geophile

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by geophile 11y ago
I've been using Swift for a couple of months now. While I appreciate that type inference makes for more concise and cleaner code, it also impedes code comprehension. The absence of explicit types forces me, reading an unfamiliar piece
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by geophile 11y ago
Dumb question, from someone who doesn't work with Node.js: Why are there 32 versions of it?
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by geophile 11y ago
OK, he got me. He just sounds too much like people who say similar things on days other than April 1.
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by geophile 11y ago
Yes, you really do need transactions. - 5-6% slower is a small price to pay for correctness. You should be able to "get back" that 5-6% somewhere else. - This is an exceptionally simple example. What if there are multiple updates,
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by geophile 11y ago
I don't understand your point. If I kill the only app using the gps, then I have turned off the gps hardware, haven't I? How much battery life have I saved if the gps hardware is off for an hour vs running?
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by geophile 11y ago
How can this answer be correct? Some applications use the GPS, for example, even in background mode. If I kill the only such running app, there is no need for the GPS and there should be a substantial reduction in power usage, no?
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by geophile 11y ago
This could equally apply to the bankers -- and the software engineers who enable them -- who crashed the economy in 2008. Go and chess players have contributed much more to the world than these psychopaths.
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by geophile 11y ago
I don't know what sfgate is, but they should be embarrassed that they published this ... this ... umm, essay. The main points are 1) this is only a confirmation of a theory, not a new observation, 2) this is about relativity, not quant
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by geophile 11y ago
I got one of these new and improved gas cans. It was very similar to the old one, that worked, except it had some spring-loaded thing to close automatically. To put gas in my boat I have to hold this can with one hand and try to twist the s
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by geophile 11y ago
Just started playing with it. Looks very promising.
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by geophile 11y ago
Thanks, this looks very interesting.
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by geophile 11y ago
Yes, obviously Swift. I am brand new to iOS development, and picked Swift for this exact reason. I figured that if it proved to be a bad choice, I'd find out quickly and learn Objective C. Here are my impressions so far. - The Apple do
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by geophile 11y ago
Last question asks for your email address.
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by geophile 11y ago
What about stopping when the ends of the range are "close enough" and switching to a linear search? All the data should be in the cache, and it should be possible to avoid branches.
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by geophile 11y ago
Could Craig Wright be both Satoshi AND a hoaxer? If he wanted to keep his identity secret, then discrediting himself in this way would be a very clever way of doing so.
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by geophile 11y ago
The amount of human ingenuity that goes into these stupid, pointless schemes is a tragedy.
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by geophile 11y ago
American Psycho jokes start in 3, 2, 1, ...
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by geophile 11y ago
Businessmen hire scientists and engineers, not the other way around.
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SHA-1 may be vulnerable(docs.google.com)
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by geophile 11y ago
They aren't that far apart. If you haven't gone by now, I assume it's because you can't stand Las Vegas? Me too, but there was an event there that I couldn't resist, and so Hoover Dam was just a short drive.
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by geophile 11y ago
Think about the same project being attempted now. Unemployment is now officially pretty low, but I believe the numbers omit people who are "underemployed", (e.g. part time when they would prefer full, no longer looking for work).
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by geophile 11y ago
I visited Hoover Dam a couple of years ago. The physical scale of the thing is just astonishing. You can look at it from the top, from a bridge nearby, from inside looking out and up, and it is just mind bogglingly big. Then there is the au
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by geophile 11y ago
So it isn't just me! I used to beat myself up for being so low-energy that I couldn't even find something to watch on TV.
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by geophile 11y ago
You learn it by using it. If you have a decent professor giving the exam, he will be more concerned with mastery of the concepts more than getting the syntax exactly right. Of course, if you were supposed to be using Maple all semester, it
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by geophile 11y ago
Even dumber: it's a Dodge.
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by geophile 11y ago
The question was what people actually do on an iPad. And the consensus among people who don't get paid by Apple seems to be: couchsurfing.
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by geophile 11y ago
My wife started working for Apple retail a year ago. During training, they asked what an iPad would be used for, and my wife gave pretty much exactly your response -- it's for consumption. WRONG! There was an ad campaign at the time, s
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by geophile 11y ago
Will there still be a Community Edition? (Free, with reduced capabilities.)
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by geophile 11y ago
I am 58 and can relate to pretty much everything the author wrote, but especially this: computer programs are now monstrosities of large numbers of layers of libraries cobbled together to create ever more slickly polished us
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by geophile 11y ago
I am the family IT guy. Years ago (Windows 2000 era, very young kids) I got tired of maintaining Windows and declared that I would no longer support it. We've been all Linux and Mac since then. For a while, we were Linux only.

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