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by jackhack 8y ago
You've captured exactly what it feels like -- this is the constant tension among asm developers. I love really high performance code, but I also like accomplishing more than one trivial thing per hour. It's hard to even remember t
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>Hacks are seen as "good" C programming, and encouraged, so this kind of thing happens. Perhaps among new developers. Us old-timers who have to maintain this stuff have learned to avoid "clever" code rather quickl
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by jackhack 8y ago
Correct. And it's been this way for a long, long time. Back in the early 1990s, I recall browsing the "open positions" list, posted in the cafeteria at work and being shocked at the variance in starting salaries: Windows (3.0
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by jackhack 8y ago
Proof: all those world-changing innovations just pouring out of socialist hotspots of the world, with their shared high living standards outpacing the rest. (/sarcasm). If Musk had not gotten wealthy on paypal, SpaceX wouldn't hav
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by jackhack 8y ago
In fact this is a method of stealing people's investment accounts -- a victim with an investment account is identified. That person's phone number is then "captured". The investment account asks for 2FA and the thief now
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by jackhack 8y ago
and Orwell. If facebook were human, we'd rightly deem it a sociopath for its manipulative behaviour, callus disregard for impact and effect, grandiosity, and cold scheming behavior.
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by jackhack 8y ago
Brilliant. If the sudden increase in luminosity didn't wake you, the screams of fellow passengers looking through the invisible floor at the ground/Ocean 30,000 feet below would surely do the trick!
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by jackhack 8y ago
I agree, in an educational institution or large corporation, no way. But in a small shop that lives and dies on productivity, where one can't (won't?) migrate away from MacOS, a Hackintosh may be the only option available. It&#x27
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by jackhack 8y ago
more closely related -- a NeXT Cube.
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by jackhack 8y ago
Perhaps this is part of the reason why Apple is moving away from Intel chips to some of their own creations?
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by jackhack 8y ago
Wow! I would think the logjam of people stuffing their cars with possessions and getting the hell out of there would have been a clue that something, possibly, was happening that might warrant some further investigation. There's appa
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by jackhack 8y ago
Am I the only one to recoil at the thought of someone chewing transparent aluminum foil? The potential is tremendous in aviation. Imagine transparent aircraft skins -- the superstructure and internals (fuel tanks, hydraulics, etc.) could be
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by jackhack 8y ago
But you're making the argument. You have skills and training and surely thousands of hours of practice, of course you can play plenty of pieces. Limbaugh's point was that he is utterly without art and music talent/training ye
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by jackhack 8y ago
I have only limited formal music education, but I am an ardent amateur performer and listener. But I agree with the person who ran down the aisle at the 1970 performance, yelling "Stop! I will confess!" Western music requires rhyt
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by jackhack 8y ago
Perhaps an argument for "vaping," then? (Nicotine without the smoke and tar and other nasty compounds in tobacco.) I never thought I would say that.
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by jackhack 8y ago
This talks quite a lot about the perception of the listener, but what about the player? The responsiveness of an instrument is one of those remarkable attributes that isn't often perceptible or appreciated by the audience -- the willin
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by jackhack 8y ago
I make acoustic guitars from scratch. There's an old joke in the luthier community about customer preference : "give 'em a choice between volume and tone, and they'll pick volume every time." It's funny because
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by jackhack 8y ago
As well, they (and Google) are tracking your movement across the web, through affilliates and embedded webbugs. Don't think for a moment they've not connected the dots. All it takes is one gstatic image load while you're brin
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by jackhack 9y ago
As valid and thought-provoking as this article is (was?) I find myself struck by two things: 1) Written in 1968? That was fifty years ago! How greatly our world has changed in that time in terms of culture, yet the Beatles music feels as fr
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by jackhack 9y ago
I remember that question/conversation. So pleased it worked out. Mind sharing a few thoughts about your experience as an "older" student? Any surprises about the coursework/assignments/fellow students? Comparing my
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by jackhack 9y ago
By simply stating you don't sign non-compete clauses because they're 1) illegal (in some states) 2) unenforceable (mostly) and 3) immoral. Work is a voluntary arrangement between both parties, at will, and you'll stay (and ho
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by jackhack 9y ago
KetoChow : basically just whey protein powder + some vitamins. not significantly different from the bodybuilder protein shakes.
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by jackhack 9y ago
Employers must provide "reasonable accommodation" to those with disabilities.
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by jackhack 9y ago
Oxygen consumption increases with activity, obviously. Air handling is rated on square footage, structure design and intended purpose. A home is going to carry a very different set of requirements than a factory floor or a restaurant (which
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by jackhack 9y ago
No downvote from me. I agree with your sentiment. I suffered through learning "Brief" back in the 80s, and vim. The only feature I miss in modern editors is copying columns (usually from a bitmapping enum table). Not even drunken
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by jackhack 9y ago
That's what was promised by the UML (Universal Modeling Language). I remember consultants telling us in the 1990s how "soon, you'll just draft UML diagrams and that will execute directly." Those consultants have moved on
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by jackhack 9y ago
Unless you're locked in an airtight space (or small closet, etc) high CO2 should not be a concern whatsoever. Any normal living space is going to be fine. Even a relatively "tight" super-efficient modern home changes air ov
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by jackhack 9y ago
This is important because, for some, the moral dilemma would preclude this treatment.
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by jackhack 9y ago
I saw a billboard in central North Carolina which read "I am not medicine" or similar, with a sad-looking rhino closeup photo in the background. Two thoughts on this: 1) Isn't this billboard in the wrong continent and languag
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by jackhack 9y ago
Somewhere at Facebook is a poor Winston Smith, throwing scraps of paper down the memory hole and editing yesterday's headlines. (edit: And at google, and reddit, and youtube, and ...)

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