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by supar 13y ago
If you are not familiar with Linux (for example, you're working on Windows or mostly doing web-development), it could entirely be. Mac OS is more friendly, but I certainly saw many developers that didn't scratch the surface and directly w
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by supar 13y ago
I cannot believe that people can have that question. Or, well, I do believe it, but then my second question usually is: did you ever use linux/bsd or any OSS project in the past? I don't want to be rude at all, but the suggestion of "contri
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by supar 13y ago
Not sure what you mean by "map data". You can certainly have a list of props that are in the way and have them as a mesh. It's certainly easier if you have only one prop, but you have to account for that they may stack together in any way-
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by supar 13y ago
I got an HP EliteBook Folio 9470m at work (not my personal choice), but I though I should share my impressions. I was genuinely impressed by the fact that this is the only ultrabook I've seen with a swappable battery. Yes! The ultrabook i
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by supar 14y ago
I've been designing honeypot/traps as triggers for mail filtering infrastructures for years, and this is very hard to automate process. It started like something that you could watch from time to time in the late '90, maybe slab a DNSBL o
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by supar 14y ago
If you ever tried to handle any mail server at all, you would recognize that you have choice in using spamhaus (or any other DNSBL). These people have put in place a high quality method to discriminate spammers. I've been around since their
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by supar 14y ago
In this area was hoping for the NoteSlate to succeed, but it seems that it went waporware. For notetaking the refresh speed is not so critical, as the areas to refresh are limited to the writing spot. You would probably notice lag, but if y
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by supar 14y ago
The N8000 is a different class of device, low spec / android based phone .
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by supar 14y ago
Can you give us some feedback on how the screen hinge flips? Is there a slot for the pen?
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by supar 14y ago
Are there any digitizer users here? I use a Wacom digitizer daily for notes and sketches instead of using pen&paper. My wet dream is a pressure&tilt sensitive/e-ink based device, but it looks like the Surface Pro is the closest you
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by supar 14y ago
I think that this scenario routinely happens at many companies. Only you don't hear public stories about it, because in the end what happens is the same for all software: continuous transition/refactoring. I know I've been working on many p
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by supar 14y ago
Does anyone have some experience with pelican (possibly liquidink) and rest2web? There are many static website generators, but I'm looking into a python+ReST solution. I've been using rest2web a lot, and I really love it's simplicity compar
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by supar 14y ago
I could say exactly the same for any source-to-C compiler, and/or any system allowing decent FFI with C. Unless there is some different reason than the JVM itself, C has an even larger code base.
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by supar 14y ago
I wouldn't normally care about the state of GNOME, but as a developer myself I'm in a really sorry state of affairs regarding GTK itself. At some point with 2.x, GTK stopped being GIMP's toolkit and became part of GNOME. Fortunately it re
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by supar 14y ago
I wish I could see this kind of discussion in the wayland/name-your-compositor mailing lists. Currently it would be easy to implement a new attribute in the ICCCM so that applications that don't need foreground unredirection (ie: they act
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by supar 14y ago
Also, "visual languages" even when restricted to very specific domains (think of DSP blocks, a tried&tested domain where visual languages are abundantly abused) tend to get very messy already when only very simple logic is involved. I w
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by supar 14y ago
I've been recently travelling with several friends for a long trip. It was very fun to see how you cannot use any recent macbook or an ipad as a "portable" computer anymore, as you cannot swap the battey with a fresh one. Sitting on a power
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by supar 14y ago
SGI's IRIX always had the ability to do since decades ago. Of course, like others have stated, the main reason is to conserve both memory (for pointers) and more importantly bus bandwidth (which is a mayor problem in MPI/SMP systems memor
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by supar 14y ago
GCC speedup is actually quite substantial in math/numerical code (which, in turn, is not as fast as Intel's ICC). Moreover, GCC supports OpenMP, whereas Clang does not. This alone make building several scientific software packages not possi
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by supar 14y ago
I agree. In fact, this is what I would have expected to read in the article. The only single major issue in creating infrastructure in C++ is the enormous added complexity in the final library and dependencies. While you can avoid mangling
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by supar 15y ago
WMF anyone? Windows MetaFile contain(ed) serialized GDI graphic calls to generate the picture in a resolution independent way, while still working as a vector file format that other application could parse. Generating static ObjC seems like
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by supar 15y ago
This page represents everything I hate about "HTML5" so far: flashy for no reason, slow as hell and for all for very little content.
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Have your own file exchange service
2 points by supar 15y ago|1 comments
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by supar 15y ago
I agree with you here. Several languages (let's call them "advanced"?) are better than other, ok, but actually very few introduce actually "innovative" constructs. Most of the perceived differences in recent languages are actually in the
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by supar 15y ago
"These guys have solved the problem using the tried and trusted mathematical technique of sheer brute force. In essence these guys have examined every potential 16-clue solution for every possible Sudoku grid." I was actually hoping for a f
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by supar 15y ago
I was able to work remotely (exclusively) for 2.5 years from 2004-2007. I was able to live in two different, beautiful places, and moving was a non issue. My work schedule was totally random - I would wake up whenever I wanted and simply sk
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by supar 15y ago
I often hear these arguments about C++, but after having used C++ for almost my entire career (and looking forward to use C++11) let me tell you why people continue to use C++: because C++ is performant, and the alternatives don't give you
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by supar 15y ago
Cannot upvote this enough. I think that's actually the whole point. ABP was always "impartial": all ads were blocked. Deciding which ads are blocked, and which ones aren't is already a subjective decision. BUT , knowing that you can make
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by supar 15y ago
I was hoping for some more meaty details about what exactly is "subpar" about nvidia on Linux (except the closed nature of the driver). In terms of GL implementation, the nvidia driver has everything you would expect. If you use GL directly
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by supar 15y ago
Can you give us some thoughts on how (why?) bad is nvidia/linux support is? As a linux developer doing scientific visualization, and having tested (and still testing, btw) how bad still is the AMD driver status on linux, I see basically n

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