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by s_tec 11y ago
It's not bad advice, if used in moderation. The problem is that most developers take it too far, to the point where no number is safe from becoming a named constant. My default these days is to write numbers as numbers, plus maybe a co
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by s_tec 12y ago
My system didn't have the right fonts for this to work, but installing "symbola" seems to have fixed that. The package is called "ttf-symbola" on Arch.
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by s_tec 12y ago
It warms my heart to see such a brilliant hack. It's especially impressive that this doesn't use any external tools like sed. If you scroll to the bottom, you can see how it works. Each x86 instruction is actually a shell function
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by s_tec 12y ago
I don't understand why there is such a debate here. I would absolutely disclose the 0-day if the manufacturer was unresponsive (given sufficient warning, of course). Moreover, if anyone died, I wouldn't feel the least bit guilty
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by s_tec 13y ago
Bitcoin pledges would be great, but that option isn't available. They only have PayPal and wire transfer, with credit cards coming "in a few days".
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by s_tec 13y ago
Yes, Koyaanisqatsi is my favourite too. This is a film with no characters, plot, or dialogue. Instead, it offers 90 minutes of images set to music. The film begins with shots of nature, such as clouds, lakes, and mountains, and slowly moves
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by s_tec 14y ago
If these are the ugly languages, what are the elegant ones? Python might cover some of the items on this list, like Perl and TCL, but what is the elegant alternative to Erlang? I can't think of anything. Most of these language have a strong
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by s_tec 14y ago
The article argues that Metro apps are the future, not desktop apps. If the past is any guide to the future, desktop apps will be unacceptable to consumers in 10 years time and completely unusable in 20 years time (based on the MS-DOS to Wi
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by s_tec 14y ago
This warms my heart; It's wonderful to see people doing crazy stuff like this for fun.
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by s_tec 14y ago
Look at the bright side. Anyone who wants to create consumer-unfriendly DRM-protected CAD files now needs to jump through hoops and pay fees to Myhrvold's company. With any luck, this patent will actually reduce the incentive to apply DRM
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by s_tec 14y ago
Many people assume that we can spend money we don't have today because we will just earn more tomorrow. This is especially true on capitol hill, but you can see the assumption pretty much everywhere. Thiel's is basically pointing out that t
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by s_tec 14y ago
Have you tried SparkleShare? It sounds exactly like what you want. It connects to a normal Git server and presents the repository as a Dropbox-esque folder. It has support for Linux, Windows, and Mac, although it's mainly a Linux project.
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by s_tec 14y ago
Multiplying two 32-bit integers will always cost a certain amount of power. Building specialized hardware can get rid of other costs, like the cost of decoding instructions, but the fundamental cost of the multiplications will never go away
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by s_tec 14y ago
I don't think it's a lie or a misunderstanding, but a reasonable summary of the situation. They shouldn't have to mention the "pay damages and stop shipping the software" alternative, since that is always an implicit possibility.
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by s_tec 14y ago
The GPL3 sees the signing keys are part of the source code, so they have to be provided along with the binaries. The relevant part of the license is in section 6, third paragraph from the bottom. If an OEM ships a signed copy of Grub 2, the
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by s_tec 14y ago
In other words, just violate the license until you get caught? I don't understand what you are saying here.
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by s_tec 14y ago
It will definitely be that way for me. I have been using Windows since version 3.1, but Windows 8 marks the end of the road. I basically have no choice but to switch to Linux full-time at this point. Half the Linux desktops have recently go
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by s_tec 15y ago
This is a great idea, and hopefully browsers will adopt it directly one day. In the mean time, this plugin is a nice way to test the concept. I have a massive collection of passwords in my LastPass plugin, and managing them is a real mess.
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by s_tec 15y ago
You can still use shell with systemd; just replace the "ExecStart=" binary with the name of your script. I've seen lots of systemd unit files where the ExecStart and ExecStop lines just shell out to the old LSB init scripts.
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by s_tec 15y ago
It's obvious that the author of this article has never actually used systemd. For example, he complains that the startup sequence is "written in C," so the only way to change it is to recompile systemd itself. This is utter nonsense; system
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by s_tec 15y ago
If you want to play this game, be sure your terminal window is sized to 120x40 characters.
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by s_tec 15y ago
C is only opaque, scary, and evil if you consider computer hardware itself to be opaque, scary, and evil. For someone like an electrical engineer, C is perfectly lucid, safe, and friendly.
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by s_tec 15y ago
C is not the best way to manipulate information, as you have noticed. It's abstractions are all wrong. On the other hand, C is great for computer engineering, as opposed to computer science. If you are writing firmware, for example, the e
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by s_tec 15y ago
My setup is exactly the same as yours. I have a rug over a rubber floor mat, which allows me to stand barefoot for long periods of time. Since the Ikea desk doesn't adjust vertically, I pull up a bar stool whenever I want to sit down. I fin
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by s_tec 15y ago
There are microcontrollers with only 128 bytes of ram and 1KB of flash. They don't have enough memory to support malloc, so there is nothing to garbage collect in the first place. There isn't enough flash to even store the garbage collector
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by s_tec 15y ago
I remember a time when people asked, "What will replace the floppy drive?" Everyone expected the replacement to look and feel like a floppy drive, but with more speed and capacity. In the end, the "floppy killer" never materialized. Several
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by s_tec 15y ago
SparkleShare does essentially the same thing. The GNOME guys developed it so their designers could collaborate in a more open-source friendly way. It's developed in Mono, and has Windows and Mac ports coming. Unlike DVCS-Autosync, it doesn'
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by s_tec 17y ago
DVCS folks like to say that the real enemies are the people still using Subversion, rather than the competing DVCS tools. What they fail to realize is that DVCS fragmentation a big part of the reason people like me continue using Subversion
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by s_tec 17y ago
I like Robert Heinlein, but I don't recall any of his books touching these topics. Can you give some specific recommendations for my reading list?
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by s_tec 17y ago
Let me see if I get this straight: 1. You believe that jobs should go to the best-qualified candidates. 2. You believe that irrational beliefs about gender differences prevent this from happening. 3. The article claims that gender d

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