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by yason 12y ago
Sometimes, does it matter at all? Once all important things get done eventually and relatively in time and the company earns enough money to chug along, it's just cost of doing business. The idle hours couldn't sometimes be cut aw
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by yason 12y ago
This is just one step in a continuing development. Engines become smaller but charged give the same amount of power or more than existing engines. The engines are eventually only used for spinning a generator (with the rest of the drive tra
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by yason 12y ago
I wouldn't trust any third party to keep my bitcoins except for the money in transit. I have my local client and local wallet, and that's where I do my transactions from.
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by yason 12y ago
Still wondering why make physical ignition switches that actually mechanically cut the flow of electricity. For years, cars have been equipped with all kinds of 'convenience' electric components such as Bluetooth, touch panels, an
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by yason 12y ago
So what would the consequences be of letting the core just melt and eat its way downwards? It's not as if the environment around the plant and seawaters hadn't had a hefty portion of radioactive waste already and the structural da
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by yason 12y ago
What would be an unnecessary allocation? A program generally does something with the allocated memory and at that point it becomes a necessary allocation. Specifically, it makes a lot of sense to optimize system allocators. If you can&#x2
847.
by yason 12y ago
How come? The operations of an automobile can and often are learned by even the most stupid ones of all people. Further, all automobiles from the past several decades mostly work the same way: the controls are quite simple and to some exten
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by yason 12y ago
If the money is owned by the same organisation that gets to spend it, the money is spent wisely. If it costs one fifth to arrange for a daily care at home versus at a nursing home, then that's four fifths saved for something else in th
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by yason 12y ago
My Facebook account was suspended out of the blue, "due to recent changes in my profile" where there weren't any. I don't use Facebook that much but I mostly felt liberated. "I thought, hey, they did it for me. I
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by yason 12y ago
The big advantage of OO is that it acts as a distillation of how humans think. We're accustomed to thinking in terms of 'things that do stuff'. What OO provides is essentially a skeuomorphic element to your code, where your
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by yason 12y ago
Given all the reworks of software projects that have a) been started b) then delayed c) then delayed more, "because this time we'll make it perfect" and d) then failed to gather traction because of incompatibilities, it'
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by yason 12y ago
The advantage of the #ifdef DEBUG method is that it's possible to ensure that all of your allocations are clean at the object level, not just at the arena level. One of the points of an arena allocator is to not have to be clean at o
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by yason 12y ago
I know that coding just for business can suck big time. So, that's called life. During life you do spend a lot of time wondering what the heck you are doing here after all. Some people say the point is not to find the meaning of life b
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by yason 12y ago
Power through your day with the all-day battery. Never worry about stopping to charge. I would buy a smartphone phone that's less impressive in performance but that would run for about a week. I would be happy to suspend all that &qu
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by yason 12y ago
I have a feature phone that comes with a crappy enough Java ME based Google Maps that is just enough to save me from trouble when I really do need directions yet none of the things on the phone is something I could just play with. Thus, I j
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by yason 12y ago
I'm amazed how much of editing he actually does by hand (like growing/shrinking indentation) and mouse. That sort of switching between actual coding and lexical editing would kill my flow.
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by yason 12y ago
Many smart guys have a degree but they're not smart because of the degree, it's just that they were smart to begin with but decided to finish their degree for one reason while other smart people decided otherwise for another reaso
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by yason 12y ago
Perhaps this could be said of all fields, but there is just limited time in a class to absorb Which brings us to that what can you expect to actually learn in a class anyway? I'd say that for any non-trivial curriculum (which ought t
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by yason 12y ago
That sounds awfully low for American automakers. What exactly happens at 100,000 miles? Generally cars will go through their first big part replacement cycle between 60-100k, these are wearing parts that come to an end at that age. That can
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by yason 12y ago
The marketability of their parts means that there are a lot of legally-owned Hondas which, of course, need parts replaced at times. And because everyone knows there are a lot of Hondas, the owners know it's easy to find a second-hand p
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by yason 12y ago
I think that the road design is a key factor in how fast people drive, not limits. Wide lanes, one-way streets, and cleaned-up sides without obstacles encourage driving faster while narrower passes and trees/bushes on the side make you
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by yason 12y ago
I suppose the work the candidate is most keen to discuss doesn't have to be recent which makes it fair. All good programmers I know have at some point spent significant amount of their free time programming on their own, that's
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by yason 12y ago
This is no surprise because reading the article, the history of data compression seems to be riddled with patent lawsuits and general blocking of "competitors" to use the same or a similar algorithm.
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by yason 12y ago
There should be a law that gives immunity to whistleblowers. We can already, to some extent, make it more difficult to discriminate based on sex or color or pregnancy -- a similar thing would be good for whistleblowers. Of course, there are
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by yason 12y ago
Some or most countries in Europe also have probation period of up to a few months during which either party can simply terminate the employment. That should be enough to weed out bad hires.
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by yason 12y ago
Having been interviewing people from time to time during the past decade or so I don't think the overzealous interview processes that companies currently do actually pay off in value versus time spent. Usually it's rather obvious
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by yason 12y ago
Swapping in a live battery probably isn't a problem. They want to see if the device works or not. What I meant that if I build a bomb into a laptop, and use its battery space to contain the explosive so that it looks 99.99% the same in
868.
by yason 12y ago
Since when has the angle of terrorist attack shifted back to blowing up planes instead of flying them into strategic targets? A laptop with a fully charged battery can cause a lot more havoc over the Atlantic ocean than one with the drained
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by yason 12y ago
The article mentioned a two-cylinder configuration where the movements of two pistons would be mirroring each other, nullifying the vibrations.
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by yason 12y ago
That was part of the point: back then things weren't supposed to be easy nor documented and investing months to really learn how the intricate details of a Doom map worked paid off in giving us years of fun creating our own levels and

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