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by svdree 11y ago
I like the "split ends" analogy. A lot of developers seem to worry too much about issues that aren't actual problems, other than that something is "not OO". An actual example of this I saw recently, was when I got i
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by svdree 11y ago
Yeah, it's amazing. We've had decades of improvements in hardware performance, only to end up with software that's slower than anything that came before it. Yet apart from a small minority, nobody seems to bat an eye.
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by svdree 11y ago
This bulletin is obviously aimed at scaring others who were thinking of doing something similar. Still, it's a bit heavy handed, isn't it? No one was hurt, no damage was done, CERN responded immediately when notified, and it turne
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by svdree 11y ago
I think it probably was more than worth the effort. This is of course not his main source of income, but it certainly strengthens his reputation as one of the foremost experts on C++. At a company I worked for previously, some people though
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by svdree 11y ago
In the past 15 years I've been in a situation twice where shipping something NOW was more important than taking the time to do the needed cleanup. Simply because the competition was breathing down our neck, and taking a break to refact
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by svdree 12y ago
She and/or her husband probably checked you out on LinkedIn, that's how he shows up in your 'people I know'. It's not really that creepy. Some time ago I was put on an assignment at another company, and suddenly peo
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by svdree 12y ago
Worrying so much about everything that might be bad for you, is probably bad for you.
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by svdree 12y ago
> If we did, there wouldn't be mass surveillance Are you sure? Outside of this little bubble we live in, there are lots of people willing to give up every last bit of privacy ("nothing to hide"), in exchange for the govern
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by svdree 12y ago
You do realize that islam is a religion, not a race, right? Playing the racism card in situations like these is quickly becoming the new Godwin. Besides, given that most Americans wouldn't even know what kind of cartoons we're tal
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by svdree 12y ago
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
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by svdree 12y ago
> commercial vehicles require more regular tests because they do far more miles That doesn't make any sense. Sure, high mileage cars probably need to be checked more regularly, but that goes for non-commercial vehicles as well. The
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by svdree 12y ago
Another reason might be that supersonic flying doesn't really gain you all that much. You still have to spend time getting to the airport, being there a couple of hours in advance, go through all the security measures etc, and jump thr
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by svdree 12y ago
Android fragmentation is real, but screen sizes are not part of the issue. The whole system is built around the idea of supporting different screen sizes, and provides you with the tools you need to handle them. The real fragmentation is in
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by svdree 12y ago
Beginners can always use something like Unity3D, or any of the other gazillion libraries that are available. IMO beginner-friendly stuff has no place in the spec. It seems to me that many people these days aren't willing to invest time
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by svdree 12y ago
This guy should try some OpenGL-ES development on Android. Suddenly vendors A, B and C don't sound so bad anymore...
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by svdree 12y ago
"I have yet to see any test-driven developers flying airplanes into buildings..." When a blog begins like this...
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by svdree 13y ago
But these experiments don't really prove anything w.r.t. basic income, do they? Of course, if you give a small, isolated group of people more money, their lives will improve. But that doesn't generalize to the entire population, e
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by svdree 13y ago
From TFA: " I don't mind certain art, like films or computer games being censored" Right. He doesn't mind censorship, he just disagrees with where the line is drawn. Which is what a lot of debate seems to boil down to th
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by svdree 13y ago
Hehe, it's not often that you see the comments to an article prove its point so strongly ;-)
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by svdree 14y ago
Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) did it in 1995 ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNQqePk8Kg