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by qwph 18y ago
( void* )0 is NULL, in that NULL is (most usually) #defined to be ( void* )0. But the literal 0 in a pointer context doesn't guarentee that the null pointer is actually all bits zero. To put it another way, if you have a literal zero in a
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by qwph 18y ago
I wonder how many people who think the quality is going down try to do anything about it?
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by qwph 18y ago
Since when does using a Mac mean you're an aspiring artist who fails to actually create anything? That would be when someone makes a generalization. I'd suggest that it's always dangerous to generalize when talking about people's lifest
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by qwph 18y ago
I said "design", not "build".
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by qwph 18y ago
Fair enough. I probably did misunderstand your point - I thought it was that people might endanger themselves, I didn't consider the terrorism angle. But it's probably a bad idea to have a nuclear reactor in an earthquake zone anyway, regar
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by qwph 18y ago
Surely people can get at the electricity powerlines "just by digging" too?
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Exploring the Limits of Indirect Branch Prediction [pdf](cs.ucsb.edu)
1 points by qwph 18y ago|0 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
I couldn't see any mention of the time it took to build the device, but I'd hazard a guess that the lifespan of a 6lb baby with failed kidneys could be measured in hours, which would seem to imply that the design was reasonably straightforw
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by qwph 18y ago
I think people used to do that in the days of punched cards. More seriously, I have been known to spend weeks thinking about the code I'm about to write, but I only really think about the general form and structure of the code. I don't real
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by qwph 18y ago
I wish all the apps on my work PC obeyed these commandments. There's a certain popular spreadsheet application that damn near reduces me to tears every time I attempt to use it. ("What do you mean, you can't open 2 files with the same name
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by qwph 18y ago
"The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever. But that doesn't seem to bother Britain's wealthiest earners." How surprising... ;)
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by qwph 18y ago
I don't think I can edit it now. I'd guess it's because it's not a direct link, so it bypassed the pdf logic. Apologies.
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by qwph 18y ago
When learning to play a new piece of music on an instrument, one of the recommendations I heard was this: Focus first on playing all the notes in the right order. Don't worry about the timing at all, even if it takes several seconds to move
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Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
14 points by qwph 18y ago|6 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
Heh, Perl is no match for J! ;) http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Studio/IdiosyncraticIntroduct...
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by qwph 18y ago
There's a tiny kernel of truth to the line-counting argument - if you find yourself repeatedly typing the same patterns of code over and over again, and there's no way to refactor it so that the pattern's expressed only once, then yes, then
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by qwph 18y ago
I would have liked to have seen the code for the 4 languages. Maybe that's just me.
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Smalltalk 80: The Language and its Implementation(users.ipa.net)
22 points by qwph 18y ago|6 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
I appear to be a hippie, for this definition of hippie, anyway...
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by qwph 18y ago
Aha! There's actually no difference (i think) between: 1, 2 and: (1, 2) That seems to make sense.
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by qwph 18y ago
Interesting. It seems that (according to my Python prompt) x, y = 1, 2 and [x, y] = 1, 2 and even x, y = [1, 2] are all identical in function. Are there any (subtle) distinctions between the three?
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by qwph 18y ago
Why choose the second over the first? To give Blub programmers the warm-and-fuzzies, one assumes...
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Smalltalk Compiler(web.archive.org)
8 points by qwph 18y ago|0 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
There's a fine line between madness and genius, and as far as I can tell, this seems to be exactly on the line. I think I might have to download the source...
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by qwph 18y ago
Although some people, when faced with a problem they don't understand, will just give up and do something else instead. Admittedly, I don't have any metrics on how many people have abandoned Erlang because of single assignment, or Lisp beca
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by qwph 18y ago
I never had a blue box, but I would have loved to have had one as a child. I did once manage to hack a pulse dial phone into making a call by tapping the receiver disconnect button, which is pretty tame by comparison, but it seemed tremendo
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by qwph 18y ago
I'd say it's more that the smaller the community, the greater the chance that the community as a whole can agree on what constitutes signal and what constitutes noise.
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by qwph 18y ago
Rumours of [insert name of company]'s death have been greatly exaggerated.
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by qwph 18y ago
Does it start with a 'P'?
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by qwph 18y ago
Now I have a quick reference, I might start using Common Lisp.

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