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SelfRestraint - control your Internet addiction(github.com)
9 points by octopus 15y ago|1 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
We as humans and programmers are creatures of habit, Unity by being a relatively new technology will break some habits in our work ritual. Give it a few years and nobody will complain about this.
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by octopus 15y ago
Finally with Ubuntu 12.04 we have a smooth Unity experience. I've used the 12.04 since beta and it just works.
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by octopus 15y ago
Seems counterproductive (or at least bad marketing) to me to force the user to register before he can see your products. I suppose most people will simply leave your page without registering because they can't see what you offer.
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by octopus 15y ago
So this is why a lot of Wrox Press look like bricks. Maybe this is OK from a marketing perspective but compare one of this brick books with "The C programming language". I think Pragmatic Programmers has a better approach at quantity vs qua
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On the C++11 Memory Model(scottmeyers.blogspot.ca)
4 points by octopus 15y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
Thanks, I've actually used Linux from ... 1999, hopefully I'm still sane even if I need to use CentOS for RedHat compatibility on one of my shiny new laptops.
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by octopus 15y ago
So, as I suspected, your antivirus deletes the installer when you try to install Racket. Have you tried to right click and install as an administrator ?
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by octopus 15y ago
Unfortunately I can't edit the title anymore (really sorry about that), HN let's you modify a post for a limited amount of time, after which the title (and the possibility to delete a post) is frozen. As a side note, the title is the non ed
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by octopus 15y ago
Try again disabling your antivirus temporary, probably you will also want to disconnect your computer from the internet during the installation if you disable the antivirus.
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Mac OS X 10.8 restricted to App Store, signed apps by default(osnews.com)
12 points by octopus 15y ago|31 comments
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Herb Sutter - Welcome to the Jungle (video)(shadow-technologies.tv)
1 points by octopus 15y ago|0 comments
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Software Designers - The People Behind the Code(gihyo.jp)
1 points by octopus 15y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
Have you considered installing Enthought free edition ? It has in a single package: Python, Numpy, Scipy, IPython, and you can install it on Linux, Windows and Mac.
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The rise of the destructive programmer(jacquesmattheij.com)
4 points by octopus 15y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
Well, if you want to be trouble free and use your machine for coding I a think Mac is a good choice. But I would wait for 1-2 months to see what the new Macs will offer. You really need to consider what kind of work are you going to do with
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by octopus 15y ago
This really depends on what combination of Linux distro and laptop you use. If you install a user friendly distro like Ubuntu 12.04 yes, everything or almost everything works as expected. Try to install CentOS on a shiny new laptop and let
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by octopus 15y ago
@DannoHung I want to set every single person who works for PayPal on fire. While I can understand your frustration, I think you should cool off and think before posting such extremist views here.
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by octopus 15y ago
Actually from a technical point of view it is simpler to land on an asteroid than on Mars (you avoid the gravity wheel). It will be cheaper to extract the minerals locally than to "take the rocks" back to Earth.
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Linear Algebra course (MIT)(ocw.mit.edu)
1 points by octopus 15y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
You can use Disqus anonymously if you want. Also it is much better than the alternatives at detecting spammers. From a WordPress installation on which, even with Akismet enabled, I've had on average about 3-400 spams per day I have zero spa
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by octopus 15y ago
Yes, any email client will make a local copy of your Google emails. If you use multiple operating systems, or you want to use a high quality open source client, best choice is Thunderbird (this is what I use). On Windows the default email c
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Vector addition benchmark in C, C++ and Fortran(solarianprogrammer.com)
3 points by octopus 15y ago|3 comments
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Std::string, SSO, and Move Semantics(scottmeyers.blogspot.ca)
2 points by octopus 15y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
You could use Haskell for prototyping your idea and call a, hopefully faster, C implementation for portions of your code. Having said that, you should always use a profiler to determine what portions of your code can potentially benefit fro
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by octopus 15y ago
You may also be interested in implementing Scheme in Haskell: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...
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How to Learn Haskell(acm.wustl.edu)
160 points by octopus 15y ago|46 comments
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by octopus 15y ago
I would expect some support from gcc and clang.
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by octopus 15y ago
If you don't like it use a typedef to make your code more "readable". Or a macro that will replace every occurrence of mutex in your code with mtx. However if you want to share your code with other people, I would go with the standard names
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by octopus 15y ago
Actually I think C++11 is a simpler language than C++03 or C++98. The problem is that we need to un-learn what we know and learn the new way of doing things.

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