vortico

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by vortico 7y ago
Can confirm. I need to send payments from the US to ~30 international contractors per quarter. I generate a spreadsheet of their names and payment amounts. I click on their name in TransferWise's "saved recipients" page. I co
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by vortico 7y ago
The reason it's my pet peeve is because I use "begging the question" in its correct form all the time to describe an otherwise difficult concept. Once you put a name on something, it's much easier to understand and talk
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by vortico 7y ago
This is my only grammatical pet peeve, so thanks for the link. I'll be posting that around some. :)
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by vortico 7y ago
Honestly I can't think of a much better system that can support a billion websites. What would you change/overhaul about the current system if you could ignore compatibility?
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by vortico 7y ago
I've never seen a userdir URL being used with anything but raw static HTML with no or little JS. Generally the type of people who use these hosts don't use cookies or local storage at all. They just want to post a few web pages, p
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by vortico 7y ago
No, because `c` can't be 1 and 2 at the same time.
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by vortico 7y ago
Perhaps a better comparison to the switch statement is if (c == 4) return 30; if (c == 5) return 70; return 0;
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by vortico 7y ago
Ah I see, gotcha.
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by vortico 7y ago
Are you talking about the `else` being non-symmetric? You don't need it at all. I do this. if (c == 1) { first case ; } if (c == 2) { second case; }
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by vortico 7y ago
Clang compiles both switch statements and `if` statements to the same tree search code. E.g. https://godbolt.org/z/7M_3PU My point is that the optimizations you're describing for switch statements are also applied
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by vortico 7y ago
Is this what you mean by more clusters? Looks like clang compiles the two functions to roughly the same "tree search" code. https://godbolt.org/z/7M_3PU
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by vortico 7y ago
Looks the same to me. https://godbolt.org/z/CfhD5k Switches were invented mostly because they were an easy hint to the compiler to reduce to a tree search, but because compilers are smart today, they're obsolete u
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by vortico 7y ago
Just a reminder that in most compiled and JIT optimized languages with switches, this switch (c) { case 4: return 30; case 5: return 70; default: return 0; } compiles to the same instructions and therefore same performa
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by vortico 7y ago
I'm looking for a volunteer to add Csound as a script backend to VCV Prototype ( https://vcvrack.com/Prototype ), or any other scripting language of your choice that's not already available. Open an issue if interes
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by vortico 7y ago
About the header slugs: I don't think the content of the header should be the anchor ID. Readers will link to it, the author will fix a spelling issue or whatever, and the link will break and other readers will arrive at the top of the
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by vortico 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv2dIM3t9I
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by vortico 7y ago
No. It's an unrelated set of rules. The best way to simulate a disease is to model each person in the country as an individual agent. Even a naive movement model for humans won't look like anything like bird flocking.
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by vortico 7y ago
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by vortico 7y ago
Looks like a direct clone of BountySource (in the same way that GitLab cloned GitHub), but this looks a lot better and solves some of the UI problems of BountySource.
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by vortico 7y ago
Users can enjoy these four freedoms when using our software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html If you're asking what we benefit from doing this, not much. We could have released proprietary software
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by vortico 7y ago
I can't speak for others, but many of my company's open-source projects are not open-contribution (meaning I don't accept PRs unless I hire you). Features are added because funding comes from somewhere else, but it would be n
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by vortico 7y ago
Can we stop talking about $300? It was a random number used as a variable that can be replaced with any dollar amount.
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by vortico 7y ago
On my own open-source projects, there are hundreds or thousands of issues I'd solve in half a day if I got $300/ea. That'd keep me fully employed for months or years! And I actually have the users that would donate 6 figures
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by vortico 7y ago
To test this, I signed up and pretended to contribute to a random project. "Where's the place to enter my credit card info to fund a grant??" 99% of users would leave at that point. Yes, I'm aware this is based on a cr
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by vortico 7y ago
This makes me think. Is there a service that handles crowd-sourcing and processing payments a bit like Kickstarter but on a smaller scale? Say, if someone proposes a feature and the developer says "I'll do it for $300", users
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by vortico 7y ago
Why don't you have admin on your gaming computer?
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$200 bounty for open-source C/C++ fuzzy string search library(community.vcvrack.com)
3 points by vortico 7y ago|0 comments
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by vortico 7y ago
This list doesn't include the Screen Capture API. https://www.w3.org/TR/screen-capture/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt... https://
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by vortico 7y ago
In my experience, 90% of locally-owned restaurants have gift cards. So what's the point of a website that attempts to list 90% of restaurants? Why not just use Google Maps?
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by vortico 7y ago
Yeah, they spent all this time/funding creating a cool webpage and then the government will probably begin blocking traffic that looks like Minecraft. Why not just host a proxy server and skip the BS?

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