stephen_g

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by stephen_g 15y ago
People use Silverlight? I'm actually being serious - I don't have it installed on any of my computers and I've never been to a site that asked me to download it... But perhaps that's because it's mostly used for video streaming and in Austr
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by stephen_g 15y ago
It's great that the open source solutions are so strong in this market. It's nice to see nginx carving out a nice bit of market share too. Another web server project I quite like is Cherokee ( http://www.cherokee-project.com/ ) - it's got a
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by stephen_g 15y ago
He's probably trying to get it to the point where he could get real funding. He's already achieved fusion in a simple IEC fusor device (which is surprisingly easy) and was next trying to build a fusion reactor with a Polywell style magrid c
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by stephen_g 15y ago
I agree... I'm Australian and can't access any of them, and even some things on YouTube come up with a message telling me "This content can't be viewed in your country". If we had access to these sites, and/or they brought shows out on TV h
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by stephen_g 15y ago
My brother implemented this algorithm in Matlab for his thesis project a few years ago. It's impressively accurate even short snippets of low quality recordings. Too bad the people who own the patents are so stupid, even going after a guy w
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by stephen_g 15y ago
What would garbage collection do that C++0x's shared_ptr smart pointer (which is reference counted) doesn't? I'm not really sure how GC works but using normal memory allocation when you can and reference counted pointers when somebody else
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by stephen_g 15y ago
Yep, iterators are one of the most annoying things in C++. That's why I love range for in C++0x - instead of writing this, for example: for(std::vector<std::string>::iterator it = vec.begin(); it != vec.end(); it++) you can just do:
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by stephen_g 15y ago
With all the active OOo developers having created The Document Foundation and producing a new, active project that almost every Linux distro is now supporting, donating it to another organisation is unproductive and poses a threat of dividi
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by stephen_g 15y ago
Not really... As far as I can tell, the licences are compatible in a way that LibreOffice can use the Apache licensed code in their LGPL licenced project, so it will continue to be the stronger fork. With distros having put their support be
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by stephen_g 15y ago
Why do you care what it looks like? It's whether it works well that is really important for a tool like this (that pretty much only the devs are going to use). It's not actually great on that front either though, but the point still stands.
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by stephen_g 15y ago
Pretty stupid article in my opinion. Apple's handling of the MacDefender issue is exactly how Apple handles most issues - don't say anything until you have the whole story and have planned the course of action. As John Gruber said, it's "me
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by stephen_g 15y ago
To be honest, "bare bones" is a fairly generic term...
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by stephen_g 15y ago
Perhaps for something that was embedded (like an OS for ARM microcontrollers or something), but a desktop or server OS is unrealistic. The problem is drivers - unless you manage to port Linux drivers or something to your OS, it's never goin
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by stephen_g 15y ago
It depends on the code - while GCC, being more mature, is typically better at most optimisations, there are a few cases where Clang produces code that is a fair bit faster. Over time, as Clang gets more mature, it will become more and more
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by stephen_g 15y ago
"Having this capability in the compiler is pretty cool and brings C/C++ a small step closer to working in higher level languages" C++0x is another (much bigger, in my opinion) step that makes C++ a lot easier to program. It's not quite as e
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by stephen_g 15y ago
Wow, that really is incredible... I really can't imagine not being able to take a week of vacation for fear of losing my job... Do you guys in the US get time in lieu? My job is 40 hours a week, and if you work longer than that, you can tak
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by stephen_g 16y ago
"If someone finds/steals your iPhone they can with little effort recover the GPS data." Except that it wasn't GPS data - just a list of cell tower and wifi hotspot pings.
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by stephen_g 16y ago
OpenGL is not a language - it is an API. The book is using it with the C++ language which you can program in Eclipse.