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by pmjordan 16y ago
As a not-so-cheap (by local standards) programmer, I'd have to agree with this assessment. Sometimes, customers will ask if it's possible to reduce the budget for a contracted piece of work by getting some of their internal staff to do part
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by pmjordan 16y ago
In fairness, in-place sorting usually isn't what you want in functional programming. Immutable data structures help enforce the pure functional constraints. Of course, in practice, your library code will probably make a mutable copy, sort t
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by pmjordan 16y ago
There's a Trekstor Portable 3G/HSPA Wifi router (a Rebranded Huawei E5) on its way to me right now. Lack of built-in 3G in the Macbook Air is a little annoying - I'd prefer it over the SD card slot - but this little router should do the tri
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The guidelines are pretty clear about this, really: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. Startup-related stuff is therefore explicitly on topic. Making more money see
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by pmjordan 16y ago
You've probably been reading C++ material. Only in C++ int f(); and int f(void); are identical. In C, however, int f(); Declares a function taking any number of arguments. In C++, that would be denoted as int f(
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I hope this means I can easily track the latest stable kernel versions without having to upgrade the rest of the system (to a degree), and without having to roll said kernel myself.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I'm trying to work out at what level your question makes sense. I'm unaware of a GCC-based Python compiler, so surely there's nothing to merge there? As for Java: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ (this has been in for years )
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I wonder how they know this? Do they just assume that neutron radiation will cause the same radiation sickness as other types of radiation? Extrapolate from animal testing? Or have there been tests with humans? My understanding was that the
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by pmjordan 16y ago
There is a robust implementation of JavaScript for the JVM (Rhino), part of which even ships with Java 6, so scripting a Java-based game seems a straightforward step. On .NET, JScript similarly seems to be an almost first-class citizen (tho
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by pmjordan 16y ago
What about a dumb add-on mechanism which acts as a cradle for the tablet and which tilts it at an angle depending on the downward force? That was my first thought, anyway. I'm sure the concept (accelerometer = orientation sensor) can be ref
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't know how it works exactly, and whether it's significantly different in Germany, but to register as a (foreign[1]) sole trader in Austria, I had to show proof of no convictions in my home country and declare that I had no history of
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Unless I've missed something, the ID can be found in the 'link' link URL for that comment.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Loss of revenue per rented movie . Depends on the degree of saturation of the market whether it's true loss of revenue. The video streaming market in Europe has barely been touched; iTunes movie rentals only recently opened up to more regi
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Sony's Next-Gen Developer Framework to Be Based on GNUstep and Objective-C(daringfireball.net)
24 points by pmjordan 16y ago|2 comments
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Gamma/colour temperature settings also affect this massively. It's nighttime here, and f.lux has dimmed my screen to make me sleepy. No chance of reading it. That said, I'm having severe trouble making it out even with f.lux disabled on all
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The social/personalised advertising remark struck me as very forward-thinking too. It took Facebook a couple of years to get that one right, and now it's making them stacks of money (they may have been ignoring it deliberately to focus on e
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Should Google release a calendar along the lines of Gmail, they would be the competitor we would fear most by far. Wow, that was prescient. I'm curious whether this kind of application would stand a chance these days. It's hard to say obv
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Wow, this is fantastic, thanks! I was looking for something like this a while ago and the closest I could find was transocks, which is Linux-only, not overly stable, not actively maintained, and TCP-only.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The kernel list approach also has the advantage that there's only one implementation of the list operation functions, whereas the one outlined in the article generates a new set of functions for each type.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I didn't know that Javascript couldn't handle numbers bigger than 53-bits The JavaScript Number type can't handle more precision than 53 bits. Magnitude is orthogonal due to floating-point representation. Precision is governed by the si
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by pmjordan 16y ago
Though I attribute this to random fluctuations in the news and meta-news cycle, rather than to some failing of the HN community (which I think is awesome). I don't know. Do you monitor the 'new' page at all? The SNR there is certainly wor
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by pmjordan 16y ago
It's a recurring topic on HN. There seems to be plenty of anecdotal evidence for it.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
2 things that in combination completely eliminate sleep issues for me: - f.lux (time of day dependent display colour temperature) - physical exercise If I drop either for more than a few days, I'm back in insomnia land. If I exercised every
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by pmjordan 16y ago
You may well be right, although it seems a huge missed opportunity for the platform in all sorts of hardware acceleration applications.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I too am wondering about how the FPGA will be accessed from software. I can only assume that there's a built-in DMA interface, and that only one process can grab the FPGA at a time.
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by pmjordan 16y ago
The worst part is that people are used to subsidized life and instead of DOING something they expect the government will provide. This. I'd call this attitude the number one problem across most of Europe. (bad political climate is a massi
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I am aware of that; my understanding is that the sudden release from the grip of communism also released this brewing internal tension. I've been lucky enough to avoid getting caught up in any sort of revolution, violent or not, but pure bl
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by pmjordan 16y ago
If it's any consolation, Austria got rid of the Soviets in 1955 and yet the situation you describe sounds extremely similar to the one here. The main difference seems to be overall wealth - GDP per capita is about 3.3x as high here, despi
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by pmjordan 16y ago
I don't see how they're going to hardware accelerate canvas much, unless you stick to very specific operations, i.e. never touch individual pixels. GPUs are great at splatting polygons all over the place; running arbitrary JavaScript to g
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SSE expression generation(deplinenoise.wordpress.com)
3 points by pmjordan 16y ago|0 comments

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