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by primitur 14y ago
I've had two since the day they shipped. I'm sorry about your plight, but really, you should get that sorted. There were quite some screwups with the early orders, alas. And while the specs may not be super-'lite, the community and fun-fact
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by primitur 14y ago
This is why I am so terribly excited by the underground cult hit console, the Open Pandora. http://openpandora.org/ I find it just wonderful that a bunch of enthusiasts can get together and make their own game console, and accessories, al
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by primitur 14y ago
So, the AR happens in the picture-in-picture instead of the main screen. I think that still counts as AR?
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by primitur 14y ago
I just finished my first Augmented Reality app, which is rolling out to its intended users as I type, so I'm a bit biased about this .. but personally I think: AR is AMAZING. I've used the Vuforia SDK, and the ability to track paper with ac
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by primitur 14y ago
Sweet ram o' the rod, a name from the mists emerges.. It has been a long time since I played with Xinu, at least before Linux came to rule the roost .. someone remind me, though, doesn't Xinu have its own compiler onboard, i.e. why do we ne
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by primitur 14y ago
I personally, recreationally, have been building RC flying machines since the 70's, and have recently returned to the subject after a decade or so of torpor, with renewed vigor only a pair of growing sons can provide. My teenage young mind
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by primitur 14y ago
A function call necessitates setting up the stack for the call, and returning from the call by popping values of the stack. To get 100% coverage, you'll have to test the call, test the broken call, test the stack being corrupted, and so on
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by primitur 14y ago
I'm talking about C code. For every if-branch, a test must be written to exercise the extreme case - the if failing, for some reason (bit-rot, radiation or heat or hardware-failure derived). In SIL4, its not enough to say: if (SAFE =
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by primitur 14y ago
You've misunderstood my point in order to make your argument, I think. I didn't say that someone won't "know if this branch is tested because it uses an if" - obviously, they won't get certification if they don't know . But the point is,
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by primitur 14y ago
Congratulations. You've just disqualified yourself from working on SIL-4 safety-critical software. There are no such languages that can provably ensure all cases are handled: there are only testing processes. Aversion to a technology is n
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by primitur 14y ago
Just FYI, I've been working in the safety-critical industry for decades. If I've misunderstood bit-rot, by now some of my colleagues would have .. corrected .. me. ;) Code Coverage means that you have demonstrated, beyond a doubt, that ev
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by primitur 14y ago
One thing about replacing goto with if's: CODE COVERAGE, specifically: BRANCH COVERAGE. In situations where you have to prove 100% testing of all code, with full branch coverage and absolutely no dead code, the goto is preferred. This is
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by primitur 14y ago
The point is that at supersonic speeds, the ball doesn't have time to get out of the way upon impact - its literally going too fast for that, so it just keeps going .. through the bat.
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by primitur 14y ago
Anyone know if there is a Lua driver for RethinkDB in the works? I suppose I could use the C client and think about generating one for Lua, but maybe someone has already done that?
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by primitur 14y ago
Why brew instead of port? I've always wondered why the pendulum swings between ports and homebrew so often on HN ..
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by primitur 14y ago
Well I think thats a shame. I won't say "it seems you are a product of the media process whereby an affinity towards denigration is contagious" .. but its certainly something I wonder about as a cultural effect. "Can't stand positive thin
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by primitur 14y ago
We need more compassion in general - not just for the outlier cases - but society in general can be a pretty mean entity. I've been thinking lately how sad it is that so many of the younger hackers in my local scene (metalab.at) are not as
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by primitur 14y ago
>>Do they have an engineering problem? >Maybe. No! The answer is: YES THEY HAVE AN ENGINEERING PROBLEM. The planes are not safe to fly!
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by primitur 14y ago
Do you know what the word 'hypothesis' means? Its a theory, something to be tested - its no fact, no statement of truth, just pure conjecture that something has gone wrong with the Boeing group. You don't get this far into the 787 project,
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by primitur 14y ago
Look, since none of us actually have the data, what you're asking is that we just simply stop discussing the issues that Boeing is having. What can we do but discuss it, at this point - no proper analysis can be made, only one based on
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by primitur 14y ago
>>Maybe it's just me. I don't know. From your comment history it sure seems like you have a vested interest in maintaining favorable PR for Boeing in this forum. Why shouldn't the industry discuss this in open terms? The fact is we
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by primitur 14y ago
MOAI is open source under the CPAL license, and contributions from the community are folded back into mainline regularly. Check out the license here: http://opensource.org/licenses/cpal_1.0 The cloud is an additional service, which you ar
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by primitur 14y ago
It can also mean "runs in Chrome Native Client" too, don't forget.
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by primitur 14y ago
Wait until he tries out MOAI. If he loves LÖVE, he's going to be falling over himself to have an affair with MOAI .. ;) http://getmoai.com/
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by primitur 14y ago
Read more Shakespeare, then.
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by primitur 14y ago
I believe you missed the point. Shakespeare rarely made a joke to save a life, but rather: to take one.
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by primitur 14y ago
Sir, is it not the case that such an establishment as ours, indeed, does provide an endless source of discourse with regards ones inspirations? Were it not for P.G. Wodehouse, what good would one such as Steve Jobs, or any other manner of
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by primitur 14y ago
Not strictly true, really. Ygddrasil was a bootable Linux distro on a CD which was available during the '93/'94 period .. I was always pretty sad that they stopped the project. It could've been a contender ..
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by primitur 14y ago
I didn't used to think so, but then I got my Nexus 7 paired up with my iControlpad gamepad, and I really honestly cannot think of a better setup for gaming fun .. its just such a neat package. So, I've bought quite a few Android games latel
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by primitur 14y ago
Why can't we just all get along, and say, for example - instead - that "rsa_key.pub" is all we need, and if we ever get a logon prompt, look for that file on USB media instead .. I mean, that would work, wouldn't it? I suppose for it to wo

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