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by ramchip 14y ago
That was also my experience with Awesomium. It was buggy and support is awful. I actually tried to contact them for a company which was interested in buying a commercial license -- blows my mind that they'd get emails basically saying "we w
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by ramchip 14y ago
Are they? Where I work (a bank) we were more than happy to move to read-only access to prod servers, and pass by a support team when we need to deploy things.
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by ramchip 14y ago
It's very common in microscopy, to check your resolution.
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by ramchip 14y ago
> Leaving Australia recently, I was forced to buy an onward ticket (that I never used) from the destination country, despite the destination country's consulate (that I'd visited the day before) telling me this was not required. This so
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by ramchip 14y ago
I don't think the poster implied anything else.
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by ramchip 14y ago
CEGEP teachers don't do any research and aren't really considered academics. The hiring requirement for Dawson is a Master's in CS + 2 years experience, and that requirement can be waived down to a college diploma (DEC, that's less than a b
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by ramchip 14y ago
The semantics are different with regard to lazyness: a boxed vector can contain thunks (unevaluated values), so individual elements can be evaluated on demand, while an unboxed vector must be evaluated all at the same time (making it diffic
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by ramchip 14y ago
Congratulations! I'll be waiting for the Japanese version :P
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by ramchip 14y ago
Finance, mobile, desktop applications. In my (limited) experience most people use a C++ subset though.
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by ramchip 14y ago
It's been working fine for years, though. I think part of it is being in Japan, and part of it is that the bikes just don't have much resale value. No point stealing creaky, cheap city bikes.
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by ramchip 14y ago
I think most people who are serious about learning a foreign language either want to learn English or already speak it. It's relatively rare for, say, a person who speaks only Spanish to start studying Mandarin without even basic fluency in
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by ramchip 14y ago
But... why not just lend regular, cheap bikes and reuse them? Reuse is a lot less expensive than recycling. I visited a city last week (Matsumoto) that has this service, they lend cheap city bikes for free by the day. Not even an ID card ne
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by ramchip 14y ago
> The product designers special-cased language names, doing extra work to produce what will almost always be the wrong result. Are you sure about that? It would sound quite likely to me that simply, the word for "English" tends to appea
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by ramchip 14y ago
Perhaps it doesn't make economic sense. I wouldn't be surprised if demand for rare earth had risen much more quickly than demand for thorium and uranium in the last decade or so.
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by ramchip 14y ago
There's an official apology on their Japanese website where they refer to it as a bug: http://www.enfour.co.jp/news/121105apology.pdf (JP)
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by ramchip 14y ago
One example use case I saw recently in my circle of friends: person A tweets "wow, there's a great special on sashimi bowl at the place near the university", person B tweets back "@a hey, I'll be in the area Friday, how about we go for lunc
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by ramchip 14y ago
Quebec has generous tax benefits for R&D work, for one. There are lots of game companies in Montreal using this.
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by ramchip 14y ago
Not necessarily, it's possible to find two envelopes with e.g. a hash of your name, without knowing your name.
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by ramchip 14y ago
The logic is just that courts aren't stupid. I've noticed sometimes this tendency in programmers (and in my younger self) to see human systems like computers. A court isn't a VM running the law as a bytecode. It's a bunch of humans, and the
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by ramchip 14y ago
That sounds like an urban legend.
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by ramchip 14y ago
They may go to $400k, but not until you have significant experience in the field, so you five year would be more like 10 years. Then you have a family, health insurance gets pricier, and so on such that $50k a year doesn't look that attract
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by ramchip 14y ago
What do you mean by "100% faster"?
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by ramchip 14y ago
Personally, I live in a foreign country and I find Facebook extremely useful to keep in touch with people. It's great to be able to upload pictures and have all my friends in my home country see them and discuss. Sure, I'll write to grandma
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by ramchip 14y ago
That's still how they do it in Japan. Registration is mandatory for all bicycles. From what I hear you need to bring proof when there's a transfer of ownership, etc.
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by ramchip 14y ago
I'm not convinced. Shielding against cosmic rays would require very heavy, thick lead walls to get any significant protection.
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by ramchip 14y ago
I've also had several problems with compilers and IDE. Recent example: Visual C++ detects that my computer has a Japanese environment and switches its messages to Japanese. Qt Creator takes these messages and displays them in its output box
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by ramchip 14y ago
Yes, thanks. Great article!
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by ramchip 14y ago
Same here, I had some discussion with the creator but it looked rather doomed from the start. He was worrying about parser optimization, logo design, and interactive shells, when there wasn't even any (hand-)compiled program or proof of con
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by ramchip 14y ago
It's kind of impressive that any modern browser will still accept and render these pages perfectly fine...
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by ramchip 14y ago
What do you do if 10 people try to buy a stock at a certain price when there is only one on sale?

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