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by orib 18y ago
Hm. Never used the MP3 downloader myself, and Octave has been sufficiently compatible (ie, every bit of code I've encountered/written worked on both) for me to do all the Matlab courses and assignments that I've worked on. I suppose that I
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by orib 18y ago
For 64 bit architecture, the only big hole I found was the flash player -- it's simply broken, even with the npviewer plugin. As far as wired networks/desktop hardware goes, I find that things Just Work(tm). Laptops, yeah. You do need to go
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by orib 18y ago
I don't know if they're prime material, but that wouldn't stop the supply of people who are willing to apply. It's just a hypothesis, anyways -- if there are more people than jobs, the number of people looking for work will go up. being a Y
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by orib 18y ago
lists of disconnected emails sorted by arrival time. Clients have no sense of priority, urgency, workflows, or connectedness. Really? All the mail clients I can think of off the top of my head have at least threading and urgency flags. Wh
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by orib 18y ago
What about people that got laid off due to the state of the economy?
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by orib 18y ago
It takes buying compatible hardware, and things will Just Work. With Windows, the manufacturers design their hardware to work with it. With MacOS, you can't run it on most hardware anyways. With Linux, you have to spend some care chosing ha
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by orib 18y ago
You say that now, but it's amazing how quickly responsible adults turn into whiny children. I don't think it's too much effort or cost to get a lawyer to make sure you have the legal situation on solid ground. You probably won't need it, bu
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by orib 18y ago
It's not so much as a debate as the maintainers and legal people saying "hell no, their code is incompatible. you'll have to do a clean-room implementation for it to land", and some people saying "but we really want it." Plus, there are the
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by orib 18y ago
No. pretty much (gross oversimplification, but this is the essence of it) all you need for a nuclear bomb is to slam 2 or more subcritical chunks of sufficiently enriched uranium into each other fast enough to fuse them to a single supercri
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by orib 18y ago
The hard part is getting enough enriched uranium. it's chemically the same as all other uranium ore, and the only difference that you can use to separate it is a 0.85% mass difference of the atoms. Once you have the uranium extracted, the b
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by orib 18y ago
the indenting commands work the same way in vim with tabs or spaces -- either select a visual range and hit >, or hit >a} to indent a brace delimited block, or... well, you know the drill. the > or < compose in the same way
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by orib 18y ago
Why is this better than me right-clicking in any GTK text widget and selecting the appropriate input method from the drop down menu? (note that Firefox doesn't have that because it's not an actual GTK app -- it's only pretending. I'd say it
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by orib 18y ago
What if people honestly believed that they were actually going to make money if they shuffled things around in the way that they did? What if they thought that the risks from the bad loans were acceptable because of bad simplifications in t
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by orib 18y ago
The writing wouldn't bother me if he had a point to make . The fact that he's usually about as insightful as a pancake is what bothers me. And I can at least eat the pancake after failing at get something intellectual out of it. It's not t
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by orib 18y ago
Sure. So it's easier to make programs that scale well. However, given sufficiently low-level primitives, you can completely emulate the Erlang model, with problem-specific extra hacks to help performance. No, it's not as easy. It's possible
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by orib 18y ago
That's what bothers me. What's wrong with trying your best and then failing? I think that's better than not trying at all. I don't see any shame in it, and I'd rather see people stretching their limits even if they're not sure of success. S
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by orib 18y ago
Very true. You probably need some legislation to get around that. For example, taxing emissions is a step towards it, but only if that money actually is spent covering the cleanup costs of the environmental damage done by the company. Other
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by orib 18y ago
I was talking from a coding point of view, since the post was asking about finding people to code a GUI. The challenge of designing a good UI is usually swamped by the need to write swaths of dumb code if you're actually coding GUIs. Desi
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by orib 18y ago
Not in the ideal case. The best long term strategy in a free, highly competitive market with knowledgable consumers and no externalities is to build long term trust. The way to build long term trust is to be moral and ethical. Now, this bre
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by orib 18y ago
It's not unimportant. It's just menial and trivial when done in code. Yes, there's an art to it, but that's not a technical challenge in the programming domain. The outside veneer is important, but it's not interesting to work on from a tec
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by orib 18y ago
GUIs just aren't interesting to create -- there's nothing challenging about creating them. For desktop apps, the normal thing to do these days isn't even to code them -- you drag and drop together a UI in something like Glade, Interface Bui
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by orib 18y ago
Stay in school. It's a pain to catch up on your studies, you have to wait for the start/end of the semester, and a degree is always nice to have, especially if you've already invested significant amounts of time into it. On the other hand,
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by orib 18y ago
I also look for a good keyboard in a laptop before I look at most other factors. This has kept me with Thinkpads until recently, and now I'm on a Fujitsu T2010.
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by orib 18y ago
Do believe that mental exercise has no effect whatsoever on mental ability? You can definitely increase your ability . I don't think that's necessarily the same as changing your intelligence . I think the derivative of ability may be in
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by orib 18y ago
I don't know of strong evidence either way. The fact that I think the article has no bearing on reality doesn't mean that I know what the reality actually is. I'm not sure what the best estimator of intelligence is -- perhaps the amount of
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by orib 18y ago
The article confuses work ethic and intelligence and ability. I think that although there's overlap, they're quite different things. And using grades as an intelligence indicator is horribly flawed.
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by orib 18y ago
Even disregarding the authentication aspect, there's laziness. People (at least myself, and I presume many/most others) can't be arsed to take the time to add tags that nobody will ever really see. It's a whole lot of work to tag more than
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by orib 18y ago
I think you meant it sarcastically, but it's on the way, and I actually agree with you strongly. Heck you don't even need Javascript -- HTML5 is supported by Webkit.
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by orib 18y ago
No, that depends on the developer. A lot of developers don't want to worry about memory management and memory leaks. That has nothing to do with what I said. If you want to avoid the peak memory overhead of using a GC (and the peak memory
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by orib 18y ago
Also, bristling a little bit at the comment that you need parser generators for anything but "toy" languages Just to extend your point -- Most commercial compilers (GCC, for example, or Clang, among others) use hand-written recursive-dece

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