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by vortico 7y ago
Why not just release proprietary software if you want funding for your work? Selling licenses for using software is one of the easiest ways to fund software development since 1980. Customers have more respect for companies with straightforw
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by vortico 7y ago
Seems like some of them are spam, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toyotomi_Hideyosh... Does this mean Wikipedia's network was hacked by an unauthorized outsider? EDIT: Ah, sort of. A network miscon
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by vortico 7y ago
That example was given in the original post. That opinion is Raph Levien's ("One of my hopes for xi-editor is that the core would be lightweight"), so if that's the only example, the OP should have asked him directly.
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by vortico 7y ago
I'm still not convinced of your claim that "package maintainers optimize for <5mb binaries at the expense of usability". I've never heard anyone talk about that. Do you have more examples?
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by vortico 7y ago
If the software is open-source, it will just get forked in a branch that removes usage metric uploading. If you want to make money with software, just release proprietary software, not sure what's so difficult about this.
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by vortico 7y ago
I agree that most anecdotal startup advice is BS, which is why I barely pay attention to it. What I'd like more of is textbook-like material offering terminology and detailed case studies. Simply knowing the common name for something (
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by vortico 7y ago
This is really cool and looks/feels a lot like the Sublime Text minimap, which I use a lot. I have a feeling it might be abused a lot though, like scroll wheel hijacking.
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by vortico 7y ago
You're right, I was mistaken. And if the function is in the same compilation unit so the compiler is able to prove that it's pure, it would also be able to prove that a non-const pointer is actually const.
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by vortico 7y ago
Actually no, compilers can't assume that `foo` is const. var foo = 0; eval("foo = 1"); With that said, virtually nobody uses `const` for performance reasons, but for developer readability and avoiding mistakes.
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by vortico 7y ago
Yes, there are many cases where the caller can optimize the dependency chain / order of constFoo(x); constBar(x); where it couldn't make that assumption if one function wasn't const.
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by vortico 7y ago
This article is a reminder that many luxury goods don't have enough intrinsic value to account for their price. In those cases, marketing needs to actually add value to a product, not just inform people of the intrinsic value of a pr
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by vortico 7y ago
Hardware electronic musicians understand this well. :)
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by vortico 7y ago
How large do you think the design space is? Technically, it's enormous, maybe 8^15 possible melodies. But what about good-sounding melodies? That drastically reduces the space. What about memorable , good-sounding melodies? Most mel
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by vortico 7y ago
It's not 16 notes but three notes. C B A. The first note is repeated for a measure, the second is repeated for a half note, and the third is played once. Yes, it's undoubtedly a coincidence. See https://i.cbc.ca/1.
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by vortico 7y ago
Are there any cameras at a higher price with better stats, but still lower than $2k for a used Chronos 1.4GP/s? I wouldn't mind buying a $1k camera to get 720p 1000+ fps.
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by vortico 7y ago
Yeah, it looks like you're right. I thought the fine was for Google's French offices, but it was actually filed against the one-and-only Google. I'm not even sure there's a French office or data center.
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by vortico 7y ago
Ah, you are correct. That was less than a month ago too.
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by vortico 7y ago
I'm interested to see who the first US-headquartered company will be. My understanding is that US companies aren't immune when dealing with EU customers, but it might be more difficult for EU governments to enforce the fine. Googl
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by vortico 7y ago
I've never had a boss or customer say "I need those class names changed, and before Tuesday!" :) It sometimes helps achieve goals, but it's never the primary goal itself.
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by vortico 7y ago
Nice trick, that solves the problem of hitting Ctrl-C and the script sometimes looping again.
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by vortico 7y ago
Haha nice. I do basically the same thing except with a script. while true; do sleep 900 zenity --entry --text="what u doin" >> done.txt done Although now it's just a reminder that isn't
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by vortico 7y ago
Interesting. I've pieced together something like this for https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack/tree/v1/include/simd in C++11, but it only works for SSE2.
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by vortico 7y ago
Software compiled against glibc links to versioned symbols, which are backwards compatible in ABI and behavior. I'm unsure of the reason you experienced breaking software when upgrading your glibc version.
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by vortico 7y ago
No idea what you mean other than that you just want to mock someone. acollins1331 is the person looking for alternatives, not me.
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by vortico 7y ago
What is your proposal for an alternative to FedEx, UPS, USPS, Royal Post, etc? Thousands of small independently-owned shipping companies? How would that work when you need to ship a package from/to arbitrary locations in the entire US&
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by vortico 7y ago
Solving a puzzle would be much more fun than identifying street lights and then waiting 20 seconds for Google's RECAPTCHA to "check" the result. Unfortunately both of these things can be easily broken with bots. The data Goog
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by vortico 7y ago
What makes it "open"? What makes it different than other trackers that don't require registration?
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by vortico 7y ago
I used to use Vimeo for hosting product videos that I embedded onto my website. It was better than YouTube because it didn't show "recommended videos" (often with competitors' products or useless videos) after it finishe
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by vortico 7y ago
I'm wondering the same. I'd guess that 99% of science code that uses the GPU now depends on CUDA. The other 1% use other third-party GPU frontends which might also be tuned for Nvidia GPUs. I feel that it's good to use the AM
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by vortico 7y ago
I think I accidentally erased a sentence in an edit... When working with a manufacturer's RAW format, there is a defined way to get the values (R, G, B, T_from) as a result of demosaicing. For example, in the author's photo post-d

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