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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, the best I could find were at http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1147-tolkien-calendar-20... It seems that most of them have been lost.
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by pacaro 9y ago
It is also important to consider the complexity too. There is no such thing as "Security through unnecessary complexity", only the opposite. The examples about changing port numbers are great, they are simple configuration changes
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by pacaro 9y ago
What altitude? This is a tradition that started in Persia and still exists in parts of India. I don’t think altitude has much to do with it. There are social issues when the Towers of Silence that used to be away from the population centers
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by pacaro 9y ago
The parallels with interviewing engineers are pretty clear to me, there is so much more information exchanged when interviewer and candidate work together than when the interviewer is confrontational and has a “prove that you’re good enough
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yup! That was the most limited device we ported to. I wasn’t even aware that it was officially shipped. Benefon made nice devices, the Q was really stylish for its time. If memory served they were mostly sold in Eastern Europe and Russia.
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by pacaro 9y ago
The company was STNC Ltd. The µbrowser was called Hitchhiker. STNC was acquired by Microsoft in July 99. My understanding is that the demo at GSM World in 98 was the first time anyone had demonstrated a graphical browser on a cellphone that
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by pacaro 9y ago
Humourously enough, when I worked on a team that was writing a graphical web browser for mobile in the late 90's [1], they used a display list for rendering. The reasoning was somewhat different, web pages were essentially static (we d
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by pacaro 9y ago
People have been proposing some of these for a long time (nearly 400 years) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation#Irony_mark
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by pacaro 9y ago
The more reasonable advice I was given was “keep to yourself when possible, lower your normal speaking tone by an octave”
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by pacaro 9y ago
I understand that you mean well.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Ugh. Sorry autocorrect, should read “uninitialized variables”
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by pacaro 9y ago
I find this hard to believe. Even initialized variables are undefined behavior, I’ve yet to meet a c programmer that hasn’t been bitten by this.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I’ve spoken with my father just once in the last 15 years or so, and that 9 years ago. It happens, not all people are good parents, not all relationships can or should be healed. I doubt I’ll speak to him again before he dies, that could be
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by pacaro 9y ago
The quality issue is really interesting. I used to have the Lumia with the 40MP camera. The image quality was, in general, significantly better, and for low light photography (for example a baby sleeping in a room with the drapes closed) ex
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by pacaro 9y ago
Thank you! I should have looked it up.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Also Mexico City is built on a swamp/marsh[1], like a suprisingly large proportion of capital cities (London, Berlin, Paris, etc. ) [1] IIRC the difference between a swamp and a marsh is one of ph.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I can't help wondering if teens working less is because so many of the jobs traditionally held by high school kids are now critical income for low income adults. As others have observed, not working has a knock on effect on other activ
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by pacaro 9y ago
And, even if you know what you are doing, this is intrinsically a hard problem, you need to know exactly what information should be accessible to each server
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by pacaro 9y ago
They are providing a different form of value is all
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by pacaro 9y ago
Now we're discussing the meaning of "dead code". I'm pretty certain that the OP was referring to methods that have no callsites. That doesn't require much in the way of proof, the git bisect seems to be more about i
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by pacaro 9y ago
My understanding was that by packing the parts they could do 144 parts in one print, and that one print took 36 hours. By using SLS they don't need support structures
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by pacaro 9y ago
My step father, I his 60s, took his schoolboy French, that he hadn't used in over 40 years, and turned it into a decent conversational level simply by not caring about how bad he was but just going for it.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I would be a millionaire many times over if I and various partners hadn't spent so much money. It wasn't a conscious choice, but it wasn't totally unconscious either. My parents and grandparents saved for a future need that n
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by pacaro 9y ago
Cynically, Xiaomi products often aren't sold in the US until they are re-branded and sold through an indiegogo campaign (a simple search for Populele is a good example)
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by pacaro 9y ago
Memories from Microsoft circa 2005, posters in building 27: "There's a new WinDbg in town, and it doesn't suck any more" FWIW usually pronounced "Wind-bag"
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by pacaro 9y ago
Ciméma du look [1] does something other than conflict in a sense. The movies still have conflict (I'm really thinking of Diva [2] as my exemplar) but it is entirely secondary to the style and texture of the movie [1] https:/&
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by pacaro 9y ago
I worked with an engineer who was partially sighted and could only see a tiny fraction of the screen at a time, he had essentially memorized most of the code base. What struck me was that when I started working, while not the same, that was
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by pacaro 9y ago
YMMV — anecdote territory For me, it was probably for the same reasons that some (many? Most?) do drugs, for the moment of mental escape when your entire attention is truly needed in the moment. While I thoroughly enjoyed adrenaline sports
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by pacaro 9y ago
I wish the emphasis in TFA was not on "craftmanship", 1) it's a tired metaphor with weird resonances to a male dominated guild structure. 2) even the positive aspects don't really apply to Starbucks which is more fits th
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, reading through that jumped out at me. Also the use of strdup, while a reasonable choice, should also come with caveats about ownership and copying I stopped at the use of pow for exponentiation in the hash function. Just iteratively

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