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by green7ea 13y ago
The ring will cut through a wedding band made of gold over time. Because of this, it is acceptable for a left handed engineer to wear his ring on his right pinky when necessary.
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by green7ea 13y ago
I wasn't aware of the negative turnout of this until now. I hadn't seen an article since porsche was in a power position. For those who are in that boat: http://www.automobilemag.com/features/news/0911_porsche_and_...
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by green7ea 13y ago
Just to make sure this is clear: bigint libraries do not use strings. A well coded big int library will use an array of ints. When an overflow is detected (the processor has a flag for this) you expand the array appropriately. Some librarie
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by green7ea 13y ago
The part that got to me was: "They saw the future and they built it." These applications are toys, not the future. They may be well built, popular, amusing but they are still toys. When I think of someone who sees the future and tries to bu
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by green7ea 14y ago
This post seems to be slightly misinformed about Wayland. I can't say much about Mir as I'm not as familiar with it. 1. You can use OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Software, etc. to render windows in Wayland and most likely in Mir. 2. 2D acceleration de
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by green7ea 14y ago
Clang should change this pretty soon. They make code analyses much easier (they let you use their parsed data) and enable things like code highlighting, code completion and jump to declaration. A good use of this for vim is YouCompleteMe (
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by green7ea 14y ago
The media often misrepresents these things. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, they might simply want to make things more interesting than they are. At least this was my experience with the recent student protests in Montreal. I attended a f
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by green7ea 14y ago
I was sure the guy with the Geordie accent was a Newfie. That was before he said 'aboot'.
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by green7ea 14y ago
What I meant by "respect standards" was things like giving a warning if there is no new line at the end of a file, not accepting templates unless they are in the form "template <typename TYPE>" (the VS compiler lets you omit typenam
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by green7ea 14y ago
Glad you found the post insightful. As an intern I was basically treated as a junior programmer. I had a senior programmer mentor me and usually ended up doing little, usually week long, tasks for him. He was a great guy and really made thi
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by green7ea 14y ago
I'm a linux developer who's had an internship at a game company a few years ago. I had the opposite experience. During my internship, there were problems with visual studio. Intelisense made everything so slow we had to disable it. VS was p
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by green7ea 14y ago
I have a thinkpad T410s and I'm really happy with it. It has the ruggedness of the T series but is considerably lighter and more portable. I couldn't image using another laptop any time soon.
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by green7ea 14y ago
What keeps the US competitive internet wise is the fact that the commercial internet is separate from residential internet. Google, Apple, Amazon all have among the best $/gbps in the world at their american offices. Having said that, I do
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by green7ea 14y ago
When people say Linux, they usually mean more than just the kernel. Stallman insists we call this GNU/Linux since a good portion of userspace comes for the GNU project. When people say 'real linux' I believe they are referring to the full u
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by green7ea 14y ago
I program to solve problems. I usually solve the problems in my head or on paper before doing any coding.There is usually a step afterwards during which I translate this solution into a given programming language. This step in Java is much
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by green7ea 14y ago
I know what you mean. I use hjkl to navigate (vimium). Many sites who are careful about not overriding arrow keys don't imagine someone using other keys to navigate.
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by green7ea 14y ago
Has anyone else noticed how odd these benchmarks seem? They run sunspider on different browsers in different OSes and use the results to compare processor performance per watt. On the same OS, with the same browser, I can have higher variat
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by green7ea 14y ago
To clarify: Ubuntu for phones can run using the android kernel (which is a modified linux kernel). This means that most of the drivers should work out of the box (graphics, wireless, etc) if you use this route. You can also use a normal lin
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by green7ea 14y ago
Anathem and Cryptonomicon are very different from Snow Crash but they are Neil Stephensons crowning jewels. I recommend you give them a go.
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by green7ea 14y ago
Shogun is an awesome read; I read it yearly. The many interleaving and embedded plots create fascinating character depth. Not only that but Clavel easily transitions between the point of view of the many protagonists creating an amazing rea
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by green7ea 14y ago
This is like the desktop idea Microsoft stole from Apple. Doesn't matter that Xerox did it first or that it was inevitable as computers were becoming more powerful. It's not like there is prior art for most of the touch patents with the dia
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by green7ea 14y ago
I agree that this is the case for casual programming. If you are teaching someone who has hardware experience (electrical engineer, etc), it is sometimes easier to build from the bottom up and C is as low as it goes without being assembly (
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by green7ea 14y ago
The site was down for me. Here's a google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ImsGeKm...
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by green7ea 14y ago
The biggest changing factor is not the speed but the fact that it is symmetric. Symmetric internet will change the way we use our home computers. We will be able to create and send content just as much as we consume it. Imagine the future p
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by green7ea 14y ago
They won't lock down the distribution source as Apple does so you might have competition among marketplace providers. If you think 30% is too high, you are free to create your own marketplace with a 10% cut.
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by green7ea 14y ago
Its not that it can't be buggy but rather that you can fix bugs once you find them. A proprietary manufacturer of a pacemaker wouldn't necessarily fix your bugs in a timely manner; you depend on his cooperation. He could be out of business,
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by green7ea 15y ago
My preferred UI is the Awesome WM so I know how you feel but I think Unity is going down the right road for several reasons: + Composited desktop means a X11 artifact free experience. + Keyboard shortcuts for most tasks + Unified experience
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by green7ea 15y ago
The whole time I was reading this article I was thinking exactly that: with the amount of caching present, no one would even notice. Considering the fact that they don't understand this basic principle, I doubt they'll come close to taking