mich41

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by mich41 14y ago
Get traffic, make the author look good, make Apple look good, ???, profit. C'mon.
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by mich41 14y ago
No, he has a browser for Facebook .
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by mich41 14y ago
How bitcoin is worse than cash in this regard?
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by mich41 14y ago
The problem is that if you tell schools to implement "computer supervised" coding learning, they will tell the students to write a factorial implementation and then they'll test it for bit-perfect match with some "perfect" solution. This wa
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by mich41 14y ago
My university uses C or Pascal to teach Maths students basic programming (hello world, sorting, trees, stacks, graphs, etc). Friends who landed at the Pascal version of this course appear to ask much less questions about parsing the syntax.
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by mich41 14y ago
Nobody assumes that children inherently dislike maths. They can't dislike something they don't even know. The point is that children start to dislike maths once they go to school. And they do - all kids in my class either already knew bas
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by mich41 14y ago
> And oh, by the way. Next year they are about to be taught Java. I can only imagine the horror, the way kids of going to deal with the text walls full of verbosity, API dance and the XML mess. And the last time I heard they don't reall
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by mich41 14y ago
They silently delete such emails, not mark them as spam. Also, I've never seen real spam advertising porn - mostly it's fake watches, penis enlargement and fake social media or other identity theft scams.
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by mich41 14y ago
Google "barely legal teen" (NSFW) and you will know what it is. Distribution of porn requires paperwork, age certificates from models/actors etc. Things get even more dangerous when actors can be reasonably suspected to be underage. The aut
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by mich41 14y ago
I think I slightly misstated my point. The problem isn't really about lack of programming tools, but lack of programming as a concept. You are given a black box which does some stuff, but you have no idea how it does this stuff or how to ma
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by mich41 14y ago
VBScript is rather obscure and AFAIK useful mostly for automation of admin tasks. It doesn't help you with everyday stuff. It doesn't exist in Windows GUI, unlike (most) other Windows software. You don't use it to build GUI apps, games, web
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by mich41 14y ago
School courses will do nothing if people don't have access to programmable computers. And they don't have - Windows doesn't ship with Visual Studio, OSX and Linux are irrelevant, iOS and Android don't come with SDK CDs and demos. Now, of co
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by mich41 14y ago
Reminds me of new EU members. Joining the EU was advertised as source of funds for development and catching-up with the West and now a benchmark of politicians' "performance" is how much funds are they able obtain for their electorate - the
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by mich41 14y ago
It doesn't even let me move without reaching to mouse or arrow keys. Hardly a vim replacement.
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by mich41 14y ago
Mathematicians are people who define probability as the measure of some well-defined subset of some well-defined set of all events. The people who use probability theory to build approximate models of real world events are called statistic
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by mich41 14y ago
In Windows 9x they always were interactive - you could either reboot immediately with CTRL+ALT+DEL or press "any key" to enjoy further bluescreens, probably at the cost of slightly increased probability of filesystem corruption. I always ch
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by mich41 14y ago
I know what this code is supposed to do. I wrote it myself expecting to see "General Protection Fault". IIRC, it indeed faulted when executed from main() in a C application, but somehow it hanged Windows 95/98 when inserted immediately at t
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by mich41 14y ago
So it was never fixed. Win2k ran the NT kernel which AFAIK was written from scratch. Another funny thing which worked in win9x was: cli foo: jmp foo I never understood why and how, but it really did.
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by mich41 14y ago
I'd rather have noobs complaining that Linux sucks than a calculator popping up whenever I hit FN instead of CTRL.
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by mich41 14y ago
Writing closed-source Linux kernel modules is legally "difficult". It is generally believed that modules which make use of highly Linux-specific internal infrastructure can be considered derived works of the kernel and thus required to be r
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by mich41 14y ago
Samsung intentionally created new kernel-userspace interface to bypass normal kernel security mechanisms and give userspace direct access to RAM and IO registers, allowing them to put low-level device drivers in userspace. I'm pretty sure t
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by mich41 14y ago
Unfortunately, giving userspace direct access to the hardware is quite common GPL-circumvention technique used by embedded vendors. One creative example I've seen was an x86 mITX motherboard targeted at the embedded market whose "Linux driv
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by mich41 14y ago
Phi architecture is closer to a GPU than a rack of x86 servers. With 60 cores reading memory over a common ring bus latency will kill you unless you tile your loops to maximize cache reuse [1], at which point you might as well write a GPU c
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by mich41 14y ago
IIRC they'll be available to OEMs only. Anyway, Intel claimed 2-3x speedups over some unspecified dual socket Xeon system. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-phi-larrabee-stampe...