jmagar

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by jmagar 8y ago
You may be thinking of Spolsky: ‘As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play d
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by jmagar 14y ago
I suspect they haven't taken those photos yet.
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by jmagar 14y ago
Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is <<username>>@facebook.com I don't see anyway to keep that secret.
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by jmagar 14y ago
Sounds like someone found Dan Pink's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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by jmagar 15y ago
I think you are mistaken on the "Holding the phone isn't the problem;" (mental distraction seems correct though) I suggest a quick test for you: 1) Grab the edge of your display like it's the steering wheel 2) with your other hand hold you
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by jmagar 15y ago
This marks the end of all my "Hello World!" first programs; replaced by "goodbye, dad\n"
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by jmagar 15y ago
Of all the tributes, this is the one that brought a tear to my eye. I worry that the long hours and extraordinary commitment to our craft may not be worth the sacrifices we make. The time is now for me, and I'm driving hard to a personal g
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by jmagar 15y ago
re: brand appearance... http://hackaday.com/2011/08/11/how-to-put-your-logo-in-a-qr-...
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by jmagar 15y ago
I took my two boys to a launch because I knew the end was near. STS-125 the first and last time two shuttles were prepped to launch at the same time: Hubble makes the ISS unreachable if a problem occurs. (The second shuttle was the rescu
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by jmagar 17y ago
Michael Caine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUbsWnEVXM Powerful stuff.
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by jmagar 17y ago
Jon Udell had a very interesting article recently on a related topic: http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-... Jon's particular slant was reading the comments in the timezone database and reflecting on the politica
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by jmagar 17y ago
A whole bucket might chill the oil sufficiently to reduce the risk... But I can tell you a single ice cube does make a mess, and a lot of noise. First the cube sinks, so you won't be able to get it back easily if you want to abort. It rat
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by jmagar 17y ago
Let's just start with the simple fact cable quality does matter when working with HDMI. I'm not here to argue about the price of one manufacturer versus another, or their relative quality and worth. But I will point out that "cheap cables
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by jmagar 18y ago
And I.
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by jmagar 18y ago
Me please! mike_agar@hotmail.com Thanks.
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by jmagar 18y ago
Carmack or Michael Abrash? Read Graphics Programming Black Book ( http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Abrashs-Graphics-Programming-S... ) Abrash did amazing things with assembly to get Quake to run on the 486. I don't know if Carmack, Abrash,
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Ask HN: What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?
30 points by jmagar 18y ago|59 comments
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by jmagar 18y ago
one more for this thread: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
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by jmagar 18y ago
http://addagram.mytestbench.com/ I too have played with that one, but I used JavaScript... These problems are engaging enough to keep you interested, especially when you are trying out a new language. The challenge is significant, and t
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by jmagar 18y ago
I doubt very much that Jobs is underestimating the effort or the risk. This is more likely the Apple response to why an iPhone? Look, if the COTS chips within the iPhone are available to everyone, (they are), then anyone can implement the
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by jmagar 18y ago
I've maintained for a long while that MS is weaker without Gates. From all I've read, it was clear that Bill had a strong leadership role in the technical domain, and his influence was not to be underestimated. So the announcement that he
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by jmagar 18y ago
That's one heck of a magic number... The strangest one I've seen is the fast sqrt() function in SGI OpenGL source code: there's a magic step where a right bit shift is applied to a 32bit IEEE float. (oops.. just clicked your link, looks lik
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by jmagar 18y ago
Who visits Hacker News and doesn't know that "Dennis Ritchie" is the R in "K&R"?
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by jmagar 18y ago
I can't help but think that there are better ways to backup your code. Once you give it to an online service, you give up total control over how that data is handled. Your code is everything. You should take care of it properly. On the ot
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by jmagar 18y ago
You sir, hit the nail on the head! We need the exact opposite: enter a regex pattern, and a sample string... then fire up a similar GUI to tweak the expression until it's working again.