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by randombit 15y ago
They also claim that programming requires "The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly." I'm skeptical.
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by randombit 15y ago
Nothing about latency in there or on their website as far as I could find. Having used satellite for a while before switching to a microwave relay system, I can say it's not the bandwidth that's the issue, it's the latency. 800 ms ping time
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by randombit 15y ago
Exactly. And nobody thinks that for loops are "magic".
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by randombit 15y ago
> when the only "magic" was basic virtual functions What's "magic" about structs of function pointers? This is a classic idiom in C, just given a specialized syntax in C++.
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by randombit 15y ago
Olshansky admits that "All of these presidents benefited from the trifecta of exceptional wealth, almost all were highly educated and all of them had access to medical care," and yet he decided to compare them to a 'cohort' consisting of th
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GCC 4.7 adds transactional memory extensions for C/C++(gcc.gnu.org)
178 points by randombit 15y ago|32 comments
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by randombit 15y ago
_For example, look at crypto algorithms like DES that, ten years ago, people thought would take thousands of years to crack given Moore's law growing computational resources._ Whitfield Diffie proposed triple DES in 1975 (even before the FI
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The Energy Trap(physics.ucsd.edu)
2 points by randombit 15y ago|0 comments
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by randombit 15y ago
They show up as a hovertext in FF
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by randombit 15y ago
The actual directive seems to be 14436/10 which is available here - http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/10/st14/st14436.e... The relevant portion is Article 7 """ Member States shall take the necessary measure to ensure that the pr
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by randombit 15y ago
'they might feel they have to lie to keep their job' Because that's not a warning sign at all! boggles Most people of course answer this question in the same way an interviewee does when asked 'Why did you leave your last position?'. Nobo
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by randombit 15y ago
I'm also fond of "What's the thing you like least about your job?"
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by randombit 15y ago
Tahoe-LAFS provides a storage service that is encrypted by the client, but the original uploader of the data is still able to delegate read-only or read-write access to others on a per-file or per-directory basis. The overall design, includ
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by randombit 16y ago
I don't see the connection between your first sentence and your second. I don't believe reality television adds anything of value to the world, but that doesn't mean I think it should be 'stopped' (and what does that even mean?). Can you ex
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by randombit 16y ago
However in this case the missing free lunch may be for anyone with an expectation of making revenue off ads, rather than the people who won't even notice when site X happens to not update too often anymore due to decline in ad revenue, beca
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by randombit 16y ago
I'm not quite on Pitcairn Island, but I live and work in rural Vermont, and by far the biggest problem with it is precisely the lack of a reliable internet connection. Right now for me, the only viable option is satellite, which is horrible
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Book on real world parallel programming techniques, by Linux kernel developers(kernel.org)
17 points by randombit 16y ago|0 comments
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by randombit 16y ago
Unfortunately they may have passed the Rubicon with that. I suspect that many of the people (including me) who would have been willing to pay have already gone ahead and signed up for another paid bookmarking site. The most active users are
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by randombit 16y ago
> No one is having problems in C/++ because of this. No one is having problems with this in C because C doesn't have exceptions. No one is having problems with this in C++ because C++ supports RAII via destructors which are guaranteed t
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by randombit 16y ago
Especially when you throw in going from Xt (!) to Cairo/GTK - you could probably save 50% of the line count right there.
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by randombit 16y ago
Using an acyclic graph of chained hashes to represent change history has a long history in revision control - it was used in Monotone (which Linus considered as an option instead of writing git, but rejected as it was written in C++), in Op
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by randombit 16y ago
Bad headline: the 'high-risk' defects include resource leaks and other problems that could cause crashes or data loss but are not necessarily exploitable. And, of course, this is assuming either Coverity manually checked and confirmed each
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by randombit 16y ago
C++, CUDA, Python
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by randombit 16y ago
Performance wise I've seen some good results from Clang SVN in the last few months. Not universally faster (or slower) than GCC or ICC, but I have seen (important, useful) cases where code was 30-50% faster compiled with Clang than anything
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by randombit 16y ago
In 2008 one of the DARPA 'Young Faculty Awards' went to someone at UW-Madison for a project named "Super Artificial Eyes"; I don't know nearly enough biomedical engineering to parse even half of his paper titles, but it appears he's still w
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by randombit 16y ago
Er http://www.ksplice.com/
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Ksplice: Patching kernel vulnerabilities without reboot(kslice.com)
1 points by randombit 16y ago|1 comments
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by randombit 16y ago
"When the density of matter reaches gargantuan proportions (more than about 1,050 kilograms per cubic meter)" I assume there is an a missing exponential in there (10^50?), since lead is an order of magnitude more dense than 1050 kg/m^3 Kind
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by randombit 16y ago
Reminds me a bit of Advogato. BTW, personal commentary: I was instantly turned off by the front page. The whole 'superdev' thing instantly made me think 'ninja', 'guru', 'superstar', I threw up in my mouth a little and closed the tab withou
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by randombit 16y ago
Don't forget ccache - storing the cache on a fast disk, it can easily speed up a build by 10x.

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