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by vilya 15y ago
No, but it does say "registration will be open next week" in big letters...
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by vilya 15y ago
Thanks everyone. My curiosity has been satisified.
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by vilya 15y ago
This looks like it would be a great language to tackle the Project Euler problems with - which is usually a good sign, in my book. A big-int type would be nice though.
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by vilya 15y ago
Totally off-topic, but why do some people write 'mm' when they mean (I presume) million? From the subject line I initially thought Duck Duck Go had passed 1 millimetre of searches per day.
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by vilya 15y ago
This looks really interesting. Thanks for posting it!
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by vilya 15y ago
To be truly great you need both skillsets. Otherwise you're merely good. In my opinion.
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by vilya 15y ago
At risk of putting words into your mouth, what you're saying here is "some software is open source and that's ok". I couldn't agree more - I've even made a few small contributions to open source projects myself. But the way I read the paren
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by vilya 15y ago
Which I'm sure will be a great comfort to them when they're struggling to feed themselves, because they've donated all that wealth to the "community". Would you apply the same argument to your own line of work?
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by vilya 15y ago
As a counter-example, there were some great sci fi novels written in the 80s and 90s which I'm only just discovering & I fully believe the author still deserves money for them. How about 14 years from the date at which the author transf
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by vilya 15y ago
This sort of response, I'm afraid, is why we can't have nice things. The author has taken the time to make their code available and make it as free as possible to reuse. Why should they have to spare a second thought for the roadblocks you
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by vilya 15y ago
Compiler optimisations aren't always designed to be semantically equivalent - for instance options which control floating point behaviour, like -ffast-math in gcc. That aside, sometimes compilers themselves have bugs as others have pointe
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by vilya 15y ago
I think you're making the same mistakes as people on that thread. It's a long stretch from "there's some x87 assembly instructions and some function calls that could be inlined" to "they compiled with optimisations off". It's entirely possi
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by vilya 15y ago
I think semi-competent there was probably supposed to mean "less competent than average", not "more competent than average".
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by vilya 15y ago
Everything on that page gives me the impression that it's a solid 48hrs; maybe you need to adjust the copy? The explanation posted elsewhere on this thread by mikeinterviewst makes it sound more reasonable. I'm probably not your target audi
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by vilya 15y ago
This sounds absolutely awful from a candidates point of view. 48 hours is a very long time for what is effectively an extended technical interview. The hackathon format works well for one-off fun events, but no-one should ever be pulling 48
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by vilya 15y ago
Only if you're uploading data to it just once per frame. And you're not doing stereo.
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by vilya 15y ago
For what it's worth, I'm one customer they've driven away. Their handling of the hacking attack was the final straw for me: it finally convinced me that continuing to buy things through PSN would be unwise. I bought an Apple TV as a replace
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by vilya 15y ago
> Since creating an object requires specifically allocating it on the heap, having it destruct when the pointer leaves scope is no good. It is actually possible for compilers to help out with this in many cases: http://en.wikipedia.org
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by vilya 15y ago
I don't think language flamewars are very interesting - especially ones based on political rather than technical grounds - so let's just say that I should have qualified my statement with "in my opinion" and leave it at that. Re: the origin
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by vilya 15y ago
I thought the Google leaving China thing was about government sponsored attempts to hack them, not about blocking?
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by vilya 15y ago
Character classes would trip you up, I think. e.g. \w for word characters.
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by vilya 15y ago
Because no-ones bothered to build one using the ATI cards, maybe? I would guess the main attraction of Nvidia cards was probably CUDA, which is still a nicer environment to program for than OpenCL and seems to have a more lively ecosystem o
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by vilya 15y ago
I think it's on a par with clean, well commented code: people with the right experience and know-how can do it as they go without any extra effort; others will need to go back and rework it to get to the same point - and that's time that th
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by vilya 15y ago
I often wished for some kind of professional certification scheme when I was interviewing for developers, because so many of the people I interviewed were just wasting my time. It would have been a useful filter, so long as it were implemen
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by vilya 15y ago
Fair enough, I haven't tried Android on a more recent device so my experience is certainly out of date. But when there are this many people saying there's a problem, surely it would make sense - especially for a fundamentally data-driven co
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by vilya 15y ago
That directly contradicts my own experience with Android. I bought a HTC Hero as my first smartphone, so I didn't have any reference points to compare it with. Over 18 painful months of owning that phone I never got used to the lagginess of
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by vilya 15y ago
I think Charlie's worrying about Amazon putting him out of business, meaning he won't be able to afford to write books any more and will have to find alternative employment. If you like Charlie's books - like I do! - that's definitely aga
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by vilya 15y ago
You could say the same about drinking water. Fundamental rights don't necessarily come free of charge.
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by vilya 15y ago
Actually, bubble sort has very nice access locality characteristics which mean it can be a great solution in some circumstances...
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by vilya 15y ago
That first link in particular is excellent. Thanks for posting it!

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