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by madmoose 11y ago
Your compiler probably has a built-in method to achieve the equivalent of offsetof without invoking undefined behavior. GCC has __builtin_offsetof: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Offsetof.html
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by madmoose 13y ago
It surely costs Apple a lot more than $8 million to have so many of their developers engaged in WWDC, both during the event and before, preparing for it.
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by madmoose 13y ago
He stripped the site of contents now. Everything's still in the repository history though: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/commits/master My mirror's at http://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/SPOOL/ has all the documents in PCL, PD
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by madmoose 13y ago
In honor of the HOMEWORK document, I automated it to update every couple of minutes :-)
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by madmoose 13y ago
I made an archive of all the PCLs that have been spooled so far, plus PDFs and (rotated) PNGs rendered at 150 DPI. http://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/SPOOL/
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by madmoose 13y ago
The US would require roughly the same amount of windmills per capita as Denmark. (There's a chance that the average Dane uses less energy than the average American, but I can't be bothered to look that up...) The cost per capita in the US w
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by madmoose 14y ago
We still have halvanden (half second or 1.5), but apparently half third, half fourth, half fifth, etc., used to be common too.
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by madmoose 14y ago
Unless there's a second ludde in Gothenburg, he also wrote uTorrent and started ScummVM and OpenTTD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus Edit: He added his previous projects to his profile after I wrote this comment.
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by madmoose 14y ago
The NFC chip might be small but the antenna is HUGE.
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by madmoose 14y ago
Preserving history.
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by madmoose 14y ago
Actually, I was just wondering today how Cyberduck managed to be so sluggish on my computer. They've certainly gotten the look and feel right, because I didn't realize it was a Java application, but it is pretty sluggish, at least on my mac
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by madmoose 15y ago
Quoth the article: "Ulrich Drepper, who, according to the glibc web site, has had "overall responsibility for maintenance and development" of the project up until now, is absent from this list."
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by madmoose 15y ago
It's Gobliiins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobliiins
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by madmoose 15y ago
Objective-C message sends are not much slower than C++ virtual calls: http://mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-common-... And that's from 2008. Clang's improved it a lot.
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by madmoose 15y ago
I only have a tiny bike-shedding comment: I'd expect the arguments of the map-function in the example on page 3 to be the other way around. The 'grades' argument gets pushed down several lines in the current form.
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by madmoose 15y ago
There's a general rule, though, that if a headline is a question, the answer is no.
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by madmoose 15y ago
One might say, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, that it's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike lambdas.
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by madmoose 15y ago
To quote the great Piet Hein: A Psychological Tip: Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance
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by madmoose 15y ago
By "business data" they probably mean "fixed format record datasets" which is COBOL's native format. Processing fixed format records (preferably one at a time) is the only thing COBOL is somewhat skilled at, though.
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by madmoose 16y ago
I made "Sitting with Darth Vader in a rowboat that's on fire".
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by madmoose 16y ago
Ceramists and brick layers often have vague or worn-off fingerprints. Just say you do a lot of ceramics.
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by madmoose 16y ago
The transfer would have to be gradual. Don't ask me how to do that, though :)
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by madmoose 16y ago
Yes, it currently does suck. Thankfully the next version will intelligently incorporate Clang/LLVM which will improve the situation vastly.
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by madmoose 16y ago
I had that too the first time I started the game. I quit and restarted it and the sound worked fine.