aeberbach

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by aeberbach 12y ago
Linus has earned the right to that tone, care about Linux or not. Now when some unknown emulates it, that's the time to take note (and ignore that person ever after).
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by aeberbach 12y ago
I don't call myself an audiophile but I have owned a lot of different headphones up to the $1500 mark. There's no need (and no way) for double-blind studies here. We're not talking magic cables. Objectively you can plot frequ
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by aeberbach 12y ago
You definitely had a bug. I shipped a single-threaded A* for 3GS and up with maps created from maps of approximately 500x500 locations. It started out completely broken, storing waypoints in Core Data and was taking upwards of four minutes
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by aeberbach 12y ago
L - a swirly potion If you spelled it "grey", you didn't get your wish!
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Did you look at Nethack? Certain monsters have set loot. Dwarves have a high chance of carrying a pickaxe, noble variants have a high chance of having dwarven mithril, shield, iron shoes. Same with Elves. Soldiers carry K- and C-rations. Pa
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by aeberbach 12y ago
As in "the mousetrap". As in "the disingenuous reply". A class rather than an instance, but you knew that.
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Oh, you weren't talking about Nathan Mhyrvold and the oven? OK then. FYI, patent trolls usually haven't invented the thing they hold a patent for.
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by aeberbach 12y ago
No it isn't, but I would expect him to have patented anything he could get away with and have his shell companies lying in wait for anyone who builds an infringing oven. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100217&#
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by aeberbach 12y ago
The only renaming to avoid detection I knew of was when fast modems were becoming a commoditized but FTP had started taking over as a transfer mechanism. Did you ever trawl through anonymous ftp servers looking for directories named ".
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by aeberbach 12y ago
And if you didn't have 16550AFN serial and a USR Courier HST your 0-day was likely to turn into a 3-day... I remember taking advantage of call waiting tones to dump friends offline and steal their places on local multi-user BBS. Good d
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Did you read the article? Z-machine wasn't the cause of the graphical games failure. By the time Infocom ventured into graphics the games division was hamstrung by a focus on the business division (and their database product Cornerston
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Why stop at having an office merely "open"? Hot desking is the new thing - it's nothing to do with cost saving, it's all about "flexibility". Except that your organisation might also have a policy against worki
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by aeberbach 12y ago
What's your job? Do you have a greater need to concentrate or to socialize? Not criticising, just asking. I need to be able to go talk to people only sometimes but I need to go to a quiet place and think without interruption more often
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by aeberbach 12y ago
"Gleevec became a breakthrough, helping almost every patient with a particular rare blood cancer, chronic myelogenous leukemia. Patients stay on it for years, and it is so valuable that Novartis has quadrupled its annual price from $24
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by aeberbach 12y ago
But was the iOS version ever fixed? I got it, played up to the point where the giant suit of armor is sending electricity down the tiled floor at Dirk who has to jump several times to avoid it ("Electric Knight Battle" according t
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by aeberbach 12y ago
They are no longer legal currency but are issued on the The Bank of San Serriffe (address:Thirty Point, Caissa Inferiore, San Serriffe, Pincus). The reason for the change: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.
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by aeberbach 12y ago
In the Q&A Knuth mentions TAOCP conversion to ebook several times - I did a quick search and found only millions of pirate sites. Does anyone know the legitimate source where the ebook can be bought? Informit seemed likely but there are
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by aeberbach 12y ago
I could see it working with the best recruiters, like the few I mentioned. They call every six months or so, ask how things are going and chat about technology, that's fine with me. Sometimes they have something really good to discuss,
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by aeberbach 12y ago
I am not 100% sure why recruiters are still tolerated in technology positions. It's time for the model to change - maybe engineers should have agents? If an engineer chooses to use an agent they could build a personal relationship with
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer. And as others have mentioned, nothing gets you more battery life than OS X on Apple hardware. Not sure how any of the vario
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by aeberbach 12y ago
I'm surprised, thought Linux of some kind would have been most popular.
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Yeah, bought my first car from a town about an hour from my home, a manual car. On the drive home I learned to drive a manual. That weekend I learned to change a clutch :-)
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by aeberbach 12y ago
This hand-wave over designer's inability to build enough slack to deal with Adobe's failure into every project is a combination of unsubtle trolling and egregious sociopathy.
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by aeberbach 12y ago
If you're one of those, I highly recommend Pixelmator - download at pixelmator.com. My choice for a really simple, easy image editor is Acorn from Flying Meat Software - http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ . It's lik
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by aeberbach 12y ago
And this is why proprietary lock-in is wrong. Adobe seem to do all they can to screw up the computer their software is installed on. On a Mac you are supposed to drag an app into the Applications folder; to delete it, drag it to trash. Adob
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by aeberbach 12y ago
You could search the web as a whole and find many examples of fast follower used as I used it. You don't have to look very hard at all to find it applied to Google. Your definition is excessively narrow. Even Don Dodge calls Google a f
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by aeberbach 12y ago
That's simple equivocation - you think you can redefine "fast follower" so narrowly? It would certainly be convenient to ignore the similarities of Android and Google+ to their predecessors, but it wouldn't be particular
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Absolutely - Grado is fine if you really like supra-aural open headphones, but you can pretty much rule them out if you sit anywhere near another person who doesn't care to hear your music. Another problem with Grado is they "prot
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by aeberbach 12y ago
I have the M4U1 model after owning Sennheiser Momentum for six months - they are obviously better in side-by-side tests and they have larger ear cups that I can wear all day with comfort in a noisy office. Definitely my closed-headphone fav
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by aeberbach 12y ago
Canalphones beat active noise cancellation (ANC) every time. ANC doesn't attenuate all frequencies as evenly as passive protection does and it sounds very strange to me. To rub salt into the wound, passives don't need batteries an

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