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by pmr_ 15y ago
I really can not relate to that. I hat to "configure" a few PCs/laptops (mostly Acer and HP) during the last year. The amount of crapware was shocking and I'm not even talking about the horrible custom OSDs that some manufactures defile com
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by pmr_ 15y ago
The problem with heatmaps like this is that they don't actually give any information to what is the cause of the changed attention. Has the attention span become shorter, has the knowledge of where the better posts are and how to identify t
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by pmr_ 15y ago
And all just because the metaphor lacks (here more than elsewhere). Using a tool also means becoming more proficient in it and this is similar to an investment. If you don't expect anything of significance to come out of the movement associ
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I'm a JS noob. Can someone explain to me why I have to add the fullName (ko.dependentObservable) after the declaration of the viewModel object? So, why does this: var viewModel = { firstName: ko.observable("Bert"), lastName: ko.obse
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Isn't the main point here that we can sustain growth without actually 'working'? Is that due our definition of 'work' being flawed in that is not actually tied to the real value of an economy or because we are approaching post scarcity? If
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by pmr_ 15y ago
This is similar in Germany. Although I always had the it was necessary to remove a certain percentage from students with weed-out courses as entry to Maths, CS and Engineering is mostly free. But as soon as you are through the weed-out stag
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by pmr_ 15y ago
More patents means more innovation, right? Because more innovative ideas have been protected, right? So, I bet they actually do measure. Just not the way any sane person would expect. But this is what always happens if a happens if you try
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by pmr_ 15y ago
All of the advice given here is good and none of the tips here are going to hurt you. It's just another less abstract reiteration of a few truths that encompass much more than programming. Work with different tools. Think. Talk about what y
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by pmr_ 15y ago
This is exactly my point: It isn't nice. I want to grep a file for a name and exactly that name, maybe I even want to replace it. I just can't do that without any fancy tools as soon as namespaces introduce ambiguity that I can't resolve wh
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I really don't see what namespaces would achieve. The way it is I can look at something and explicitly see which module it belongs to (e.g. dired-next-line, image-next-line vs. org-agenda-next-line). In my experience namespaces only introdu
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I honestly think that the title of this article is a misnomer and probably the cause of most of the negative comments. "writing a program" is probably mostly associated with the mental process whereas "creating a project" is about the mecha
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I feel that there is more than simply impact on the readability but also on the semantics. When I feel clueless about a topic I look to comments with up votes to get a general feel for the direction of the discussion and hints how to educat
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Today I tried to explain someone what exactly boost::mpl::fold does and how it is supposed to be used (For those unfamiliar: boost::mpl is a collection of compile-time metaprogramming mechanisms for C++). I took me a while to realize that t
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by pmr_ 16y ago
Dear Cats on the internet, please spellcheck your posts and proofread them before you post your rants to the internet. Otherwise some people might think they are unpleasant to read and possibly wont take them serious. If you have a "related
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by pmr_ 16y ago
There is really no connection between the likely macro and branch prediction here. The gcc built-in simply will organize the code in a manner that makes the likely statement faster to execute (e.g. branching the unlikely block). Branch pred
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by pmr_ 16y ago
Am I the only one that feels that this article isn't HN worthy? Everything that is said is well documented in the official documentation and it isn't a guide at all. The information in it will get a beginner nowhere without reading the tuto
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by pmr_ 16y ago
This makes me think the most. The restrictions seem a good reason to actually commit suicide or any other form of harm to yourself just to keep yourself occupied or to end the current state a subject is in. So the feedback of the rule would
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by pmr_ 16y ago
What surprised me the most is the apparent willingness of my representatives to share information and cooperate with the reprensentatives of the United States in a way that seems to undermine the sovereignity of their own country. To me as
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by pmr_ 16y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet given the rarity of such interviews and the interesting history the STL has. Coming up with something which was at the time entirely against mainstream practices and imbue it into the standard of a
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by pmr_ 16y ago
Nice syntax? C++ gurus have ascended above that a long time ago. Nice compiler error messages are the real thing now. Seriously: I feel the need to express something in a concise and somewhat beautiful way to be a large part of C++ culture
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by pmr_ 16y ago
What is surprising me most is the black-and-white approach: It's either a disease or modern lifestyle and diet. Organisms tend to be highly complex and there is a myriad of variables that come into play. I feel it is very unlikely that you
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by pmr_ 16y ago
I cannot find a link to the mentioned dataset and my google-fu is useless on this. Where can I get it? Edit: I realized that the dataset was taken from http://api.ihackernews.com/ but has been taken down since.
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by pmr_ 16y ago
Yeah, and the next shiny thing that comes along is personal freedom, free speech and some "crazy person" complains and you just "pretend" to throw away your principles to make them shut up. 'and then everyone reads it anyway' And when the t
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by pmr_ 16y ago
I guess this is just a case of cognitive dissonance. The spokesperson realized that what the police did was wrong and instead of admitting it he will make up "reasons" to make everything look alright. This is probably enhanced by it being h
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by pmr_ 16y ago
The number of jobs to run for an optimal compile time can be quite confusing. If none of the files you are going to compile are cached it is alright to run a lot more jobs then usual as a lot of them are going to wait for the disk I/O. Afte
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by pmr_ 16y ago
Waving with my hands will be so much easier then pressing the Down key? All the applications you name really depend on how accurate the Kinect really turns out to be.
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Planetary (Economic) Outlook(lwsmith.ca)
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by pmr_ 16y ago
There even was a module system but it got scrapped. Complexity and impact on the core language among the reasons.