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by tbirdz 10y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Clever-Algorithms-Nature-Inspired-Prog...
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by tbirdz 10y ago
The article leaves out what is my opinion the #1 reason to use H.264 - hardware decoding support. When I watch VP9 videos, the decoder runs in software on the cpu, draining the battery faster than H.264 which can be decoded in hardware with
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by tbirdz 10y ago
gcc uses it for their nested functions extension to C.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I just checked and it's mentioned in the elf and ld manpages. It should probably be called out more, but there is at least some documentation for it. from man elf: .note.GNU-stack This section is used in Linux object files for declarin
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by tbirdz 10y ago
-z noexecstack
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Don't forget about starter pistols for telling runners when a race starts. Also flare guns for signalling, although that might not count as a "real gun"?
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. Those look like some pretty cool resources, and I can't wait to check them out.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
This is a bit off topic, but would you mind sharing what resources you used to learn forth? I'm interested in the language myself, but I don't really get how to use it. I've learned the basics about defining words and manipul
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Master Lock Speed Dial(tedunangst.com)
1 points by tbirdz 10y ago|0 comments
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by tbirdz 10y ago
This page has a useful comparison between various scheme implementations. It's written by one of the authors of Guile Scheme: https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guid...
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by tbirdz 10y ago
The MIT license says "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." I would think that a binary distribution would count as a "copy or substant
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by tbirdz 10y ago
What are you talking about? Every open source license I can think of requires you to distribute the license with your binary: GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.
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Best successor to Scheme?(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
12 points by tbirdz 10y ago|0 comments
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LibreSSL – More Vague Promises(tedunangst.com)
41 points by tbirdz 10y ago|2 comments
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I've noticed that windows and microsoft developers tend to call it x64, while unix-like developers (linux, OS X, BSDs, etc) call it x86_64. Does anyone have any idea why this is? My personal theory is that mainstream Windows only runs
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Practical Unix Manuals - mdoc: structure, style, and composition(manpages.bsd.lv)
3 points by tbirdz 11y ago|1 comments
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8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video](gdcvault.com)
214 points by tbirdz 11y ago|44 comments
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Remora: An Array-Oriented Language with Static Rank Polymorphism [pdf](ccs.neu.edu)
2 points by tbirdz 11y ago|1 comments
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Not Smart Is Not Stupid(tedunangst.com)
158 points by tbirdz 11y ago|83 comments
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Firefox vs. rthreads(tedunangst.com)
220 points by tbirdz 11y ago|48 comments
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by tbirdz 11y ago
*.c
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Hi Jessa! Thanks for making the video, and welcome to Hacker News.
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Apple uses water damaged boards in Apple refurbished devices? [video](youtube.com)
92 points by tbirdz 11y ago|31 comments
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by tbirdz 11y ago
For a less rosy view of forth, http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.... is a fascinating read.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
The most fit genes propagate, not the most fit individuals. Your siblings have many of the same genes that you have. Say there is a gene A that will result in some individuals not reproducing, but will result in more members of their group
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by tbirdz 11y ago
The individual would still have other relatives who would pass on the genes, like sisters, brothers, other family members. If the individual's sacrifice helps the group survive, their genes would be passed on in those relatives. Also n
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by tbirdz 11y ago
First let me preface this by saying that I have no training in psychology or related fields, so this comment may be complete bunk. I think that suicide could have some evolutionary advantage in a group. Say there is a member of a group who
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by tbirdz 11y ago
VirtualAlloc is roughly equivalent in intent to POSIX's mmap. So anywhere that you'd use mmap in a Linux program, you'd probably use VirtualAlloc in Windows.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
That link is broken. Here is the real link: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
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by tbirdz 11y ago
To be fair, many old school demos are calling out to specialized hardware in their demos, for example the C64 SID chip, or Amiga graphics chipset. The API for accessing this hardware is not as high-level as DirectX, but it still serves as a

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