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by zvrba 14y ago
>Windows 8 is coming to destroy a lot of "PC" businesses Actually, this might be something positive if crapware (SW and HW) producers take most of the blow.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> I don't understand how anyone can root for Samsung given Korean chaebol's long history of blatantly ripping off everything. Maybe people want an iPhone sans all the DRM crap and Apple's censorship.
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by zvrba 14y ago
Which myth exactly? Also, swapping memory in and out of the address space is a rather costly operation. And it becomes infeasible if the process's working set grows larger than the available address space [thrashing].
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by zvrba 14y ago
Living in the present. Time spent on dwelling over past happy moments is time wasted. The only reason I could imagine for looking into the "happy" PAST so is because I'm not happy NOW. But if I'm not happy now, dwelling over the past isn't
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by zvrba 14y ago
I can't understand this sentimental attachment to the past.
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by zvrba 14y ago
OK, when can I order my bottle of Higgs bosons? ;-P
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by zvrba 14y ago
Sigh, yet another article giving advice about how to use make as a kind of general-purpose language. It's not. Forget all the crap with wildcards, conditionals, filename globbing, etc. and use it for what it is: a program that takes as inpu
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by zvrba 14y ago
That's undefined behavior meaning that anything might happen, including appearing to work [most of the time]. C allows casts between two data pointers and between two function pointers, but not cast that cross the data/function boundary. An
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by zvrba 14y ago
6.3.2.3.7 allows for conversion between pointers to data ("objects") and 6.3.2.3.8 allows for conversion between pointers to functions; there is no provision for casting between data and function pointers. 6.3.2.3.5 and .6 allow for abritra
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by zvrba 14y ago
> Again, you're conflating undefined behavior with implementation-specific behavior. No, I'm not. Casting between data and function pointers (or even a function pointer to a function pointer of different signature!) is undefined behavio
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by zvrba 14y ago
An upwards triangle is used as a danger/warning traffic sign.
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by zvrba 14y ago
Not undefined behavior, really? Run it on a 64-bit SPARC system and see if it works. Not to mention that this implementation is dog-slow (two rather slow syscalls [mmap/munmap] for each apply-invocation).
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by zvrba 14y ago
Sigh, if the program is relying on undefined behavior [like this one], it's not C. Plus, gcc has __builtin_apply as extension.
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by zvrba 14y ago
That's what happens when programmability (JavaScript, Java, Flash, plugins...) is added to a presentation format (HTML). Maybe this is the right time to revive Gopher and give Usenet a fresh breath of life.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> My BF on the phone vs Skype vs Facebook vs Twitter. It's all the same person, Did you meet your BF through Facebook? > In fact the textual ones have a benefit - I can easily retrieve those later. Sorry, but this is creepy. The adv
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by zvrba 14y ago
> SQLite4 does all numeric computations using decimal arithmetic. SQLite4 never uses C datatypes double or float (except in interface routines when converting between double and the internal decimal representation). Is it only me who th
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by zvrba 14y ago
Now that Intel has announced Xeon Phi, I dare to hope that "gpu programming" will become an artifact of the past, so "open-source drivers" will become a moot point anyway. (Xeon Phi runs linux as a local OS.)
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by zvrba 14y ago
Who the hell reads these "professional" reviews? And why aren't people able to make their own opinion? It must be a dream-job (for some at least), get paid for playing prohpet and writing shit about other's (yet unfinished) products. Person
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by zvrba 14y ago
As far as I've understood this article, the relevant source is available. So what's the problem? Why should Intel spend time and resources to integrate it with the mainstream, esp. if this is a short-lived processor family?
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by zvrba 14y ago
And this is announced just after the judge has decided APIs are not copyrightable!
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by zvrba 14y ago
But having updates cryptographically signed and checked against a list of (presumably) trusted certificates is in my best interest. The "bug" here was in key management, not in SW that's running in my computer.
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by zvrba 14y ago
> Did you know there is a Perl package that will catch references to undefined symbols and fuzzy match them to the closest it can find in the current scope. To me, that seems to be the marker for the general quality of the code. To me,
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Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older?(ubiquity.acm.org)
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by zvrba 14y ago
> There's no point singling out this particular instance of nonsense when everywhere you turn in C you're greeted by other forms of the same nonsense. By your reasoning, since nonsense already exists, it's pointless to try to do the ri
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by zvrba 14y ago
Because 1) bool is a useless type in C and C++ since it's an arithmetic type, 2) it's no clearer than an int. (consider a function that returns true on failure, logic being that the rest of the program should be aborted.) You expect that
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by zvrba 14y ago
> 4. None of your points support the case of "don't use stdbool" Huh? I was saying that the language did not have to be extended to get a bool typedef. C99 defines a new type, _Bool (name from the reserved identifier space), which is
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by zvrba 14y ago
Firefox = bloat and I don't like it. Safari is affiliated with Apple and I won't touch products of a company whose products and way of running business are antithesis to openness, freedom and hacker culture. Chrome.. no special reason. I do
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by zvrba 14y ago
> Little things like an explicit statement that this variable is only true or false significantly reduce the cognitive load when reading code. Since it's allowed to use bool in arithmetic context (some_int + some_bool will compile fine,
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by zvrba 14y ago
Noooo! But if it happens, I'll have an excuse for trying IE once more.
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by zvrba 14y ago
"Supports", "works" and "is usable" are three totally different things. I doubt that E&C is truly usable since even much simpler things -- for example, data breakpoints when debugging native+managed code -- is unsupported in VS2010. (Ne

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