greenlakejake

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by greenlakejake 13y ago
ARM processors try to find the sweet spot between small size, low power and high speed. By picking which pieces to include, which to leave out and which to optimize for size/power/speed the big licensees such as Apple, Qualcomm an
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
This is actually great news. It has been impossible to find out whether you are on the US watch list. Now you have to do is get an Australian with your name to order something from Element 14 and now you know.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
If Bill Gates really thinks his phone is not being tapped I have a bridge to sell him.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Thaat's > 7 10^9 dollars to developers. So how many devs are out there? if we assume [for no good reason] 100,000 (10^5) devs that's 7 10^9/10^5 = 7*10^4 (70,000) dollars per dev. Adjust the number of devss to suit your
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Is leaking your users' private information wworth $100 Billion?
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
To me the take away is that he doesn't care that his company exposed the private information of the company's users.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
> Is it 100% feature complete or fast? No. If it's not feature complete it's vaporware.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Please note that potential employers don't like seeing resume gaps >6 months.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Lines of code can be particularly misleading. Read: -2000 Lines Of Code http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
> GNU has a concept of freedom that it tries to protect via the GPL. Licenses like the BSD or MIT do not. BSD and MIT are trying to protect their own concept of freedom.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
> Honestly, I wish Apple would just get with the times and allow an appropriate degree of freedom on their devices An appropriate degree of freedom is different for you and eight year old children or grandparents. The majority of iOS use
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
The article says that the state is limiting the amount of land that can be used for marijuana cultivation? For thirty years all of the best weed in Washington has been grown indoors with specially timed lights, often hydroponically with C
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Seems kind of weird to imagine lots of drones flying over urban areas and not hitting each other falling out of the sky and hurting people.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
I used to joke that Duke Nuk'em Forever hadn't shipped because they were using Perl 6. But Duke shipped first. :)
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Perl 6 is the Unicorn of computer languages - a mythical beast. Yes I know I'll be downvoted to zero karma.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
been done https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9533
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
I agree. The OP's examples are lame. Anyone who has written a memory allocator (I've written at least a couple) knows there's overhead for each allocation. There are many ways you can shoot yourself in the foot with C that ar
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Off topic(since it's not about C/Java), but Python has a long integer type which won't over/underflow unless you run out of memory. % python Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 25 2013, 00:04:04) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
> Google Support is unbelievably awful - anyone got any sugggestions? Don't use Google.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
True enough. I just pointed to the K&R on his bookcase and said "Look it up".
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
He asked me to implement strcpy(). He thought it was strcpy(from, to) - it's strcpy(to, from).
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
http://www.nand2tetris.org/
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
"we're not interested in anyone who wants to spend evenings and weekends with friends and family"? -- I once interviewed as a 30-something with a company that generally only hired kids right out of college with no lives. The
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
The the article talks about the Left Coast - I call it the Best coast. It's where Intel, Boeing, HP, Microsoft, Tesla, Amazon, Starbucks and the Grateful Dead come from. Let any other part of the country match that. :)
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
The economics of manufacturing in the US make sense when the product is mostly made by automated machines. Glass is like that.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Picking up devs.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
I don't think the authors's GetByPersonId() goes far enough. I suggest PersonFromPersonID() which puts the return type and the parameter in the function name.
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
For number theory try this college textbook: A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory The first six chapters are online so you can see whether you like the approach: http://www.math.brown.edu/~jhs/frintch1ch6.pdf
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
I've been expecting something like this to happen. It is expensive for small bands who often can hit only a few venues. But Tunetable should arrange for studios other than NYC. There are plenty of places around the world where bands c
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by greenlakejake 13y ago
Google already bought Motorola which has plenty of patents.Do they really need more?

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