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by zerohp 13y ago
Rebase only if you treat it like a centralized version control system. Using it all the time breaks a lot of good DVCS workflows.
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by zerohp 13y ago
Computer Engineering still offers this experience. It's the main reason I picked this major when I returned to school after many years as a programmer. Most of the graduates from here go on to software development. The low level experience
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by zerohp 13y ago
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The peer to peer internet didn't survive. NAT ruined it, and now nobody has an expectation of connecting directly to another machine thats not set up for the sole purpose of hosting services. Based on what people say in the IPv6 threads, I
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by zerohp 14y ago
I don't know what the order is, but it's definitely not the people that viewed my profile the most.
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by zerohp 14y ago
If you like writing low level software, you should double down and minor in ECE.
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by zerohp 14y ago
The NSA already has their own chip fab.
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by zerohp 14y ago
0; 16 years. I am taking a break from work to go back to school at the moment. Before I quit work: 6.4; 15 years.
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by zerohp 14y ago
In my opinion, it's even more true than it was 18 years ago. The "equalizing" tools help the average programmer when everything works well, but they make it significantly more difficult for them when problems arise. Today's tools have given
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by zerohp 14y ago
He is my professor now. He showed a video of Dreamtheater with it on our first day.
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by zerohp 14y ago
Your browser has awful defaults. There's no CSS, so your browser is responsible for presenting it in a readable form.
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by zerohp 14y ago
The assumption behind all the "college is a waste of time" advice is that you're smart enough, and willing enough to teach yourself. I am like that, and I'll assume you are too. Being smart enough isn't enough, you have to expose yourself t
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by zerohp 14y ago
You're assuming everyone is like you. I have worked in every type of office environment and open plan with 50 people was the worst. I couldn't get used to it. It was distracting and anxiety inducing every day. I worked at the company for f
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by zerohp 14y ago
I have enough experience to know if this is true or not. Many times it was faster to buy more machine, but often it was not. We already had 10000 cores. I proposed, implemented, and tested an 8 line change to our alignment tool that saved 6
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by zerohp 14y ago
> the software is written to be inefficient, to use memory poorly, and the cry goes up for bigger, faster machines! When the machines are procured, even larger hunks of data are indiscriminately shoved through black box implementations
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by zerohp 14y ago
I'm back in college now at a top state university. Google, Facebook, etc are doing all of those things short of setting up permanent shop. I can get a free meal at least once a week for the entire semester just by attending technology compa
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by zerohp 14y ago
Almost 3 years ago something flipped in my brain. I felt similar to you for many years before that. At the time I was obese, so I worked on that first. Eight months later I was still overweight but significantly stronger and healthier. Duri
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by zerohp 14y ago
I started college a couple years ago after 15 years working as a programmer. I wanted a CS degree, but during the first semester I spent a lot of time thinking about what I really want to do and switched to Computer Engineering. I might swi
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by zerohp 14y ago
I'm not self-employed, but I purchased my own insurance to cover a 6 month gap recently. I found that I could get reasonably priced health insurance as a member of ACM.
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by zerohp 14y ago
Run nginx or lighttpd as a reverse proxy in front of net/http.
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by zerohp 14y ago
> Most programmers spend precious little time using floating point and don't need to worry about computational error. I think this is true of experienced programmers, but I see inexperienced programmers tripping over floating point misu
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by zerohp 14y ago
iPad uses a capacitive touch screen. Older technologies are very prone to mis-calibration, even if they are not in heavy use. I recently had to help my mother recalibrate her sewing machine's touch screen.
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by zerohp 14y ago
The lateral braking provided by the atmosphere causes objects to burn up.
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by zerohp 14y ago
These code samples don't test equality. Printing the output probably rounds off the difference.
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by zerohp 14y ago
I am critical of any erase that does more than one pass. Is there any research that suggests it is ineffective with modern drives? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method#Criticism
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by zerohp 14y ago
I prefer the answer given here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463707/c-singleton-vs-gl...
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by zerohp 14y ago
Sensible people considered these minor features too obvious. Apples invention was the combination of many simple things into one good product, but they are protecting it by patenting all of the simple things.
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by zerohp 14y ago
Voyager 2 was at the edge of the solar system when JPL diagnosed and corrected a single bit error that caused it to return garbage data. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151
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by zerohp 14y ago
Agreed. Specifically, they were very clear that the entry, decent, and landing are the American victory. Curiosity carries instruments from multiple countries and was designed through international cooperation.
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by zerohp 14y ago
They made it very clear in the press conferences earlier in the day that they have no more control during EDL than the viewer watching it at home. I don't think the control room was "nothing but show." They certainly could have all gone hom

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