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by kevinnk 12y ago
The link doesn't really give very much information, but from the tutorial ( https://embeddedmicro.com/tutorials/lucid ) it looks like a skin of Verilog. What's the advantage of using this over a more modern HDL
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by kevinnk 12y ago
It's an optimization. Virtual methods that don't dereference this (by not accessing any non static member variables for example) don't have to check if this is null. For example, class Example { public: static bool
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Fear mongering has the connotation of making people irrationally afraid for your own benefit, which, yes, I am against in all instances on principle.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
"I'm okay with the ends justifying the means when the ends are something I like."
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Do you have a link for the Oil & Gas DSL? A search for "Haskell oil gas dsl" didn't turn up much.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
How is that different than cryptDb then? CryptDb only reveals ordering as well (and only if the client requests it.)
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by kevinnk 12y ago
> Evil admin? They can just monitor the web server instead of the db. That's exactly the use case. The idea is that the data isn't decrypted until the client.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
If it knows what pieces you access, how do you prevent the sever from learning ordering?
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by kevinnk 12y ago
If you're living in the Bay Area and are competent enough to be hired by a big tech company you can absolutely command a 100k+ salary pretty much regardless of seniority. There are Google interns getting paid almost 90k (~7500 monthly.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
High end at Google for UI designer is ~160k according to Glassdoor. That's in line with what I've heard from friends as well. UI design does have lower salaries than other types of software development, in some cases much lower, s
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Yes. For the first murder he spent $500,000 and for the second $80,000
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by kevinnk 12y ago
> Does "not looking at every byte" really matter when the strings being searched for are typically so short that you're gonna hit every cache line anyway? You're not skipping bytes of the search string, you're sk
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by kevinnk 12y ago
> I'm not up to speed on Bittorrent, but are they specifically blocking Bittorrent, or is coming under the ruberic of "thou shall not run a server behind your cable modem"? Maybe try googling before you comment? Comcast wo
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Look, Chicago has corruption problems, but calling it an "extra-legal government zone" is so hopelessly hyperbolic that it hurts any sort of real argument. The police have had literally thousands of lawsuits paying out hundreds of
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Those regulations were essentially removed in a lot of cases by the JOBS act in 2012. The rules are still under review but crowdfunding of equity will be possible sometime in early 2016.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Perhaps I don't really understand the idea here. What prevents a farmer from only accepting votes from their friends (or themselves) and generating as much FarmerCoin as they please?
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by kevinnk 12y ago
There are plenty of dual licensed codebases that make a profit with no additional value add (other than not having to respect the GPL.) For example, the popular C++ gui framework JUICE[1] [1] http://www.juce.com/faq#t78n7564
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by kevinnk 12y ago
He tried to murder 5 rivals. To me, it seems like he demonstrated almost the exact opposite.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
There were people arguing Han Reiser was innocent and "coerced" all the way up to when he lead the police to her body...
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by kevinnk 12y ago
"I see a story about a protagonist who was not only supremely arrogant, he was supremely incompetent at opsec" Ever seen Catch Me If You Can? Also, I agree a true to life story would be pretty boring. Thankfully, truth isn't
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by kevinnk 12y ago
redandwhite was almost certainly a scammer and got paid to kill friendlychemist and tony76 + three roommates. Nob was an undercover agent who got paid to kill "The Employee" aka flush aka cronicpain aka Curtis Green. Two different
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by kevinnk 12y ago
> int is cross-platform and forward compatible whereas uint32_t, uint64_t, uint8_t, uint16_t, etc. will all always be unsigned within a specified bound, so whenever we have 128-bit or 256-bit registers, we'll have to go back and upd
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by kevinnk 12y ago
I don't have experience with yacc, but bison can generate errors with almost that exact form. It's even possible to do Clang style underlining, although it takes some hand holding. That said, usually recursive descent gives better
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by kevinnk 12y ago
Maybe you're referring to something else, but std::allocator was in c++98
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by kevinnk 12y ago
>>> Why are we doing this to ourselves when we have SO much chip area available now and could scale performance linearly with cost? Multicore performance doesn't scale linearly because 1) adding more cores has rapidly diminish
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by kevinnk 12y ago
>>> No. This is only true if every instruction tries to access memory. Every instruction must be loaded from memory in order to execute it. Hence instruction caches.
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by kevinnk 12y ago
> Can you safely replay arbitrary C, C++, etc.? No, because side-effecting code could run at any time and occur in any context. So that is one problem that has to be solved first. With few restrictions, it's actually possible to rep
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by kevinnk 12y ago
> "I read quite quickly (though only somewhat accurately) through pure pattern-recognition. I can look at, say, "word" and identify that the second letter is an ‘o’, but if I want to understand it as a concept I ignore the
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by kevinnk 12y ago
That's called loop fusion and most optimizing compilers have it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_fusion
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by kevinnk 12y ago
How can you say it's a Western thing when places like Singapore have fines for not flushing the toilet?

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