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by shrughes 14y ago
I was talking about integer values (with floating point representation) being multiplied and added (and divided and floored, I suppose).
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by shrughes 14y ago
That's not true, there are plenty of cases where using equivalence is just fine. Integer arithmetic, and algorithms that are more reliably written not to contain any empty intervals are two examples.
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by shrughes 14y ago
I like the way my father explained my job to a golfer we were playing with: "He's a typist at a computer company."
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by shrughes 14y ago
The problem with auto_ptr is that it put these ownership-transfer semantics in the copy constructor instead of something more explicit. A scoped_ptr type that has a release() method is far more useful and safer than auto_ptr.
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by shrughes 14y ago
shared_ptr isn't necessary for containers, it's only necessary for bad containers. Edit: Of course I'm being a bit stupidly snarky here, obviously if you have a standard container you need a shared_ptr, or an intrusive_ptr, or some other po
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by shrughes 14y ago
Well what do you mean, that's a perfectly legitimate retort to the notion that the right to an attorney is a positive right. You might as well call the right to a trial as a positive right if you're going to call the right to a free attorn
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by shrughes 14y ago
You can make statements about non-explicitly authorized "wake-up sex" in either gender direction. The fact that we're talking about one particular direction does not make one a misogynist. You seem quite eager to call people misogynists.
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by shrughes 14y ago
> I have no idea of the US situation. Well there's the speedy trial thing. There's also the right to an attorney which turned from a negative right into a positive right.
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by shrughes 14y ago
15.6" EliteBooks have 16:9 screens, the max configuration being 1920x1080. Similarly, 15.6" Thinkpads use 16:9 screens and max out at 1920x1080. Also, Thinkpads are generally less expensive than EliteBooks. And if you want to beat the qual
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by shrughes 14y ago
That's a horrible laptop.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Try running Unity in a VM on a machine that doesn't have graphics resources to spare. Try running Unity or Unity 2D in a VM on a machine that lacks VT-d. It is horrific.
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by shrughes 14y ago
That's from a long time ago.
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by shrughes 14y ago
It's not a matter of taste, it's a matter of performance. Unity and Unity 2D have terrible performance.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Sorry, I had a bit of a brainfart when writing that. You can add the probabilities simply because (1 - e - f) is a good approximation for (1 - e)(1 - f) when e and f are tiny. No other reason. The chance of having "two" collisions (I mea
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by shrughes 14y ago
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack A basic estimate is that the probability of collision is (n^2 / 2) / 2^160, where n is the number of hashes that have been generated. For example, if you've generated 2^64 hashes, you have
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by shrughes 14y ago
No, it's correct behavior that spam emails go into your inbox.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Negativity is sort of the natural state of discussing things. If you have something positive to say, it's often vapid or redundant. "Yay, this is good!" isn't really saying much. Also, when you have a dissenting opinion, you're more likel
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by shrughes 14y ago
I was reading it, reading it further, it was a fun story, and suddenly -- IBM Staff Handbook 1.2 cuils.
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by shrughes 14y ago
I just love it when somebody tries to use a positive tone on me.
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by shrughes 14y ago
It wasn't a test so much as that I tend to write comments that I regret minutes later.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Hyperbole is part of communication and so is "tone". Hacker News does not run on Lojban.
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by shrughes 14y ago
The age of the technology is not the same thing as the quality of the infrastructure. I wouldn't judge on that regard. However, the upgrade from .NET 2.0 is not difficult, in sane situations, so there's a question of what's going on there
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by shrughes 14y ago
The fact that this got voted up kind of disturbs me.
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by shrughes 14y ago
People are hostile to that posting because it talks down to its readers by being a gigantic infographic, as if the reader was retarded, instead of being a few paragraphs of text. Also, the idea is without merit, and you don't need to read
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by shrughes 14y ago
If you want to see tractor-beauty, also check out the Panasonic Let's Note (some of which are sold in the U.S. as "business-rugged" Toughbooks) line.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Who cares? Buy the RAM separately. That's what you do when buying Lenovos. With Lenovos, you get minimal RAM, minimal hard drive, maximum screen resolution, and Ultimate-N wifi, and then upgrade RAM and HDD separately.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Being multithreaded is hardly important at all. You can just have single-threaded programs, and they'll work. Almost all software doesn't need to take advantage of extra compute engines. Reasonably designed software that could take advan
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by shrughes 14y ago
And calculus is used in graphics.
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by shrughes 14y ago
How the heck is linear algebra important for CS majors? Where in CS is linear algebra useful where calculus isn't?
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by shrughes 14y ago
Don't pigeonhole yourself by languages you want to use. Interestingness of work is not correlated with language very much.

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