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by tspiteri 15y ago
What if someone changes "int" to "uint"? It wouldn't even infinite loop / crash... It would remove exactly one element! I can't see that. If i is a uint, at the end of the first cycle, i-- changes i to the maximum uint, then i++ changes i
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I did not mean that religious dogma can be neither true nor false, that would indeed be bullshit. What I meant is that, in this context, if the question is "Is religious dogma true?", the answer will be neither "Yes" nor "No", it will be "T
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by tspiteri 15y ago
What I was trying to say is that Dawkins believes that religious dogma is false, and he tries to convince people that religion is wrong by debunking religious dogma. But that does not work, see olavk's comment for the reason why I think it
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by tspiteri 15y ago
But then 'really' modifies 'were too young', not 'to cope'.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
From the Oxford A–Z of Grammar and Punctuation by John Seely: split infinitive The infinitive is the form of the verb made by adding to to its stem: to go Some traditionalists say that you should never place anything between the to an
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by tspiteri 15y ago
Further to this, I've found this excerpt from Richard Feynman's "Is Electricity Fire?" in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : And then one day—I guess it was a Saturday—I want to go up in the elevator, and there's a guy standing near the
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by tspiteri 15y ago
Dawkins' treatment of religion seems to me to a bit shallow. He seems to argue far too much about how true religious dogma is or isn't, but that can only give a superficial treatment of religion. It might seem, especially to a scientist, th
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by tspiteri 15y ago
The Simple English Wikipedia is also for people with different needs. Readers may be students, children, and adults who may find it hard to learn, and people who are trying to learn English. Other people use the Simple English Wikipedia be
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by tspiteri 15y ago
My intention was to suggest an easy way to view the actual source. I think your example is actually better as an example as it is easy to see the source both before and after the function is called.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
To see the actual source in Firefox 6, I just viewed the source without dismissing the alert, there was no need to disable anything. The only thing is that with the alert, I couldn't right click on the page and click on "View Page Source",
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by tspiteri 15y ago
Well, not that many people are on HN before their 1,000,000th second. (1000000 seconds = 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds)
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by tspiteri 15y ago
Yes, he does spend time to think. Even when he's saying that you can please some people some of the time, you can tell that that is not the real answer, he's still thinking. I think that's his method, say some fluff to fill the time while t
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I find that use of goto quite confusing, and would prefer a comment in such a case: switch( machineState ){ case ALPHA: ... break; case BETA: ... /* fallthrough */ case GAMMA:
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by tspiteri 15y ago
SMS is more secure than email. I would not send my credit card details over email. Would it be so bad to send credit card details using SMS?
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I think that Google's interpretation of "Don't be evil" is consistent with money making. They do it because they believe that in the long run, they will be more valuable if they are not "evil". Doing what is morally objectionable may lead t
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by tspiteri 15y ago
(from reading discussions like this one on computer-oriented websites I have come to believe that nerds are especially easy to frame by a police man who recognizes a nerds innate desire to outsmart others, and to show it off. Look at where
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by tspiteri 15y ago
A hack does not have to be about programming. If you want to qualify hacks as 'marketing hacks' or whatever else, you would need to qualify your preferred kind of hacks as 'programming hacks' as well.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I missed that too. Now I have found an extension, which is not yet in yum, but it's not too hard to install following the instructions in the README. https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-...
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by tspiteri 15y ago
The BBC site has a more detailed article from three days ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14047670 It says that the organ was made of glass in London, and then flown to Sweden and soaked for two days in a solution of the patient's st
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I think the author means the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, which have been called the War in the Balkans by some.
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Microsoft plans for C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP)(zdnet.com)
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by tspiteri 15y ago
The arguments against large commit size do not hold in this case. If you look at it, the patch consists of a few changes to Makefile.am, configure.ac, man/intel.man, src/Makefile.am, and src/intel_module.c, which contain no significant logi
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by tspiteri 15y ago
But if you say something nasty about them, I don't think they can even defend themselves because they cannot say anything about your health story, so it is a bit more complex than just running a business.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand you. How is focusing your own work on the one platform you care about the same as being closed? Everything is still open, and if a platform wants to support GNOME, they are free to do the work themselves; I'm sure
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by tspiteri 15y ago
I'm not sure GNOME is becoming a Linux-only project, but if it were, I wouldn't see anything wrong with that. I think it is somehow similar to the window manager issue from a few years ago, where some people wanted GNOME to support lots of
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by tspiteri 15y ago
Perhaps your experience with brilliant people is actually a good reflection on your own attitude. I can imagine brilliant people acting "arrogant" towards people who expect too much from them, but acting nice towards people who are not unre
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by tspiteri 15y ago
The article, and quite a few posts here, describe the way they understand the Fourier Transform as the way to understand the Fourier Transform. For it to be intuitive depends on who is trying to understand it. Getting that out of the way, t
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by tspiteri 15y ago
No offense, but this article doesn't say anything insightful or novel about aging other than rehashing what is relatively obvious. I find myself saying this quite a few times too. But sometimes I wonder, is it because of such articles tha
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by tspiteri 15y ago
The properties you mention are mainly "low level" properties, which in the end affect the "high level" properties that are speed and power consumption. For example capacitance limits clock speed and also has an effect on power consumption,
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by tspiteri 15y ago
That may be true for a processor, but when talking about transistors, I think that clock speed and power consumption are the metrics to measure.

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