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HP WebOS Services Shutdown(pivotce.com)
7 points by jdmt 12y ago|2 comments
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by jdmt 13y ago
"the chosen approach resolves collisions only up to a certain degree. If, however unlikely, a further key maps to the same hash index, then the request simply fails and an appropriate response is generated. We believe this to be an acc
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by jdmt 13y ago
Thanks for teaching me the italics trick! I promise, I love to learn! I agree with most of what you said. In fact, it's due to a few of my classes (especially that physics class) that I'd like to become a professor some day. I wan
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by jdmt 13y ago
>You actually hacked the system to take your time and money and not give you a good result. And what if I earned 100% on the 2 midterms and a 94% on the final? I got a 96% in that physics class. Other students told me that their exam gra
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by jdmt 13y ago
> You however seemed to be espousing cheating the system. Doesn't that sound similar to hacking the system? We are using a website called hacker news. Not only was collaboration on homework encouraged, but the class actually had its
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by jdmt 13y ago
[Original message removed due to another downvote. I guess I will not share personal anecdotes anymore. I feel that downvotes are for off topic or mean comments. I only shared a personal experience that I felt related to the OP's story
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by jdmt 13y ago
wow, why the downvote? I'm very proud of the website I created. It was what got me started with programming and lit a fire under me to learn new programming languages. I don't share much on HN but a downvote to this post makes me
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by jdmt 13y ago
Rather than go to class I created a popular custom discussion forum for students to help each other with the homework problems (back in the early 2000's). Ended up teaching myself perl, html, css, javascript and sql in the process whic
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by jdmt 13y ago
Thanks for sharing. This was an awesome read. I'm surprised the router allowed external connections to access the internal configuration. However, some older routers are pretty poorly designed from a security standpoint.
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by jdmt 13y ago
Failing immediately is certainly an easy way to handle unrecoverable errors. However, it seems as though your library assumes NDEBUG is never defined. Maybe you should make your own function rather than using assert()?
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by jdmt 13y ago
Why do you do things like: assert(doSomethingThatChangesState() == 0); throughout your code? I thought the point of assert was for debugging purposes and you should never change program state inside the assertion.
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by jdmt 13y ago
I don't disagree that public APIs should be well documented. However, I believe it's very easy to forget to update the comments. Especially in scripting languages without type safety. There is little to remind the programmer that
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by jdmt 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal This whole problem stems from the movement to privatize prisons. It's a disgusting abuse of power. The lives of many at-risk children (and their families) have be
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by jdmt 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal