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by pdmccormick 14y ago
Give even a cursory review of code for those id Software titles to see that they were not rewrites from scratch ( http://fabiensanglard.net/ gives a wonderful overview of each.) Even without any revision history from one to the next, the s
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by pdmccormick 14y ago
Recently I had to bitbang I2C through a voltage level translating buffer that had a direction setting pin that needed to be manipulated when sampling SDA on input. The uC's hardware I2C block obviously couldn't handle that extra signaling o
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by pdmccormick 14y ago
I've often wondered about this phenomenon, people empowered by the web and their new found audience, struggling to find the balance between the solo soapbox and tapping into a collective sentiment as authority and sage. I'm not trying to as
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by pdmccormick 14y ago
I welcome the Retina Revolution (and look forward to its progression beyond the Apple world), despite the messy consequences. Three things plague my eyes and psyche: 1) 1080p as a least common denominator 2) composite analog video fee
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by pdmccormick 14y ago
Solid copy!
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by pdmccormick 14y ago
Ahh, the hipsters dilemma: your sensibilities are offended when something you cherish sell out and go mainstream, yet you wear the hard earned "I liked them _before_ they were popular" badge with honour. It's hard growing up and having your
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by pdmccormick 15y ago
PHP as a language is, at present, defined by the behaviour of the canonical PHP.net implementation. Change the implementation, and de facto you've changed the language; Perl 5 is similar in this respect. A claim that an alternate implementa
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by pdmccormick 15y ago
The good thing about hashing something repeatedly is that the result is always the same!
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by pdmccormick 15y ago
On the theme of a very rewarding change of perspective and exciting new possibilities, I'd heartily recommend everyone try their hand at developing for a small, embedded microcontroller platform. I don't know why sequencing and flashing LED
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by pdmccormick 15y ago
How was PayPal able to get a single-letter dot com domain? I thought they were all reserved. But then there is x.org on the other hand too, hmm...
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by pdmccormick 15y ago
`sudo -s` works nicely too.
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by pdmccormick 16y ago
Not disagreeing, but I thought the Maps web UI came about post acquisition, and that the technology had previously been developed for desktop apps?
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by pdmccormick 16y ago
I have a warm fuzzy memory about the first time I saw Google Maps and Suggest, and had that feeling that, "surely this is the future."