jackmott

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1. 301.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   they could do 400 watts for one hour a day indefinitely though.
2. 302.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   citation needed
3. 303.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   if you keep extending how little you can use the answer is obviously yes, but then it isn't modern society. you could.more efficiently harness the sun than growomg plants and eating them then working out anyway, so this whole approach
4. 304.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   some things need performance some don't. that simple.
5. 305.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   death penalty is fine except if you find out later that you were wrong you can't undo it.
6. 306.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   I wonder if the "but that would.never work in america" people ever think about the old head and shoulders commercials ...they probably didn't get the joke.
7. 307.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   is there any evidence that incentives like that work for violent crime? we know that harshness of punishment has no impact on deterrence.
8. 308.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   man...not sure you can hate computers more than a programmer....who knows the true horror inside.
9. 309.▲
   by jackmott 9y ago

   >"I don't like Apps, I prefer websites." for netflix, the website has more features, so yeah.
10. 310.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    no
11. 311.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    >Put simply, if your users never complain about the performance of your app then it is fast enough Suppose the users aren't aware that your app is wasting their battery power, because of it's bad performance? Suppose your users
12. 312.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    it's never been true in general but still happens sometimes.
13. 313.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    Is Stephanie the woman who predicted the famous AlphaGo move against Lee Sedol when playing along on youtube?
14. 314.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    i can't explain how infuriating that comment is without violating the rules here.
15. 315.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    apparently you can actually make the api feel better, per Yegge. Probably due to extension methods.
16. 316.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    i am a game dev and think that the impact of a single dropped frame is being overstated. however, a 50 or 100ms gc pause will miss more than 1
17. 317.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    1 dropped frame at 60fps is very noticeable? confirm this via experiment?
18. 318.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    targets more platforms. don't have to figure out the insane mess that is .net core cs net framework. just do toyr regular c# or f# code and compile it wherever.
19. 319.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    another development is the Mono now supports System.Nunerics which means it has the same SIMD support as tegular .NET, and a few more SIMD intrinsics are coming to System.Nunerics soon as well. it will be usable quite a bit more often when
20. 320.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    not anymore, new stuff coming now that MS owns xamarin
21. 321.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    the education is "do not compute without permission of the company"
22. 322.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    kids who get these in schools will never get to tinker. this whole trend is a tragedy
23. 323.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    Google making Kotlin an official Android language has everyone freaking out. Whenever Java programmers discover a new language they get really excited, which is understandable. I am happy for them!
24. 324.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    value as being immutable is a common idiom
25. 325.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    >there's not that much to worry about for us as ordinary internet users. >"extort" money from Google, Facebook, YouTube, Netflix That's going to degrade my experience or raise my bills at those sites, and make it i
26. 326.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    First you fix the problem of ISP monopolies then. First you do that, then you can get rid of or relax net neutrality rules.
27. 327.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    no it isn't a surprise but we should still be mad as hell, try to stop it, and punish those responsible.
28. 328.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    I've got a few visual studio tips here: https://jackmott.github.io/programming/tools/editor/ide/visu... and here: https://jackmott.github.io/programming/tools/editor/i
29. 329.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    I spent a long time never bothering to master semi-advanced text editor or ide features. Like really simple stuff like moving forward/back by a word at a time, deleting a word at a time, hopping to next/prev brace/paren, ren
30. 330.▲
    by jackmott 9y ago

    extension methods may be what provides him the ability to fix the api to his liking.