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by tbirdz 12y ago
Tim gets to see the original Vermeer, but they weren't allowed to film it. However his reproduction is not based exactly on the poster or the original. Instead what Tim did was build a replica of the room Vermeer painted in, including
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by tbirdz 12y ago
I take issue with some of the points regarding the GPL license. The author says that "GPLv2 has prevented the integration of of open source technologies like DTrace and ZFS in Linux." However, surely this is also the fault of the
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by tbirdz 12y ago
I saw the film and I thought the ending was interesting. What was it about the ending that made you think it was impossible to make interesting?
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Fortran is actually easier to optimize than C or C++, as procedure arguments and variables cannot alias each other. Since C99, you can use the restrict keyword to enforce aliasing rules, but many C programmers don't do this, and the re
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Very sneaky. For anyone else wondering why this works, look up trigraphs.
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Alibaba is also a huge player in e-commerce, who just filed for a nominal $1 billion market cap IPO, though it's estimated to be in the $200 billion range. [1] However, Alibaba was founded in 1999, so it was founded around the same tim
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Todays compilers may be fast enough so that using #ifndef that way would not make much of an impact, but back in 1989 when this article was written, presumably the time spent was much greater.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
There is #pragma once It's not standard, but it is supported by many compilers.
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by tbirdz 12y ago
As someone who uses dropbox to store encrypted VirtualBox vdi virtual hard disk files using XTS encryption, can someone tell me what I should be using instead of XTS?
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Are you concerned or have you looked into any patents IBM might hold on this?
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I think for Go proponents it is more about what the language doesn't have. They like working with simpler languages. From what you've said that sort of thing doesn't appeal to you much, so I don't know if there's a
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by tbirdz 12y ago
I don't mean to be flippant, but is there any particular part of go you are curious about that isn't answered in the FAQ? http://golang.org/doc/faq
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Ask HN: Simple, yet Powerful Programming Languages?
2 points by tbirdz 13y ago|2 comments
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by tbirdz 13y ago
The site just seems to provide a mapping from types of programmers to the types of sales people described in "The Four Kinds of Sales People". I have read that book myself, and it's a good read, but I don't think the map
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Sex toy that uses machine learning to find the optimal method of providing pleasure to it's owner.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
It could be a good domain for a blog critiquing elements of the modern education system, perhaps with some novel suggestions for improvement. Of course to really stand out it should be properly researched enough to have some evidence, inste
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Ask HN: Where do you host your mailing lists?
6 points by tbirdz 13y ago|2 comments
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I wouldn't say it excuses it, but rather it explains it. People (Men, really) who frequent a website aimed at NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), recluses, loners, etc. A site that in their own words: "This site is W
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by tbirdz 13y ago
>Can’t some random person fork the project and attempt same thing? Yep. Worse, they can fork the project, and create a proprietary version and start selling it. If you released it under the GPL, then they would not legally be allowed to
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by tbirdz 13y ago
You really need to consider the source on this. IT's from wizardchan. Just look at the rules: http://wizardchan.org/rules.html 1. Do not post about your personal sexual experiences or allude to the possibility that you
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Isn't this kind of the point of free software? To provide software that is equivalent (or better than) proprietary alternatives, and allow users the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software? Are gnu core
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by tbirdz 13y ago
To further the endorsing aspect, how about we link the endorser to the endorsee? If the user endorses a comment which gets downvoted or flagged, there should be some negative reinforcement for the endorser. Similarly, if the user endorses a
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Perhaps number of downloads? Number of mirrors?
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I don't know if you were being facetious or not, but both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were college dropouts. And of course there is the fact that most people who do graduate college don't make nearly the amount of money that th
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by tbirdz 13y ago
It's really refreshing to have a site just give you the material without making you make an account, or sign up via email first.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I only went to the local mall to go to the movie theater, which was located inside the mall. Then the movie theater shut down, so now I never go to the mall.
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All a GPA indicates is the average grades that person got. But that is not the same thing as ability, skills, motivation, passion, etc. Most classes aren't really that similar to the actual work in the industry either, so it's not
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Ask HN: What's the best way to delete all data off of a drive?
17 points by tbirdz 13y ago|21 comments
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HTML is an STD, if you interpret STD to stand for "standard".
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Personally, I don't use any illicit drugs, smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, or drink coffee. I never have done any of these things either. I used to drink soda pop, but I cut that out of my diet a few years ago. I'm not even really t

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