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691.
by stmw 9y ago
That's a good point, I mean what if they're ice-based life forms? Perhaps we shouldn't be so presumptive.
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by stmw 9y ago
It's a little awkward, but not so bad if it's within basics, like linked lists - which one may be rusty on but will generally know or re-derive - rather than really specific algorithms. But that's just a starting point, then
693.
by stmw 9y ago
Right, as I said above, doesn't give you any sense of what other engineers are the company are like. Nothing wrong with algorithmic coding interviews, but it should be coupled with human interaction.
694.
by stmw 9y ago
This does a nice job of explaining why it's not a good solution. For the company, it does not measure any kind of communication or collaboration ability (which is so important for programming). For the candidate, it does not give her&#
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Mysterious alien cigar 'asteroid' is interstellar lump of ice, not a spaceship(phys.org)
9 points by stmw 9y ago|3 comments
696.
by stmw 9y ago
Glad to see the idea of unique-per-site emails getting more traction. www.abine.com Blur first did the same thing years ago (along with phone number & credit card number), but doesn't matter which one you use - just use something,
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Salmon help their offspring by dying on the spawning grounds(phys.org)
3 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
Indeed, he was great in web services standards back in the day, and still a good writer. ;-)
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Your old Mac Plus could be worth $800+, Newton $1400(turbofuture.com)
1 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
Here is some more interesting info - perhaps this is when this took place? http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.com/2013/04/os-x-disable-y...
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by stmw 9y ago
Interesting turnabout from classic MacOS, where the VSync interrupt was both synced and really important. It was the way you got lots of non-graphical processing done, too - lots of event timers & the like went in there.
702.
Should I Rust, or Should I Go(codeburst.io)
4 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
703.
by stmw 9y ago
Yes, that was also done for the Apple IIgs, I think.
704.
by stmw 9y ago
You know Rust is gaining traction when people are writing papers discussing adding Rust borrow-checker features to an Ada-inspired safe languages!
705.
by stmw 9y ago
You could also look at Abine's Blur. It avoids the liability problem. But is more expensive, in general.
706.
Goodbye, Digital Camera; It Was Fun, but We’re Done(eetimes.com)
1 points by stmw 9y ago|1 comments
707.
by stmw 9y ago
Oh, I was imagining that referred to a situation where you have a stack (say 8K to keep it aligned), then a 4K guard page (which faults when you grow past it), and then someone probes past it, at 16K. Which may be mapped to all kinds of oth
708.
by stmw 9y ago
I think the larger problem is that back then, those demos were indistinguishable from magic -- they looked more amazing than anything else you saw on that computer screen. Now, with 60-120fps HD video on your screen, writing assembler to pr
709.
by stmw 9y ago
Very good point. Key phrase is "an offset > 4096 is just bogus. That's big enough to skip right over the guard page" - if allocating more than a page-size-worth (4K in most cases), it should try to write to it before retur
710.
by stmw 9y ago
Possibly, although hotter fundamentally means more thermal noise, which might actually reduce correlations / ability to communicate effectively between adjacent circuits. Think of it as SNR (signal-noise-ratio) -- increasing temperatur
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by stmw 9y ago
This is great story, probably wins the year for "best bug you've ever encountered?" question. Having implemented some weird runtimes for weird languages, I am sympathetic to Go team here -- these odd tradeoffs of pushing the
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Apple III – a fascinating failure with lessons for today(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
713.
by stmw 9y ago
Ah, thanks, makes good sense. I think of "write a new experimental functional language and reuse part of the Rust compiler" as somewhat "academic", but matter of taste. But for production parsers, I think I'd try to
714.
by stmw 9y ago
Very sad indeed, a piece of history gone.
715.
by stmw 9y ago
Do people often rely on tail-recursion for real-world programs? Before anyone wonders if I know what it is, yes, I do, and yes, I've used it appropriately, but it feels so... academic.
716.
by stmw 9y ago
Imagine what Steve Jobs would've said in a meeting today at Apple HQ to discuss this incident. "Can someone here explain to me what is the login dialog supposed to do? ... Ok. Then why the !@#% doesn't it do that???"
717.
by stmw 9y ago
Imagine what Steve Jobs would've said in a meeting today at Apple HQ to discuss this incident. "Can someone here explain to me what is the login dialog supposed to do? ... Ok. Then why the doesn't it do that???"
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Convex image sensor bends like soccer ball for mimicking an insects compound eye(techxplore.com)
2 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
719.
by stmw 9y ago
You have seem Python, Perl or VB6/VBA being called from C code, in a seamless, high-performance way? I suppose it's all a matter of degree, rather than black-and-whites, and perhaps things have improved - but I'm just surpris
720.
by stmw 9y ago
Agree

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