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by wiz21 11y ago
100% agree. Look at : - asbestos - car exhaust pollution all of those are so silent, so invisible and kill or hurt so many more people.
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by wiz21 11y ago
I use to think like that, but then there's practice over theory : 1/ When a coder thinks about writing "if a <= b", then he writes "if a <= b", he easily forgets that he should write "if a <= b +
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by wiz21 11y ago
>>> Participation in the pilot project was optional and those who opted in were given contracts that made them owners of their own data. "optional" like you have the choice in this free society : or you wear the damn badg
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by wiz21 11y ago
I don't agree that people think that incentivisation is the only way to make the world go round. That's a very poor vision of what humans are. By the same kind of logic, governments are not efficient; water supplies should be priv
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by wiz21 11y ago
No private didn't win. But public, that is, you and I, clearly lost.
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by wiz21 11y ago
Given that language is actually language+libraries; and that libraries come to life depending on the good will of their creators; and that good creators just choose their languages preferences; and that new languages are created every year
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by wiz21 11y ago
Don't know where the guy lives but for me cx_freeze + PySide +SQLAclhemy make a great combination to build a good desktop app on windows. It works fine, builds all the time. I can admit that I had to work a bit on it, taht's for s
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by wiz21 11y ago
is it me or is it continuation passing style ?
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by wiz21 11y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why will the : "existing holdings will return to their yesterday prices at some point" ? The way you put it seems so inevitable (although "at some point" may be 100 years from now). So, as you&#x
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by wiz21 11y ago
Agreed. We're pickier. I work on application that ditributes about 1E9 euros a year (so it's smaller than a bank but that's not exactly a small application either). We're maintenance-mode now. When I hire, I need : some
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by wiz21 11y ago
Moved a rather big, produciton running, project (100000 LOC) recently. Was not easy but now I've this very warm, conforting feeling, that if something happens in the future, I'll be ready for it :-) (now considering the adoption r
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by wiz21 11y ago
I was shocked by the "magic of markets" analysis. When there's no more bread, people make more bread ? Nope, bread becomes more expensive. Especially with automation : it's harder for new baker to start in the market, so
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by wiz21 11y ago
Because : - lots of information is ambient at the team place - because not all people are that concentrated at home - because working alone is difficult sometimes (especially when you're under stress) - because you're harder to co
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by wiz21 12y ago
> They aren't called patterns, they are called techniques. I totally agree. That's weird to see the n+1-th geek discovering something people have been doing since the dawn of humanity. Damn, we're just talking about basic
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by wiz21 12y ago
I sense you've never worked in a suit & tie enterprise... If you have backups, upgrade, access to monitoring tools, etc. 125$ / month is just 2 hours max of developer time. That's a bargain and your standard Oracle admi
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by wiz21 12y ago
SSI... Dunno why but that rings a bell... Strategic Simulation Inc.
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by wiz21 12y ago
Let's think about this once more : "global postmodern nihilistic meta-state" ouch ! stF
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by wiz21 12y ago
Well, not for me :-) I cracked a few games, looked at someone else's code but I can assure you that at the ASM level, it's very hard to understand that phong-shading routine to the point you can actually re-code it yourself... (ye
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by wiz21 12y ago
I just can imagine :-) I also learned after that some protections used undocumented processor instructions or edge cases of some... But back in the days, you had no internet, access to documentation was not easy esp. if you were young... So
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by wiz21 12y ago
I remember cracking Teenage Mutant Turtles and IBM Writing assistant just with the "debug" tool provided in the standard MS-DOS. It definitely took half an hour or so. The tests were very dumb, that's for sure. Just replacing
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by wiz21 12y ago
Ahhh read too fast :-( Crucial sentence is "Fortunately, we know about a data structure which can keep track of an active set of integer-keyed objects and return the highest one in O(logn) time: a heap." But then again. If I read
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by wiz21 12y ago
Having been in the demoscene (Imphobia) for a long time and having been in more abstract (quad tree construction optimizations) stuff I can say that writing a demo is not the same as computing theory. Writing a demo is most often exploiting
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by wiz21 12y ago
Argh ! was that possible ? I actually stop playing with that with my last overscan "320 x +/- 240" attempt during which, for some reason, the screen beamer concentrated itself on exactly on scan line of the screen, rendering
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by wiz21 12y ago
oh memories... Some were a bit more lazy and used "trashed" credit card numbers to get free phone calls... They were looking in some restaurant's trash can to get them... Not exactly hi-tech but working nonetheless :-)
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by wiz21 12y ago
this reminds me of W. Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=BE&v=AN6ngsckRZs
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by wiz21 12y ago
Maybe there are thousands of unported stuff but frankly, how much of that is useful/ready for production use (production=paid software with bug translating to losses) ? I'm perfectly fine with Pyside, SQLAlchemy, ReportLab and a b
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by wiz21 12y ago
Although well know for Alien, Giger actually made tons of other stuff (including several bars !). Here's a good book about him that I've read : http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all&
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by wiz21 13y ago
I don't know much about OpenSSL but what I know for sure is that refactoring the code itself might not be enough. There must be some process involved to keep track of what was refactored, what was not, enforce rigorous testing, systema
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by wiz21 13y ago
Tsss.. I'm alwyas disturbed by such analysis. See. When you buy a house, not even an investment, you get a place of your own which gives you quite a peace-of-mind (you know where you live, you can break some things inside it without fi
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by wiz21 14y ago
I think there's software and software. Software for the masses, that adresses the masses needs, well, hello commoditization. Now there's another job which is to tell people with bucks how to make more bucks with computers. If they have 10 b

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