jheriko

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by jheriko 12y ago
i agree with a lot of the moaning about competition etc, but the tech argument is basically an admission of incompetence. the complaint is that "you used rubbish tech and didn't plan for the future"? thats not the fault of ap
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by jheriko 12y ago
The advice I would give would be to take the opposite approach and not to look at it as failed, but as not having become successful yet. Don't give up a job and take a punt on something, do a job and work even harder on the side to bui
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by jheriko 12y ago
i'm chuckling a bit. but then the whole GNU ecosystem is about catering to a tiny minority with special priorities... inside of an even tinier minority of users of open source OSes. I'm sure I am just an outsider who doesn't
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by jheriko 12y ago
people who want to get ahead will do their best to cheat without getting caught, and will take unreasonable risks... doing whatever it takes to succeed. this is not new. personally i prefer to dumb myself down with a bit of weed... :)
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by jheriko 12y ago
good point... i do think it is pretty hard to stop caring though, what happens generally is that if you start to get that demoralised you will leave and find something else. :)
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by jheriko 12y ago
well spotted, that should have been C99, of which many features are not supported with the ms compiler. i believe that the variable array thing was pulled in C11 because so few compilers ever bothered to support it... i see problems with it
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by jheriko 12y ago
this is awesome, never knew it was there. i can never forget the freetype hinting death trap... that thing persisted for too long, and was unreasonable to start with. i think i can forgive now that i have seen this. :) EDIT: i take it back,
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by jheriko 12y ago
Yes there are these things, although usually more focused on C++ these days. Compiling C as C++ with a C++ compiler is not a bad idea though... many compilers which will deal with both and tend not to care about pure C very much at all. Mod
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by jheriko 12y ago
this guy clearly has a passion for security. d-link could do well by firing whatever uncaring 9-to-5 programmers they have and hiring him. part of the problem is that people with this kind of passion and skill are few and far between... is
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by jheriko 12y ago
its very straightforward. video comes in frames, what happens in between frames is that the same image is being displayed for that whole time. there is no way to end a scene half way through the frame - there is no visual cue or anything. n
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by jheriko 12y ago
there is a lot of assumption here... maybe they have tracked it down already? even so it could have been stolen from the original intended recipient.
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by jheriko 12y ago
the article points out itself, how biased it is by focusing on a particular kind of work, and one that is very amenable to not just doing from home, but measuring remotely. the title is a bit of a bold claim in the face of the content...
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by jheriko 12y ago
unless burn 1 has a very specific effect that thing is not going to return to earth, despite crossing the orbit. hitting a resonance by accident is pretty unlikely... one could say astronomically so :P its hard enough to hit things when we
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by jheriko 12y ago
its not the only way, its just one way... there are other ways to increase the eccentricity of an orbit - increasing the orbital velocity at the right time, and in a direction that is not radial is less efficient but since the earth's
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by jheriko 12y ago
he is describing making it fall into the sun directly (if the 'burn' is instantaneous), or if you like, starting to spiral but then just falling in a straight line. a slingshot changes orbital velocity... thats the whole point. yo
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by jheriko 12y ago
thats not how this manoeuvre works. the burn to fall into the sun happens way before any possible return to earth if that orbit were not altered... all that happens is that you start near the earth - thats unavoidable because the rocket com
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by jheriko 12y ago
i think he just means any old trajectory that doesn't come back... its not a completely rubbish idea. if you shoot the right way you could end up cancelling enough orbital velocity to intersect the sun before any return to earth.
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by jheriko 12y ago
you don't understand the link yourself... there are no bodies mentioned. its about transferring from one orbit to another with a large elliptical orbit inbetween, its very well established. (and e.g. something i am familiar with before
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by jheriko 12y ago
i think you are right based on a similar feeling from that game, but be careful with that intuition. how much delta-v do you spend lifting the orbit so that lowering the periapse is cheap?
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by jheriko 12y ago
the article claims that the sun is super inaccessible compared to escape velocity, but they are extremely closely related. as an orbit gets more and more ellipitcal, the delta-v required to get the orbit to cut through the sun drops (for a
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by jheriko 12y ago
i think nuclear power was realised as a result of the revolution in physics at the turn of the century... nothing to do with looking for alternatives.
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by jheriko 12y ago
does nuclear power count? it kind of solves the energy crisis if you are willing to ignore the hippies and the accidents
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by jheriko 12y ago
It should be regulated. I'm just not sure why tech majors should take this up for us... its not in their interest, or in the interest of their customers. Regardless as to motive, nothing will change to the people who benefit from this.
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by jheriko 12y ago
I think a very large part of innovation comes from people who would do it anyway. Supporting them is great. The current system is in everyone's worst interest. Getting there first shouldn't be worth as much as being able to provid
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by jheriko 12y ago
(not to mention the shameful use of timestamps to detect modifcation in make - leading to years and years of wasted time as people get confused by it when working with others)
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by jheriko 12y ago
cmake, visual studio, eclipse, xcode, scons... basically every modern tool chain.
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by jheriko 12y ago
> We need to force the tech majors to take a stand against this. Why exactly? The crux of this argument seems to be "having more money makes you better able to compete" This falls out of free market capitalism. Its not going to
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by jheriko 12y ago
never use makefiles. its not 1975 and we have learned a lot since then
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by jheriko 12y ago
the USPTO is a laughing stock, they should consider some serious reform quickly or just being completely disbanded. they serve no valuable purpose other than to retard the whole of society for the future as far as i can tell...
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by jheriko 12y ago
i have never noticed this and i consider myself to be /disgustingly/ decadent. reading these kinds of comments makes me feel like a saint

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