alexk7

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by alexk7 5y ago
This is ignoring the fact that there are people who actually enjoy exchanging pleasantries. Make a list with 2 columns: 1) people that enjoy small talk 2) people that dislike small talk. Act accordingly.
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by alexk7 5y ago
Reading this felt like that Apple keynote in 2016 when they said no one uses the function keys. Hmm, me? all the time?
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by alexk7 7y ago
I prefer to use size 10 on my coding font. Just tried it in Visual Studio and it looks really bad with uneven lines, mostly on upper case letters.
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by alexk7 7y ago
The whole concept of OS integration across devices is a complete failure for Microsoft. Calling this new thing a "new OS" sounds like a failure to fulfill what the Windows brand used to mean: support across a large range of device
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by alexk7 7y ago
Thank you for that comment. Don't get me started on "compliance". Even if you are following 100% the diet and rules (which is impossible, we are humans), type 1 diabetes is HARD. We need all the help we can get! A closed-loop
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by alexk7 7y ago
I'm running an open source closed-loop system on my iPhone. It controls my insulin pump based on data from a continuous glucose monitor. Those of us that do this don't do it blindly. We see the blood sugar fluctuate and can react
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by alexk7 7y ago
This is not one of the weird things about Javascript. When you use a function (like map), always check the documentation to know its behaviour and don't assume it's similar to some similarly named function from another language.
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by alexk7 10y ago
Another source of information about this subject (PDF): http://www.wam.hr/sadrzaj/us/Cavanagh_440Hz.pdf
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by alexk7 10y ago
The article makes it seem like the US is where people work the most. It is not. The selection of countries make their graph misleading. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
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by alexk7 11y ago
I am working on a compiler for my new language. I went from learning about Yacc at the university (reaction: disgust) to discovering PEG (reaction: I should build my own parser generator!) to wisdom (reaction: just write the damn thing by h
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by alexk7 11y ago
The last time GM invested in companies that competed with private ownership of cars, it didn't go too well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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by alexk7 11y ago
In the current game dev industry, there is no longer anything "in-between". The days of the medium sized games are long gone. It is either big winner takes all or very small indie under the radar.
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by alexk7 11y ago
For the same price as an iMac, without a computer.
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by alexk7 11y ago
And that's why they added fullscreen mode to OS X. Both ways of working excel for different situations. It's great that they are now making the enhancements in sync on OS X and iOS.
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by alexk7 11y ago
In live in Quebec City. I used Kijiji to sell my car a few years ago and it still is the site I use to sell stuff. Reading this article made me go to Craigslist to see if it was any better now. Nope. I needed to click a dozen times to get t
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by alexk7 11y ago
Regarding C++11 vs C++14 constexpr: "We need to finish heavier-than-air flight before starting interstellar colonization." Nice analogy.
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by alexk7 11y ago
Yup. Breakout 1976. Arkanoid 1986.
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by alexk7 13y ago
I'm pretty sure XSLT functional paradigm was intentional.
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by alexk7 13y ago
Exceptions are cute for small amounts of code. But as soon as you get a sizeable codebase, you start to understand the huge advantage they give: your code shrinks by an order of magnitude vs the same code with manual error propagation.
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by alexk7 13y ago
What's wrong with this use-case? The object will be destroyed and no pointer to it will exist after the clear.
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by alexk7 13y ago
Did you try Powershell?
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by alexk7 13y ago
Standard mathematical notation is not inevitable and is not unique. It is on par with most programming languages for being quite random. Both programmers and mathematicians use an imperfect tool (programming language, mathematical notation)
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by alexk7 13y ago
I think the last time I configured an email program was 10 years ago. Clicking a mailto link bring a window to configure an email program (that comes with the OS) that I never launched otherwise.
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by alexk7 13y ago
The article is dated "04 MAY 12" and shows no mention that it has been updated.
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by alexk7 13y ago
What you call "microevolution" is simply adaptation. It has nothing to do with evolution (that you call "macroevolution"). Evolution is the logical outcome of random mutations over a long period of time: 1) Random mutati
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by alexk7 13y ago
Natural selection does not occur in a series of instant events! Evolution happens over a long period as the result of a statistical advantage in survival rate. It does not work for rapid change in environment. I don't think anyone is c
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by alexk7 13y ago
The original joke is "The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language." It's from an essay written by Ed Post titled "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal". It's before BASIC :)
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by alexk7 13y ago
It's a hack. The line and X are in screen space and change position when you zoom in and out.
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by alexk7 14y ago
The results are what I expected and not that interesting. Compiling C as C++ usually yields the exact same native code as compiling it as C, except for some very minor differences. What would be interesting is how long it now takes to compi
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by alexk7 14y ago
I guess writing "Learn 'alexk7's favorite C++ subset' the hard way" would violate the "no indoctrination" rule... :)

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