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by kutkloon7 9y ago
While I'm very interested in mobile operating systems, I'm not a big fan of gesture-based interfaces. They just never work well for me; I often accidentally rotate and zoom and do other weird stuff when I enable them (on the touch
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Funny that these things are mostly referred to as 'emulator bugs'. It would be more accurate to call them bugs in the game. It's a bit like the situation with C, where some code depends on a specific outcome of undefined beha
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted?
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
From the page which the top comment from two years [1] ago linked to: "This statement is based upon a terrible misunderstand of Postel's robustness principle. I knew Jon Postel. He was quite unhappy with how his robustness princip
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Nice post. It really surprises me that someone who writes assembly for fun doesn't know that dividing by constants can be done faster, nor that dividing/multiplying by powers of two can be done even faster. On the topic of hand-op
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
This is downvoted, but actually a legitimate question. Often, counterfeits do work, but just don't match the specifications with respect to voltage rating, durability, etc.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Ken Shirriff is amazing. His blog entries are really worth reading.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Well, maybe 'toxicity' is a stupid concept. Is the previous phrase, for example, toxic? The examples don't seem to distinguish between 'hateful' and 'not socially accepted'. Also, a lot of these depend so
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
> I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. I like to think of myself of neither of those, but if I have to choose I'd rather be a happy idiot than a miserable provocateur. > I see that you ma
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Those filenames look terrible to me. BRAFWTNEGASSAY doesnt make any sense. To distinguish between the filenames you actually have to read the full filename, and with such long filenames chances are they won't fully be displayed, so t
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I don't really think that calling the right-wing 'nazis' is appropriate in most of the cases, but I still found this to be pretty funny.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I actually think it was written really well. It could have been better, of course. But I probably would have done a worse job at it.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Making websites for the blind sounds a lot like 'making music for the deaf'. It can be done and people are doing it, but it just seems like the most inefficient thing to do.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
This is a very important reason why books, in general, contain better information that websites. On websites, people care a lot less about the correctness of the information. You can just update stuff later (of course, this doesn't alw
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Well, one could argue that this is how competition works. If someone else can manufacture the same thing at lower cost, they deserve the market advantage. Of course, this idea doesn't give credit to the inventors and benefits copycats.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Good for them. I never understood why people are paying Elsevier anyway. It seems like everything they do can be done for free.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Well, I don't agree with the author of the article in that I do think that Latex does offer an advantage in many of the use cases. In any case, any student in STEM is supposed to write some reports, and LaTeX is the only choice that ma
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Actually, all offers for entry level programming, devops, or IT consultant jobs were 2.5k at 40 hours/week. I have the feeling that a lot of them just hire anyone who graduated in a STEM field, either graduate or undergraduate. Now, I
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Salaries in the US seem really high compared to those in the Netherlands. I have 2 bachelor and 2 master degrees in STEM. I made €10/hour (about $12) giving private math and programming lessons, while I earn roughly €13/hour (abou
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Funny how a lot of people have a strong and exotic opinion about the best way to use a mouse/keyboard, but I've never seen anyone actually use a dvorak or any other exotic layout. My personal fetish is to use a standard US keyboar
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I will probably get downvoted, but I find it annoying that articles which are relevant only in the US omit this simple fact in the title. The US is an important country, but only about 5% of the world population lives there.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I don't know if I'm in an especially good mood today, but it's quite a while ago I read something that I found as amusing as this. I'm actually really impressed by the phishing approach.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Isn't impersonating someone illegal, just like publishing a response in a private email conversation?
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
It's not bad, there are just some gaps. I expect a follow-up paper which explains everything thoroughly. I feel like my masters thesis should have started after that paper.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
My masters thesis is based on a single arXiv paper. I didn't know that arXiv had this questionable reputation, but it sure explains a lot. The project is to make an FPGA implementation of a technique presented in an arXiv paper. The pa
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Even during my masters I have always felt that it was not done or at least questionable to cite wikipedia. However, wikipedia is often an excellent source for a first read on a new topic. The next step should then be to read wikipedia'
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I remember a recruiter that tried to convince me some job would be interesting for me: "It's really complicated work. We use algorithms ." after which she dropped a dramatic pause to let me recover from that shock.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
While I was typing this comment ghostly pointed out some great blog entries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901602
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I never understand where this increasing size comes from. For videos or hi-res photographs, I understand. There is however no reason that code, either compiled to a binary format or in a textual format, uses so much data. Heck, the memoirs
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
What I Didn't Learn So Far as a Programmer: - How to properly encode text

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