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by xd 15y ago
Couldn't agree with you more. If you're a mechanic, you don't brag about calling the AA to home-start your wheels. You would be pretty shocked to see a mechanic post a story about his home-start on a hobby enthusiasts news site and see the
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by xd 15y ago
The down votes seem to imply that I'm wrong. Please could someone enlighten me as to why I'm out of line here. Yeah, sure this guy calls himself a "Security Evangelist" but this has absolutely nothing to do with his skill set being used a
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by xd 15y ago
This article seems to imply this "hacker" used some actual skill set to retrieve their stolen goods. Installing tracking software on a mac and then bragging about it when stolen and then found doesn't fit with what I'd call being a hacker.
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How to put your logo in a QR code(hackaday.com)
255 points by xd 15y ago|50 comments
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by xd 15y ago
They're not injecting HIV into people. As far as I can make out, they are using a modified version of HIV to modify white blood cells which they then inject into the patient.
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by xd 15y ago
The HIV is used to modify white blood cells .. so I'd wager harmless as they are not putting the HIV into the patient. This is why I changed the title after a little nudge, to avoid people getting the wrong end of the stick.
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by xd 15y ago
Makes sense. Changed.
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New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations"(msnbc.msn.com)
289 points by xd 15y ago|106 comments
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by xd 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, now I'm one step closer to infallibility ;)
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by xd 15y ago
I thought that as well. Each question would need a good degree of context.
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by xd 15y ago
In simple social situations that may be true. But not being able to grasp the basics of language will have an effect on how someone communicates complicated thoughts and ideas. How would you expect someone taking on a programming challenge
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by xd 15y ago
I don't think it's really about being smart. Having a basic grasp of language so you can adequately articulate yourself in a conversation is critical to discussion. If you can't, then you probably shouldn't be taking part in the discussio
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by xd 15y ago
Love the idea, but wouldn't it be simpler and more effective to just have them fill in the missing word without the images.
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by xd 15y ago
however, saying that, there are so many different regional sayings that I'm sure somewhere in the UK it's called shooting red lights.
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by xd 15y ago
nope, we call it running red lights.
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Government drops website blocking (UK)(bbc.co.uk)
28 points by xd 15y ago|10 comments
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by xd 15y ago
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel these "please hire me" news stories are irrelevant on a site that is centered around people starting their own companies? Still, I wish him the best of luck.
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by xd 15y ago
If by x you mean performing a string operation and copying the result to memory .. I still fail to see how allocating and deallocating memory on each iteration is a fair comparison, it's not something I'd expect a competent C developer to
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by xd 15y ago
I'm looking at it from the angle of someone that has spent over a decade in and out of C. The code in the loop is in NO way an "artifact", it's absolutely critical to the comparison. My example in no way removes the essence, especially if
530.
by xd 15y ago
Why would you assume the need to deallocate in the loop? Reuse of an already allocated memory location is C optimisation 101.
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by xd 15y ago
I guess the real problem is that the example serves no real world purpose and can very easily be biased. See my response to scott_s below.
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by xd 15y ago
So why not simply do: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main() { int i = 0; char *x = malloc(44 * sizeof(char)); for (i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) { sprintf(x, "%d %d", i, i); } fr
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by xd 15y ago
Oh and does anyone else think the malloc example in comparison to actual garbage collection is incredibly unfair?
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by xd 15y ago
I'm no python developer but this: def main(): for i in xrange(10000000): "%d %d" % (i, i) main() Does't seem to be copying the result anywhere. Where as the C example is copying the result to memory .. which would expla
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by xd 15y ago
"* You can't have multiple masters" The ability to have multiple masters has been around for some years now: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-options-m...
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Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better?(games.slashdot.org)
4 points by xd 15y ago|1 comments
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by xd 15y ago
I'm obviously not as up to date as you on the happenings of Airbnb and neither where the guys that voted the story up .. until it got flagged that is.
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by xd 15y ago
I'd like to think that most people go through life being trustful of their fellow human .. no matter how horrid a world the media paints.
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by xd 15y ago
Hi, I'm very interested and opened up #manchesterhn on irc.freenode.net to get things going.
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by xd 15y ago
Looking to start a meetup in Manchester, UK. If anyone else is interested: irc.freenode.net #manchesterhn

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