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by pippy 13y ago
This looks very nice. I've been looking for a decent replacement for my sheevaplug for a while now.
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by pippy 13y ago
C is fundamentally difficult when it comes to miss-allocation of memory. int p = malloc(int ); looks almost exactly the same as int*p = malloc(int); bit will work on a 32 bit system. Now imagine working with variable sized stucts over a 20,
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by pippy 13y ago
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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by pippy 13y ago
Social media and on-line communities are more democratic than traditional journalism, however we miss out on an important form of journalism: investigative journalism. Wikileaks fills a void, but is dependent on security exploitation. In th
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by pippy 14y ago
If you're not working with device drivers, embedded systems, or legacy code/filetypes you probably shouldn't be using bitwise operations. It can be confusing to other programmers, make your code a mess, and you're repeating optimisations pr
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by pippy 14y ago
Notch could be suffering from programmeritus - a condition where a programmer works a difficult, but fun problem that doesn't help reach the end objective (in his case, making a fun game). We've all been there - spending months doing someth
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by pippy 14y ago
Grouping children by ability is fantastic for the majority of students. The reality is trouble kids distract the entire class, as well as stealing teaching time that could be used on everyone else. It's imprudent to remain politically corre
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by pippy 14y ago
You've nailed it. From another aspect frameworks and abstracting libraries are designed for reusable assets, paradigms, and resources. This is great if you want to create cookie-cutter websites, like corporate CMSs. This style of thinking d
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by pippy 14y ago
This technique was used on the PSX in the Spyro franchise. They used vertex based backgrounds it as texture memory was limited (only 1meg, half of which was used up by the double buffer). It created gorgeous backgrounds in the game.
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by pippy 14y ago
Everyone in this thread is looking at this the wrong way. I'm surprised HN is reacting in such a negative way. If his diet is unbalanced, it's an issue with the official daily requirements being wrong. If he's planing on marketing his innov
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by pippy 14y ago
It would be interesting if during the 2003 Iraq war if Saddam had organised a retaliation instead of looting his own country. [1] Causalities on both sides could have easily increased by a factor of 10. If the U.S. resorted to a full on gen
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by pippy 14y ago
If English was a workable language, English majors would have nothing to base their theses on. The 'had had had' exercise highlights the absurd nature of English. This philosophy on English is why it stopped evolving after its peak - post E
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by pippy 14y ago
Desktop Linux biggest problem is bad software. LibreOffice is great, but it's still 10 years behind Office. GIMP is a joke. NetBeans and Aptana fantastic but come nowhere near the visual studio or xcode. It's a shame because some Linux dist
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by pippy 14y ago
Exactly. If you're getting paid $60 an hour, you just wasted $500. Someone who knows SQL (or in this case Scala) could do this problem in seconds. "didn't give a rat's ass about efficiency." is a bit redundant - you're running the query onc
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by pippy 14y ago
Client adoption isn't a problem any more, IE is declining to around 30% on most popular sites. The largest issue with killing flash is the legacy: video players, games, even carousels use it. If omegle was released in the next months, it li
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by pippy 14y ago
To be realistic though, bitcoin is mostly used for gambling and drugs. Depending on your philosophy, the freedom it enables is far more important than what it's used for.
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by pippy 14y ago
So we have windows apps on android, and android apps running on windows 8?
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by pippy 14y ago
Yes I've been using MySQL in the PostgeSQL way. I learned to use databases using oracle databases, which is similar to MySQL.
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by pippy 14y ago
I've been hearing bad things about MySQL, so I've been avoiding it as of late. So far my experience has been subpar. PostgreSQL is pedantic with data insertion, almost to a fault. This costs me development time. (Also I have no idea what my
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by pippy 14y ago
Now this is cool. If only we could fork it in real life.
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by pippy 14y ago
There's a couple of problems with this post: 1) what if an employee really wanted to leak information anonymously? 2) rumors like these are fun, and let's face it, the subject matter isn't very important. If it were someone embezzling milli
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by pippy 14y ago
namecheap is an American company, so be prepared to have your domain taken under the guise of copyright infringement. The domain doesn't have to be associated with piracy as demonstrated previously by the FBI. I use namecheap for all my dom
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by pippy 14y ago
You're also limited to one weight with web safe Ariel, which I noticed most of those logos had non standard weights.
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by pippy 14y ago
Interesting, but silly. You need some angle on the overhead view so you know what building it is. You can't recognise buildings by their roofs.
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by pippy 14y ago
CSS is a square peg in a round hole. It was never meant to be used for the media heavy pages of today. it would be nice if there was a modern update of CSS.
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by pippy 14y ago
The only CSS performance issues I've seen are images causing scrolling not to be smooth.
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by pippy 14y ago
Same experience. It took a while to arrive, though it did come in cool packaging.
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by pippy 14y ago
Yes, I mean Paint.NET. I was a bit sloppy when I typed it in.
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by pippy 14y ago
"PHP Should Be Implementation Neutral, and Support All Paradigms Equally". This is what I like about PHP. When you want a 4 page site, you can use procedural and functional programming. When you're working on an enterprise level C
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by pippy 14y ago
This is not to say that CS2 is necessarily superior to the GIMP; it may or may not be. It doesn't really matter; Oh god no. As someone who has used every image editor under the sun, a good image editor _does matter_. It has a dire

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