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by tsahyt 14y ago
It is. Sounds like a big waste of performance to me.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Running out of swap and memory is one thing, although unlikely considering how much of that stuff we've got nowadays. I for instance have 8gb of main memory and 10gb of swap space. 300mb are used after system boot (still too much). That lea
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Very interesting read. Makes me wanna rewatch the movie, which by the way I though was great. Just my two cents: I think pretty much everyone is "mentally ill" in his or her own way. Me, personally I've identified myself in quite a few bull
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by tsahyt 14y ago
As an end user, I can keep web designers from messing with my settings.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Someone has to do it: A cheap copy of the Goophone i5 we had here a couple of days ago!
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by tsahyt 14y ago
gcc -S is usually preferable, since you don't get all the code produced/included by the linker to get the thing running.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
My calculus classes actually have made me a better programmer. Depends on the problems you're facing though.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I think a good C programmer should have a grasp on how assembly works. This can come in incredibly handy for debugging weird errors. Yes there are bugs that are weird enough to only become evident in assembly code. An understanding of assem
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Upvote to counter the downvote. I see no reason for downvoting here. People do like to see Apple as the underdog, even though some part of them realizes that headlines like "Apple Now Biggest-Ever U.S. Company" (WSJ) kind of contradict wi
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Linux has way too little market share on the desktop anyway. Especially when considering that it does all the things the average consumer wants, ever since hardware compatibility problems have virtually gone away. I think the main reason is
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by tsahyt 14y ago
That thing is an audio plugin for music production. That sort of UI is what many producers want , because they want it to resemble the actual hardware they had two decades ago. Whether this thing was an actual product or not doesn't make a
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by tsahyt 14y ago
There you go with some data for desktop OSes. Slightly more OSX users than Linux though. Still not a significant amount. http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-PL-monthly-201108-201208-bar
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I don't know about the general public, but I don't buy Apple products for a variety of reasons, this being one of them.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I'm going to go against what seems to be the opinion of lots of designers and bloggers these days and say: I actually like skeuomorphism, if it's well executed. EDIT: I'm talking about visuals now. How it affects usability is part of "wel
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by tsahyt 14y ago
This is true, yes. The kind of performance C delivers is often only achieved by C, Fortran and some other compiler languages. But that's not the point of what I was saying. I was talking about speeding up the Python language . That's what
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by tsahyt 14y ago
It's not really a new insight that planetary bodies outside the "habitable zone" can have large bodies of liquid water. The moon Europa, orbiting Jupiter, is known to have an ice-covered ocean for quite a while now. The reason for the liqui
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by tsahyt 14y ago
First of all, the C code will return wrong answers because of integer overflow for sufficiently large inputs. But since this is only for the sake of an explanation on Python performance, I'm willing to take that. What disturbs me much more
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Browsing habits aside, I find something else annoying about it. When I click on the article, and the video sits in the middle of the page with text above it, I want to read the text until I reach the video, then watch the video, then contin
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I completely agree with you. When I'm not hacking, I'm a musician. I'm currently beginning work on an album and thought about putting it under a free license. However, this album will roughly be half a year of full-time work (yes, that kind
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-... Seems legit. But you're right, it won't stand up in any court.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
The cycles part is actually non-negligible. Those things are usually so horribly written that they'll eat up processing time in big chunks. But that's not a Flash-only problem. I've seen JS-things on webpages actually spinning up my laptops
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Yes you're right, I got terribly mixed up here. My apologies. That got me interested in the regions history (of which, as I just demonstrated, I have no clue) though, I'll read into it a little when I've got some spare time.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, but never auto-play video (or audio) content on a website. If I want it to be played, I click on it, otherwise it's just annoying.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> very hard to believe there's a patent system anywhere that doesn't require you to attest that the thing your applying to patent was invented by you. 11 years ago a man from Australia patented the wheel. It's obvious he didn't invent i
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by tsahyt 14y ago
German production is almost always superior in quality to the far-east products, there's no doubt about that. You've got to give that to the germans, they do know how to produce things. They're more expensive though, and unfortunately that
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> I would never have the final product made in China. But you are aware, that FoxConn, who are a major company in the production of the iPhone have their HQ in Taipeh, which is, coincidently, in China? Other products made by FoxConn are
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Same here. I ran it until my device (HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2 in the US) was discontinued by the MIUIAndroid folks.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
That would in fact be pretty devastating for Apple I believe.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Don't know about entrepreneurs, but he certainly is a good role model for drivers (professional ones, that is).
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Sometimes it's the honest way though. But you're right, polite people come across as more professional. So is it any better when someone tells a customer to "fuck off" in a polite way (pretend there is one)?

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