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by coderjames 11y ago
Very cool! I actually work with the original programmer at my day job. I'll have to forward this to him.
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by coderjames 11y ago
Protobuf has somewhat recently added the 'oneof' feature which tries to deal with these union types. The one downside I found when trying to use it was that the 3rd-party C# Protobuf libraries didn't yet support it. See: htt
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by coderjames 11y ago
Your description of C#/.NET sounds like it might get me to take another look at C# in the future. I learned Windows programming on-the-job using Delphi and then thought I should investigate a "more common" C++ environment (I
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by coderjames 11y ago
So you wrote a worm and are publicizing that fact? Where can we download the source so we can develop firewall rules to block it?
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by coderjames 11y ago
I think the article might be mistaken about one point: "For one thing, the Boeing approach is going out of style or has mostly gone out of style, according to SE poster Uri Dekel (handle: Uri), a Google software engineer." It abso
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by coderjames 11y ago
I'm clearly missing something important because otherwise somebody would have built this already, but instead of using the fans for levitation as proposed, why not keep using the magnets? I'm imagining a tube with (8?) magnets equ
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by coderjames 12y ago
ASN.1 is used as one protocol in the next-gen air traffic control systems currently being deployed in Europe. The relevant aerospace standards spell out a specific subset which helps with getting it correct. Only the single Packed Encoding
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by coderjames 12y ago
Haha, that's great! We have that situation in our main product line where I work. At the center of the system is 30 year old Z8000 assembly code that gets run through a translator during the build process to produce C code which gets c
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by coderjames 12y ago
We're actually integrating an OSI-based network stack into our avionics datalink product at work right now. The next generation of digital air traffic control between aircraft and the ground towers is an OSI stack. Proprietary applicat
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by coderjames 12y ago
Probably because of beauracracy and paperwork. The 'random person' both knew how and was willing to deal with the hassle of the city's tax auction. The owner probably didn't know they could, didn't know how, was unw
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by coderjames 12y ago
I've been wanting to learn JavaScript (and CoffeeScript), but didn't have any tasks with which to practice. This should be awesome for that. Looking forward to it!
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by coderjames 12y ago
I would tend to agree with you, but from what I recall Linus' policy is user-space breaking changes are kernel bugs.
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by coderjames 12y ago
I've actually been thinking about doing exactly this for a 68K-based computer I'm building. This will be a big help! Awesome project.
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by coderjames 12y ago
I also have this problem and I don't even use Ghostery. Just plain vanilla Firefox 32.0.3 on Windows 7 with Cookie Monster and AdBlock Plus. Went so far as to allow cookies because that fouls up a lot of sites and this looks really int
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by coderjames 12y ago
So police kept showing up. Did any of that policing actually solve anything? Sounds like a ridiculously high amount of crime for one person in two years.
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by coderjames 12y ago
It sounds like your current MacBook Pro is already serving your Windows needs quite well. Why not just buy an updated MacBook Pro, wipe out OS X and only run Windows on it?
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by coderjames 12y ago
Wouldn't flashing your hardware with another vendor's firmware, thereby distributing said firmware, be copyright infringement?
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by coderjames 12y ago
I use Catch over UnitTest++ because I found it first and it was dead simple to get started with. We don't do unit-testing as part of our official development process where I work, so I was looking for something that I could quickly try
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by coderjames 12y ago
I'm building a robot to drag around a ribbon toy for my cats. It supports either autonomous motion or receiving commands from a PC via a wireless link.
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by coderjames 12y ago
[disclaimer: still learning Rust] I believe it actually means that y can be made to reference something other than x. let x = 5 let mut y = &x let i = 13 y = &i This is similar to C++'s const-pointers and pointers-
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by coderjames 12y ago
I have used it and I have to agree with the grandparent. It is probably one of the worst IDEs I have had to use. Bloated, slow, and in my way even on a modern multicore machine with 8+ gigs of memory. Of the IDEs I have worked in (Turbo C++
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by coderjames 13y ago
You might want to take another look at Delphi, as the recent versions (XE4 and XE5) have added cross-platform support for OSX and Android (at least). While I still have to develop on Windows, I can easily produce native static OSX binaries