madmax96

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by madmax96 13y ago
Terence Eden was saying the same thing that this post said, which is why I was confused at the contradictory tone in this article. It's vital to a good computer science education to understand pointers at a hardware level, difference
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by madmax96 13y ago
While reading I also noticed the '=alert("foo")' hack, and thought I'd be able to point it out first, but you beat me to it! Ah well, that could be fixed pretty easily if it were harmful enough. I think it's ti
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What compiler does HN use?
3 points by madmax96 13y ago|1 comments
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by madmax96 13y ago
Why wouldn't I just use Vim (or better yet, Emacs) in the first place?
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by madmax96 13y ago
I usually end up doing this, but not formally. I dive into the code and eventually find the bottom, and then work up. In the future, I think I'm going to try this and avoid wasting time wandering about trying to keep track mentally of
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by madmax96 13y ago
That's impressive, but then again Apple is _giving away_ copies, so I'm not too surprised. It's more interesting considering what this means as an Operating System developer. If they're giving away copies, it shows that
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by madmax96 13y ago
It's because Microsoft used to be such a horrible company. It's debatable whether or not they still are, but that's not the point. I still haven't forgiven them for their tactics that destroyed competitors who often had
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by madmax96 13y ago
There are a few of the features mentioned that I already thought that make had. At least now I might start actually using them.
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by madmax96 13y ago
Keep in mind all of the Micro Recessions that are caused by High Frequency Trading.
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by madmax96 13y ago
I'd get a Macbook Air, but it might be just a little bit above budget. On the plus side you get a huge battery life and you're running a *nix. You can't be sure how difficult it'll be to get Gnu + Linux to run if the HP
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by madmax96 13y ago
This kind of makes sense. Whenever I've used an iThing, the screen always felt a lot more responsive than other devices. From a software perspective, their kernel is optimized for io, and so is the BSD userland. Not a surprising bench