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by buff-a 14y ago
I was thinking more along the lines that without the eye, the idea of light being projected in any direction at all has no meaning =) And then we could get started on the concepts of time and ordering. But since I'm no longer a third year p
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by buff-a 14y ago
>Ray tracing involves projecting light from the "eye" towards the scene, whereas in real life the light is being projected from the scene towards the eye. I can't write a decent reply to this without having terrifying flashbacks of late
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by buff-a 14y ago
Any good hacker will code around bullshit.
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by buff-a 14y ago
Of course there is evidence: the stock market wasn't invented until 1999. Before 1999, noone dared buy stocks because they were afraid they couldn't sell it later. Its historical fact.
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by buff-a 14y ago
This [1] was a joke. This [2] was for real. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qi_AAqi0RZM#%21 [2] http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/03/how-casual-sexism-put-sqoot-in.php
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by buff-a 14y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. The number of brogrammer entrepreneurs out there is huge. They are equivalent to Big Jims Baha XTReme Racing Shop that slaps lifted suspension on other people's 2WD Tundras. But then there are a few sta
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by buff-a 14y ago
Because its actually: file.rb: require 'stuff' class foo def something alert = UIAlertView._alloc \ ._initWithTitle _S("Hello"), :message, _S("I'm MobiRuby"), :delegate, nil, :cancelButtonTit
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by buff-a 14y ago
>Sounds like a reason not to buy a 2015 Honda. Ah yes, the "free market" in action. That has worked so well for us in protecting our privacy, as evidenced by the plethora of commercial software with EULAs that respects the user's rights
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by buff-a 14y ago
Honda Civic 2015 EULA: 23.1.23.44 (Page 198 of 301) "Your use of this vehicle grants us your irrevocable and permanent consent to download, transmit, or otherwise obtain the information contained in the onboard data recorder, and to share t
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by buff-a 14y ago
* A wiki. * Google Docs. * Assembla. Passing around a word document via email (or shared folder) makes about as much sense as passing around a C++ file, or the text of a facebook status.
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by buff-a 14y ago
"suffice it to say that among the people who actually design operating systems, the debate is essentially over." A lesson for us all.
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by buff-a 14y ago
Like I said, its a book about dogma and cherry-picked studies. The dogma and studies were wrong. So if you want books about broken dogma and studies, read Code Complete.
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by buff-a 14y ago
Have to agree on Code Complete. The first edition was a load of waterfall bollocks and I couldn't believe anyone wrote code like that. It actively put me off a "proper" programming career. The second edition, apparently, reduced that shite,
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by buff-a 15y ago
Sounds like someone said, "Make me a language that is hard to reverse engineer using IDA Pro".
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by buff-a 15y ago
But of course, to be allowed textual format for asset metadata, you have to buy the pro version. Or did they change that in 3.5?
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by buff-a 15y ago
A self-employed person can deduct health expenses against gross income. You are correct in that COBRA cannot be deducted in this way. But it can still be taken as an itemized deduction. I'm not a tax accountant, but my tax accountant is. An
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by buff-a 15y ago
If you lose your job you may have to pay a lot more (COBRA) for a limited time No, you'll pay the same as you were paying. Its just that before, you thought you were being paid $100,000 when in fact you were being paid $120,000, and out o
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"patent and/or proprietary intellectual property rights" in Coursera's TOCs
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by buff-a 15y ago
>PS. For that matter, Xcode 4 is not radical enough too. We are still typing a lot of boring cruft ... But it's a huge difference with Xcode 3 and other IDEs out there. I can only conclude that you have absolutely no concrete experience
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by buff-a 15y ago
Most programmers fall into one of two categories: console editor (e.g. vim) or IDE. The IDE camp includes Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, SlickEdit, NetBeans, MonoDevelop, etc. These IDEs have an almost identical design language. I am at
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by buff-a 15y ago
Gosh, I know. That's awful. Its much better that hg allows people to type hg mv, rather than forcing lazy people to modify the .bashrc file so that they can type "ga" instead of "git add". I mean, I know "hg mv" is actually longer than
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by buff-a 15y ago
"Every time you throw in something that seems to work, find out why it works." This. Especially for bugs. If I don't know why its fixed, I haven't fixed the cause - I've fixed a symptom.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Half of the duty "solicitors" are cops. You don't have to actually be a solicitor in the UK. You just have to pass a test. So retired cops take the test and earn themselves beer money (on top of their pension) to work with their mates.
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by buff-a 15y ago
"You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so, but I must warn you that if you fail to mention any fact which you rely on in your defence in court, your failure to take this opportunity to mention it may be treated in court as s
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by buff-a 15y ago
A friend sends me a link to a 60 Minutes segment she feels it's important I watch. I'm on an iPad -- not that it matters ... There is no alternative -- no way to click through to the video or text that I was after Somewhere like this: ht
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by buff-a 15y ago
Love it. I can't stand IB.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Reliability is an issue for me, but in my workstation I need speed more than I need five 9's. So I have a Vertex 2 and a 750Gb HDD in the DVD space using an OptiBay [1]. Time Machine backs up the SSD to the HDD with room to spare. I have a
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by buff-a 15y ago
I apologize for calling you an unethical shill.
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by buff-a 15y ago
This AnandTech? "Back in October SandForce announced that it had discovered a firmware issue that resulted in unexpected BSODs on SF-2281 drives on certain platforms. Why it took SandForce several months to discover the bug that its custome
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by buff-a 15y ago
17.1: Apps cannot transmit data about a user without obtaining the user’s prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used 3.3.9 You and Your Applications may not collect user o

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