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by strenholme 7y ago
I don’t see either Hebrew or Italian as constructed languages. Hebrew, as other posters has pointed out, has been a liturgical language (akin to Latin or Coptic) for a long time, and is a direct derivative of a natural language. Italian i
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by strenholme 7y ago
As someone who has followed the constructed language and international auxiliary language community for a couple of decades, and as someone with an undergraduate degree in linguistics, I do not see a constructed language catching on with th
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by strenholme 7y ago
When I lived in San Francisco and brought family and friends to enjoy walking the streets of the city, one logistical problem was finding toilets they could use. There are, for all intents and purposes, no public toilets in the city (e.g.
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by strenholme 7y ago
I was a cubicle worker for years, making too much money doing too little work during the dot-com bubble. I was not happy with my life, so I took my dot-com savings and left the country to go to a Latin American country to live there, learn
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by strenholme 7y ago
Not enough time to do a real comparison, but Uber feels a lot bigger than all of the mid-sized startups which dominated the dot-com landscape. They are a lot bigger than Webvan was (22,000 vs. 3,500 employees) not to mention Netscape (2,50
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by strenholme 7y ago
I remember the dot-com crash of 2001 and seeing companies close so fast, they didn’t their employees a final paychecks; I remember one day, after the dot-com collapse a position I was qualified for got filled within three hours. As someone
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by strenholme 7y ago
It’s simple open source economics: Since no one is being paid to maintain the software, there is little incentive to continue developing it. However, since it is open source, anyone who feels inclined to can fork the code and create a main
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by strenholme 7y ago
Some, but not all, US ISPs have caps on Internet use in the US. The cap is usually one terabyte. There’s a long list of them at https://broadbandnow.com/internet-providers-with-data-caps , the biggest offenders being AT&a
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by strenholme 7y ago
The dot-com bubble crashed in 2001, which left the entire tech sector in a recession throughout the first 2000s decade. The foreclosure crisis started a recession in 2008 which really didn’t end until 2015 or 2016.
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by strenholme 7y ago
MT19937 is probably not the best PRNG out there, but the nice thing about it is that, for a long time, there was a pretty strong consensus among programmers that it was the PRNG to use. It’s a better choice than a simple LCG, which is what
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by strenholme 7y ago
Probably time to use a third party RNG for Javascript then. For example, https://gist.github.com/banksean/300494 or, if you don’t like MT19937 (shameless plug) https://github.com/samboy/rg32hash&#
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by strenholme 7y ago
I tend to agree, but I need to point out that MT19937 doesn’t fail “many” tests. It fails, at most, two of the bigcrush tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mersenne_Twister and look for the “TestU01” discussion
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by strenholme 7y ago
Which random number generator to use can be a heated discussion, with strong opinions. math.random() and rand() can have issues using poor random number generators like LCGs instead of good random number generators. The default “good” rand
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by strenholme 7y ago
Been there. Done that. Pretty much every open source developer hits a point where they realize that even very popular open source projects don’t keep food on the table. However, what gives open source value is that a project with 10,000 G
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by strenholme 7y ago
I always felt Yaml is far too complicated of a format for storing hierarchical data. JSON is too simple (no comments; hard to store multi-line strings). HCL, the hierarchical data storage language used by Terraform, is the closest thing I’
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by strenholme 7y ago
Looking at https://sebastianmillerlaw.com/liable-unpaid-wages-following... it looks like this would had been an uphill battle at the time; “dot-com bubble” refers to a company which went out of business in the late 1990s or
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by strenholme 7y ago
My startup shutdown horror story: A start up I briefly worked for during the dot-com bubble one day just ran out of money. I could see the writing on the wall, went to another dot-com (which also failed), but kept in touch with the people t
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by strenholme 7y ago
I miss the old IBM Thinkpads; sure, they cost $4,000 during the height of the dot-com boom, but those things were built like tanks. I got a 600X when a dot-com was liquidating its assets for $700 and it was my primary computer for over six
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by strenholme 7y ago
The one that got me is this: uint32_t foo = 1; foo <<= 32; Here, I figured that foo would always be 0. Wrong. It was always 0 with GCC, but this is undefined in the spec and code like this can have a different value in clang. I actual
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by strenholme 8y ago
OK, is it just me or does the stereogram render backwards: The more distant stuff (the skyline) looks closer, while the floor and walls looks more distant? I cross my eyes to see these because I can’t do the “focus on the horizon” trick. Pe
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by strenholme 8y ago
“who will lay claim to all their efforts both inside and outside the company” Ah, yes, the infamous “inventions” clause which pretty much any and all developers need to sign to get a job. Here in California, we have a key exception encoded
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by strenholme 8y ago
OK, Amazon, I agree. We need more open source out there. Let’s start by releasing your Bookerly font under an open font license, just like how Google released their corresponding Literata font under the SIL Open Font license.
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by strenholme 8y ago
I actually have written code like this to deal with the Y2038 problem UNIX will have (for UNIX systems that still use a 32-bit time_t on January 19 2038, they will roll over and think they are in 1901) by seeing if time_t is 32-bit (my code
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by strenholme 8y ago
Where is the manual for this program? Every IOCCC winner has a "hint" file which explains what the program does and how to run it.
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by strenholme 8y ago
In my experience, ARM Thumb (which is ARM's 32-bit take on dense encoding) makes code which is about 75% of the size of the equivalent x86 (i386) code. I am sure ARM, if there was enough demand, could make a 64-bit version of Thumb.
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by strenholme 8y ago
It has some promise, however: * The code generates a number of warnings when compiled with '-Wall -Wpedantic'. Look at IOCCC entries; a number of them take pride in having no warnings whatsoever, even with full warnings enabled.
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by strenholme 8y ago
My subjective take on font rendering, based on tweaking and hinting web fonts, is that MacOS has the best font rendering (since their laptops have been using retina displays, with the exception of the Macbook Air; even here the font renderi
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by strenholme 8y ago
I have written an obfuscated cryptographically secure random password generator: https://github.com/samboy/rg32hash/blob/master/C/tinyrg32.c The file has test cases, documentation: https:/&#x2