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by nodemaker 15y ago
No True Scotsman!
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by nodemaker 15y ago
Well one of the basic tenets of the hacker mindset is to automate anything and everything. If you find yourself working so much that you dont get time to spend with your family, you are most likely spending a lot of your time in doing tasks
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by nodemaker 15y ago
You do because for the criminal there is no way to know if you used a duress code or not.So if you cant really get into a better position in the eyes of the criminal by not using it,you might as well use it and get cops to know you are in t
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by nodemaker 15y ago
hmm...well I almost got convinced that I should use above technique a lot until I read that. Short-circuiting can lead to errors in branch prediction on modern processors, and dramatically reduce performance (a notable example is highly op
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by nodemaker 15y ago
This is clearly a very beautiful way to do this. But somehow I still havent internalized the fact that when assembly code is generated for such an OR statement it is done in a way such that the if any sub statement is evaluated to be true t
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Designs We Love(quora.com)
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Meet Ed Jacobs, Designer Of America's Meanest Motorcycle(fastcodesign.com)
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by nodemaker 15y ago
I think the trend is definitely positive for us.In my experience I dont think there is any negative connotation to being a programmer these days.Whether positive or not depends upon what kind of stuff a programmer does.Personally when I tel
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by nodemaker 15y ago
Rather than jumping on the bandwagon of accusing tumblr for infringing on user's rights ,I think we should give the guys the benefit of doubt which is well deserved for creating an awesome free platform. There probably are some serious tech
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by nodemaker 15y ago
All he is trying to say is that being a hard boiled cynic more often than not hampers your productivity. I totally agree with that.
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by nodemaker 15y ago
what about the other group of grown men who are offended by it?
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by nodemaker 15y ago
Yes I forgot to point that out.....The blocks are not directly related to individual features....For example one block can deal with Network Requests and it can use another smaller block to cache data....One block for managing thread pools.
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by nodemaker 15y ago
The idea that software should be built out of building blocks (if not bricks) is actually a good engineering approach .The problem is 1) These blocks are not of the same size or complexity 2) The relationships between these blocks also vari
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by nodemaker 15y ago
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind - Julian Jaynes Very Powerful Read!
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by nodemaker 15y ago
In public key cryptography ,we use ramanujan's theory about prime numbers to calculate large prime numbers.The fastest algorithm known is based on his work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_prime
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by nodemaker 15y ago
Yes sites like tumblr definitely make sense...My argument is against running your self-hosted personal blog with an SQL server! And of course...my argument is for the technical people only....perhaps someone among us can make a static conte
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by nodemaker 15y ago
haha good point but thats why I prefer the Dropbox based approach where I just create a text file and put it in my dropbox folder!
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by nodemaker 15y ago
It is ironic because the real deep reason we share our thoughts is because we want them to stand out! Databases are indeed good at storing millions and billions of things and they are designed for it.But no human being is individually capab
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by nodemaker 15y ago
I find it funny (and perhaps ironic!) that people would want their thoughts kept in some obscure row and obscure column of a remote SQL database. But perhaps it is better than not storing and sharing your thoughts at all! In any case...Merr
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by nodemaker 15y ago
wow....thanks for that!...kinnof reignited my interest in Chomsky and his ideas of libertarian socialism!...If anyone wants to learn more about the role of propaganda in our society I highly recommend the documentary "The Century of the sel
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by nodemaker 15y ago
The numbers look good but I wish Google did something to make the life of Android Developers a little better....As it looks right now,the experience of developing for Android is similar to the experience of making enterprise software.