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by ndepoel 4y ago
Lowering the volume does not equal introducing more dynamic range. It was just done to avoid clipping when pasting two bits of track on top of each other. The masters delivered by Mick Gordon were meant for use in the game. I'm not an
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by ndepoel 4y ago
Whenever an app or website asks me if I want notifications, I mentally substitute the word 'notification' with 'distraction'. "Do you want to receive distractions from this app?" Reads very differently and make
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by ndepoel 5y ago
Because it doesn't function as a bridge anymore. It stopped functioning as a bridge back in 1993. It's a monument now, an industrial monument and part of the city's heritage. It's already permanently in the open state an
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by ndepoel 5y ago
The problem isn't that it's particularly hard or risky to dismantle the bridge. It's that this specific bridge is an industrial monument that holds a special place in many people's hearts and after the last restoration i
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by ndepoel 5y ago
That was my first thought as well. The number of scam calls and robocalls is such a problem these days that ignoring calls from unknown numbers has become a habit. I'm usually polite enough to google the number and call back if it&#x27
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by ndepoel 5y ago
You haven't failed at all. There's nothing wrong with being a generalist. Everybody who is into programming has a bazillion empty and half-finished Git repos with ideas that went nowhere. It shows you have been exploring, experime
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by ndepoel 5y ago
An SQLite database is just a file. You can build the empty database with schema and base values ahead of time, save it to a file (or an in-memory byte buffer) and then every time you want to create a new database, you just copy that file. N
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by ndepoel 5y ago
As someone who has lost a close friend 15 years ago and a father 5 years ago, both way prematurely, I can confidently agree: you don't get over it. Instead, you learn to live with it. Their absence becomes a part of your life. The pain
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by ndepoel 6y ago
The thing to note here is that this is a one-way correlation: top performers tend to produce lots of commits. That does not mean that people who produce a high amount of commits are the top performers in your company. I've had to deal
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by ndepoel 6y ago
The repo is always going to be leading. If you create a repo locally with a master branch and push it to Github, it will still have a master branch on Github and all the commits will be visible normally. Github is not going to automatically
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by ndepoel 6y ago
No, it's not necessarily a bug but rather multiple systems working as designed, yet coming together to produce incorrect results. `D3DXMatrixInverse` makes use of hardware-implemented fast math routines by design, for performance reaso
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by ndepoel 6y ago
"how do you know he's wrong?" In short; we don't. Science is not about who's right and who's wrong. Science is about carefully formulating plausible theories, and then proving or disproving those through rigoro
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by ndepoel 7y ago
I did not know what a ha-ha wall was until a few months ago when we happened to pass by Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! while driving from New Brunswick to Montreal. It's right on the Transcanadian Highway route so hard to miss. To be sure a fe
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by ndepoel 7y ago
Source may have been the first engine to formally support lag compensation on the server side, but something similar was already implemented previously as a mod for Quake 3 called "Unlagged". Essentially what it did was maintain a
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by ndepoel 7y ago
In my experience GC makes programmers sloppy in their resource usage. Just allocate a bunch of memory annnd... whatever, the GC will take care of that. But there are a lot of other resources besides memory that aren't automatically cle
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by ndepoel 8y ago
The main advantage for Quake 3 was that the server, client and UI code could be compiled into platform-independent bytecode modules. This was mostly a boon to mod creators, who had to build only one version of their mod that would work on a
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by ndepoel 10y ago
JavaScript didn't "conquer" anything. It was just one of the first languages around when the web was still in its infancy, and simply never went away.
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by ndepoel 11y ago
That depends on the file type. Several version control clients can already detect image files for example and show a visual diff between revisions. There is still a lot of room for improvement and standardization however.
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by ndepoel 11y ago
Ugh, another example of why conditional compilation is such a bad idea. I know, I know, sometimes it's inevitable. But if you're going to use it, you'd better be ready to set up a build farm that regularly compiles your code
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by ndepoel 11y ago
It's very simple: Unity was never designed with a target platform as radical as HTML5/JS/WebGL in mind. It's stuck with an older version of the Mono runtime for its scripting language, and they've pulled off some cr
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by ndepoel 11y ago
Any language you choose is as complicated as you make it yourself. Some of the cleanest, simplest and most readable code I've seen in my life was written in C, while the most horribly complex, obtuse and over-engineered projects I&#x27
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by ndepoel 12y ago
With distributed version control systems such as Git or Mercurial, when you clone a repository you get the entire history of that repository (or of a selected branch). This means that if you place large media files directly in the repositor
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by ndepoel 13y ago
NuGet gets the job done admirably, but it was simply introduced too late; nearly 10 years after the introduction of .NET. It's good to see NuGet has gained traction very quickly, but there are still plenty of projects predating NuGet t
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by ndepoel 13y ago
The worst bit of social engineering of this kind that I recently encountered was contained in the OS X installer for μTorrent. Halfway during the installation process you get a large body of text along with the buttons AGREE and DECLINE. Yo
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by ndepoel 13y ago
Okay, now all we need is a Gerbil Space Program.
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by ndepoel 13y ago
Try using a metronome then. I'm sure there's plenty of apps available for that.
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by ndepoel 13y ago
How does this compare to std::stringstream? I don't see any mention of that class in this article.
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by ndepoel 13y ago
If you had actually read the article about the Singleton, you would have seen that it discourages its use and explains in great detail what's wrong with the pattern and why you should stay away from it. +1 to this site for tackling thi
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by ndepoel 14y ago
Bottom line: MongoDB is not an RDBMS and you shouldn't try to use it as an RDBMS. Something with trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. MongoDB requires a different mindset and if you're unable to adapt, then you should simply stay a
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by ndepoel 14y ago
This is going to be my next phone. Period. There's no LTE here in Europe yet, so who cares about that, and 16 GB is more storage space than I'll need in the next 1.5 to 2 years. It's also good time to upgrade now, as my current Nexus S is g

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