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1. 511.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   Why not just write a script to continuously run the build?
2. 512.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   The author isn't saying that there's anything wrong with strlen; he's just saying that it's not trivially optimizable like it might seem to be. Also, std::string is C++, not C.
3. 513.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   I have a project involving multi-gigabyte datasets of line plot data. With your 0.4 release, will it be possible to show down-sampled subsets of these plots, with the ability to pan/zoom around and get more data on demand without havin
4. 514.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   Yeah, I'm not sure either. I don't see it in the official accessories store. antsar's correct though. It's simple to make one yourself. The nice thing about the security plug is that it's small; it doesn't look
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   by rcfox 13y ago

   Coming from a background of developing audio hardware drivers for the Blackberry (I worked on the last generation and current generation before getting bored and leaving a year ago), I can tell you that even if the baseband were able to tur
6. 516.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   Thanks for transcribing the talk onto the slides. Most people don't, and just post their mostly-useless slides.
7. 517.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping
8. 518.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   Or use a logarithmic scale: 0 < x <= 0.1, 0.1 < x <= 0.3, 0.3 < x <= 1, 1 < x <= 3, 3 < x <= 10, 10 < x <= 30, ...
9. 519.▲
   by rcfox 13y ago

   I realize that it's human nature to want to discuss disturbing things like this, and that hackers fall under the category of humans, but this is really off-topic for Hacker News. There's no intellectual discourse to be had here; i
10. 520.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    > In fact, being good at things is a good way to get other kids to like you. Maybe in highschool. In elementary school, having any perceived deviation from "average" is a great way to get ridiculed by the majority of kids.
11. 521.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    I'd be wary of using this. There's no mention of their data retention policy.
12. 522.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    I had no idea what NEJM meant. It was noise to me. Also, link to the original study, rather than some random person's commentary.
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    Help me optimize this code which enumerates all possible GUIDs(blogs.msdn.com)

    8 points by rcfox 13y ago|0 comments
14. 524.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    If you're going to quote something, make sure that it doesn't directly contradict your position: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
15. 525.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3093323
16. 526.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    Can you elaborate on that? My company uses Puppet, but we've configured it to determine what to set up based on the hostname of the machine. (I have no idea if that's ideal, but it's what we've got.)
17. 527.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    There's no little indicator, however you can click the "threads" link up at the top to see all of your comments and their replies.
18. 528.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    Half tongue-in-cheek, half serious, but all I could think of while reading the first paragraphs was, "Playing all of those text adventure games has trained me to be a better parent!"
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    by rcfox 13y ago

    Looks neat, but how do you write a keyboard input library with sequence combos and then not have the Konami code as a secret demo?
20. 530.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    Grooveshark has great breadth, but lacks in depth. There are lots of types of music, but I find that they rarely have the specific artists that I'm looking for. (I mainly listen to power metal.) Also, there are a lot of tracks that f
21. 531.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that iOS and Android will never be running nuclear reactors.
22. 532.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    1) Starting with "meh" makes you sound extremely dismissive. 2) It's barely related. This art is about exploiting physics to make things that seem like they shouldn't be possible. FEZ is about solving puzzles by lookin
23. 533.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    That was actually a really cool presentation. Are there any papers out there for someone who is interested in segmenting data like that? Also, on the topic of "LOL", and the related acronyms, I think this little cartoon explains i
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    by rcfox 13y ago

    Just to clarify a bit: It takes time to go through combinational logic (AND and OR gates, etc.) and your clock has to go as slow as the slowest path to ensure that the signals are all correct at the same time. Registers are the start- and e
25. 535.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    > I don't buy the speed argument. In a modern PC, many things are pluggable. PCI express can transmit up to 30 GB/s, IIRC. Even CPUs and RAM are modular. If there was such a benefit from soldering them together, I'm sure w
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    by rcfox 13y ago

    > In particular, I can't imagine how horrible it would be to be an atheist in that community. Judging from the article on Rumspringa that was posted below, an athiest wouldn't stay in the community.
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    by rcfox 13y ago

    So? Neither is the cashier at your local grocery store.
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    by rcfox 13y ago

    One thing the article doesn't mention: getting a set of maximally visually distinct colours. The best algorithm I'm familiar with for this is to iteratively choose colours as far away as possible from each other in Lab space (whil
29. 539.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    Well done, sir.
30. 540.▲
    by rcfox 13y ago

    Usually, whenever there's something weird being done in C, it's because of macros or other forms of code generation. However in the case of floating point vs integers, it's also likely that a literal is missing a decimal.