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by rcfox 15y ago
> It's one of the most prominent ways people socialize. Not programmers, people. So if you don't drink you're not a person? Alcohol is generally prohibited in Islam. Are you going to tell me that there are entire nations inhabited by hu
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by rcfox 15y ago
Are you sure you should be submitting "LWN subscriber-only content"? It seems like they might not be too happy about that.
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by rcfox 15y ago
By default, the next version of OSX will only allow you to install software from their app store. In 3 years, (or whatever their release cycle is) they might decide to remove the option to disable this restriction all together. Obviously, t
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by rcfox 15y ago
It works beautifully on my Playbook.
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Understanding Integer Overﬂow in C/C++(cs.utah.edu)
2 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure(apenwarr.ca)
436 points by rcfox 15y ago|90 comments
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by rcfox 15y ago
Missing a semicolon has a chance of giving a useful error message. Without knowing what ETRY translates to, you have no hope of finding here it's missing.
728.
by rcfox 15y ago
That makes more sense. I assumed he meant to free memory before throwing the exception.
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by rcfox 15y ago
> Wrap malloc in a function that push malloc'ed pointer on a global stack, insert NULL at the point where a try happens. When you throw an exception, simply free everything on the stack until the previous NULL. Problem solved. This free
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by rcfox 15y ago
I think the requirement of the ETRY macro solidifies this as a neat trick, and not something you actually want to use in a project. Forget ETRY once and you can kiss your afternoon goodbye while you debug.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Very well, apparently. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571
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by rcfox 15y ago
Tenure is meant to protect controversial research, not controversial teaching. Somewhere, we decided that researchers should also be teachers and now the two have been conflated.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Works (poetry, prose, songs, art, source code, etc.) are protected by copyright. Inventions and processes can be protected by patents. Names and branding can be protected by trademarks. Secrets can be protected as trade secrets, often in th
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by rcfox 15y ago
That's because we're not his intended audience; our bosses are.
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Android App Puts Ads on Free Webcomics(chrishanel.tumblr.com)
4 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 15y ago
> I wanted to send this to a girl I know for the addiction topic, except you can't send junk like this to girls. If she's 12 years old, I agree. Otherwise, she's a big girl and doesn't need your paternalistic coddling.
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by rcfox 15y ago
Anime fans will tell you that you need the original Japanese voices to convey the emotions, even if you're only reading subtitles. (Personally, I find that most anime characters are always either yelling or crying, so the point is moot. ;)
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by rcfox 15y ago
They added the course as one of my graduation requirements, so I guess I wouldn't have graduated. The lesson I learned is to not try to make others' lives easier. :P I definitely won't shy away from scraping whatever data sources I can get
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by rcfox 15y ago
Well, the university uses a crappy PeopleSoft webapp thing for searching for co-op jobs. It's slow, ugly, and it goes offline every night at midnight. It's terrible. I got fed up with trying to use it, so I looked at the HTML and decided th
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by rcfox 15y ago
This isn't true in Canada. http://www.lmlaw.ca/copyright_raw_data.pdf "...the selection or arrangement of data only results in a protected compilation if the end result qualifies as an original intellectual creation." (This actually saved
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by rcfox 15y ago
Who cares what Apple wants? _OSM_ wants everyone to know that Apple is using their data.
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by rcfox 15y ago
> Having said that, seeing it is ARMv3 code specifically in one glance is pretty impressive. You seem to have added some hyperbole. There was no mention of "in one glance". Also, it's likely that he recognized that it was ARMvSomething
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by rcfox 15y ago
The "next" links from http://www.guidetoyc.com/the-guide/5-idea/ points to http://www.guidetoyc.com/the-guide/6-customersdistribution/ , which doesn't exist. It should be http://www.guidetoyc.com/the-guide/6-users-distribution/
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by rcfox 15y ago
Nice illustration of the problems associated with naive Bayesian classifiers.
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Remember UBB? This is worse.(www2.macleans.ca)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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YouTube's Content ID Disputes Are Judged by the Accuser(waxy.org)
2 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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by rcfox 15y ago
And 18 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3579442
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by rcfox 15y ago
> I usually dose with a cocktail of piracetam, choline, and a small amount (100mg or so) of phenibut. Why?
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by rcfox 15y ago
The ads on the video pay out to Rumblefish instead of the video's owner.
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by rcfox 15y ago
> Goofing around in Lisp when we had no idea how to deploy it wasn't really a smart move for a four-man startup, in retrospect. Would you mind expanding on that? I'd be interested in hearing about why you chose Lisp and why it didn't wo

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