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Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition(tgceec.tumblr.com)
28 points by gioele 12y ago|12 comments
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by gioele 12y ago
> In particular, I was asked to help hire an algebraic geometer -- algebraic geometry not being my specialty. Why were you selected then? > For me to read and understand the highly technical papers of each of 500 job applicants Why di
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by gioele 12y ago
> If the reviews are signed, public, and citable If the reviews were signed, public and citable there would be much fewer critical reviews, especially in small fields. Cue all arguments in favour of anonymous participation on the net.
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by gioele 12y ago
> Tenure committees can’t read the actual papers of all the applicants to form an opinion on the quality of the research. I once discussed this with the dean of a humanities faculty in Norway. He said they did not take h-index and simila
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by gioele 12y ago
> So if we can extend our operating systems by installing programs, why shouldn't we be able to extend our poor man's operating system by installing plugins? IF we can extend our operating systems. Do not take that for grante
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by gioele 12y ago
Don't worry, git-annex uses SHA1 just as a checksum, not for cryptographic purposes.
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Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?(stackoverflow.com)
468 points by gioele 12y ago|85 comments
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by gioele 12y ago
We should remember that DJB was a key person in making cryptography fully legal in the US. «The State Department was unsympathetic to Bernstein's situation and told Bernstein he would need a license to be an arms dealer before he could
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by gioele 13y ago
But isn't the ISC file a "derivate work" of the Apache 1.0 and thus subject to the same limits?
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by gioele 13y ago
> "In Windows, the [repository] node I was working on was 4 levels removed from the root. The periodicity of integration decayed exponentially and unpredictably as you approached the root so it ended up that it took between 1 and 3
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by gioele 13y ago
Is that strategy possible at all? Are there cases tested in courts (both US and EU) that assert that the file-by-file licence replacement really works?
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by gioele 13y ago
That list misses a an important bullet point: * Added dozens of tests.
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by gioele 13y ago
GnuTLS is LGPL 2.1+: https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/39aaa63a1a4cb8432... not GPL 3 as that file seems to imply
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by gioele 13y ago
Serious question: why is GnuTLS very often not considered as an alternative to OpenSSL?
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by gioele 13y ago
> The differences between how they and LLVM handle pointer is causing them trouble Could you please elaborate? What is the difference in the way the Mill and LLVM handle pointers?
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by gioele 13y ago
> not the wisest move for a startup. Is Stripe a "startup"? Founded in 2009, they "process billions of dollars a year for thousands of companies of all sizes." and they are a "startup"?
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by gioele 13y ago
Unix = LF Mac = CR DOS = CRLF Please add to that list also HTTP = CRLF http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html However, I still have to see I single webserver that does not accept LF alone instead of
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by gioele 13y ago
> In all these country, ‘hate speech’ is generally clearly limited to destructive and politically irrelevant things Not really, see this example of "law stretching": http://boingboing.net/2011/10/05&#x
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by gioele 13y ago
> That's because the 24-year-old carries a $50 flip phone — the Samsung Gusto 2. There's no touch screen or apps. No Web browsing capabilities. No collection of music to enjoy through earbuds. I'd like to point out that th
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by gioele 13y ago
> Turkey can kiss EU membership ambitions goodbye. Why? Single EU countries have widespread censoring infrastructure in place and IP-based bans are common and normal. They are just not at stupid to ban hi-profile sites yet. http:/&
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by gioele 13y ago
About the problem with `rem` in media queries, see http://stackoverflow.com/q/12201003/449288 . It contains a description of the problem and links to the relevant bugs.
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by gioele 13y ago
Did they start selling the raw ISO/floppy images? I do not understand why they keep (kept?) bundling the games' datafiles with the emulators/runtimes.
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by gioele 13y ago
> PDF is probably the best choice for preserving “design”, but I wouldn’t trust it for preserving content any more than any other format. Always keep a plain text copy. I agree, but have a look at PDF/A (A is for Archiv{e|al}): htt
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Naked Pings(blogs.gnome.org)
2 points by gioele 13y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 13y ago
To avoid such problems in Rack/Rails Ruby project I suggest the rack-i18n_best_langs gem (regardless of the name, it does not depend on the i18n gem) I wrote: https://github.com/gioele/rack-i18n_best_langs
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by gioele 13y ago
> It is not a goal to insanely optimise where that would make the code less readable and maintainable. > Future improvements: * Unroll assembly loops :)
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by gioele 13y ago
> #1: Avoiding shifting versus doing division: Nope. Crappy compilers and bad architectures will yield bad results. Know what you're doing. Which compiler, among those still used in 2014, does not convert a division by 2 into a shif
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by gioele 13y ago
Lovely guide, too bad that it is so short: only one chapter and the introduction. Any plans for new chapters?
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by gioele 13y ago
I'd appreciate if the sounds mixture could slowly but constantly change, going from the "it's going to rain soon" mix to the "it's pouring rain" mix to the "sunny with hints of birds" mix.
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by gioele 13y ago
> high prices per km In Italy, and in other European countries, the taxi prices are set by the city councils, not the taxi drivers.

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