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by jmts 8y ago
I used up all the spins on a Lord of Destruction CD years ago too. Had a hard time convincing my computer retailer that the cause of death was natural causes. I still have the largest shard tucked away somewhere - the rest was dust.
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by jmts 8y ago
I had envisaged my 'manager' variable above as type widget_manager. Having a global manager of all things, or independent manager makes no difference to my argument. The manager has to live in file-scope or above since there is no
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by jmts 8y ago
One downside to this approach as far as I interpret it, widget_handle widget = widget_manager_new_widget(manager); is that it appears to require the user to either remember two values, widget_tweak(manager, widget); or the
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by jmts 8y ago
Decide on some things you would rather do with your time than waste it on pointless things like this. Allow yourself to do the pointless things only once you've done something less pointless with your time. Keep trying.
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by jmts 8y ago
I'll agree that this can be inaccurate/illogical/misleading/confusing/frustrating. Given that "50% more" is equivalent to the addition of 50% of the original value, and "50% less" is equivalent t
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Ask HN: Search engine to find references to URLs
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by jmts 8y ago
Seems Google, Reddit (u/Ungard at [1]), and Amazon [2] have all the answers. Turns out it was Carmack with the ax. An excerpt from the book: This happened after Romero accidentally locked himself in his office. Hearing the pleas, Carm
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by jmts 8y ago
IIRC there was a lot of smashing keyboards, and the occasional cutting down of office doors with axes.
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by jmts 9y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you start writing the application without a database first. My early education on databases always seemed to follow a "how do we make a database do this?" rationale rather than "
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by jmts 9y ago
I have a really hard time understanding suicidal people Believe me, you don't want to understand. The only way you can, is if you've been there. Imagine for a moment that you are in a hostage situation. Someone wants to ki
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by jmts 9y ago
I'd also recommend processing. But if you wanted to try your hand at GLSL you could also play around with shadertoy [1], though the learning curve is likely to be much steeper. It has genuine demoscene heritage, coming from a talented
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by jmts 9y ago
I for one was expecting the author to be Slartibartfast.
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by jmts 9y ago
Perhaps you just chose the wrong tool for the job. Just because you are able to do similar things with make, doesn't mean it is has to be suited to your chosen use case. It's a tool that was created with a specific purpose in mind
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by jmts 9y ago
At a previous job, I had to investigate a similar issue where some online exams were being terminated early. The overall scheme worked out something like this: 1. students connect to the online system 2. load balancers assign each con
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by jmts 9y ago
These are the first two boosters used to launch a Falcon Heavy. They are modified Falcon 9's. They already know much of the wear and tear that Falcon 9's endure in flight from previous launches. They didn't yet know how their
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by jmts 9y ago
I think perhaps you are confusing the idea of VIM's input paradigm being efficient for text editing, with the idea of VIM's input paradigm being efficient in general. Video games that have adopted the use of a mouse have not done
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by jmts 9y ago
No clouds over here in 'Straya. Bit of a scorcher though. Don't let 'em fool you - my mate Bazza reckons he counted four suns once. He loves a good yarn but he's dinky-di and I don't reckon he's taking the piss
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by jmts 9y ago
I think the answer to this question varies from person to person, and depends greatly on the commitments you already have, and the things you value investing time in. Back when I was at university, my honours supervisor was of the opinion t
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by jmts 9y ago
Politics has become so us-vs-them that just about any such question ends up answered with "the most general group/ideology/label in conflict with my own that fits the chosen criteria" among those that don't care to
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by jmts 9y ago
I would like to see such a set of metrics designed with a more statistical approach. The Bechdel test offers a simple but general metric for deciding whether a woman has played a non-superficial role in a movie. I think generality should be
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by jmts 9y ago
> Please state the fact: programmers are not trained, nor have the time to go far enough asking the questions. The technical skills an engineer is trained in are much less than half of the actual skills you need in order to be a good e
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by jmts 9y ago
> A lot of times, ... programmers don't go far enough asking the questions about 'Why do you want that? What is it that you're actually trying to do?' > It's also important to take the time to really use th
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by jmts 9y ago
The cyclist may not see the car if they stare blindly into the distance in front of them. GP is making the point that the cyclist should be aware of their surroundings, and taking precautions accordingly. This includes looking for approachi
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by jmts 9y ago
> Sometimes I wonder if I would have actually hit them if anyone would have believed I didn’t see them As a daily motorcyclist that also drives a car, I'm uncomfortably aware of how much of your vision the A-pillar obscure
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by jmts 9y ago
You may have conflated a couple of things here that I think might be worthy of clarification. 1. Fires will force animals out of the forest for hunting. It sounds to me that this is the most likely reason for animals learning to spread fire
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by jmts 9y ago
I'm also interested in some elaboration of this scheme. While I'm less interested in ORMs etc, the advantages/disadvantages would be useful to compare to some recent thoughts I've had regarding the use of databases. Prof
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by jmts 9y ago
Perhaps they weren't interested in you at all. Without knowing anything about the launch - or even whether the helicopter was related - perhaps they were doing something routine and uninteresting, but you just happened to be around for
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by jmts 9y ago
I believe GP was making a joke that something fundamental is missing. Something along the lines of "that would be a nice car if it had wheels".
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by jmts 9y ago
About 40km. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace#Stratosphere_jump
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by jmts 9y ago
You're conflating the theology of the Bible with the history of the Bible. A (non-believing) scientist/historian might very well decline that Jesus has any supernatural connection, but agree that it is plausible that he was an act

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