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by metageek 16y ago
Oooh. I used to have a Radio Shack Color Computer, and I loved the 6809. So much cleaner than the 6502. Two 8-bit accumulators, A and B, which can be combined as a 16-bit accumulator, D. MUL, which sets D to A * B. Four 16-bit index
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by metageek 16y ago
I do this, but one of the sites I don't care about has graduated to "do care about", and may have been using the same lightly customized password as Gawker. Lesson: I should pay more attention to which sites are important and need to be up
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by metageek 16y ago
Thanks.
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by metageek 16y ago
Es mejor que mí español.
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by metageek 16y ago
Thanks.
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by metageek 16y ago
I was once told (in 1987) that the business plan for FedEx had been developed for a class, and it got a C because the professor believed nobody needed overnight delivery.
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by metageek 16y ago
Sorry, what are subventions, and what's I+D?
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by metageek 16y ago
> But, working dev at Herman Miller is genuinely not a great role for a dev career. My rule of thumb: if the software is a cost center, stay away. Profit centers get treated better.
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by metageek 16y ago
Northampton also has the property that Boston and NYC are both within driving distance, which means that, if you just can't find a job close to home, you can go job hunting in either of the cities. That would make a big difference to me if
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by metageek 16y ago
How about this: if focus is in a password field, then you get a visual signal somewhere in the chrome--e.g., the color of the location bar changes. Something that HTML+JS just can't do.
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by metageek 16y ago
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904 > "I'm anti-spending and anti-government," crows David, as scooter-bound Janice looks on. "The welfare state is out of control." > "OK," I say. "And what do you do for a livi
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by metageek 16y ago
Having written a SQL->SQL compiler ( ), I can state that the language is a mess. I still like it better than the NoSQL tools I've used, though. ( ) The company's product was, broadly speaking, a specialized analytics engine, with tempo
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by metageek 16y ago
And the Cells in the blade probably have all 8 SPUs enabled.
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by metageek 16y ago
Might not be that much of an exaggeration, though. The AF probably uses it to simulate things like airframes and nuclear explosions; those are embarrassingly parallel, so you'll get full use of all the cores. At 8 cores per box [1], that
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, but they codeveloped them with Sony, so Sony presumably gets a really low price.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Given the choice between spending a day or a weekend building something in house Remember that building it is not the only cost; you also have to consider the costs of maintaining it and keeping the servers running.
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by metageek 16y ago
I found it useful because I use site-specific email addresses (as in username+domain@example.com). I didn't know if I had a gawker login, so I searched for my domain. If I hadn't found it, I could've saved myself digging through my saved
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by metageek 16y ago
From the article: > But in other cases, participating knowingly in an experiment could distort the result (this phenomenon even has a name, the Hawthorne effect).
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Theodore T'so: Don't fear the fsync(thunk.org)
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by metageek 16y ago
The original assertion, from the article, is that classes have no physical existence. The upstream comment claimed that a blueprint was an example of a physical object which was a class; I claim that the blueprint is not the class.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Also, inheritance is not a core requirement of OOP. The definition I learned was that, if you don't have inheritance, it's object-based. Of course, that was almost 20 years ago; usage might have shifted. I think the example I was g
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by metageek 16y ago
OK, but the blueprint is still not the class; it's a piece of paper which carries a copy of information which describes the instances of the class.
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by metageek 16y ago
> before building a car, you need to have a blueprint first. But the blueprint is not the class; it is a copy of the instructions on how to instantiate the class.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Another thing I hate is the way that everybody loves to hate the other guy’s programming language. Oh, yeah, that never happens with non-OOP languages.
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by metageek 16y ago
> What does its composition matter? I said she was a planetologist. To planetologists, composition is everything. Composition is what the planet is, not where it is. > Indeed, to first approximation there are only three types of
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by metageek 16y ago
A friend of mine who's a planetologist points out that the IAU's definition is really not a good one from a planetologist's point of view. It's centered around how the planet moves (which is what an astronomer can see) instead of around ho
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by metageek 16y ago
That would make sense; it probably costs less to extend service around an existing hub than to start from scratch.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, and it's been so unprofitable they've stopped installing it in new towns.
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by metageek 16y ago
Which model? I have to charge my N86 every night; and sometimes in the middle of the day if I want to use the wifi hotspot.
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by metageek 16y ago
There must be some exceptions to this, though, because IRS forms generally come with copyright notices. (Or, at least, they did the last time I did my taxes on paper, which was 5-10 years ago.)

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