bradtgmurray

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by bradtgmurray 11y ago
That looks a lot like C to me, which I wouldn't call a dynamic language. typedef struct Foo { int a; int b; } Foo; Foo f = (Foo) { .a = 1 }; // This will initialize b to zero.
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by bradtgmurray 13y ago
Which means the profit margin is shrinking. It's not all about whether you're in the red or in the black, it's about how much profit you're making.
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by bradtgmurray 13y ago
It is a net positive, I just wish they would focus more on their core users. Their basic code diff tool could use a lot of love to make it on par with the diffs generated from other tools.
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by bradtgmurray 13y ago
Half the speed of native, but you're not comparing apples to apples. This slower code is also run in an environment where it's safe to download a random blob from the internet and just start running. This comes at some cost.
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by bradtgmurray 14y ago
I wish they just put more effort into making their web interfaces more responsive. Trying to use Campfire from the browser on my Galaxy Nexus is nearly impossible.
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by bradtgmurray 14y ago
As a person living and working in Waterloo for a startup, I wouldn't be so quick to generalize. I quite like it here.
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by bradtgmurray 14y ago
They have an external NFC tag that you can place near your front door that triggers the app on your phone to unlock your door through the web.
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by bradtgmurray 15y ago
He makes a lot of money, therefore he should throw money into a fire.
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by bradtgmurray 16y ago
On a somewhat related note, are there any tutorials out there for a guide to emacs and org-mode for vim users?
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by bradtgmurray 17y ago
You could do this same thing on Twitter. Is the already large install base the only thing Google Buzz has going for it?
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by bradtgmurray 17y ago
This is a really good point actually. Hulu actually uses the encrypted variant of RTMP to deliver content, and decodes the stream in their flash player. If they were to deliver just raw h.264 through html5, they wouldn't be able to do this
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by bradtgmurray 17y ago
Sounds like a problem for C++ templates.
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by bradtgmurray 17y ago
Perhaps their allocator only allocated and free'd memory in 4-byte aligned blocks, and would mask out the lower bits to make pointers align to those blocks before freeing them? If you had an allocator like this, you could use the addresses
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by bradtgmurray 18y ago
I'm not sure if Jeff knows what a monopoly is.
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by bradtgmurray 18y ago
Jeff is not quite on the ball with his reference to the "Shlemiel" algorithm. Joel originally described the "Shlemiel" case when referring to strings in C not having a length stored in them, and needing to use strlen to walk the string to f