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by rcfox 14y ago
That every forum that I might want to participate in will have linear discussions and be a nightmare to follow.
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by rcfox 14y ago
I guess this puts a previous post of his in context: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-fla... And now I fear for the future of online discussion because I expect that Jeff will succeed.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Somebody hasn't seen "wat". https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by rcfox 14y ago
You're conflating the magnitudes. You can't directly compare the number of multiplications with the number of transistor switches or CPU cycles required for a single multiplication. Also, the number n has O(log(n)) digits.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Do you have any extensions that might mess with the Javascript? I've seen it working with this exact configuration.
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by rcfox 14y ago
What's with the racist mentality?
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Real world variables(embeddedgurus.com)
1 points by rcfox 14y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 14y ago
> ... I'm finding it incredibly difficult to even get an interview. This is where the networking comes in to play. It's easy to get an interview after someone introduces you. > After graduating from a top 25 undergraduate business p
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by rcfox 14y ago
It's time to revise your old biases. You're talking about tools for the old OS. The BB10 development tools are much nicer, and people are finding them easy to work with[0]. Since the OS is built on QNX, the simulator is now just a VMware im
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by rcfox 14y ago
Hey, that's pretty neat! Unfortunately, I accidentally logged in with an empty email address field and it seems like I'm logged in as everyone , with no way to log out. Or something... The "your stream" page takes like 30 seconds to load a
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by rcfox 14y ago
By the way, if you have trouble finding which comments are new, I highly recommend the HNCommentTracker[0] extension for Chrome. It will tell you which discussions have new comments on the front page, and will highlight new comments on the
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by rcfox 14y ago
> Poems about trees are indeed lovely, as Joyce Kilmer promised us, but data of any kind represented as a tree … isn't. If you don't see tree data structures as "lovely", then I have to wonder if you even understand them. Putting data i
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Inline functions can be as good as templates(gustedt.wordpress.com)
1 points by rcfox 14y ago|0 comments
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Meet Cody Brocious, The Hacker Who Cracked Four Million Hotel Room Locks(forbes.com)
1 points by rcfox 14y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 14y ago
There are two kinds of interns: good ones and bad ones. It sucks that the good ones will be gone after four months. It sucks that the bad ones will be around for four months.
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Fear of Macros(greghendershott.com)
3 points by rcfox 14y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 14y ago
Ryan from Upverter here: If you stop paying, the designs will remain intact, stay private and you will be able to export them freely. If you want to keep editing the designs, they will have to be made public at that point. (Or you can start
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by rcfox 14y ago
While DivX Finland didn't have permission to produce translations, many countries consider translations to have their own distinct copyright. Translation is a creative process, rather than a mechanical one. (This is why you can't pass that
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by rcfox 14y ago
Could you post links to the raw data? It'd be great for generating new songs via Markov chains!
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by rcfox 14y ago
That's okay. You did a better job than what any of the popular tech blogs would have done.
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by rcfox 14y ago
When I first learned about this investment problem (although, my version had 18-30 and 30-65), I worked out the math, and I think it held for as low as 2% interest. I could be remembering wrong though... Surely, someone's done a formal writ
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by rcfox 14y ago
I'm also not a lawyer, but I think you'd have a very hard time litigating for user-contributed content that has no creative value and is publicly available for download.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Could you send a signal to pause X so that it doesn't cause wakeups?
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by rcfox 14y ago
Is there actually a scandal here? An extradition treaty would allow Sweden to remove criminals from Cambodia. Just because there is no treaty, that doesn't mean that Cambodia can't hand criminals over, does it?
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by rcfox 14y ago
This won't help everywhere, but sometimes you can give the compiler a hint that a certain branch is less likely to be taken. The computation branch is going to be slower anyway, and only happen once, so tell the compiler to assume the looku
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by rcfox 14y ago
In fact, it was forked about an hour ago, and the only changes seem to be the gh-pages branch, and are pretty much summed up by: - <title>Ymacs by brettcvz</title> + <title>Ymacs by tageorgiou</ti
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by rcfox 14y ago
Posted 1 month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209091 And 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862442 And 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962562 ...
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by rcfox 14y ago
If you don't need any special compiler flags, it's even simpler: make temp ./temp
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by rcfox 14y ago
The OP is doing awesome stuff and sharing it with the world, and you want to criticize an implementation detail? Bikeshedding like this isn't useful to anyone.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Did you read the article? "Let's take the case of Speedy Gonzales. This is an SNES platformer with no save functionality, and it's roughly 2-3 hours long. At first glance, it appears to run fine in any emulator. Yet once you reach stage 6-1

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