eswangren

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by eswangren 14y ago
Yay, that's exactly what our industry needs; more cargo cult programmers writing terrible software! Let's just be glad that this RoR guy isn't building anything safety critical.
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by eswangren 14y ago
You don't think that some people are simply better suited to tasks that require a high degree of logic than others? Really? I would think that day to day interactions would teach you that much... We're not all born as blank slates with ne
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by eswangren 14y ago
Just like any other type. Everything is passed by value in C. Everything.
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by eswangren 14y ago
And it is actually somewhat dangerous to cast the return value of malloc. Aside from being redundant it can hide an error on compilers which implement an older version of the standard (not uncommon. Anything pre-C99). If you forget to inclu
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by eswangren 14y ago
Just as with pointer arithmetic (because that's what this actually is) you don't multiply by the size of its elements. This: array[2] is the same as this: *(array + 2) The compiler knows what the type of data the pointer refe
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by eswangren 14y ago
I never used 2008, so I see why you might say that. I went from 6 -> 2005 -> 2010. 2010 is slow as a dog. 2005 is slower than 6.
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by eswangren 14y ago
I just hope it's faster. VS has been getting noticeably slower with each release since 6. It's unbearable at times.
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by eswangren 14y ago
I believe an operating system typically implies both.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Two prolific projects that amount to far more than the vast majority of us of is will ever accomplish.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Yeah, I know... I'm just ranting I suppose.
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by eswangren 14y ago
So, I thought the whole point of managed languages was to abstract this stuff away from the programmer. If I have to have a deep understanding of the JVM's implementation details to do anything non-trivial I may as well just stick with C. A
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by eswangren 14y ago
Well who would disagree with that? It's common sense; no article required.
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by eswangren 14y ago
It's not a good idea from any perspective. In my experience, the only people who cram as much logic into as few characters as they possibly can are beginner to intermediate level programmers who are in that awful phase where they think they
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by eswangren 14y ago
KeyPass has always treated me well, is free, and runs on multiple platforms.
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by eswangren 14y ago
I am first and foremost a software guy, but I work in a systems group. I write hardware device interfaces. I solve problems in the physical world. Motion control, digital imaging, electronics. Many of the problems I solve on a daily basis a
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by eswangren 14y ago
Oh great, so now I get hassled with two factor authentication for every stupid, crummy, brain-dead web app I use? No thanks. This level of security is overkill for the vast majority of apps out there.
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by eswangren 14y ago
+1 that was a horrible, horrible UI change. So much so that I wrote them an email just to complain about it. I don't know what they were thinking with that one.
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by eswangren 14y ago
NetflIx doesn't get new releases. I don't care why they don't, but the fact remains that they do not. I cancelled because of this. I really like NetFlix as a company, but the lack of selection kills it for me.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Why did you wrap the word "stealing" in quotes? It's exactly what you would be doing. If you think you'll get away with it then you're too dumb for me to hire anyway.
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by eswangren 14y ago
I think it's fair to assume that a Chicago news caster is speaking primarily to an American audience. Specifically, a Chicago audience. So even in that context they weren't being misleading. Relax a bit.
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by eswangren 14y ago
What is this "rest of the world" you speak of?
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by eswangren 14y ago
Right, but people who are using node.js aren't writing C. Of course C comes into play to do the heavy lifting, but we're not talking about infrastructure. Writing a web server and writing a website are two very different problem domains.
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by eswangren 14y ago
I was under the impression that application programming using node.js was done primarily in JavaScript...
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by eswangren 14y ago
Who the hell is writing C when JavaScript is an option? I mean, I love C, and I don't know JavaScript well, but they don't really live in the same problem domain.
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by eswangren 14y ago
It's easy to call people cowards when you're not in their situation and likely never will be. I'd like to see what you would do if you actually made that kind of money.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Unbreakable? Bah, torture would work, and that's much faster than cracking a password.
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by eswangren 14y ago
Also, the majority wins, so if two voted to close as a dup and three voted for off topic the. It gets closed as OT.
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by eswangren 14y ago
The fact that they are buying a PC from best buy says it all really...
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by eswangren 14y ago
Why wOuld I feel the need to inspect a book before buying it? I am working under the assumption that no pages will be missing. It's worked out fine thus far. You do realize that purchasing items over the Internet has been working well for
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by eswangren 14y ago
Because using a stronger password somehow nullifies security holes in an OS?

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