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How do C and C++ unit test frameworks find all the test functions in a program?(nckrlf.com)
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by spatulon 9y ago
Haha, yes. Casey has been quite a big influence on me re-finding enjoyment in programming that I thought I'd lost.
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by spatulon 9y ago
In my mind, shell scripts are simpler. I have no reason to need the extra complexity that make brings. Also, I do a lot of programming on Windows, where GNU make would be another dependency to install. (Also, in my experience, make is slow
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by spatulon 9y ago
I like your thinking regarding using simpler build tools. I took this to the extreme and now my build tool for personal C/C++ projects is just a file called build.sh/build.bat. That does little more than: gcc main.c main.
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Buses for Apple employees 'attacked' with pellet guns, company suspects(theguardian.com)
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Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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Thoughts about Meltdown and Spectre fallout and dealing with it(yosoygames.com.ar)
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by spatulon 9y ago
Not to be confused with the other 2017-001 update they released one month ago: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208221 The App Store Updates page on my mum's Macbook Air now shows that she has installed two upda
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by spatulon 9y ago
It's nothing to do with the browser — the same thing happens in Firefox. The site redirects to Apple when the referrer is HN.
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by spatulon 9y ago
This is something that lgtm.com supports. Right now, I can't find a Python project with a dependency on a vulnerable package to show you, but here's the page that shows Django's dependencies (and this is where a known vulnera
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by spatulon 9y ago
When I interviewed for my new job (at a tech company), I knew it was fine to wear casual clothes, but only because I have a friend who works there. I probably would have worn a suit otherwise. I gave feedback that they should just tell cand
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by spatulon 9y ago
Games themselves are going through some interesting times. Several AAA single-player games are rumoured to have sold poorly (notably the Bethesda games Dishonored 2, Prey, and The Evil Within 2), and I've seen talk that publishers are
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by spatulon 9y ago
Presumably one bit of Tesla culture they can't bring to Germany is firing low performers. I worked for a German company for over a decade. I don't know if it was due to their culture or their laws, but I never saw anyone get fired
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LLRB: LLVM-Based JIT Compiler for Ruby(github.com)
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by spatulon 9y ago
In the automotive world (with the exception of infotainment and assisted/autonomous driving systems), ECUs have amounts of RAM measured in kilobytes, not megabytes. I've left the industry now, but I /think/ the powertrai
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by spatulon 9y ago
My understanding is that Chrome and Firefox both use Microsoft's DirectWrite API for rendering text on Windows, not Freetype.
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by spatulon 9y ago
Who do we blame for Vietnamese adopting the Latin alphabet? That makes Polish seem pretty straightforward.
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by spatulon 9y ago
It's still widely used and not considered archaic in British and Australian English.
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by spatulon 9y ago
Windows called them programs (until recently), and Android & iOS call them apps, so it's likely that most people have only started hearing the term in the last 10 years.
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by spatulon 9y ago
That may be the case for the Spectrum, but not for the Mac. They have always been referred to as "applications" on the Mac, and I know that was abbreviated as "apps" by the mid-90s. It wouldn't surprise me to discov
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by spatulon 9y ago
That paper appears to have been published in 2004, not 2006.
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by spatulon 9y ago
Given that the article above is talking about the 32-bit version of Windows 10, I think 'likelynew is aware of that. You misunderstood the question, which is: will the 32-bit version of Windows 10 even run on a CPU that predates x64? (
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by spatulon 9y ago
It can also operate at 1Mbps. There's a relatively recent extension called CAN FD that can go faster, as can the FlexRay protocol, which is sometimes used instead of CAN.
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Jeff Bezos: the 'obsessive' Amazon founder and world's next richest man(theguardian.com)
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Spanish climber scales Mount Everest 'twice in a week without oxygen'(theguardian.com)
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by spatulon 9y ago
Maciej Cegłowski wrote an essay about his trip to Białowieża forest some number of years ago. Like everything on his site, it's worth reading. http://www.idlewords.com/2012/02/bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_forest...
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by spatulon 9y ago
And, prior to that, president of Pepsi-Cola. Jobs is said to have lured Sculley to Apple by asking, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
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Why does the golang garbage-collector not implement Generational and Compact gc?(groups.google.com)
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by spatulon 9y ago
It's also not clear how the attackers will be able to launder the Bitcoin, given how many eyes are now on those addresses.
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by spatulon 9y ago
This struck pretty close to home. I quit my job because of burnout, and I'm currently on month five of what I expected to be a two or three month break before finding another job. I still don't feel ready to go back into the real

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