all the time, and I found that it is all horrific. Terrible UIs, almost invariably terrible performance, chronic instability. I'm afraid that, if Steve is right and that to build something good
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by gcv 18y ago
Has anyone here used the Turk for getting people to test their webapps yet? Or better yet, for apps which need lots of raw data which is tricky to collect automatically?
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by gcv 18y ago
And people complain about Zed Shaw's expletive-filled writing style? At least Zed has a sense of humor and blasts just about everything in sight. As for this article, let's see. Hero worship? Check. Ad hominem attacks? Check. Uninformed com
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by gcv 18y ago
Well put. I'm appalled that people keep promulgating this FUD about git documentation. Git's User Manual ( http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.... ) is the first hit on Google for "git manual". From my reading, it's
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by gcv 18y ago
I think mobile apps which do this are coming, and the iPhone SDK hasn't been available long enough for really spectacular stuff to have come out. It takes a while for a neat, massively-socially-networked (how's that for a neologism) mobile
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by gcv 18y ago
It has been quite a long time since I last looked into Franz' licensing terms, but I believe the royalty applies only if you distribute a product which contains the Allegro CL runtime. In other words, if you write a Lisp application, using
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by gcv 18y ago
The human brain is pretty good at filling in details and justifying or explaining inconsistent things. The person who mentioned a Slashdot thread might not even have been lying. There might have been a thread which said "OS2 is old and dead
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by gcv 18y ago
How do you know some readers here don't read Supreme Court decisions because they're interested in law, even if they never went to law school? How do you know your lawyer doesn't hack on Arc on weekends? :) Seriously, though: of course the
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by gcv 18y ago
I work on two laptops, depending on the project: a MacBook Pro, and an X-series ThinkPad. Both are great. Granted, I'd be on the MBP all the time if it weren't for historical reasons, but I have no complaints at all about the ThinkPad. If y
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by gcv 18y ago
Would running a Windows VM work for you? VMware Fusion is a terrific product.
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by gcv 18y ago
Rant: I'm afraid I have to side with the author against the "relational set theory purists." I actually don't care much about styles of ORMs, and I don't even care that much about having to write SQL, either. I can do, and have done, both.
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by gcv 18y ago
Sounds like the author followed the YC mantra, and managed to make a couple of things which people liked. Then, he couldn't figure out how to market it. I think this is where (something like) YC could have given him a huge boost, with that
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NSA guides to securing Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and Solaris(nsa.gov)
3 points by gcv 18y ago|1 comments
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by gcv 18y ago
Don't overgeneralize. Consider "Audi." While obvious to a German speaker, an English speaker who has never heard the word before will wonder if it should be "oh-DI," "OH-di," "OW-di," or "ow-DI?" I think Cuil is a decent name, far better th
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by gcv 18y ago
I think it's a matter of preference. My Emacs is set up with an off-white font and a fairly dark background, and, under most sources of light, it tires me out less than the glow of white backgrounds. In any case, that page is just text. Cop
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by gcv 18y ago
Don't be so demanding. :) The library has a couple of debugger hooks, though. Not as good as a REPL, but way better than what you normally have to deal with in C++ and gdb. Check out the sample code in the source distribution. The 'let' typ
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by gcv 18y ago
Wait a second --- I am very much a libertarian, but I also use Emacs! :) (This comment will not make sense to you if you haven't read the linked article.)
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by gcv 18y ago
Good point. :) The statement makes sense to me, though. The iPhone store shows that a market exists for apps for a specific, popular, walled-off platform with a unified storefront. Other mobile platforms don't have anything like that, do th
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by gcv 18y ago
Yes. A few degrees of temperature fluctuation are already having a significant impact on marine ecosystems (coral reefs). Making all of the world's ocean water more alkaline is pure insanity. It is extremely likely to cause mass extinctions

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