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by meuk 8y ago
We had this on our primary school computers! Awesome stuff.
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by meuk 8y ago
Just wanted to add this. My perspective is skewed because my consultancy firm focusses on Microsoft, but most of the companies I've seen use TFS, C#, VS Enterprise, SQL Server, Skype for Business, and Azure (and usually git and Angular
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by meuk 8y ago
Well, I'm not sure if there are strict rules to what should be called a pointer and what not (which was why I was a little bit vague in my post: In my defense, I stated "there are no pointers"). I think you can still derefere
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by meuk 8y ago
That's the site I used the most, together with qbasic.com (which is no longer up) :)
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by meuk 8y ago
Oh, how many hours I spent in front of that TUI. QBasic was how programming should be . It's amazingly simple to understand (at the cost of ugly and somewhat verbose syntax). It doesn't force any mental burdens on you, and it inc
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by meuk 8y ago
I think they did exactly that with Amazon AWS instances (although I have to admit that I don't know the specifics).
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by meuk 8y ago
That is called high-level synthesis and there are some tools for this available (and I know at least one company who produces a proprietary toolchain - including hardware - for this). In my experience, high-level synthesis makes things a lo
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by meuk 8y ago
That's about Steve Wozniak (who actually made the product that made Apple great) though, not Steve Jobs. Steve Wozniak seems like a great person. Steve Jobs... not so much.
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by meuk 8y ago
I think you're over-romanticizing. I've read his biography and Steve Jobs was extremely friendly to people higher in the hierarchy, and humiliated people lower in the hierarchy. He also had a habit of dismissing your idea as terri
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by meuk 8y ago
I know opencores.org, which seems to be similar (but I like the organization of the OpenCores site better to be honest). We made some small improvements to the Plasma CPU [1] (which uses a small subset of a MIPS instruction set) in a univer
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by meuk 8y ago
Low-end development boards from sketchy companies ;) I own a Mimas v2 from Nimato Labs, and a miniSpartan 6+ from Scarab hardware (I think the first is around 50 dollars and the second around 100, but they both have less expansive versions
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by meuk 8y ago
There seem to be many more jobs in software. The jobs I found in more hardware-related fields seem to be harder to get in (especially if you're not an electrical engineer), and seem to have lower salaries. Besides, there only seem to b
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by meuk 8y ago
I'm in a very similar situation! I haven't "made the jump" and probably won't in the near future (or even at all). Some ideas for projects I have pursued: - A CPU (you can make this as simple or complicated as you
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by meuk 8y ago
I know several companies who developed internal applications using Silverlight. They still have to use Internet Explorer.
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by meuk 8y ago
Thanks (I didn't think of using wayback machine), but it doesn't work either.
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by meuk 8y ago
This is paywalled, and the web link does not work.
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by meuk 8y ago
I would interpret the headline as indicating a huge increase in absolute numbers, and I don't find it misleading. I've seen much more misleading interpretations and explanations of statistics (not necessarily intentional).
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by meuk 8y ago
I was just about to post something about the amount of screws I strip... I might want to look into this, ha!
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by meuk 8y ago
You could argue that a null pointer would be a correct pointer, since you are not allowed to dereference it anyway (since there is no data to access). It will probably break some assertions and assumptions though. Edit: I see that 8xde0wcNw
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by meuk 8y ago
I think overflow occurs when w * h > SIZE_MAX So you just want to make sure that w > 0 and w * h <= SIZE_MAX. But if w * h is large enough, it overflows, which would result in w * h <= SIZE_MAX being evaluated to true. I agr
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by meuk 8y ago
I want to upvote this so many more times than I'm able to. The principle is even more harmful, because it sounds so logical. If many JSON parser accept your JSON object which is not valid JSON, any new parser that doesn't accept
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by meuk 8y ago
Educate a noob: What is the significance of overclocking at this insane frequency when the CPU is not stable? From a digital design perspective I would imagine that a lot of timing constraints are not met, and this makes the CPU unstable. W
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by meuk 9y ago
Excel is a horrible tool, in general. I remember that I exported a very long list of numbers to a .CSV. Excel then formatted the numbers (like 53564566934 to the form 52564E+6). If you then copy and paste, the numbers are actually converted
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by meuk 9y ago
Well, I'd say finding out who decided that the contract should go to the same company is a good start of the corruption investigation.
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by meuk 9y ago
That's funny. It sounds like you exploit the same mechanism that causes trained chess players to remember chess positions more accurately than novices (I think it might be similar to the 'memory palace' technique to remember
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Wasabi – A language that compiles to PHP, VBScript, and JavaScript(joelonsoftware.com)
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by meuk 9y ago
The one thing I like about the trackpoint is that I don't really have to move my hands to use it.
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by meuk 9y ago
I've found the older article 'PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard' to be quite amusing, but not very similar to my experience (although I only built two PC's). In my experience, the process of checking compatibility of the p
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by meuk 9y ago
I love the trackpoint as well - when I'm on my own system I have configured hotkeys, a launcher, and qutebrowser, so I can do almost anything without needing a mouse. Unfortunately, the company I work at is a huge MS fan, and I've
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by meuk 9y ago
Hah, I am definitely aware of the danger of ESD. I just don't have a place near my desk to mount my anti-ESD wristband. What I did instead was touching a radiator every once in a while. Is this sufficient?

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