tokenrove

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by tokenrove 13y ago
C++11 is a vast improvement, for me, over earlier versions of the language. I still think it's a mess of a language, and the usual caveat applies (no one knows all of C++ well -- know what subset you're using and be aware of what
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Montreal has a very low cost of living, but taxes are high.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
I find it interesting that you decide that assumptions about software process maturity are dubious but are happy to make assumptions about the lack of utility of "brain teaser" questions or personality tests.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Indeed; according to this author, the guys at Naughty Dog were "awful" (writing their own compiler) during a period where I would have killed to work with them.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Ten or fifteen years ago one of the fastest make or break questions I would ask was "what version control system do you use?" (and of course, whether they were using nothing(!) or ClearCase or VSS or CVS would immediately say a lo
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Actually, there's a (devil's advocate) argument for teaching assembly first. After all, TAOCP is all assembly for good reason. Many programmers who never learn any assembly language lack a kind of procedural literacy, as well as
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Right, but it's important to emphasize what stiff was talking about, that the structure of the narrative needs to be oriented towards the human instead of the machine, because so many people don't bother to do this and decide that
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Hm. No mention of the obvious IRC connection.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Last year, I spent about six months without regular Internet access. It was fascinating watching my muscle memory adjust, and it got me thinking about how I worked in the past. Not just StackOverflow (which I don't find very useful f
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by tokenrove 13y ago
It would be nice if you supported ohloh in addition to github, since it tracks a much broader set of open source projects.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Well, it does look like a gcc bug at first glance. It's no surprise that the constant involved is 2*1024^3, since that's the maximum value it expects n can ever be. Since gcc assumes signed integer arithmetic does not overflow f
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Definitely. I find that walking outside, daily, is very important, and easy to forget to do when you're working from home really intensely.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Unless you verify against a PGP signature with trusted keys.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
I switched to Dvorak seven or eight years ago to see if it would help with RSI issues I was having. It helped a lot, and I never switched back. Sometimes I have to type QWERTY (at kiosks at the library, for example) and I just laugh at ho
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by tokenrove 13y ago
The type system is tough to get a grip on. I would say it's a challenging language to get started in, but it has a combination of features that nothing else really has, so it's arguably worth it. I understand ATS2 improves thing
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by tokenrove 13y ago
I like ATS a lot ( http://www.ats-lang.org/ ). It's unfortunate it doesn't have much of a community.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Someone needs to start a twitter account that tweets APL one-liners (or tell me about it, if it already exists).
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by tokenrove 13y ago
Comparing Joyce with schizophrenia is to understand neither and to do a grave disservice to both.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
It's hip with the kids as a bizarre nostalgia item. Can't understand it myself. At shows, you'll often see bands selling cassette tapes with download codes, sometimes as their sole physical media option. It's become w
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by tokenrove 13y ago
It's more fun and less stressful with a team; at least if they're people you enjoy spending time and solving problems with. FWIW, I had the same experience as you with this contest last year, doing it solo, although in general I
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by tokenrove 13y ago
So, just like Lisp, then.
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by tokenrove 13y ago
It's a typical stance taken by people ignorant of the grievances of a minority or oppressed group. It's like saying, "I believe all the problems here are simple and solved except for trivial exceptions". "I believ
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by tokenrove 13y ago
In the case of something like the Gameboy, Nintendo still profits from selling old software for that platform, emulated on their newer consoles. The more interesting question is in the cases of businesses that fail. Though I can't ima
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by tokenrove 13y ago
SD ( http://syncwith.us/sd/ ) is a promising approach.
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by tokenrove 14y ago
No; I know dozens of people, including myself, who do not have cell phones, and have no intention of getting one. I find this an extremely obnoxious assumption by Google (and others) -- it's not like we're luddites; it's frequently the pro
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by tokenrove 14y ago
I do listen to music sometimes when programming, but it's interesting to note the study cited in DeMarco and Lister's Peopleware (IIRC) where they found programmers (in a ridiculously contrived study) who listened to music produced "less in
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by tokenrove 14y ago
I use gmail exactly as he describes, with gnus as my client. All the addresses registered with gmail are unaffected when sending via SMTP.
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by tokenrove 14y ago
AFAIR, registering your other email addresses with gmail ("Send as") works fine to prevent this behavior.