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by mathw 10y ago
This brought back memories, but I haven't had to do any of those things for ten years or so now. I've been careful in my hardware purchases, yes, but I've been running mostly Fedora on a couple of ThinkPads and it almost alwa
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by mathw 10y ago
The endless joys of the ever-shifting sands of the frontend world. I'm pleased there's movement in trying to make it better, but part of me really, really hopes it all settles down soon. That something using Bower can be considere
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by mathw 10y ago
The problem there being that few people are going to see JLabel in a class list and think "oh, that must be something to do with my image-related needs!" Especially if they've used other GUI tookits, which as far as my experi
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by mathw 10y ago
I'm not sure how this data actually helps. I'll tell Uber where to pick me up, and where I want to go, and I can tell the driver exactly where to stop. Now, if this is to feed into their plans for autonomous taxis, that's all
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by mathw 10y ago
A great writeup and I feel it's a welcome reminder of some important points: - your programming language and runtime aren't equally good at everything and never will be - you have to choose your environment based on your anticipat
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by mathw 10y ago
It does, but it's unnecessarily difficult to keep track of all the places undefined behaviour might occur and make sure you don't step into any of them under any conditions ever. We shouldn't have to work like this anymore. C
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by mathw 10y ago
I'm aware that hardware simulation of processors is something which is done, particularly by the people who design those processors. It takes a lot of grunt to simulate a modern GPU or CPU, and of course getting near realtime is imposs
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by mathw 10y ago
There's a plan to allow wildcards in deconstruction patterns, but it doesn't look like it's ready in time for C# 7. So hopefully that will appear in C# 8. It would look something like: var (first, second, *) = ReturnsFourThin
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by mathw 10y ago
Basically yes. Except, with the new tuple syntax support in C# it's using a value type internally instead of the old Tuple class (I'm pretty sure Tuple's going to be gaining a set of deconstructors to allow it to participate
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by mathw 10y ago
It is rather baffling. They have an amazing online code browsing tool they use for the reference source of the .NET Framework (enormously useful for figuring out all the details they don't bother to document and the type system can&#x2
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by mathw 10y ago
I would hope, given the price, that it's printed using some super-high-quality techniques on incredibly wonderful paper and bound in such a way that it will resist a thousand years of idle browsing.
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by mathw 10y ago
I know why FaceTime wasn't opened like they promised it would be, but I do think it's a big shame. It's 2016 - we should have pervasive standard video calling by now, surely?
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by mathw 10y ago
Despite that, Windows is still the most popular desktop OS in the world by an enormous margin. You don't help a friend who needs to rename a load of files by saying "well, it'd be much easier if you first installed Linux&quot
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by mathw 10y ago
And as the author said, they don't know PowerShell or batch files very well. They also didn't pretend they had a strong justification for doing it. Rust was what they wanted to use, and hey look, Rust let them do it _and_ cross-co
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by mathw 10y ago
I never saw it that way, but you have now set me up to chuckle randomly at the memory all day. Thanks!
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by mathw 10y ago
Ultimately the purpose of such articles, if they wish to affect change, is to get the UK courts to rule that the drivers cannot be classified as self-employed and must receive the National Minimum Wage and conform to rules on driving hours
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by mathw 10y ago
FWIW, my experience of Google's hiring process wasn't like that at all. Sure, it was hard, and they did do whiteboarding problems in the interviews (all seven of them), which is in its own way terrible, but it was all done with pe
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by mathw 10y ago
I've frequently seen motorcyclists acting like they're suicidal (just not quite deliberately riding under the front of that lorry), drivers acting like they think they're invincible, cyclists acting like nobody else on the ro
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by mathw 10y ago
Not much literature on vaping as yet. However, British authorities currently consider vaping to be significantly safer than smoking, and encourage smokers to switch in order to help them quit. Also, vaping fluids don't contain the many
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by mathw 10y ago
And we now have the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which I believe is supposed to be entirely new, but carries on the strange saga of Windows and POSIX userspace coming together.
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by mathw 10y ago
Yeah, the first Air was pretty awful - so focussed on being so thin and so light that it sacrificed almost everything else. You know, like being useful. The second Air was a genuinely good machine, and that's when it became really popu
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by mathw 10y ago
They did that while keeping it thin and light though, which is the entire reason for the Macbook Air to exist - or at least, it was, until the even thinner revised Macbook turned up. Which will, I'm pretty sure, gain a second USB C por
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by mathw 10y ago
Spot on! But if the JSON parser couldn't crash on malformed input, that kind of whopping mistake would be a lot harder to exploit.
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by mathw 10y ago
Writing a parser for a badly-specified format which is widely used is a terrifying prospect in any language. Okay so it's more terrifying in C than most other things, but still, it's terrifying. Runaway memory consumption, weird U
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by mathw 10y ago
The Concorde was forbidden to fly overland in the USA because the sonic boom is horrible for the people underneath it. And it's even horribly loud flying subsonic. We won't get supersonic commercial flight again without going subo
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by mathw 10y ago
I think awareness of the Vulcan's purpose coupled with that howling was the big thing for me when I saw it fly after they restored one. What an incredible machine. Just a shame it was originally built to kill millions of Russians. I kn
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by mathw 10y ago
In that place between physical frequencies and brains there is some appreciation that different tuning standards feel different. I play a lot at A=440, but I also play a lot at A=415 - mostly on the viola da gamba. A=415 is roughly one semi
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by mathw 10y ago
TV Tropes. Just don't go there.
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by mathw 10y ago
I used to love it, but I do feel that the quality of the questions has dropped significantly since it started. There are now many people trying to find a justification for their pet plot idea, or trying to have the community fix the gaping
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by mathw 10y ago
I'm not sure what their keyboards have to do with it. If you were a native Arabic speaker, wouldn't you want to to be able to see domain names in Arabic that are easy for you to read and type? If you're a company operating in

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