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by jheriko 12y ago
you have to make a choice imo. you can either suck it up and get on with it or flat refuse to do it. if you feel strongly enough then refuse to do work and quit the job... fulfil your contract to the minimum possible whilst giving them ever
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by jheriko 12y ago
i can't really tell what service is being offered. or maybe i am being naive and missing the point... i guess work on the page so is clearer. imo there is a very strong sell and not enough information on the product for me to determine
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by jheriko 13y ago
spot on re: > I am the boss with all the perks and the quirks. these kinds of comments are dangerous. what your boss thinks they have a right to treat you how they wish as if they own you then that is a problem... if they feel it is fine
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by jheriko 13y ago
hehe.... i wonder if they will fix it or simply accuse you of being an idiot several times over before reading the bug report and realising its genuine. :P what i find much more interesting than this kind of bug though is that there are sev
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by jheriko 13y ago
Yet nobody is making a better c and we are stuck with performance vs safety. Hit the nail on the head about if although I disagree about the fancy syntax examples - enforcing scopes is enough - every decent coding standard I've worked
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by jheriko 13y ago
It's almost certainly the other way around esp. by your description of 'harsh' skin. Likely something lossy in the film process gives the effect you like (if it is even real... it's easy to imagine all sorts of visual di
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by jheriko 13y ago
This sounds clever but also massively complex for what it does. I don't have anything finished but I can think of a few approaches to this without needing to reconstruct 3d things with clever algorithms... still very neat visually if t
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by jheriko 13y ago
Syntactic sugar is worth it in many cases...
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by jheriko 13y ago
I agree about strings - you are polite though. It's rank amateur bs. VLAs too here - but there are many situations where it is necessary to dynamically allocate based on message contents ... just not at this level. alloca is no more a
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by jheriko 13y ago
why does it amaze you? my experience of 'self taught' individuals in the general case is that they have a rich understanding of the subject by necessity. conversely my experience of education is that it trains you to solve educati
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by jheriko 13y ago
i don't do the same. i'll take the test because its just another opportunity to prove myself.
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by jheriko 13y ago
this is something i wonder. are tests to see the approach to problem solving? of the few tests i've had one was simply testing my knowledge of the C++ and STL specifications - there was no programming skill involved at all - I could ha
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by jheriko 13y ago
one of the best programmers i know refuses to continue with a job application if there is a programming test... its a bit eccentric but valid given that his experience and past achievements say more than a programming test ever could.
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by jheriko 13y ago
aside from the fact that tests generally don't work i find this hilarious. "the most important requirement is significant independent programming experience as demonstrated by your GitHub account" a great way to find newbie h
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by jheriko 13y ago
> The code should be secure enough that allowing people to see it wouldn't undermine its security efforts. That is a good idea IMO. :)
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by jheriko 13y ago
sure, i do mention this - but what about the difficulty in finding the vulnerability?
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Ask HN: Is Heartbleed a good argument for using closed source?
1 points by jheriko 13y ago|4 comments
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by jheriko 13y ago
Now I know about it at all... Thanks. :)
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by jheriko 13y ago
and how do you prove this?
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by jheriko 13y ago
its not faster and the accuracy improvement is more of a curiosity than of real value. infact on modern desktop/console hardware invsqrt hack is really bad. it causes type aliasing which is 'expensive' in native software term
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by jheriko 13y ago
With fast native code its more than practical to search the entire space of floating point numbers and guarantee that you find the optimal magic number: http://jheriko-rtw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/understanding-and-.
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by jheriko 13y ago
> otherwise they will just fill up with throwaway accounts. this is exactly the kind of strategy that 'poor' people take to maximise the effectiveness of 'freebies' (which includes credit). i hope they have some strat
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by jheriko 13y ago
any versions of this article that i don't have to pay for?
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by jheriko 13y ago
Having been through some 'nightmare' crunches myself i do feel some sympathy. However, it is cautious sympathy because this guy chose freely to do this and made the situation for himself. The fact that he was too weak of character
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by jheriko 13y ago
Reminds me of "Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement"... except the author here seems to be oblivious as to the law or perhaps even common sense. Its a shame. It would be cool to have a HD remake...
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by jheriko 13y ago
> All developers should be able to assume that the history in the central repo is immutable. Most likely, they will rely on that assumption. Amen.
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by jheriko 13y ago
sadly i did miss out on WinG - by the time I got to doing graphics in Windows it was OpenGL and then DirectX
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by jheriko 13y ago
i can hint at you that this is not an impossible problem even with a fairly decent res teapot :) p.s. why are you doing any matrix multiplies in a shader? i guess these are per-pixel? per-vert? even per-vert ones can be removed or reduced i
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by jheriko 13y ago
You might want to look into pixomatic... which I believe Mr. Abrash worked on until relatively recently. Its a very full featured software renderer and i especially love the small footprint - 255k lib + 4k alloc (just the vsd on the last AA
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by jheriko 13y ago
> Matter of fact is: the git UX is awful and it punishes everyone who doesn't have have a high level understanding of how the underlying persistence model works. that is very true imo. reverting a merge once its pushed is a real hea

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