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by pixie_ 14y ago
Definitely agree with this. I've re factored large C# apps, moving thousands of lines of code into different places and have had it up and running again very quickly with no bugs. Contrast this to refactoring huge javascript or python progr
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Does anyone else think this has little to do with 'bringing Steam to linux' and a lot to do with SteamBox, the rumored console Valve is working on.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Obviously this is because coffee makes you super alert. People on coffee don't get in as many traffic accidents, and also defuse bombs better.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
second edit: there's a link on reddit to the c++ coding standard for the joint strike fighter and it says pointers should be written like int* x; for exactly the reasons above. pretty cool - http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pd
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I still suspect he stole the 18k bitcoins, the guy is slippery.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
The declaration and use syntax of pointers is not 'virtually identical.' int* a; could be used to set int* b = a; or int c = * a; or int* d = &a; Also for arrays it's unfortunate the syntax is like it is, because int a[10];, is of cours
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Yea I am aware of this quirk and just avoid declaring multiple pointers like that because it's confusing just to look at, plus error prone.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I have no problem with the name, just wanted to bring up the issue with other programmers. How is it pronounced anyways? starJS, pointerJS, astrickJS?
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Yes it is still a variable, a variable of type int* , not int. Which can be returned by a function that returns type int* or type casted int* . Variables of type int are assigned numbers, while variables of type int* are assigned memory add
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Cool. Does anyone else write their code with the * after the type, instead of before the variable? Like int* x; as opposed to int * x; to me int* is the type of x, so keeping it together makes sense. Like a function returning an int pointer
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by pixie_ 14y ago
I still like ActionScript because I like javascript, but in many cases I want to declare my types so I can get type checks at compile time instead of being surprised or having to write unit tests to be sure of myself. Also refactoring large
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by pixie_ 14y ago
They should wrap up the whole working build environment in a VM, and distribute that, so people can start contributing immediately.
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by pixie_ 14y ago
Why do people assume everyone can make money off open source software by offering support service?
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by pixie_ 14y ago
That's cool. I've been split for a long time between close souring my stuff or making it open. My gut wants the things I make to be free because I love getting other people involved, but my brain wants to keep things closed so I can make $$
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by pixie_ 14y ago
is there an open source license that says says free to use for people etc.. but if you have a company larger than x then you must support the project with $$$ ?
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by pixie_ 15y ago
There's a commercial service that offers global coverage with AIS receivers attached to satellites. http://www.orbcomm.com/services-ais.htm
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by pixie_ 15y ago
In summary there's no force to drive down health care costs if prices are not made public. If I need an x-ray, I want to be able to shop around with quality and price information made public.
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by pixie_ 15y ago
It's not that bad. The slices are pretty big. I got the gist of it.
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by pixie_ 15y ago
I've made apps for Android and iPhone. The iPhone crashes less. I've found in a lot of cases that null pointer exceptions that usually would kill an Android app and handled silently by iPhone because in Objective-C passing a message (callin
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by pixie_ 15y ago
It's not consistent because sometimes the hard menu button shows something and sometimes it doesn't, no one knows. It's also not intuitive that feature xyz is accessed by the menu key. The user has to look for feature xyz, get frustrated, a
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by pixie_ 15y ago
The difference is - when the menu is on the UI then you KNOW there are menu options available. The hard menu concept is broken because hitting the hard menu key is a crap shoot, it might do something, it might not, who knows. The problem is
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by pixie_ 15y ago
Good riddance. I hate when I look around how to do something and it was hidden in the menu button the entire time. It was completely unintuitive when there were menu options to use, and when there were not. That's why I designed the androi
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by pixie_ 15y ago
There will always be imitation, but to me the innovation going on right now is staggering. Touch screens are still fairly recent, and so many games have been created to take advantage of the new controls like fruit ninja for instance. And
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by pixie_ 15y ago
Homework is the problem - it burns people out, and not just engineering students, but everyone k-12 as well. I'm a supporter of the flipped classroom model, it makes a lot of sense and is a real solution to this exact problem. http://www.k
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by pixie_ 15y ago
You do realize that reading in general you have to move you eyes 'all the way to the left' constantly.
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by pixie_ 15y ago
It's confusing when you focus on the columns. Focus on the line in the middle and read the branches. It becomes just as easy to read as before, and with greater information density.
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by pixie_ 15y ago
I found timeline confusing at first, but then I realized if I focus on the line in the middle then reading posts becomes just as orderly as it was before, with the added benefit of greater information density. It also unclutters the left s
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by pixie_ 15y ago
It's really only a breaking change if you designed your program to have the closure from inside the loop purposely use the last element of the collection outside the loop. Who would do this? I've hit this issue lots of times as have others,
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by pixie_ 15y ago
Remember that AT&T commerical that highlighted all the future stuff AT&T would do, but they never did, but eventually happened anyways. That's what this Scanadu promo video reminds me of. Check out their homepage too, it's all inve
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by pixie_ 15y ago
The complexity of generational garbage collection vs. the speed of manual collection, makes me feel like the happy medium of speed and simplicity is reference counting, like that found in objective-c. iPhone apps are fast, but take a bit l

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