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by palish 15y ago
One of the first programs I tried to write in C++ (my first language) was a chess game. I eventually hacked it together, but it wasn't pretty. The hardest part for me was learning the patterns necessary to do anything , and specifically t
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by palish 15y ago
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. But this is a good starting point. From here, he could VirtualProtect() some memory and write the equivalent x86 instructions.
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by palish 15y ago
In the gamedev world, typically little endian is "the fast one", and big endian is where conversion is required. (This is merely because Windows is the dominant gamedev platform.)
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by palish 15y ago
This isn't necessarily true. A file is divided into 4096-byte "pages" on disk, I think. Each page can be stored in a different physical location, completely disjoint from one another. So you would have to wait while the harddrive seeks th
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by palish 15y ago
Why change their passwords? Isn't that FUD?
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by palish 15y ago
Yes, but what the hell is a QR code? Hehe. Or rather, why do I want one? I have no idea what this is used for. I'm 1/5th of the way down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code and still have no idea how this applies to websites. Most pe
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by palish 15y ago
Actually, it runs at ~10fps on my Dell E1705.
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by palish 15y ago
I've felt the same way, at times. I know things which are both interesting and counter-intuitive about the game industry. But the information is inexorably tied with my identity, so I've concluded it's more prudent to have secrets and to al
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by palish 15y ago
Why?
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by palish 15y ago
Do nothing. This isn't your responsibility, and you're risking your job by going behind the back of the most senior programmer.
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by palish 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844
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by palish 15y ago
Under 25 here, what's the relevance of 2600?
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by palish 15y ago
Ah. Yes, I've always thought the two were interchangeable.
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by palish 15y ago
Why? That's absurd.
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by palish 15y ago
Have you considered a political career?
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by palish 15y ago
4x as wide as SIMD. Wow. (SIMD is four 32-bit floats wide, i.e. you can multiply four floats AAAA with four other floats BBBB in a single instruction = AB AB AB AB. So 4x that is 16 pairs of floats in a single instruction!)
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by palish 15y ago
What did LastPass do? Sorry, I missed that story.
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by palish 15y ago
Someone has to code that feature. That takes time.
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by palish 15y ago
I can relate with "I tried believing in the best in people. It stopped working." I've had some nasty experiences as well. I've been burnt, badly, a lot. By both family and friends. You're right. I was probably just clinging to the fantasy t
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by palish 15y ago
This is completely unfair to Drew and also out of line. We do know what happened, because Drew told us what happened. Years ago, when my wife thought her MacBook was stolen, I emailed Drew and asked if he would notify us if it connected to
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by palish 15y ago
So would you say this comment is an accurate description? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603825 "It seems that the point is to introduce their special-sauce black box, with an argument to authority about its methodology. I think t
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by palish 15y ago
I'd like to know the scientific basis of EffectCheck. The site offers no explanation. Could you point out specific research papers, or link to technical info? Thanks!
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by palish 15y ago
62k actually.
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by palish 15y ago
So anyone who bought at those prices just made a crapton of money?
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by palish 15y ago
I just changed the password to my gmail account. If my gmail account is suddenly restricted, I will be one unhappy bitcoin'er.
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by palish 15y ago
Just got an email from MtGox. Here are the important bits: "If you were using the same password on Mt.Gox and other places (email, etc), you should change this password as soon as possible." "While the password is encrypted, it is possible
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by palish 15y ago
Right. So open an incognito window; go to MtGox; do your business; then close.
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by palish 15y ago
Incognito windows share cookies? That doesn't sound right... I would have thought incognito would prevent CSRF.
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by palish 15y ago
I'd like to know (for my own education), what were the benefits to you of going to college?
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by palish 15y ago
This is an excellent and important point. If your ambitions lie along the lines of "supercomputing, nanotech, quantum computing, Internet-scale problems," etc, then skipping college is a terrible mistake, obviously. It comes down to what

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