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by kisielk 15y ago
That sounds like Slashdot's moderation system.
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by kisielk 15y ago
As a software developer my brain is one thing I certainly don't trust, the brains of others I trust even less. That's exactly why we put things like tests and code reviews in place. Still despite our best efforts our software is full of def
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by kisielk 15y ago
Good point about the 3rd party libraries there, it's true that even if you do your own cleanup after manual mallocs, you can't do much about theirs. Do you have an example of documentation that shows how to configure malloc to do some clean
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by kisielk 15y ago
One problem with it is that on most compilers if you compile with optimizations it will remove the assertion. Now the code is no longer guarded against malloc failures and will just segfault. If the intent is to teach people how to handle m
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by kisielk 15y ago
Makes it sound like an engineering degree is a good investment at your workplace.
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by kisielk 15y ago
With Subversion branching and merging was still a mess, at least everywhere I ever saw it used.
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by kisielk 15y ago
Yes, it uses a modified clang binary with which you compile your program. I don't really see the disadvantage of not being able to debug within in the runtime. The class of errors this analyzer is meant to adress is stuff like use after fr
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by kisielk 15y ago
Sorry, I think I broke your site. I realized based on one of the comments here that you seem to be running a persistent interpreter and then just running the code snippets. So I decided to see what would happen if I changed one of them... S
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by kisielk 15y ago
Have you thought about combining your work with Kenneth Reitz's Python Guide? https://github.com/kennethreitz/python-guide It looks like you're covering a lot of the same ground.
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by kisielk 15y ago
Doesn't mean humans have to do it. When using vim for git commit messages it wraps them to 74 characters for me.
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by kisielk 15y ago
A bit of a nitpick, but it would be nice if the facts were PEP8 compliant so they encouraged good code style as well as showing off Python features.
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by kisielk 15y ago
Who cares about the justification. The major problem with it is that the behaviour is unpredictable. You have no idea what is going to happen when you push that button for a given app. In some apps, they'll go full screen. A browser might r
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by kisielk 15y ago
The demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&...
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by kisielk 15y ago
Not really surprising when you consider that the businesses are Google's customers.
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by kisielk 15y ago
It depends what you are doing, if you just need a keyboard then I think your ordering makes perfect sense. However, for an expressive instrument to be used as a sound synthesizer, I would definitely put it well above any inexpensive keyboar
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by kisielk 15y ago
Funny you should mention MIDI keyboards. Many musicians are now seriously using iPads to play music. For a good example check out ProjectRnL on YouTube. They use a bunch of apps, some developed by Jordan Rudess (keyboard virtuoso and keyboa
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by kisielk 15y ago
Looks like the star button is now on the bottom left of the post instead, at least it is in my reader.
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by kisielk 15y ago
According to some sources, it looks like iOS 5 adoption is up to 1/3 of eligible devices: http://www.localytics.com/blog/2011/ios-5-already-powering-1...
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by kisielk 15y ago
In my opinion the big difference here is that a compromised Dropbox key would give the malicious app access to data it wouldn't normally be able to access. A stolen Twitter API key just lets the app act as any other Twitter app does, there'
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by kisielk 15y ago
I understand that, but what keeps someone from pulling your key and secret out of your app and creating a trojan app? For example the app could look like your app, use the same key and secret, still authenticate as the user, but then steal
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by kisielk 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't the way the app authentication works preclude it from being used for client-side apps? For example in https://www.dropbox.com/developers/start/authentication#pyth... you set both APP_KEY and APP_SE
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by kisielk 15y ago
Since you can focus at arbitrary points in the photo after the fact it should not be a huge stretch to make software that allows you to change the depth of field. Macro photographers already deal with this by using focus stacking.
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by kisielk 15y ago
I agree that deleting data is probably difficult from a data integrity standpoint. However, unless being able to delete data is made a priority the situation is not going to improve. It's a more general problem and certainly not specific to
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by kisielk 15y ago
Facebook could make data removable by users if they engineered their site to allow that. The problem is that they haven't, and it appears they've in fact done the opposite. We need data protection laws like this to put the onus on the servi
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by kisielk 15y ago
Sounds to me like you're doing it wrong. I write scientific Python code every single day for work and I (nor anyone else who works with me) never run in to those kinds of problems. Why are you running simulations that take an hour before yo
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by kisielk 15y ago
Looks like IBM is quite far up there in terms of publications as well.
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by kisielk 15y ago
Microsoft Research?
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by kisielk 15y ago
It seems to automatically detect an external display on my HP Mini as of 11.04 (maybe sooner, didn't try). I can even switch between the displays using the dedicated key on the keyboard.
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by kisielk 15y ago
There is a large (and growing) number of people using the iPad to play and record music. It's a great alternative to expensive and specific hardware instruments and controllers for many purposes.
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by kisielk 15y ago
I don't know how anyone could reasonably anticipate an iPhone with a larger screen. From what I can tell, the resolution of the OS is effectively fixed and layout is done with pixels. A larger screen would mean lower DPI if the same resolut

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