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by ramchip 14y ago
It's very common in embedded systems. It's not so limitating since you need to plan the exact size of your buffers anyway, to make sure the system has enough memory; might as well just allocate them statically. It's also rare to use linked
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by ramchip 14y ago
Same thing for engineers IMHO. Where I come from the title is regulated, so it requires a bachelor's degree with a specific list of courses and 2-3 years of work experience as a junior engineer in the specific field to call oneself "enginee
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by ramchip 14y ago
Sure, it makes sense in some cases, but not for most casual gamers (due to using a laptop, limited desk space, being right-handed with the mouse, etc.) Binding both the arrows and WASD is a good idea.
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by ramchip 14y ago
The arrow keys are usually at the right of the keyboard, next to the mouse, which makes playing with two hands awkward. You also need to move the hand on the keyboard to push pretty much any other key, which makes it difficult to do other a
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by ramchip 14y ago
Don't deal with anyone with a question mark over their head. What does that mean?
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by ramchip 14y ago
Doesn't work on Windows ;)
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by ramchip 14y ago
> then they wouldn't be junior engineers, by definition I don't think so. My impression is that junior/senior is defined by years of experience more than technical skills. Having been out of university for one year now, I know I sure as
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by ramchip 14y ago
The problem is in the power network, not in the machines.
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by ramchip 14y ago
If it can be compressed, you should probably not trust your pad ;)
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by ramchip 14y ago
My cheap Japanese phone can tether -- but the carrier makes a distinction between packets originating from the phone and those from the computer, and they charge extra through the nose for PC packets (100$+ per month if you exceed a few meg
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by ramchip 14y ago
FAA RS-DER: Federal Aviation Administration Repair Specification Designated Engineer Representative GE-CF6: A model of turbofan engine
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by ramchip 14y ago
It's more like someone selling a case of bullets while knowing that the buyer will use it to kill someone . I can't say if it's legal or not, but it's certainly not very ethical.
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by ramchip 14y ago
Considering the transport cost and equipment needed, I'm not convinced that would be economically viable...
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by ramchip 14y ago
Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174
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by ramchip 14y ago
Employees at Japanese companies typically don't speak English (this includes engineers), so they're hesitant to hire someone who may cause communication/cultural problems. They also generally don't have the same attitude towards hiring and
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by ramchip 14y ago
It's one place that accepts non-native engineers (I live in Japan), and it's very well-known/prestigious, so I could have a job at other places much more easily after working there. They also pay a lot more than most local employers. This i
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by ramchip 14y ago
I've built class libraries just fine with Express. Personally, what is a problem for me is that it can't handle multi-language projects.
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by ramchip 14y ago
My 3-year-old Japanese dumb phone does that. It's a pretty common feature.
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by ramchip 14y ago
I think it's simply that code written to be 25x cleaner, shorter, and faster, will not bring 25x the revenue to the company. Coding skill is only one factor in the ultimate fate of a product. A company I worked at has this business model wh
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by ramchip 14y ago
Something like a series of high-density QR code sounds like it could work. You'd get free error correction. But at this point I think I'd go for microfiche rather than paper. Edit: http://lwn.net/Articles/242735/
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by ramchip 14y ago
Tell me about it. I saw several job hunting sites that required using their own system to generate a very crappy-looking web resume in order to apply at places. Even applying at Microsoft Japan, they only accepted either their awful online
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by ramchip 15y ago
The title doesn't mean much if you don't specify at what . It's only about floating point, and the comparison is with a purely theoretical CPU.
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by ramchip 15y ago
There's a lot of problems: software engineers that come out of university are generally much less skilled than from comparable American or European universities, the culture and government policy discourages start-ups, most programmers spea
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by ramchip 15y ago
I'm not sure it'd be possible given how much power would be drawn by the peripherals: screen, wifi, hard disks / SSDs, USB ports if used... although I do wonder if there are computers with netbook processing power and laptop batteries/form
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by ramchip 15y ago
This isn't about compressing data, it's rather the opposite: expand the data so that even if a certain portion of it is affected by interference, the original data can still be reconstructed without errors. To take a really simple code, let
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by ramchip 15y ago
How about an 'entrance' sign on the door, and a red circle with a slash (no entry) on the other doors? Negatives tend to be less effective than positive statements, especially if the signs around are similar.
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by ramchip 15y ago
I assume he wrote it between the lines to be less offensive. It's not that we want to push people away, just signal that they should think before posting more than on Reddit.
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by ramchip 15y ago
It's pretty common to leave out the う in informal speech.
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by ramchip 15y ago
Indeed, recent versions of VC++ don't use reference counting.
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by ramchip 15y ago
I don't see how this example justifies your position, though. Nobody will ever write "++[[]][+[]]+[+[]]" to mean "10" in anything but an obfuscated code contest.

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