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Broadword Implementation of Rank/Select Queries [pdf](vigna.di.unimi.it)
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SQL Server: I use C# and write line-of-business applications.
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by tjalfi 6y ago
Life is too short to reevaluate every technology I've had a bad experience with. You only get one chance to make a first impression - I'll probably stick with it unless I get an excellent reason to change my mind. How often do you
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by tjalfi 6y ago
MDCD[0], an open source DOS archiver, used the .MD extension in 1988. [0] https://www.sac.sk/download/pack/mdcd10.zip
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by tjalfi 6y ago
It's been years (2009) since I administered a mail server but I think this is also true of Sendmail.
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by tjalfi 6y ago
Types and Programming Languages[0] by Benjamin C. Pierce is a good introduction to type theory and programming languages. [0] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
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by tjalfi 6y ago
I'm a high-functioning autistic and have Alzheimer's disease in my family. I wouldn't wish either of these on anyone - the future will just have to get along without any of my offspring.
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by tjalfi 6y ago
There's a lot more to LINQ than that. LINQ is extensible and you can connect it to arbitrary data sources by writing a query provider. awesome-linq[0] has some examples of what can be done with it. [0] https://github.com&#x2
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by tjalfi 6y ago
ParaSail[0] is a parallel language that is being developed by Ada Core Technologies. It evaluates statements and expressions in parallel subject to data dependencies. The paper ParaSail: A Pointer-Free Pervasively-Parallel Language for Irre
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by tjalfi 6y ago
That's pretty much how the Video Privacy Protection Act[0] was passed. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
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Engines of Democracy (1999)(fastcompany.com)
1 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
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If you use .NET then CsvHelper[0] supports multi character separators. [0] https://joshclose.github.io/CsvHelper/
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by tjalfi 6y ago
string.Split is far from native support. If you don’t want to use third-party libraries then TextFieldParser[0] is part of the .NET framework. I use CsvHelper[1] in my projects. It can do pretty much anything although the newer versions hav
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by tjalfi 6y ago
Here's a response that he can use when people comment on his youthful appearance. "You look so young." "I have this portrait in my attic."
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Hard-Coding Bottom-Up Code Generation Tables to Save Time and Space (1991) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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Cisco Jabber also embeds a browser engine. I think of Electron as Gresham's law in action.
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Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful (1976) [pdf](dspace.mit.edu)
44 points by tjalfi 7y ago|12 comments
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Division by constants is another example. C compilers will convert constant divides into reciprocal multiplication. All the handwritten assembly I have seen uses the divide instruction.
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by tjalfi 7y ago
If you have any third-party Outlook add-ins enabled, you might try disabling them. There are a lot of poorly written add-ins out there.
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Dark is another startup that wrote an Elm to OCaml translator[0] after a previous language update broke their code[1]. [0] https://medium.com/darklang/philip2-an-elm-to-reasonml-compi... [1] https://lobste.r
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by tjalfi 7y ago
GNU Rope never shipped but it looks like the source code is here[0]. [0] www.hungry.com/~shaver/gropt.tar.bz2
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by tjalfi 7y ago
Google has their search, ads, and pending browser monopoly to fund their endeavors. Most companies don't.
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If it’s a large company, wait 5 to 10 years for the IETF to mangle the design and Cisco to add support for the botched protocol.
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by tjalfi 7y ago
Typo was added in Research Unix V5[0] and also present in V6[1]. It isn't in V7, my guess is that it was replaced by spell. I don't think it would be difficult to get it compile on a modern system. [0] https://github.co
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by tjalfi 7y ago
[0] has an example of inline C# code. [0] https://dandraka.com/2018/11/12/powershell-how-do-you-add-in...
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by tjalfi 7y ago
One of my classmates in an IT course was named Aragorn. I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know.
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It’s a statement of fact. My town prohibits leases under a week but that hasn’t stopped AirBnb from accepting listings there.
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There are at least 6 people on my team who come into work when they are sick. All of us can work from home, have excellent medical insurance, and are on salary. I asked in a staff meeting and was told that telling or suggesting people go ho
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by tjalfi 7y ago
[0] is the Washington state Department of Public Health's page. [0] https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus
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by tjalfi 7y ago
This has come up a couple times ([0][1]) before. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483731

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