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by jakobe 13y ago
Preventing DUI is a difficult problem. A much easier problem would be to prevent speeding. Put a GPS in every car that prevents the car from driving faster than the speed limit. All the technology exists, and this would doubtlessly save liv
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by jakobe 13y ago
This is great! It's incredibly awesome how much you can take away from Mario and still have a fun game. I love how the rectangle slants to show that you are moving. The game feels really responsive! (Macbook Air, Safari 7.0.2) The prog
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by jakobe 13y ago
The most amazing Postgres feature: Transactional schema changes. Create tables, alter tables, insert data, all inside a transaction. If any step fails, everything is rolled back! This blew my mind when I switched from MySQL (which doesn&#x2
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by jakobe 13y ago
Please explain why Dell is clearly violating the trademark. Just saying it's CLEAR (in capital letters) is not a sound argument.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Because division/multiplication by powers of two is a simple bitshift and can be implemented very easily on silicon. Division/multiplication by ten is complicated and needs many more gates and more time.
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by jakobe 13y ago
But what about "Fair Use"? Just owning a trademark doesn't give you the right to forbid other people using it. It's pretty clear from the wording that Dell is offering to install third party software. I'm pretty sur
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by jakobe 13y ago
Yes, reinventing the wheel is okay when you have a simple problem. But the article describes a complicated problem, and the presented solution delivers pretty poor results. In this specific case, I am pretty sure that looking for an existin
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by jakobe 13y ago
As I became more experienced, I started understanding abstract concepts better because I have already seen more real world things. I can now quicky think of my own examples in my head. (Aside: This is why I think you should work first, stud
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by jakobe 13y ago
Stopping distance is extremely important. Here are a few examples of typical car accidents: - a driver in foggy weather crashes into a traffic jam - a car crosses an intersection at a red light, is hit by a car from the other direction - ca
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by jakobe 13y ago
The goal isn't to "harm the employer", the goal is to expose their behavior. If exposing your "internal operations" harms you, the problem isn't person doing the exposing, the problem are the "internal ope
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by jakobe 13y ago
Kids, these days.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Nope. P is "the nsa is responsible for goto fail". A possible q could be "someone from nsa communicated with someone from apple" Another possible q could be "goto fail was introduced on purpose" These specific
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by jakobe 13y ago
I thought it was sarcasm. It's funny because there is an unbraced if and a goto, but the error is sonewhere else
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by jakobe 13y ago
Your example has nothing to do with the actual code in the kernel. In the original code, the counters are passed by reference to a function. That means they need to be in memory anyway, right? The compiler can't pass the address of a r
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by jakobe 13y ago
No need to shit on Steve Jobs in order to praise Steven Wolfram. Both are good businessmen that built great products and successful companies. And they had great respect for one another. And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away f
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by jakobe 13y ago
Lot's of people suggesting to add explanatory comments. I don't think that's a good idea, it would be better to change the names of the variables: unsigned counter1 = 1; unsigned counter2 = 5; unsigned counter3
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by jakobe 13y ago
TLDR: CNAME doesn't just forward A records, but MX records and others as well.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Without knowing the details, I assume that WebGL poses a high security risk. Considering that Mobile Safari has access to lots of confidential data (eg. iCloud keychain), and runs in a less restricted sandbox (can make data pages executable
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by jakobe 13y ago
I completely understand him. He talked a lot about gender issues, and that's one of a few topics that always leads to raging arguments here. I've learned to mostly ignore this class of threads. HN is a great place to learn about o
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by jakobe 13y ago
Just bought Bee (to track github issues). That's a pretty convincing video you have there!
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by jakobe 13y ago
Yes. I had an app rejected for the same reason. Just appeal, and explain your position. In my case, I made a viewer for Microsoft Access databases. Apple kept complaining that there was no way to create databases on the phone. After a few b
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by jakobe 13y ago
> the kinds of problems most people have seem trivially simple to me This sounds a bit narcissistic. If you think other people's problems are trivial, maybe you're just not being empathic enough to understand their full scope.
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by jakobe 13y ago
that's bullshit. Having your own business lets you decide yourself how much you work. You can spend 80 hours a week on your business, or you can spend 30 hours a week on your business. I chose the latter, and it works just fine. (but I
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by jakobe 13y ago
It's a subway, so it's in underground tunnels :) However, there are some above ground sections, and I think the stations there don't have walls. It's been ten years since I've been there, so things might have change
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by jakobe 13y ago
Most subway stations in Singapore have walls with doors between the train and the platform. The doors open only after the train arrived and stopped. (It's similar to elevator doors.) Makes it impossible to fall or jump on the tracks.
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by jakobe 13y ago
Not only that, but the time required to convert from UTF-8 to UTF-16 is negligible in relation to the time required to lay out the glyphs and draw them on screen. Premature optimisation indeed.
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by jakobe 13y ago
I recently got a bug report where using the unarchiver to unzip an app corrupted it. https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/issues/166#issuec...
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by jakobe 13y ago
My favorite undocumented keybinding: C-t (transpose) for sloppy typers like me.
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by jakobe 13y ago
> After all, they did the work, so they deserve to be compensated for it. The problem is that many Open Source projects aren't created by an individual, or even a single company. Large projects have hundreds of contributors. If a pr
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by jakobe 13y ago
I wasn't talking about GPL, but the combination GPL+copyright assignment.

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