sorbits

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by sorbits 14y ago
ISO 8601 is large standard and predates the internet (as we know it) and seems like an attempt of formalizing all the many different ways people expressed dates (on physical papers in addition to computer systems), and also some ways no-one
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by sorbits 14y ago
A few times I was given the phone number / business card of someone who may have been able to provide me with a better discount than what the checkin staff was authorized to offer. I never bothered following up on that though, as it seemed
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by sorbits 14y ago
I concur! When you book via Agoda.com you get points that can be used toward future bookings. It’s effectively a 4% rebate, so even if the hotel can match the Agoda price, it’s still a better deal to book it via Agoda, that said, in the pas
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by sorbits 14y ago
> You cannot cook anything good in a rice maker […] except […] rice After spending time in Asia and getting a taste for glutinous rice [1], I now steam my rice in a bamboo steamer (which adds to the flavor): http://www.cookasianfood.
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by sorbits 14y ago
don't call it UTF8! While I don’t know the history of MySQL, it seems to me that when they implemented it, their implementation was indeed in compliance with the standard (Unicode 3). The standard has since grown from 16 to 32 bit code po
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by sorbits 15y ago
Adding to your “ how the law would look at this kind of evidence in light of the possibility of fabricating it--that really depends on the jury ”: making the case that the evidence was fabricated would probably not be too difficult looking
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by sorbits 15y ago
If you have an iOS device then I highly recommend Lumin: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lumin/id480343142?mt=8
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by sorbits 15y ago
NPR’s Planet Money did an interview with Gary Loveman who used to be an economics professor at Harvard Business School and now runs Ceasars Entertainment Corporation. He describes some of the stuff they actually do: http://www.npr.org/blog
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by sorbits 15y ago
While praising this player let me add that I absolutely love the ability for increased playback speed! This is a great timesaver for keynotes, lectures, and shows which move too slowly ;)
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by sorbits 15y ago
Many here like/love the idea, me included, so I think you have the good idea. The execution that would make the idea successful though is not just getting the app written and posted to the app store — contact someone who makes cooking books
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by sorbits 15y ago
The diet you describe appears to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet (figured a label and link would be good for people who wish to research further)
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by sorbits 15y ago
Last I was in an Apple store they put a sticker on the purchased goods (this was before the self-checkout). I assume the sticker was proof-of-purchase (as receipt was being emailed).
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by sorbits 15y ago
You might be doing something wrong I am aware of restoration period for muscle tissue rebuilding — I have struggled with this for 10+ years (getting my BMI down from above 28 to around 22 in that period) and have of course read plenty rel
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by sorbits 15y ago
I haven't encountered a physically fit individual who has struggled to lose weight I do daily exercise, have done strength training for years, and am careful of what I eat and how much of it — even with this scheme it’s not easy to keep m
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by sorbits 15y ago
> The point is […] utilize possibly useful modifications […] The ideology which spawned the GPL is that systems should be open. When a consumer buys something like the Kindle, he or she should be able to make changes to the system, i.
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by sorbits 15y ago
12 August 2011: C++0x approved.
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by sorbits 15y ago
I think there are many who doesn’t split types and algorithms, and something like Java does/did make it cumbersome plus its standard library doesn’t do it — but the C++ comity adopted STL into the standard library 13 years ago, which is all
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by sorbits 15y ago
I assume that “not wanting to write tests” is when the tests are more complex than the code tested, for example writing tests for a GUI application using a closed-source platform framework is complex (if at all possible). You can write te
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by sorbits 15y ago
Seriously, what is with the sudden down-voting of all my comments?
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by sorbits 15y ago
Moving a button or changing color was to exemplify for a hypothetical client what a commit is, if said client was “non-technical”.
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by sorbits 15y ago
Naturally if your commits are not fine grained, as I thought most agree is the recommended style, then this scheme would not be in your favor. As for explaining it to the client, I’d probably just call a commit a “feature”, but something li
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by sorbits 15y ago
I recently switched to invoicing per commit (current rate being €40). A flat fee is risky for you and charging per hour is risky for the client (and tedious for you to keep track of) — the commit is less risky because he won’t be charged fo
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by sorbits 15y ago
C++ is used in environments where every byte and cycle counts, regardless of your personal experience, run-time meta data (and going via lookup tables) does have a big measurable overhead that many prefer to avoid. Adding to that, the thing
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by sorbits 15y ago
And status for clang: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
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by sorbits 15y ago
Same guy also did a hasted post criticizing Ruby¹ so I wouldn’t really put anything into his “first look” at a programming language. ¹ He removed his first post and did a less negative follow-up: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?
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by sorbits 15y ago
I use CxxTest¹ but there is also GoogleTest². Neither of these suck nor are they tied to a single platform. ¹ http://cxxtest.tigris.org/ ² http://code.google.com/p/googletest/
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by sorbits 15y ago
I accidentally up-voted parent, so felt I had to reply since this part is somewhat wrong: > Using multiple salts would seem to help defeat brute forcing or dictionary attacks, but that is only true if the salts are secret If I have a
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by sorbits 15y ago
Not that I am a C++ fanboy, but your list is sort of orthogonal to what I would list. 1) Header files. They don't improve your code or your build process in any way They improve modularity. I have a header for each module which list the f
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by sorbits 15y ago
You already said it, but just wanted to back you up: The MessagePack benchmark is completely useless! It consists of serializing 3 integers and a string 200,000 times. MessagePack defines 27 different types¹ (excluding reserved ones) with v
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by sorbits 15y ago
> If someone has access to your email client you're hooped anyway. I once made the mistake of emailing a friend of mine the password to an ssh account — roughly 6 months later someone logged in with that password and added a spammy li

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