wladimir

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by wladimir 15y ago
Don't forget all the mass surveillance and control that "we nerds" made possible. The picture of the last 20 years is not rosy. Computer technology has advanced a lot, sure, but when I read things from the 70's it seems that there was a mor
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by wladimir 15y ago
Have you tried deleting your cache? The simplest explanation for this behavior is that the old redirect was cached. It could be something more insidious as well, of course, but that would be... evil.
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by wladimir 15y ago
libclang could help a lot here, as it gives access to the internals of a C/C++ compiler all the way from tokenizing to code generation. It also has built-in support for all kinds of IDE features such as code completion and fixit hints.
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's not entirely a fair comparison as Excel contains a complete VB environment.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Maybe that cheat was only in the PC version? I wonder how the PC version (which I've played and fondly remember) and Apple 2 version differ.
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by wladimir 15y ago
What would you use for string handling, then? Please don't tell me you prefer strcpy/strcat and zero-terminated strings?
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by wladimir 15y ago
Who ever thought of this? I can understand "don't use == for strings", or implicit conversion when one of the arguments is a number, but this is extremely sneaky as it will only behave this way with two numerically-looking strings. Ouch. Wh
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes. He's looking for a server, PuTTY is a client.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Once Google indexes Borges' Library of Babel, though, you will find that any sentence is already used, and every article is already written. On a more serious note: it would be interesting to add a check to CMS systems to automatically look
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by wladimir 15y ago
It seems that overall, "race balance" is harder to define than "gender balance" because the gender balance is about 50% in every country, whereas the race balance can vary wildly. That doesn't make it less important or valid of course. Race
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by wladimir 15y ago
I don't understand his jump from "search is unpleasant and implies loss" to "search is dead". Cleaning bathrooms is also unpleasant, but to say companies specializing in it are dead? I don't think we ever globally solved the lost car keys a
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by wladimir 15y ago
It probably does feel different. To him. Please don't blame people for their feelings or force them to over-analyze or rationalize them. We're all human. It would be different if he was writing a scientific paper on the subject, of course.
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by wladimir 15y ago
It really looks like the functionality that my Dropship hack offered :-) Except that it's easier to trace, as the person sharing the file has to give explicit permission, instead of just giving some anonymous description of the file. I gues
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by wladimir 15y ago
Very interesting. So one could infer the workings of the universe on a deeper level than quantum mechanics by studying how much information needs to be stored with a certain statistical representation. Can we un-editorialize the title thoug
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by wladimir 15y ago
Neat! Would be nice if it had a color bar (legend) to see which color is which value, though. The red/green/blue used below the graph for the axes ranges looks like one, and that is a bit confusing.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Malthus may still some day be proven right. It's a common fallacy to think that because something hasn't happened yet is a reassurance that it will never happen. Don't forget there are a lot of people that have little or no food at all (acc
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by wladimir 15y ago
Many systems suffer from similar fate (think Emacs) That happens so much in software there needs to be a word for it, a term of its own. After a while, you get deep enough in the rabbit hole so that it seems your initial judgement of redu
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by wladimir 15y ago
When I read this I wasn't sure whether this was really meant (those steps sound awful, especially if you have to do it over and over) or a parody/sarcastic. Poe's law is getting to me.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Thanks. I doubt it will help you though, because it will most likely cause some function somewhere to throw an exception which will in turn cause the app to crash. That's why I blame the Android platform and not just the apps. If Android
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by wladimir 15y ago
Yes that's what it's probably for, I've found this discussion: http://www.wirelessforums.org/uk-telecom-mobile/latest-googl... Though others claim that for calling it launches the phone app, and doesn't call out itself... Anyway -- it is
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm sick of Android's permissions system. As you can't reject individual permissions it suffers from permission creep. In their first versions, applications tended to request only permissions they really need. Then every update they request
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by wladimir 15y ago
This sounds both useful and futuristic. However, I think it's more like a new field of research than something you could realize in a startup. We're not even close yet.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Interesting thought. I wonder, though, what makes those places separate from the universe ? The universe including those other places, metaphysical and scientific, would be even bigger and more mind-boggling.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Is it right to equate functional programming and determinism though? Functional programming implies a certain programming style / type of language, whose output is guaranteed to be deterministic if only pure functions are used. But they're
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by wladimir 15y ago
Merged into your DNA?!? Have you read the same article as me, or did you get the year 3012 version by accident?
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by wladimir 15y ago
IMO comput ing science is the right name. It is the science of computation. Computation happens in nature as well as in computers. If it didn't happen in nature, we could not build a computer physically. However, comput er science would b
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by wladimir 15y ago
An interesting feature of the visual graph programming language was that all variable and function names are optional (but useful) comments Do you perhaps remember the name of the project? This is mightily interesting. I've thought about
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by wladimir 15y ago
Well even if not legally, morally he did the right thing. The spirit of copyright laws is that the authors get paid for their work, right? And whether it's illegal depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries (such as The Netherlands) it'
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by wladimir 15y ago
Why would you need to be a programmer to make a SVG symbol/glyph? All vector-drawing programs can export it these days. I think creating a font is more difficult. Having said that, fonts do have some properties that can be advantageous for
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by wladimir 15y ago
they were going to develop a new p2p protocol for anonymous filesharing I don't remember they planned to roll their own. I do know that they advocate Tribler, maybe that's what you heard about. It makes tracker sites such as TPB redundant

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