greenshackle2

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by greenshackle2 10y ago
This one was advertised as for developers/coders/engineers/designers, but I'm in a second-tier (for developers) Canadian city. Many talented tech folks move to first-tier Canadian cities, or to first tier U.S. cities, wh
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
I tried going to a 'hacker' meetup in my city. It was disappointing. I was asking people if they were programmers, the median reaction was "a programmer? oh lord no, I'm a [marketing/UI/non-technical] person&
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
It could be useable, I don't want to dismiss it entirely without even trying it, but honestly the website's text has really turned me off, so I probably won't.
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
That's what I was thinking. I'm a human, I like my Vim and C. The main limitation of a language like that is that, if you care about performance at all, you have to program for the machine first, not for humans. You're alway
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
All hail LISP. My main problem with LISP is that I stopped liking Python after learning it.
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
They (kind of) have a point though. I agree you should aim to be polyglot, but a particular project may not afford the learning curve if the dev doesn't already know the best stack. For example, I'm working (part time) on a relati
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Ouch. Backpack full of battery packs it is then.
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
The Shield is 1900x1200, the Switch will run at 720p in mobile mode, for "performance reasons". Pretty sure they mean for battery life reasons. It will push out 1080p when docked so it's not like the GPU can't handle it.
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Clinical just means that you have been diagnosed with Depression by someone with a bunch of letters after their name, as opposed to colloquial depression, which means something like 'feeling blue'. To be diagnosed you need to meet
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Yeah that's an excellent point. The Nvidia Shield (Tegra K1) can pull 15-20 watts while gaming. I can play hearthstone for like 3 hours when plugged in . 5V usb port at 2.1A = 10.5W = battery gets drained even when plugged in. It has
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
> the quackery of Dr. Oz-approved “superfoods” and the idea that you can live forever if you just eat enough pomegranate seeds Have they even read the ingredients list of soylent? It just has the basic macros, vitamins and minerals. It&#
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
I know people in a fourth category: 4. Does not really enjoy eating food. Spending time/money/energy on good food is completely pointless for some people (e.g. friend with anosmia).
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Uh, on the contrary, I've found your narrative helpful in showing how one might arrive at the conclusion that finding more bugs is evidence that more won't be found later. I often try to back up abstract arguments with a concrete
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
>If we found bug x, y and z will necessarily be found, therefore VeraCrypt is insecure. I did not make that argument, I made a probabilistic argument. Trying to apply deductive logic fallacies to probabilistic arguments is a type error.
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Auburn?
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
It's not slippery slope. The slippery slope fallacy is arguments of the form 'if we allow x, y and z will necessarily occur, therefore we can't allow x'. (Note that the slippery slope fallacy is not a pure logical fallac
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
"Mr. Potter, one of the requisites for becoming a powerful wizard is an excellent memory. The key to a puzzle is often something you read twenty years ago in an old scroll" I skim technical books that are not immediately useful to
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Prefacing everything with 'I think', 'in my opinion', etc. is bad style. It weighs down the text. We already know that the writer's statements are what she thinks since she's the one making the statements. I
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
>-The common argument of only keyboard, no mouse when using vim... I don't get. Is using a mouse such a major factor that slows you down or affects you negatively? Yes, it hurts my wrist. If I use it continuously for too long it bec
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
You're downvoted but you're not wrong. 'Whom is this book for?' is correct. You can tell because the answer is 'her/him', not 'he/she'. See: http://www.grammarbook.com/gramma
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Just so I understand, the problem is that compiling this code on a 16 bit vs 64 bit platform will produce different IR code? The IR code itself is "portable", but the C to IR compiler is using target specific information? (I'
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
I'm 26 and I'm just starting my career. You're making me feel old.
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
Ah, yes that clarifies a problem I've had trouble with too. I work with a complicated framework, and I often end up having to explain why a seemingly simple change to x is actually complicated, even if I'm looking at the code for
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by greenshackle2 10y ago
But spawn enough threads in Python and you risk entering scheduling hell, thanks to the global interpreter lock. EDIT: if you are CPU bound at all. If you are really really IO bound it's not a problem. Event-driven programming is my go