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841.
by rcfox 15y ago
Why? This wasn't meant as a compliment...
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Reuse command usage text to parse command-line options(apenwarr.ca)
2 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
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Open Hardware Journal(openhardware.org)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
844.
by rcfox 15y ago
As a computer engineer, with an iron ring and a bachelor's of applied science, I feel your pain. In Canada, there seems to be some respect given to the title, although it seems to be waning. In the UK, an engineer is someone who fixes your
845.
by rcfox 15y ago
What does the USA have to do with this? It's not exactly the paragon of freedom.
846.
by rcfox 15y ago
> I can truly say that only a tiny minority of technically inclined people ever gave a shit about RSS feeds So what? It's in your best interest to keep the nerds happy because they are the ones doing the actual work to push technology f
847.
by rcfox 15y ago
I look at this and say to myself, "This dude's missing the point." Twitter is not a superset of RSS. It does a small part of what I do with RSS, but not all of it, and not in as nice of a way. The Twitter-Instapaper thing is a good idea, bu
848.
Minecraft empowers people to change their neighbourhood(mojang.com)
3 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
849.
Darkspore Has Been Unplayable For 9 Days and Counting Due To DRM(gamebanshee.com)
2 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
850.
by rcfox 15y ago
> The problem is that we're all told 'go to college'. > What we're not told is 'go to college and learn a worthwhile skill'. I almost agree with this. I think that there is some ideal number of humanities students to be cranked out
851.
by rcfox 15y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think either of those can be measured empirically.
852.
by rcfox 15y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but the article uses data to show that society values college-educated people more, and you want it to adjust for this? What?
853.
by rcfox 15y ago
Thanks for the effort, but I don't think this kind of plot is appropriate to the type of data. A bar chart would be more useful.
854.
by rcfox 15y ago
What does it mean for it to be iPad-optimized? I skimmed it very quickly, but it looked just like any other issue of HM.
855.
by rcfox 15y ago
Can't help with the link, but have you seen POWDER? http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=about There's a DS port for it too!
856.
by rcfox 15y ago
This is based on http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg
857.
An Interactive Guide to NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books(sfsignal.com)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|1 comments
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What Makes a Good Resume(blog.codekills.net)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
859.
by rcfox 15y ago
Thinking back, a lot of my closest friends have been friends of my other close friends. It does make a lot of sense. Good luck!
860.
by rcfox 15y ago
Not at all. Your previous employer is probably just beginning to see that he will be the last one left on a sinking ship.
861.
by rcfox 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38 "Support of the GSM 7-bit alphabet is mandatory for GSM handsets and network elements..."
862.
by rcfox 15y ago
Since other people have been nitpicky in the comments here, I thought it might be worth pointing out that this assumes an 8-bit byte, so it's not general. ;) Remember, 8 bits is just a convention.
863.
by rcfox 15y ago
({ ... }) does this too. (Is this GCC-specific?)
864.
by rcfox 15y ago
What does this even mean? As I understand it, Android is just a free phone OS that's easy to write for. In the desktop work, we call that Linux.
865.
by rcfox 15y ago
For what it's worth, 1:1 is also known as a one-on-one. Basically, just a meeting between you and your boss. He describes it fairly well here: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_...
866.
by rcfox 15y ago
I always found status reports to be very annoying to write. I mostly just rephrased my commit messages and major emails. The good(bad!?) news is that I've stopped sending them in long ago, and nobody has ever complained.
867.
by rcfox 15y ago
Unfortunately, it's only for #if .* ... #el.* ... #endif. I didn't want to write that much of a parser, so I just push the line number onto a stack if I see a line like /^\s*#if/. I guess Emacs is using some kind of parser to do syntax high
868.
by rcfox 15y ago
> What does prevent me from understanding code is 5-10 nested if blocks and insane logic checks without commenting. What's worse is multiple nested levels of #ifdef. Not only is it hard to tell how the code flows, but you can't even be
869.
by rcfox 15y ago
You've fallen victim to the AI effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect#AI_is_whatever_hasn.2... People still need to be told where sandwich shops are. If you walk by any given commercial space, you either need to see that it is ind
870.
by rcfox 15y ago
Building it yourself doesn't protect you from malicious code. Some better advice would be to review the code yourself before building.

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