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by mrich 13y ago
If you just need the local drive part on Windows, I have been using this for some time to make the complete Dropbox folder accessible as a local drive m: on all my computers. Of course you still need to run Dropbox to handle the syncing. -
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by mrich 13y ago
This sums up why it is worth paying more for experienced developers who have implemented many systems before and know the pros and cons of many decisions. It especially is true for systems that will have a long lifetime, where bad decisions
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by mrich 14y ago
This is the comment that should be at the top of this thread.
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by mrich 14y ago
The original story where these comments appeared on does not look very impartial and appears to have been constructed to generate pageviews from the Apple fanbase, so I am not shocked that the other camp chimed in to "protect theirs". So it
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by mrich 14y ago
I find smart stay and the multi windowing very helpful.
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by mrich 14y ago
As pointed out in the comments the code is quite contrived to begin with, no surprise such mistakes go unnoticed. As long as a warning is emitted when the compiler relies only such undefined behavior it is a good thing to optimize this heav
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by mrich 14y ago
You have to consider that this has been going on all the time through money-printing and devaluation of the major currencies over the past years. Savers get screwed, debts are devalued. I would say this step is more transparent in that rega
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by mrich 14y ago
> tax evasion scheme That is the most logical explanation up to now :)
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by mrich 14y ago
Kudos also to the unnamed telecom company that went out of their way to fight this, and the EFF for fighting the good fight. Don't forget to donate to them.
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by mrich 14y ago
This reads like a populist piece, trying to convince people with arguments that sound logical but are just wrong. Of course Apple had the market share lead with the iPhone. But the category was not "smartphone". They had a dominating lead i
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by mrich 14y ago
clang has solved this problem mostly with their template type diffing. gcc has also improved in that area. http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html
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by mrich 14y ago
You cannot determine the "best language" (for a given project) from a computer science aspect only. In the real world things like availability of programmers, existing code/interfacing with libraries, support of different platforms etc. pla
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by mrich 14y ago
While some points may be incorrect and some outdated in this 2007 presentation there are valid points. Especially it is true that the behavior of a line of code in C++ cannot easily be inferred from it alone, which can quickly become a prob
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by mrich 14y ago
Can someone clue me in on this - people are now standing in line for software? The only logical two reasons I can think of: 1) Their backend doesn't scale well enough 2) Artifical scarcity to make people think they are missing out on someth
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by mrich 14y ago
I still don't understand the hate HTC gets for Sense, it is mostly great and an improvement over stock Android. Also HTC provide new Android versions nowadays in reasonable time. Android and the "derivatives" are evolving quickly, make sure
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by mrich 14y ago
All the professionals I know like the MacBook Airs increasingly. I cannot imagine working with an Air for a prolonged period doing anything requiring the keyboard, since it is not ergonomic at all.
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by mrich 14y ago
Apart from the legal reasons that may have forced them to do so, they also got other people contributing to the codebase and fixing bugs. Other companies can also use the component, which is a great thing for a rendering engine - it will g
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by mrich 14y ago
I didn't expect it to take that long. Then again, there are probably many small hobbyist servers running debian.
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by mrich 14y ago
I remember these arguments, they always were a bit elitist. But even today I am doing a big part of my productive work on a command line. I wouldn't want to part with the GUI and mouse, sure. But given the choice between either a GUI or a c
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by mrich 14y ago
This article seems to propose that encryption is the solution to everything. However, it should be relatively easy to discern an encrypted message from an unencrypted one. When everbody starts encrypting and this really poses a threat to in
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by mrich 14y ago
So could you download an extension python module and run it? If so, it should be disallowed from the app store (going by Apple's rules).
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by mrich 14y ago
Sorry, still ridiculous. Could I then get a patent on the same process but not using hairspray?
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by mrich 14y ago
My first computer was a C64 bought with my first Deutsche Mark money after reunification of Germany. What a great investment - it cost a couple hundred bucks but set me on the path to a carreer in computing. You would seldom see Apple compu
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by mrich 14y ago
They seem to have a high acquisition cost for deals. Many merchants have already been burnt by them - they often make a hefty loss, so acquisitions get harder. You could also argue that most of the merchants using Groupon are already busine
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by mrich 14y ago
Yes, but Windows NT never was popular outside out business.
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by mrich 14y ago
But it does not make much sense to compare these versions - Windows started being a modern OS with Win 2000 and arguably already Windows 95. These were the releases that won them the desktop dominance. That's probably why you are feeling Wi
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by mrich 14y ago
Apple basically came into the phone industry, built upon the innovations of all others of the past decades, added their innovative ideas, a highly-polished UI and then flat-out refused that others ever could use these improvements of theirs
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by mrich 14y ago
For reference: Apple is willing to pay a maximum of $1 for patents that make their device a functioning phone. Two years ago, they offered Samsung to license some of their less important patents for $30 per phone and $40 per tablet.
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by mrich 14y ago
What you described is Thread Sanitizer (clang toolchain). The corresponding valgrind-based tools would be Helgrind and DRD. ASan can only catch memory errors in C/C++ programs. A memory error is an access outside the allocated memory of an
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by mrich 14y ago
I didn't know it is that close to becoming part of GCC, that's great! I have been trying clang+ASan on a larger project with mixed success. While it could catch a known bug, it seemed to miscompile some essential startup code and therefore

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