jwhite

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1. 31.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   I'm with you. I once spent days trying to figure out why a 10 hour timer on a battery charger chip was going off hours too early, leading to the device draining its battery instead of charging it. Turned out the manufacturing partner
2. 32.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   Thanks for the reference, I'll have to find a copy.
3. 33.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   Generally agree, but I think that by 1880 the British had finally come to their senses and given up on Arctic exploration. Franklin's expedition [0] was 1845 - 1848 or so, and the subsequent extensive searches for him into the 1850s p
4. 34.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   There's a worse problem, which I've seen in the wild: int some_function(...); int some_other_function(...) { int r = -1; /* imagine a bunch of other locals defined here */ r = some_fu
5. 35.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   I guess parent is just saying that macros allow programmer control of evaluation order, which you can't get otherwise in a strict language, but you can with laziness. The point could have been worded better I think.
6. 36.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   GDB mostly works for x86. I used to swear at GDB many times daily when using it to debug an embedded ARM target with openocd a few years ago. Very frustrating when it crashes just as you've got the target into the state where you thin
7. 37.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   It seems true on OS X and Linux. I'm not sure if it's 100% statically linked, or if it depends on a particular version of glibc on Linux. Edit: I would check, but I'm not close to a linux box. I haven't tried it on Wind
8. 38.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   Haskell's stack tool is aiming for something like this. All you need is the stack binary. stack will download GHC for you at a given version, and fetch your dependencies for you. The dependencies are locked to a fixed snapshot of ve
9. 39.▲
   by jwhite 10y ago

   It doesn't change the conclusion, but note that in a relativistic regime you can't use F=ma because the mass is no longer constant. You need F=dp/dt, where p is the relativistic momentum. The Lorentz factor here works out t
10. 40.▲
    by jwhite 11y ago

    ... and now you have two problems.
11. 41.▲
    by jwhite 11y ago

    Looks neat. When I searched for 'common lisp' I got a nice tree of CL standard library functions and macros, etc. When I searched for 'haskell' I got this: 'undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass'
12. 42.▲
    by jwhite 12y ago

    I think a lot of the posters supporting Telegram in this discussion here are astroturfers.
13. 43.▲
    by jwhite 13y ago

    I think we can excuse you, given that the boat was _literally_ netting quite a lot of money... in the form of fish :-)
14. 44.▲
    by jwhite 13y ago

    I myself don't mind if you make such comments. It can be important to question people's motives for saying things (politicians, for instance). However, as another data point for you though, and not knowing anything about Dave Winer before
15. 45.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    I think they described their clients as muppets, not puppets: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-g...
16. 46.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    To elaborate on what tedunangst said, for those less experienced with C: To some extent it's a matter of nomenclature, but one can draw a distinction in C between arrays of arrays and 2D arrays. It does matter. The following is an array o
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    by jwhite 14y ago

    For those who missed it, this is the most important paragraph in the article: "It's a tablet Christmas there's no doubt about that," said Ben Mcintosh, general manager of technology and entertainment at Harvey Norman. "There is no doubt in
18. 48.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    If his ideas offend you, you should rebut them, rather than making such an uncouth, sweeping value judgement.
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    by jwhite 14y ago

    Link to homepage is a nice convenience to people who land on your site somewhere other than the homepage (e.g. via a search result).
20. 50.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    Thanks!
21. 51.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    I agree. What would you recommend as a good modern book on software estimation?
22. 52.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    There's also the fact that the ability to discern two colours depends on the two shades involved, and the shades that nature presents are probably different to the ones chosen by Faber-Castell. Also, when I was a kid I could tell the purpl
23. 53.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273724
24. 54.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    There's also Aquamacs for emacs fans.
25. 55.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    Shake [1] is a Haskell library for writing build systems. I've been trying it out on a small side project lately. It isn't mature so it doesn't do everything you want, but the approach of supplying a library of build system construction t
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    by jwhite 14y ago

    A friend once took a 30 minute car ride with two successful people, both multimillionaires, back when that meant something. He asked them how much money they would need to feel financially secure. By the end of the trip they had bid each ot
27. 57.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    How do they qualify the devices coming out of China without running firmware on the manufacturing line?
28. 58.▲
    by jwhite 14y ago

    They're not altogether useless. They keep the sun off your face and neck, which can be very useful in some climates. In Australia, where I live, a hat is now a compulsory part of every school child's uniform, and they are expected to be w
29. 59.▲
    by jwhite 15y ago

    Thanks for your comment and link, I'll read it tomorrow. As to choice-free supermarkets, isn't Aldi somewhere in the ball-park of choice-free shopping?
30. 60.▲
    by jwhite 15y ago

    > > For obvious reasons, that’s not the case with Lisp dialects despite their superficial similarities, but I think that catches many neophytes off guard. > I don't know. Doesn't most of the programmers program to a particular s