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by octo_t 13y ago
As a student, having to fork out £40/£50 for train tickets was a pretty tough decision - having to weigh whether or not I thought I might get the job vs having the cost of train tickets. Most companies would reimburse travel either way, whi
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by octo_t 13y ago
As much as thats annoying, it does make a lot of sense. If you can assert that everything which bears that logo is going to be medically related (and not just something random), especially in wars and the like, means you can be more certain
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by octo_t 13y ago
Erlang?
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by octo_t 13y ago
This has finally let me figure out what annoys me about Go, its a cargo-cult language. People saw that Erlang's Actors/processes were really popular and made it easy to write good, concurrent software. They then went away and implemented th
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by octo_t 13y ago
This is so horribly wrong. Firstly, when clang warns you of an error, it tells you the switch it uses to highlight that error, the disabling flag is then "-Wno-$switch" (or simply use a clang pragma to disable the warning: http://stackover
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by octo_t 14y ago
fail2ban should be the first thing to install, first thing to manage via puppet/chef, first thing to have centralized logged etc :p
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by octo_t 14y ago
The type system.
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by octo_t 14y ago
I can see you've never had to debug multi-threaded code or use 3rd party software ever or a project too large for one person to understand or a misconfigured webserver on the other end.
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by octo_t 14y ago
It seems very similar to Scala in several ways (var, def etc), but the way to declare immutable fields is different from Scala Scala val x:Int = 10 // Immutable var x:Int = 10 // Mutable def x:Int = 10 // function Virgil def
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Diversity Messes With Your Culture… And That’s a Good Thing(laurenbacon.com)
1 points by octo_t 14y ago|0 comments
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by octo_t 14y ago
The problem is I needed my summer internships at university to be able to afford to live for the next year. "Building" over the summer would have been really fun, and the benefits of a 9-5 was that when I got home I worked on some of my p
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by octo_t 14y ago
I really hope this is sarcastic, because CSP is the basis of almost all concurrency (and certainly pretty much every formal model of concurrency). If it needs some implementation in your language du jour before you consider reading it, it
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by octo_t 14y ago
I run both Linux and OSX, but yes, my battery usage isn't as good under linux, but it still sits at around 5+ hours
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by octo_t 14y ago
Messing around with grub is always going to be painful, but this guide[1] worked decently for me and I've not had any driver problems (the backlit keyboard doesn't work very well, but I don't really care enough to fix it) [1] - http://life
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by octo_t 14y ago
Macbook Airs (or 13" MBP Retina) is (in my experience) the nicest choice for an ultrabook. - Installing Linux is really easy - Macbook Air isnt' full hd, but the retina is obviously better than full hd - they've all got SSDs - Macbook keybo
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by octo_t 14y ago
I am surprised at number 3, I would have thought that it would be optimised to x << 1, rather than the addition? Edit: No. 5 explains why.
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by octo_t 14y ago
This is really cool! Didn't realise NSS was part of the Mozilla project, might start having a read of the bugtracker and see what there is :D
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by octo_t 14y ago
Lexers are notoriously complex and difficult to read. The one in Go[1] is also really difficult to grok. [1] - https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/go/scanne...
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by octo_t 14y ago
This is the main vulnerability I presume > A connection request containing a database name that begins with "-" may be crafted to damage or destroy files within a server's data directory I just. No words.
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by octo_t 14y ago
How do you do this if MtGox is down?
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by octo_t 14y ago
Here's how fucked the games business is: Tomb Raider sold 3.5 million units in 4 weeks, and yet failed to meet sales expectations. Hitman sold the same, and Sleeping Dogs sold 1.75 million and they both failed to meet expectations. Square E
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by octo_t 14y ago
Most interesting (to me at least) is "Proposing the Rule of Five"[1], so that no copy function, move function, or destructor will be compiler-generated if any of these functions is user-provided. [1] - http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG2
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A look at C++14 and beyond: Part 3(meetingcpp.com)
5 points by octo_t 14y ago|4 comments
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by octo_t 14y ago
Student copies from copyrighted textbook onto wikipedia, textbook copyright owner notices + sues wikipedia
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by octo_t 14y ago
Prolog is really awesome (and impressive) for solvers where there is an "optimum" solution for what you want. Its fairly trivial to write a checkers AI in prolog if you can define what you want + need:
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by octo_t 14y ago
Prolog is declarative programming take to the maximum (excluding things like Answer Set Programming/clingo etc). In Prolog you ask questions. For example: subset([1,2],[2]). then it goes away and says "yes". Or you want to know if any s
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by octo_t 14y ago
By necessary work I meant "Valgrind has associated proofs of correctness so transforming parallelisations into things valgrind can more easily diagnose". (Disclaimer: my research is on safer parallel programming)
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by octo_t 14y ago
Do you have any proofs of correctness for this at all? You claim to be able to detect almost all data race conditions, but I don't see much evidence for that in the blog post. Is all of the necessary work being offloaded to Valgrind?
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by octo_t 14y ago
As someone who lives and has worked in London this is really incorrect. All of the people that I know who work in London (not just in banks) are earning at least £35k+, almost always more than that. These are newly graduated developers, wit
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by octo_t 14y ago
I'm curious to know the reasoning behind removing the implicit self? Was their implementation having problems with it or was it rather a more deep-seated ideological choice?

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