SeveredCross

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by SeveredCross 15y ago
Because the chemical in this case is something we have all the necessary things to produce. I can't make energy (ie. food) from no input, but with some energy expenditure, my body could carry out the set of reactions to convert glucose (w
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
Jurors are selected based on all sorts of things. You'll find that jurors with higher education are often eliminated (prosecutors hate educated jurors, they tend to be harder to convince), jurors with law experience (even if it's as simple
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
I disagree with the author when he says that "RPG, in the context of video games basically means quest based game with turn based combat." IMO, this is extremely narrow-minded, and entirely sidesteps the most important part of the RPG acron
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
The list of people who didn't already know this is very, very short.
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
It was a joke, lighten up. For what it's worth, I'm a .NET developer and think it's awesome.
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
Well…I think Roslyn will be good, but I think it's reaching to say it must be because the MS team themselves will use it. After all, these are the same people who invented (and used!) MFC, long known as the Microsoft Frustration Classes.
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
I agree with all of your points, though the only one I can address is the LINQ for source code quip and amend it somewhat to an already possible "LINQ for codebases." It should, in theory, be just a few weekends worth of work to use Mono.Ce
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
I loved this book. If the movie is half as good, I'll love it too.
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The Bad Opinion Generator(theweek.com)
1 points by SeveredCross 15y ago|0 comments
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
Linking is done on the target box, and not on the distcc builders, so link-time optimization should be unaffected.
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
I suspect that they wouldn't be that stupid. That would alienate sizable parts of the Skype userbase. Microsoft is stupid, but not that stupid. This seems like pure paranoia to me.
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
I think I should've been more specific—I know that the two interact, but I wasn't sure if they /react/. That is, would collision between photons and antimatter produce the same sort of decay as matter-antimatter collision. Some research sug
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
Possibly with something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling , where you're not actually striking it with matter, but only with photons, though I don't know if photons react with antimatter (I presume not, but I am not a particl
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
I invariably find myself doing this in C projects because not doing it is a serious violation of DRY--writing possibly hundreds of lines of free (foo->bar); free (foo->baz); free (foo->quux->fnord); ... ; free (foo) is not o
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by SeveredCross 15y ago
Actually, it covers all implementors (the community promise does, that is).
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
Known issue, they use some nasty combination of IFRAME and JavaScript for the site that breaks in a lot of browsers.
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
This matches my experience almost exactly. I wasn't sure that I needed a smartphone, so I got a low-end Android handset on Verizon (Droid Eris), and it's been an absolute piece of garbage, even with custom ROM (currently running a Gingerbre
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
You had me until dynamic typing. ;) And I really hope you mean Lisp-y macros, and not CPP macros.
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
The issue is not with the open-source portion, it's with relicensing. The implication is that parts of the code that are in Android's Java implementation were copied outright and then relicensed to APL, which is not allowed--the original co
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
Indeed, though as the OP points out just below, if you have fixed frequencies, you don't have to sort. That said, you generally have fixed frequencies with a predetermined set of constraints on the data, and you can determine the most commo
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
I found the two-queue technique to be much more intuitive than the binary heap technique, which definitely resulted in it being more fun to code. As an aside, the two-queue technique is also more performant, as you can build the tree in O (
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The Picture Guide To: How Sun Screwed Apache Harmony(jroller.com)
1 points by SeveredCross 16y ago|0 comments
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
Great summary post, but I want to add one thing—Mono just got a new garbage collector with the 2.8 release called SGen. SGen is a generational garbage collector with nurseries, a cardtable-based write barrier, a parallel mark and sweep coll
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
As a .NET/PHP on Linux developer, I 100% agree. I just wanted to provide a counterexample. ;)
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by SeveredCross 16y ago
I don't know of any .NET/Java programmers who say they can't live without IntelliSense. I certainly know I can, and do, frequently. Why, just this morning, I wrote some Java in Emacs. No IntelliSense there. As far as async I/O, that is a pr