nickolai

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by nickolai 15y ago
I don't understand his matrix example. in C++, you'd have a Matrix class with a getter. To get an element of the matrix you'd do int v = pMatrix->get(i,j); whereas in C you'd typedef a Matrix structure type and have an accessor f
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Patent Troll Sues Google, Groupon(techcrunch.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
>disable optimisations in parts of the code because they were found to cause bugs elsewhere. Well that is exactly what I meant. Compiler optimizations by themselves do not cause bugs - they reveal bugs. They are specfically designed to
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by nickolai 15y ago
> Rewriting some x87 FPU code and inlining a whole ton of useless getter functions along the critical paths because the developers at Bethesda, for some reason, compiled the game without using any of the optimization flags for release b
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Ditch GoDaddy’s SOPA-Loving Butt and Get a Better Web Host at a Discount(lifehacker.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
>judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Supporters.pdf 'Rouge websites'... Really ? How about figuring out that spelling thing before trying to pass legislation... Or did we miss something and all this SOPA fuss is actually
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GDP Up, Happiness Down [according to Twitter data analysis] (sciencedaily.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Expect Longer Battery Life with Ubuntu Linux 12.04(pcworld.com)
60 points by nickolai 15y ago|17 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
>If you spend a lot of time writing copy for the web or answering support emails, you know what I’m talking about. When you start a sentence, you can feel the nausea coming on from a mile away: there’s no gender neutral third person sin
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Why is Bill Gates selling nuclear tech to China?(washingtonpost.com)
33 points by nickolai 15y ago|20 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
So in summary, their system highlights the files that had 'a lot of bugs lately'. While useful, this is more of a trend analysis and extrapolation rather than actual prediction. The title made me hope of something that would highlight some
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by nickolai 15y ago
That's a very intersting quote article you quote there. Just one thing : the article seems to claim that not caring to solve one's problems stems from the impossibility to solve them all in a forseeable future. Hence the problems create a "
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by nickolai 15y ago
As you point out, the challenges to overcome for such a project to succeed seem really huge compared to the expected benefit. I think the one of the ideas about this kind of "overkill workaround" project is to get as much airtime as possibl
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by nickolai 15y ago
An insightful nugget at the very end, for anyone missing it: >In a response [another copyright advocate caught 'stealing'] issued a press release stating that their IP-addresses were spoofed. A very unlikely scenario, but one that will
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The long-term vision thing(thespacereview.com)
20 points by nickolai 15y ago|1 comments
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Apple iPad 3, with retina display, slated for February?(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Proposed DMCA Exemption Would Unchain Device Owners(softwarefreedom.org)
23 points by nickolai 15y ago|9 comments
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Linux Mint diverts [$3.41] Banshee revenue(itworld.com)
45 points by nickolai 15y ago|16 comments
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First commercial flight to ISS planned in February(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Researchers find more evidence of quantum processes at work in photosynthesis(physorg.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Online [shopping] Confusopoly(dilbert.com)
4 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Rumors Erupt Over Higgs Boson Discovery(news.discovery.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Accelerating the future: human achievements beyond LEO within a decade(thespacereview.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
I think I recall something like this posted some time ago. It is an interesting idea, with a few caveats : * At least in the video at the bottom of the article, it is not actually a swarm - there is never more than one robot doing each task
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We Are the 99.9%(nytimes.com)
4 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Linux Mint Is a Refreshing Palate Cleanser(technewsworld.com)
1 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
Um... That was remarkably content-free. Almost everyone i've met in CS so far knows that 'men are better than women at math and/or CS' is an mountain-sized stereotype with possibly a sand-grain sized nugget of truth to it. Yes we men do h
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Linux Mint 12's Three Desktops(zdnet.com)
2 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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Linux kernel patch slashes power hunger(news.techworld.com)
4 points by nickolai 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickolai 15y ago
The caps/profanity to content ratio is way to high for my taste. Weird: usually there is interesting stuff on that blog, and the writing is Okay too. not to self : never drink and post.

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