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by singular 14y ago
I wonder whether larger pointers could result in being able to cache less media. But that's a wild guess.
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New NVidia Wireless Display Technology Due Soon(blogs.nvidia.com)
14 points by singular 14y ago|17 comments
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by singular 14y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm saying CBT (+ related, I find SBT[1] very effective myself) >>> lifestyle improvements. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_therapy
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by singular 14y ago
Well, to me 'clinical' depression implies diagnosed by a doctor, yes. Sure, and it does vary a lot. So perhaps I meant to say severe vs. mild. People overstate these things to a degree. Like I said, sure they help, but it's scratching the s
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by singular 14y ago
I also have clinical depression, and this has also been my experience. Something which also adds to the problems is that people so often condescend - 'you won't feel better unless you do X, Y or Z' and actually essentially accuse you of bri
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Google Acquires Quickoffice(googleblog.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by singular 14y ago|1 comments
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by singular 14y ago
I going to burn karma here, but obligatory comedy video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rl5SOuq6-g
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by singular 14y ago
Indeed, and there is also a question of the dignity of the victims of these events. It might be very distressing indeed for the family of a dead soldier to see his strewn remains appear on television.
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by singular 14y ago
Very cool. But having issues in chrome/mac with the portal gun not shooting anything. Works fine in safari/mac. Note: this applies even at and beyond the 3rd level where it is first useful. Additional edit: I want to emphasise how very cool
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by singular 14y ago
Very interesting. I do think it's vitally important to acknowledge the real nature of war, whose best witnesses are those who actually lived through it, the actual reality of it, not generals or politicians conducting the war from the safet
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by singular 14y ago
I think this is more in reference to the common C error of:- int* x, y; when you meant to declare both x and y as int pointers, here only x will be a pointer and y will be a straight int. Obviously the go designers could have chose
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The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by singular 14y ago|0 comments
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by singular 14y ago
There's a funny juxtaposition between Zed Shaw's rather excellent books and what just comes across as nasty, personal, bullying comments and attacks on people. In fact, around a year ago, amidst serious worries in my life, I read some typic
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by singular 14y ago
As many others have pointed out, I think there are two sides to non-professional* coders learning to code, one of which I agree with wholeheartedly, the other I disagree with, equally wholeheartedly:- * As in paid to sling code - I don't me
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by singular 14y ago
I'm not a huge fan of this .net hate. It smacks of fashion. Yes, .net is used heavily in the enterprise and probably 90% of the time .net projects are CRUDdy big balls of mud, but C# is actually a great language, visual studio is an amazing
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by singular 14y ago
Not to make this too much about ego :-) but I am actually quite good at maths, did v. well at school, did engineering degree, etc. so I'm not sure I'm a great example, rather I am out of practice and not as comfortable with this stuff now a
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by singular 14y ago
Perhaps I've been out of formal education for too long (esp. on the mathematical side of things), but I did find the material quite challenging, more so the problem sets than the programming challenges. Part of that was emotional, I didn't
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by singular 14y ago
Hey, author here. Indeed the domain is modelled incorrectly, the problem being that this realisation that this is the case has come late on in the development process. Perhaps in my simplified example that's something you could pick up on b
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by singular 14y ago
I meant less salubrious as in more seedy, less wholesome, a usage I've heard before, e.g. 'a less salubrious bar'. The idea was to imply an evil, dirty hack - I was trying to add colour to the post, but perhaps didn't succeed :-) I do try t
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by singular 14y ago
(Author here) I agree that the code is horrible :-) that's kind of the point - if you choose to hack up your code, then you end up with horrors like if(foo is Bar) { ... } else { ... }. The type declarations are, I'd argue, not horrible a
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The Brittleness Of Type Hierarchies(codegrunt.co.uk)
88 points by singular 14y ago|73 comments
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by singular 14y ago
I think the biggest counterargument (if one were needed) is that if I start doing things to your brain, it affects your mind. If I cut a part of your brain out, your mind is impacted. This has been shown by injuries to the brain, lobotomies
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by singular 14y ago
This, as usual, is amazing. Russ is just ridiculous. I range between being deeply jealous of him and deeply impressed at the productivity and quality of his work :-) /geek-gushing
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by singular 15y ago
Great piece, very much sharing something very painful from the heart. Potentially off-topic but I have to say, some of the comments on the actual blog post are horrendous. particularly:- "You sound like just a weak person." "You should try
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by singular 15y ago
Well there is something questionable there, but I could imagine it being useful for partially sighted people. Being legally blind does not necessarily mean you 100% cannot see.
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by singular 15y ago
Keep in mind that the comments on that thread are open to all people and thus that doesn't entail an 'official' response to the problem, though it does unfortunately seem to entail sound (but obviously crazy given the restrictions it puts y
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by singular 15y ago
In Go, you'd have to be using the unsafe package and some gnarliness to cast between the allocated pointer and int, so you just wouldn't be able to do this in vanilla Go.
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by singular 15y ago
I have been (slowly) developing a chess engine in go [1] (still a long way to go, no pun intended!) What I like most about go is its simplicity and cleanness while still allowing you to program somewhat close to the metal. In fact, it oft
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by singular 15y ago
I really like go. It's very succinct, clean and orthogonal, yet is enormously powerful. The amazing compilation speed and concurrency primitives are the icing on the cake. I especially like the lack of a type hierarchy. I have come to think
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by singular 15y ago
There certainly can be a disconnect which impacts a developers ability to see what a user wants, but even if there is no disconnect, bad software can still result. Consider internal software - there is literally no disconnect whatsoever, bu

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