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by nrr 17y ago
Everything sucks, but Unix and C certainly don't suck less. I'd rather stab myself in the eyes with rusted forks than profess my love for either. C is an overgrown assembly language, and Unix doesn't have enough kitchen sinkery going on to
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by nrr 17y ago
My hands hurt just looking at that damnable thing. I wouldn't be able to use it for more than 10 minutes at a stretch because I'd end up losing all feeling in my right hand. ... if I were a right-hand mouser to begin with, that is, all jok
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by nrr 17y ago
... not that I've been able to tell. At least, they aren't posted yet.
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Slides from Felix von Leitner's talk on C and compiler optimizations(linux-kongress.org)
33 points by nrr 17y ago|6 comments
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A set of notes on Islamic design, including some on Arabic geometry(catnaps.org)
1 points by nrr 17y ago|0 comments
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by nrr 17y ago
I'm not actually all that certain I want Lisp as my extension language. Lisp is very, very nice, and while I may have a preference for it, someone else might not. FWIW, MicroEmacs uses an in-house extension language that, while really rep
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by nrr 17y ago
I do this when I fly musical instruments like my bass guitar (for which I haven't managed to purchase a hard-shell flight case, bah) to evade having a damaged instrument at my destination. Some airlines will let you store these things in t
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by nrr 17y ago
This account right here makes me want to be a mainframe programmer for a living. Writing software for microcomputers that sells is for chumps. Mainframes are where it's at, if for no other reason than the fact that "relabel[ing] one line o
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by nrr 17y ago
I am a counterexample to your claim; hence, it is false. I'm very fluent in vi(m), but I still end up going back to Emacs (well, MicroEmacs) every time for anything beyond doing hacks to configuration files. Why? I like having a heavily e
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by nrr 17y ago
From http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html (struck-out): "Fire your entire design team, if you have one." I guess AA took some of that advice to heart here. I can only hope this guy does land a job someplace where the compan
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by nrr 17y ago
I can't see why you'd be downvoted. :) I'm reasonably certain that str0ke would have chuckled at that himself.
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Str0ke (the guy who ran milw0rm) is dead?(bl4cksecurity.blogspot.com)
53 points by nrr 17y ago|22 comments
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by nrr 17y ago
Yes, but in your construction, you're using a popular pseudo-participle form of to think . The author of the article is suggesting that we use these weird ablaut/umlaut morphs in place of the preterite. For example, "I thought " would t
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by nrr 17y ago
I do this all the time with plus addressing.
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by nrr 17y ago
I would go as far as to say that we need generalists who will take the time to chronicle and revive works from the past to make them relevant again. Better still, we need the mathematics community at large to become more accustomed to
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by nrr 17y ago
From the article: "Sure enough, the best invited talk was Michael Kiessling's talk that used the ancient technology of overhead projector , and it would have been even better if he only used the blackboard , and it would have been better
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by nrr 17y ago
Actually, if we were still using CRTs at obscenely high resolutions, this font would be perfect. I used it for ~10 minutes on a 21-inch Sony Trinitron running at 2048x1536@75Hz, and I couldn't do much but marvel at it. It was truly beautif
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The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations(archive.org)
1 points by nrr 17y ago|0 comments
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by nrr 17y ago
This was entirely not what I thought it was given the title of the article. That is, I didn't expect this to be related to telecomms in any way. ... and now that we're on the topic of strange subjects involving telecommunications, I've man
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by nrr 17y ago
It's a shame that neither TECO nor DDT are prime. :(
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by nrr 17y ago
FERMAT is also one. :)
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by nrr 17y ago
Consider hex and base 64. Base 16 takes the first six letters from the alphabet to augment the number of available letters for representing a particular value. I guess using base 26 would make sense from a strictly alphabetic standpoint, b
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The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime in base 36(primes.utm.edu)
42 points by nrr 17y ago|27 comments
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by nrr 17y ago
Fortunately, academic pursuits only require compromises in terms of politics. ;)
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by nrr 17y ago
I think another point to emphasize is that using a third-party solution shouldn't in all cases be a long-term solution. Consider keeping such a chunk of code around only long enough to get the product shipped and paying for itself. At that
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by nrr 17y ago
You subscribe to the rose-colored glasses version. :) I'm sensing a trust issue or two w/r code written by others, but that's okay. In reality, while you'd like to keep your code as simple as possible, it's often impossible even to keep th
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by nrr 17y ago
I'm not sure your definition of high-performance software development and mine coincide here, in any sense imaginable. In the programmer-performance sense, just snagging an off-the-shelf component and shoehorning it into your product will l
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by nrr 17y ago
An article from a German periodical that covers the same topic can be found at http://www.sueddeutsche.de/finanzen/492/491855/text/ It says a considerable amount more than the BBC article at the expense of not being in English. I read Ge
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by nrr 17y ago
Hmm, I wouldn't say that defining a prime number as a number n with prime factors 1 and a with 1 and a not necessarily distinct instantly breaks the FTA, but it sure does make it a lot harder to state while still conveying the same idea oth
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by nrr 17y ago
Whoah! I was actually kept inside for recess in grade school if I tried to use a calculator for arithmetic, and here, your son is being issued a calculator by his teacher . That doesn't mean that using a calculator at his age is necessa

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