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by vilya 15y ago
In the UK something like this exists already, in a limited form: British Telecom has a service called FON which anyone with one of their wifi routers can opt in to for free. When you opt in, you agree to share a limited amount of the bandwi
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by vilya 16y ago
I dunno, the 3DS looks pretty interesting...
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by vilya 16y ago
Just because I haven't seen it mentioned yet, here's a solution using gcc's computed goto feature: #include <cstdio> int main(int argc, char** argv) { void* labels[2] = { &&doing, &&done }; int i = 1;
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by vilya 16y ago
Your first idea is exactly what Autodesk's Mudbox does. I can't speak for the games industry but it's a reasonably successful product in the VFX industry. See http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=13565063&#3... for more detail
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by vilya 16y ago
UML and case tools were all the rage 5-10 years ago, but have fallen out of favour with the rise of Agile methodologies. I have a feeling* that the teaching of software engineering at university lags about that same distance behind current
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by vilya 16y ago
That's interesting, because personally I find running outside boring whereas on a treadmill I can use the time & distance readouts to help me stay motivated (e.g I'll just keep going until the timer gets to the next multiple of 5 minute
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by vilya 16y ago
It does, I think. OpenCL's trump card is that it works on non-Nvidia devices as well. I believe that'll ultimately be enough for it to win out, despite the technical merit being in favour of CUDA right now.
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by vilya 16y ago
BitC maybe (if it ever reaches a stable 1.0 release): http://www.bitc-lang.org/ Cyclone would be another candidate: http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/ Cilk would be another interesting option, with its built-in support for concurrency: ht
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by vilya 16y ago
Sorry, I meant the Quicktime library. QuicktimeX uses QtKit which is 64-bit, but QtKit still calls out to Quicktime 7 for a lot of tasks; and Quicktime 7, as far as I know, still has no 64-bit version. There's an Ars Technica page with some
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by vilya 16y ago
Hopefully this means they'll finally release a 64-bit version of QuickTime too!
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by vilya 16y ago
Yeah. With operator overloading, automatic type conversions, template expansions and so on it's a fair criticism.
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You don't have a clue and you should stop pretending that you do(altdevblogaday.org)
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by vilya 16y ago
It also makes life easier if you like to have several code windows open side by side while you work. I got introduced to this approach a few years ago by a colleague and I've loved it ever since (I actually use vertical splits in Vim FWIW;
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by vilya 16y ago
Surely in a case which revolves around technology like this it's reasonable to expect the judge to have some technical knowledge? The job of a judge is to interpret the law as it applies to a particular case; if they have no knowledge of th
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by vilya 16y ago
Here's a C++ 0x version, using a lambda function: #include <iostream> #include <algorithm> int main(int argc, char** argv) { int src[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4 }; int* end = std::remove_if(src, src + sizeof(src) / siz
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by vilya 16y ago
Anonymous begins to remind me of the rabbit from Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End"...
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by vilya 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, have you thought about going the academic route and publishing your research in a journal, or presenting it at a conference? You're likely to get more attribution for it that way, I would have thought.
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by vilya 16y ago
Didn't we all already figure this out during the first dotcom bubble? The brand is the important thing, not the URL.
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by vilya 16y ago
Bing seems to be working with Facebook, at least to some extent: they're one of the first services to make use of Facebook's new "Instant Personalisation" feature.
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by vilya 16y ago
"In addition, debugging with print requires more understanding, so it's more likely to be correct than debugging with a debugger." I don't believe this is true. I suspect the way most people use print statements for debugging goes something
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by vilya 16y ago
You can rebuild your program while you're running gdb on it. Next time you restart the program you're debugging, it will pick up the rebuilt version and all your breakpoints and watches will still be intact. There's even a built-in gdb comm
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by vilya 16y ago
Christer Ericson's book "Real-time Collision Detection" covers all this and much, much more in a very readable (IMO) fashion. The companion website for the book is at http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/ and the blog on that site can be
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by vilya 16y ago
I read that as more of a goal statement than a description. Whether or not you think they've succeeded, they certainly seem to have put a lot of effort towards that goal: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/
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by vilya 16y ago
A lot of effort has gone into this; it's a shame to see so many disparaging posts here. I think the developers should be applauded for their work. Between this and Ubuntu's plans to adopt Wayland in place of X, there are some interesting ti
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by vilya 16y ago
Unfortunately the comment "Running a real estate website? OK... you’re not allowed to show the asking price or address of any home. Go." describes some of the most annoying real estate websites I've come across. While restrictions can encou
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by vilya 16y ago
I really wish they'd get rid of the hardware back button. Some apps, like the gmail app, use it to mean "go back up one level in the UI" - for example from reading a mail back up to the list of mail in your inbox. Other apps, like the brows
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by vilya 16y ago
From your earlier post though, you're only 1 or two years into your CS course? If that's your exposure then I'd agree: the stuff you learn in the early part of a CS course is the stuff that a bright person could figure out for themselves. I
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by vilya 16y ago
Do you trust the politicians that you rely on to run your country?
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by vilya 16y ago
The two big differences, IIRC, were that XML-RPC didn't support authentication or any kind of structured types while SOAP did. Those were things that people at the time thought they needed.
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by vilya 16y ago
The GPL is not about freedom for users, it's about freedom for source code.

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