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841.
by thwarted 11y ago
If a venue uses ticketmaster, and breaks the contract, they can't sign with another ticket vendor for one year. Can't sign with another vendor per the contract they just broke?
842.
by thwarted 11y ago
From that wikipedia article: The above describes a typical transport system; however, manufacturers engineered many alternative designs. For example, some designs used a horizontal transport deck where the operator simply set the tape reel
843.
by thwarted 11y ago
Being "offered" a job is significantly different than being offered pet insurance. Not in a sellers' market, which tech hiring is right now. The email/messages from recruiters at issue are the ones that are obviously t
844.
by thwarted 11y ago
My reading is that /user is for data associated with twitter users/accounts, not meant to store things that go in /usr. /usr says system related stuff. /user is meant to be distinct from /logs and /tmp,
845.
by thwarted 11y ago
Ah, yes. Replacing Global variables in Win32 dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are visible across processes with Global variables in Win32 dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are visible across loaded libraries (or however it might be labeled) m
846.
by thwarted 11y ago
Global variables in Win32 dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are visible across processes, so it is important that developers are careful that these globals do not conflict with any variables within the Unix shared libraries. Does anyone have
847.
Creating a Unix Application Using the Win32 API (1998)(linux.cz)
42 points by thwarted 11y ago|39 comments
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Creating a Unix Application Using the Win32 API (1998)(linux.cz)
3 points by thwarted 11y ago|0 comments
849.
by thwarted 11y ago
In many cases, you are able to send a control-c, but the process that is generating the output receives it, not the process, the terminal program, that is rendering the text. You'd have to send a signal to the terminal program, which
850.
by thwarted 11y ago
There used to be a page from the IE for UNIX porting team[0] that talked about the challenges of a direct port. Last I checked, only a copy of the content could be found on a mailing list post[1]. There's some interesting stuff in the
851.
by thwarted 11y ago
I couldn't disargee more about Microsoft's current place in tech markets. They've lost quite a lot of weight since their 800lb gorilla days in the 90s. You are aware that the "World Domination" being referred to w
852.
by thwarted 11y ago
But learning to code takes passion, dedication, time and sometimes money. To expect everyone to learn how to design clothes, and design clothes well, on top of what they're already passion about is counterproductive. Another point is
853.
by thwarted 11y ago
If you work in fashion, you’re thinking about your design or your retail strategy. If you’re going to culinary school, you’re improving your recipes. If you’re a doctor, you’re spending time with your patients. Your focus is on your passio
854.
by thwarted 11y ago
If anyone in the Irving area has a electronics company, offer this kid an after-school job. It doesn't sound like his love for science/engineering/electronics has been significantly harmed, but we, as a society, need to keep
855.
by thwarted 11y ago
Which of the instances is the last "you" in your question?
856.
by thwarted 11y ago
Last time I used Access for anything (at all), you could put the database file on a shared drive and multiple people could use it. This was always clunky though.
857.
by thwarted 11y ago
In that case, wouldn't the floors actually be a good real-world example to students? It's a case where the index vs. offset convention seems to be split roughly 50%/50% around the world. I suppose it would be a good real wo
858.
by thwarted 11y ago
Oh, I know it's perfectly explained by that, but using an example of building floors has cultural idioms. Ruler measurements and birthdays seem to be more universal.
859.
by thwarted 11y ago
The visuals are definitely valuable in explaining this. It used to be popular, and still is in some circles, to debate whether programming languages ought start array indexing at 0 or 1. When talking about this with other programmers, I&#
860.
by thwarted 11y ago
that is basically a trickle-down assumption Invoking Reaganomics is a red-herring. It's used as a response to the kinds/quality of buildings built in the short term (or currently are being built) as if that's the only kind
861.
by thwarted 11y ago
I don't really believe in trickle-down economics or the magic ability of the free market to correct all social ills, I believe in directly helping those that need it most. In some cases, "those who need it most" only need i
862.
by thwarted 11y ago
https://github.com/erikh/jobd uses etcd for distribution of jobs.
863.
by thwarted 11y ago
Recognizing, managing, curating, and killing technical debt is something that only comes with experience. It's all about trade offs, and trade offs are informed by the environment they are in. When it's early and getting an MVP a
864.
by thwarted 11y ago
There's a great speculative scifi book called "Welcome to Moonbase" (Ben Bova, 1987)[0] that is written as an employee manual for people relocating to an established moon colony. There are sections on the history of the moon
865.
by thwarted 11y ago
Incredibly reliable device You never had to adjust the alignment of stepper motor in the 1541? The drive would "get out of alignment" because the copy protection on the commercial games would jam the head in the extreme edges of
866.
by thwarted 11y ago
Why can all this new syntax be added, but the "use strict" pragma is still specified by a string? It made sense to send messages to the interpreter in a backwards compatible way, but now it just seems odd.
867.
by thwarted 11y ago
I'm not sure how you arrived at this 3750 per second number. Processing 1.5 million messages for ⅓ of the time (1500000 messages / 30d / 8h / 60m / 60s) is an average of 1.7361 messages per second during those 8 hou
868.
by thwarted 11y ago
Yeah, I did research a while ago to find out where that patch came from when there was a lot of noise about how systemd needed to be pid 1.
869.
by thwarted 11y ago
Something that we often recommend is to create a separate email account for just your online purchases and promotions. If the user would forward things to this account (either manually or automatically) that would work, but few, if any, p
870.
by thwarted 11y ago
One little known feature added in Linux 3.4 is the PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER prctl(2) [0] that lets you designate the process as being a "subreaper" and it will be notified of any descending subprocess exits, just like init would be.

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