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by marvy 11y ago
Now I'm curious: what was this problem? I can't imagine any program in Matlab that one can't simply transcribe into Python almost mechanically.
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by marvy 11y ago
Or maybe you want to find the height of an average skyscraper so you want to add and then divide. This is going too far maybe. At some point, one has to accept that not all logic bugs are type errors, and not all type errors are common en
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by marvy 11y ago
There is, more or less. Mine, in fact. But it's ugly. It's repetitive. If someone gave me that solution, I would think "this is way too unreadable to ever verify its correctness". My mistake was using C++98. I thin
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by marvy 12y ago
The ringing feature works as long as your phone has background data turned on (I think). But the location feature needs you to have location turned on as well.
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by marvy 12y ago
New policy: "Hello, you have reached my voicemail. Since today is April 1st, why don't you just leave a message and I'll call you back when I have time for pranks, and then we can both enjoy it? Until then, stop breaking my
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by marvy 12y ago
Then I think it will take a long time before we have self-hosting tablets, and we may never get self-hosting phones.
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by marvy 12y ago
Ah. That makes sense.
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by marvy 12y ago
Um, why did you get it? If you already regret it, why not return it for a refund?
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by marvy 12y ago
If I take my tablet and plug in a big screen and keyboard, is it self-hosting as long as the compiler is running on the device?
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by marvy 12y ago
Have you tried the Wikibook? http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming Is it any good?
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by marvy 12y ago
On all platforms?
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by marvy 12y ago
I think the problem is that the people around you are too annoying about it. They need to learn how to prank more lightly.
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by marvy 12y ago
Re: favorite. I read the RFC and it seems ambiguous as to whether the bit should be set during a penetration test.
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by marvy 12y ago
Is this safe for such short functions? What if the patch takes more space than the original code?
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by marvy 12y ago
I disagree. C++ templates for instance are also duck-typed, but they act at compile time, not run time.
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by marvy 12y ago
Huh? If Ruby is not duck-typed, can you give me an example of a something that is? It seems like the textbook example. Here are two weird examples: 1. C++ templates and 2) C# variables declared dynamic (I don't know C#, could be wro
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by marvy 12y ago
But how do you know what the function only accepts a string in a dynamic, duck-typed language?
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by marvy 12y ago
That bad? Wow. I would love to read that.
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by marvy 12y ago
Unfortunately, that thing is a false trichotomy. The fact is, choosing option 1 does not save you from the consequences of options 2 and 3. The reason is that the programmer now has to make a choice between boxing things manually, or imple
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by marvy 12y ago
why do you need malloc here?
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by marvy 12y ago
Come now. He's giving up his iPhone to use it, despite some glaring flaws it has. Is that not love? :)
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by marvy 12y ago
Another idea is to just stuff the input into a hash table and then say: is 0 there? is 1 there? ... is n-1 there?
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by marvy 12y ago
But there's an easy fix: don't pick numbers from the given sequence, instead use binary search on [0,n]. Then you're guaranteed only log n iterations.
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by marvy 12y ago
No, it's not a scam. The mind control is used only rarely. The whole thing would not work if the predictions were not accurate.
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by marvy 12y ago
I agree. In this case, writing memcpy by hand would work fine, but calling the standard memcpy is undefined. That's just silly. Undefined behavior should be reserved for cases where making it defined is not easy.
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by marvy 12y ago
And now you know more about how to do it :)
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by marvy 12y ago
Wow, that link is really something. I never would have thought that someone would release code into the wild without ever running it.
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by marvy 12y ago
I think the author meant that you don't want two separate Turing-complete languages, one for values at runtime, and another for values at compile time.
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by marvy 12y ago
I have no idea. But I will chime in with one factoid I've heard a few times. If you say things like "the false positive rate is 9%", people's intuitions lead them astray, but if you say things like "9/100 hea
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by marvy 12y ago
You can't (at least not without non-portable extensions), but you can write cgi scripts.

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