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by rcfox 14y ago
I give all of those confirmation emails a special label in GMail.
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by rcfox 14y ago
He also wouldn't be allowed to read your comment either.
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by rcfox 14y ago
The "What if the output changes?" argument doesn't hold water in my books. If the command supported JSON internally, then it can still change its JSON output. Either way, you have to handle it. If you're managing the filter yourself, then y
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by rcfox 14y ago
Or just pipe the output into a filter that outputs the json for you.
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by rcfox 14y ago
No, it's a bunch of registers to hold state and look-up tables that map to your logic. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map )
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by rcfox 14y ago
The assumptions are explicitly stated at the beginning of the quiz.
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by rcfox 14y ago
6.3.1.2 Boolean type "When any scalar value is converted to _Bool, the result is 0 if the value compares equal to 0; otherwise, the result is 1" http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf page 43
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by rcfox 14y ago
It lets you quickly jump to the definitions of the variables, their types, and their uses. (And then back to where you were.) It's not going to do all of the work for you, but it'll reduce some of the cognitive load.
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by rcfox 14y ago
Spend this afternoon figuring out GLOBAL and setting up to work with your editor. http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
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by rcfox 14y ago
Don't forget that in many cases, you can replace a conditional with polymorphism. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ReplaceConditionalWithPolymorphism
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by rcfox 14y ago
This assumes that the Metacritic user score is a useful measure. For example, Diablo 3 has a user score of 4.1/10 while the critic score is 89/100.
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by rcfox 14y ago
1) Adopt a convention of extracting your arguments at the beginning of the function. Also, sometimes you just want to work on an arbitrary list of items. If you process one item and then shift it, that's a reasonable thing to do. 2. If you
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by rcfox 14y ago
Why is that a problem? A "power user" is anyone who wants to tinker with the settings. It's not like you need a special license or security clearance.
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by rcfox 14y ago
If you're in a important conversation and have a few minutes delay between each response, you're wasting a lot of time. Switching to an instant messenger isn't always an option if you're in a corporate environment. You don't want your conve
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by rcfox 14y ago
> While 'bool' is valid C99 code, it is more or less never used in C code. I disagree. It's used quite a bit in the code I work on. Little things like an explicit statement that this variable is only true or false significantly reduce t
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Programming Breaks Things(modernperlbooks.com)
4 points by rcfox 14y ago|0 comments
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How To Spot A Bad Critic(goblinscomic.com)
2 points by rcfox 14y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 14y ago
Edit: I came up with a better way to say it. You aren't teleporting the photons, you're teleporting via the photons. What's in the way matters only for getting the photons to the destination.
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by rcfox 14y ago
The obvious answer is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome However, it's more likely that the customers weigh things differently than we do. They'd rather have something shiny and popular.
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Functional Programming in C++(altdevblogaday.com)
246 points by rcfox 15y ago|43 comments
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How To Prevent Harassment in Online Games(penny-arcade.com)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 15y ago
10000 hours would be doing something as your day job for 5 years. (5 * 50 * 40) I don't think that you'd qualify as a "true master" with 5 years of experience.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Having worked with Pure Data before, I can tell you that it is pretty painful to use for anything substantial. When you've got 3+ lines crossing other lines and coming into the same terminal, it's next to impossible to keep track of how stu
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by rcfox 15y ago
What happened to the code? If you're not doing anything with it, why not open source it?
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by rcfox 15y ago
Try working on a spatial problem. I can't listen to podcasts while writing code, but I can while laying out a PCB. Drawing or doing a jigsaw puzzle might work too.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Dwarf Fortress really lends itself to creating narratives. From the DF dev log: I visited a tomb today as the adventurer Cadem Renownletter to see how well the game retains the position of skeletons and treasures as I move them around. Duri
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by rcfox 15y ago
What do you mean by soulless exactly?
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by rcfox 15y ago
> There ought to be a an energy label for algorithms Isn't that what we use asymptotic analysis for?
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by rcfox 15y ago
mtx_init and mtx_destroy might. The rest of the mtx_* keywords don't seem like they'd be used for a matrix library. (Keep in mind: identifiers ending in _t are reserved by POSIX. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh
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by rcfox 15y ago
Okay, I'll admit to being rather hyperbolic here. However, when you say things like, "This is something that people do." it sounds a lot like you're making a universal statement about people everywhere. Arguments of the type of "well, I'v

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