copper_think

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by copper_think 1y ago
One thing not mentioned is that Visual C++ and Visual Basic historically were separate IDEs with separate codebases. When the time came to unify them, only one of them could continue on. My understanding is that Visual Basic won, and that t
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by copper_think 2y ago
The author mentions the screen being corrupted when a DOS prompt is opened in windowed mode. This can happen because the DOS prompt runs in a separate VM (in V86 mode), and makes calls into the VGA ROM BIOS via INT 10h. The VGA ROM BIOS on
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by copper_think 8y ago
So, it's just enantiomerically pure S-ketamine - not really a new drug discovery. The drug is already around as an anesthetic but it is almost finished with the FDA's approval process for treatment-resistant depression. When used
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by copper_think 8y ago
What is the value that private equity and/or VC are adding to dermatology? I guess what I'm asking is, why would the physicians be interested in sharing some portion of their income with these non-physicians? Medicine, like other
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by copper_think 8y ago
Application Verifier is a feature of Windows for developers to use to check program correctness. Bruce says he turned on Full Page Heap, which makes every allocation go on a separate page, and tries to line it up so that the next page is no
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by copper_think 8y ago
At Microsoft the compiler team (Visual C++) and the Windows team are joined at the hip. I'm sure the same was true at Sun. This can lead to good decisions about undefined behavior that I hope would make Linus smile. I recently learned
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by copper_think 9y ago
There may be an expectation at work for you to have the desire to advance within the organization, i.e. career ambition.
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by copper_think 9y ago
It says 8.6 on the page
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by copper_think 9y ago
Just finished benchmarking this for a key workload in our build process. It's 3% faster than Node 8.x for us. But node-chakracore (the Microsoft runtime) 8.9.4 was 11% faster -- we are considering switching to that.
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by copper_think 9y ago
Such a weird title; it makes me think he works for them, but he doesn't
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by copper_think 9y ago
Man, I really wouldn't. My understanding is that of the people who present to the emergency department with chest pain, something like a third of them have been using cocaine. It causes Real Problems. https://www.drugabuse.g
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by copper_think 9y ago
What are metal button covers? I can't picture it
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by copper_think 9y ago
The garbage collector for Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR -- the VM for .NET) was written in Lisp originally and then transpiled into C.
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by copper_think 9y ago
Her Majesty's Revenue Collector ?
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by copper_think 9y ago
You're both right. Yes, it's WPF, and there are lots of parts written in C#. But the parent is right -- Visual Studio is C++ using COM and Win32 at its core, going back all the way to the Visual Basic IDE that shipped as part of V
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by copper_think 9y ago
Like Brian Krebs said yesterday on his blog -- it seems like the doctrine of felony murder should apply here.
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by copper_think 9y ago
My recollection is that Dan was working at Microsoft during "Third real job (2015-2017)." (He has a couple of posts in this timeframe where he refers vaguely to his employer. "Hiring Lemons" is one.) I would be interest