mhenr18

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by mhenr18 13y ago
Bit of a nitpick before I've even read the article: Qantas is an acronym and doesn't actually have a U after the Q.
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by mhenr18 13y ago
Yeah, I've never gotten why people consider pointers to be hard. If you consider memory to be a massive array, pointers are just the indices that you use to get at different elements in that array.
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by mhenr18 13y ago
There's no need to make it not be valid. C++ uses begin() and end() for obtaining iterators to containers, but nothing's stopping you from using those method names for your own purposes. It's just that if you want to use a fe
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by mhenr18 13y ago
I never realised how good we had it comparatively in Australia. I always just thought that Eftpos was something that "just worked" and that everyone around the world had (or at least an equivalent). No fees, no credit, no monthly
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by mhenr18 13y ago
The comment about 10% of CS graduates in Australia being female rings true and I think it's a highball. I'm typing this as I sit in a systems programming lecture at UQ and the attendance is hardly 5% female. Of course that's
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by mhenr18 13y ago
I haven't paid a cent for my iPhones and I got all of them at launch. All were free on contract, and the 4 was actually free - as in I could have gotten the same contract without the phone and paid the same amount per month.
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by mhenr18 13y ago
ObjC++ uses C++11 (plus you NEED ObjC/ObjC++ to make calls to Cocoa).
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by mhenr18 14y ago
I run a maxed out last-gen iMac. 3.4GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 2GB VRAM. I still run into occasions where things slow down, mostly when I'm running a zillion things at once. It's not one app that needs 12 cores, it's the overall multitasking experie
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by mhenr18 14y ago
And if you install the command line tools they live in /usr/bin.
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by mhenr18 14y ago
When I had issues doing an install of Lion (I wanted Lion on an external HD before I upgraded to ML), I just drove out to an Apple Store and booted off one of their network images. What Apple should really do is ship an app with OSX that le
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by mhenr18 14y ago
Wow, there's actually an upfront cost in the US? I never paid a cent for mine - it was 100% subsidised (and you could have gotten the same plan for the same cost but without the phone, so this really was 100%).
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by mhenr18 14y ago
I just keep everything I care about in my Dropbox. I use enough machines on a day-to-day basis that this leaves me with a decent local redundancy, and having it all on Dropbox means that I'll have access to it even if all of my machines go
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by mhenr18 14y ago
Ever heard of the Core Profile? If you request an OpenGL context from your OS and ask for a core profile context, you'll get a context that's almost identical to ES2. It's shader based and all of the legacy fixed stuff is entirely gone.
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by mhenr18 14y ago
I absolutely despise Gmail and am so happy to have left for iCloud email. My personal life shouldn't be shouldered by advertisements for the highest bidder. It's the same reason I hardly touch Facebook anymore - I don't give a damn about wh
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by mhenr18 14y ago
Snow Leopard's not that great. Lion (and now Mountain Lion) runs faster on my mid-2010 baseline MBP than SL ever did. Snow Leopard's UI was way too colourful and the Aqua scrollbars were far too big and look really dated. It wasted pixels o
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by mhenr18 14y ago
EVERYONE (not just budget airlines) wants you there 30 minutes before take-off - more if there's checked luggage involved. It takes 20 minutes to board, so it's fairly reasonable to have 10 minutes for getting through security and walking t
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by mhenr18 14y ago
I thought Quicksilver was great until I realised Spotlight does the job just as well for app launching.
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by mhenr18 14y ago
It depends on what you're editing. If I'm ever writing any C/C++/Objective-C I ALWAYS use XCode even if it's only as a text editor and not a project manager/compiler, due to its fantastic syntax highlighting. TextWrangler's great as a repla
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by mhenr18 14y ago
Let's say you have image assets in two sizes - 1x and 2x. If you want to show an image at 1.5x, you don't upscale from 1x, you downscale from 2x so that you have a crisper image. If you're looking for a practical application of this, watch