jhdevos

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by jhdevos 10y ago
> It looks as though cryptkeeper makes assumptions about encfs' command-line interface that are no longer valid. This looks like a developer mistaking a command line interface for an API. Unless an (interactive) CL interface is expl
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by jhdevos 10y ago
This is explained in the article in a bit more detail. The point is not that the type system does something with the actual value - the point is that it would be impossible to create any code that results in such a value (other than null),
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by jhdevos 10y ago
I don't see the headline as misleading at all. There are two type systems in Java: the JVM's run-time type system, and Java's compile time type system. It's the latter that has been shown to be unsound. As the paper note
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by jhdevos 10y ago
After interviewing many more and less experienced programmers (and asking most of them if they can explain a hash table - just for statistics!), I concur that most cannot. There were quite some people that thought trees were faster than has
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by jhdevos 10y ago
> First the law expressly forbids a patent on ideas. Only in the sense that you can't forbid anyone else /having/ an idea, just that you can forbid them doing anything with it. In software, it is definitely the idea that i
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by jhdevos 11y ago
Of course, another question is: will the AI's consider us humans to have the equivalent of their consciousness? Or will they think "These humans don't not really possess consciousness, they just exhibit a crude biological sim
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by jhdevos 11y ago
Any idea what the best vim plugin for rtags is? I see there are several...
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by jhdevos 11y ago
True - which is why they did the cream as well. At the very least, this study tells us that the mindfulness meditation is a 'more effective' placebo than the cream. It's very hard do really do in a 'double blind' wa
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by jhdevos 11y ago
Yeah, the original Eternity puzzle ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_puzzle ) was a lot better in that regard - it spiked a whole online community focused on finding clever ways to find a solution, and was in fa
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by jhdevos 11y ago
Integer overflow?
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by jhdevos 11y ago
Having played on (and heard people play on) a pBone, I'd have to say that even though it's quite impressive to see what they've been able to do with just plastic, it's still quite some way off from being a 'quality&
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by jhdevos 11y ago
That seems like a false sense of safety: when doing arithmetic, your program is most likely not going to be handling overflows correctly anyway. Also, when using unsigned ints, any code involving subtractions can lead to subtle bugs that on
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by jhdevos 11y ago
In firefox: Preferences -> Advanced -> enable "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page". Other browsers will probably have similar options.
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by jhdevos 11y ago
I think when smaller companies have patents, they tend to be closely related to their core business, and they have them precisely in order to use them 'offensively' - or, in other words, to protect their core business from compani
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by jhdevos 12y ago
Wording is a bit sloppy: "Extending R (the inner while loop) takes at most a total of N steps, and positioning and testing each centers take a total of N steps too. Therefore, this algorithm guarantees to finish in at most 2*N steps, g
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by jhdevos 12y ago
> Where can i find more information regarding this. The C++ standard, of course :) But if you prefer some lighter reading, either http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/mutex/mutex/unlock/ or http:/
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by jhdevos 12y ago
> Will Windows run on it? Well... Yeah. Windows runs on everything powered by an x86 processor. I've tried installing Windows 7 on an old Dell laptop a while ago. I got it working eventually, but had to hunt around for drivers for v
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by jhdevos 12y ago
A button to execute a single instruction would also be nice.
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by jhdevos 12y ago
In fact, the animation draws attention away from the text, which you are probably supposed to read (otherwise, why bother with an alert). I really don't understand this infatuation with distracting unnecessary animations that people ha
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by jhdevos 12y ago
No, we don't want that. A while ago there was even a headline here that boils down to 'Illegality will not be punishable'. This was about people residing in the country illegally. Everyone understands the headline immediately
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by jhdevos 13y ago
Mine was 'REDO FROM START' :-)
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by jhdevos 13y ago
The answer to your '(is it?)' is 'No!', english is just the language of the programming culture that we are part of. And that is the whole point of this article; there already is a lot of programming culture that we simp
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by jhdevos 13y ago
To add some reasons why you'd want to learn CUDA first: It turns out that simple things are a lot simpler, and take a lot less code, in Cuda than OpenCL. With Cuda, your kernel and host code will be close together in the same file. You
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by jhdevos 13y ago
Perhaps your intuition changes if you think about the line (in a plane) coinciding with the x-axis. Don't you think it is reasonable to define that line as the set of points (in the plane) having y=0? Also, should that line not be iden
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by jhdevos 13y ago
Small fun bug: if you click twice on an item, the description at the bottom shows 'git null' :)
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by jhdevos 13y ago
Exactly. Innovation in the field of spreadsheet programs would have completely stagnated by keeping it limited to a company that was clearly done innovating. Their lack of further innovation would only have been greater with a monopoly.
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by jhdevos 13y ago
Does seem like an 'honest' bug. I did what the OP did (except I checked the middle option), and when you then look at the source of the page, it includes <div style="margin:20px 10px 32px 0px;padding:0;background-color
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by jhdevos 13y ago
> Uhh... the whole idea with the present generation of smartphone (software) comes from the iPhone. Oh come on. It's an evolution of what was there before; Palm OS was already very clearly moving in that direction. There is very lit
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by jhdevos 13y ago
I don't see what hardware they tested on. What are the specs of this GHC 5000 computer they mention?
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by jhdevos 13y ago
There are two different considerations: * what the compiler will enforce: this has nothing to do with thread safety, and will allow what you mention. * what guarantees the standard library will give: [17.6.5.9/3] A C++ standard library func

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