khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
You wouldn't do calculation in a Makefile, if that's what you mean. Make is not well-suited to use as a general-purpose programming language.
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by khedoros 10y ago
It's probably based on the results of this study[1], and the giant raft of stories that followed it over the last decade. [1] http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ734402
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by khedoros 10y ago
Japanese has 3 forms of writing (not counting use of the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals). 2 of them are used to write phonetically, and each has about 50 characters. They aren't too hard to learn, and are the closest equivalent to
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by khedoros 10y ago
My guess is that they were talking to some kind of business support (as opposed to technical support), and it's a way of saying "they didn't know what they were talking about", when the reality was probably "I want
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by khedoros 10y ago
I have similar experience. My father's German-descended family lives in St. Louis, and they still say it. I asked my mother as a child, and she had a similar answer to your mom.
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by khedoros 10y ago
At the beginning, yes. The beginning alpha/demo version was. Infiniminer was like the prototype, and the demo was like the engine reimplementation when it was at the same level of development, when the previous dev team quit and delete
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by khedoros 10y ago
> If you can't imagine clicking a URL and immediately creating a game that has never been made before then you're on the wrong side of history. If you can't imagine URLs being obsolete by the time that's a reality, t
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by khedoros 10y ago
> People need to go much farther in the direction that this article, correctly, advocates :) Prove the downvoters wrong, and build some awesome 7-second games. It hasn't been done...and so you're seeing skepticism. If it takes
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I doubt you'd have something as fun as the hit title. I doubt it too. > Prototypes are not good indicators that something could be fun. This is what I disagree with. The prototype won't be as fun as the final product (beca
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by khedoros 10y ago
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/starting-a-business-with-a-... That page has a few anecdotes. In summmary: Case one: $35 (product cost) + $40 (international UPS shipping) + $100 (import and administration taxes) Case
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by khedoros 10y ago
> If you are defining honest as some midpoint between a white lie and an asshole, then what is being honest? Honesty is an endpoint, with the other side being dishonesty (including lies). On a separate axis, you would have maybe "ge
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by khedoros 10y ago
Agreed. When I seek out a new program, I usually have some specific goal that my current software doesn't cover, which usually means that it's something fairly "out there", and not even necessarily a core feature of whic
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by khedoros 10y ago
I know that my wife appreciates hearing some about how my day went. I don't go into any really deep detail, but talking about how hard a problem was and how good it feel to solve it, or venting about something stupid that a coworker di
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by khedoros 10y ago
Basically, yes. When we talk about how fast an algorithm is, we usually talk about how much longer it will take to run when you increase the length of the input. Encryption works because you can double the size of the encryption key and mak
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by khedoros 10y ago
That's not an apt comparison. - IE6 is strictly, inherently an obsolete platform, running on obsolete OSes and superseded by later versions of the same browser - No one's talking about making the games work only on Linux.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I have a Ship of Theseus desktop built in 2001. Then I replaced some hard drives. Then I replaced the motherboard+CPU+RAM. Then I replaced the video card. Then the hard drives...etc, etc. Currently, it's got a 2008 CPU+RAM, a 2010 mobo
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by khedoros 10y ago
I'm on my 2011 laptop. Battery's pretty bad; I might get half an hour or something (last time I tested). Shortly after I bought it, I replaced the HDD with a hybrid HDD+SSD (500GB spinning, 16GB solid-state cache, or something). M
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've got a Lenovo T450S, which is apparently marketed as an ultrabook. It's got a user-removable battery. I assume you had some different ultrabook in mind with your comment.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Working at such an employer, they'd also likely require remote-wipe capability on the phone. That was the case for my job. I opted to carry two phones, instead (one completely provided and paid for by my employer).
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by khedoros 10y ago
I have a phone for when I don't have any option but to do something when I'm out, and to get notifications of e-mail (plus sms, voice, etc). I love that it's possible to use it for so many things, but I hate actually doin
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by khedoros 10y ago
Reminds me of what I've heard about a game called Robot Odyssey (came out in 1984 for TRS-80, Apple II, and DOS).
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by khedoros 10y ago
I always wonder about the people that control the social media accounts. I couldn't toe the company line and color a restriction as some kind of benefit, and I kind of wonder how they deal with the cognitive dissonance. It's a wei
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by khedoros 10y ago
> GCC and clang have an attributepacked you can attach to individual structure declarations; GCC has an -fpack-struct option for entire compilations. He mentioned it in passing (and without proper syntax) in section 11.
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by khedoros 10y ago
A few years ago, I ran into some situations where packed structs would be useful. I ended up writing a lot of little test programs to verify struct sizes based on different element orders, packing pragmas, etc. It was certainly illuminating
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by khedoros 10y ago
> My phone's battery would last 2 seconds if it used the processor my laptop would use. And my laptop would be slow as shit if it used a processor compatible with a mobile phone. A powerful ARM CPU, down-clocked and/or in a big
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Haven't the media conglomerates made it clear you pay to access the content rather than purchasing it. Legally, I think they usually make a stricter claim than that: You are purchasing access to the content, but only using the met
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by khedoros 10y ago
The French "bureaucratie" was coined in the 18th century by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, from French "bureau" (office/desk) + Greek "-kratia" (power of), as a criticism of how gov
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by khedoros 10y ago
Exaggeration is a valid rhetorical device. Why, what does "hipster" mean to you? What are the characteristics you think of when you hear it?
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by khedoros 10y ago
As an overly broad definition: Someone who is not only counterculture, but who wants you to know exactly how counterculture they are. It's a fuzzy word with a fuzzy definition, and it doesn't mean quite the same thing to everyon
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by khedoros 10y ago
That was my initial reaction too, but honestly, it's kind of a cool idea if they do it well. Sometimes I want to play the classics verbatim...but sometimes I feel like an enhanced version of the original games would be welcome. For the

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