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by jvanenk 12y ago
You should really really REALLY read the article.
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by jvanenk 13y ago
It's also doesn't work well for hyphenated words: 'step-by-step' and 'hastily-implemented' are flashed up all at once. (Regardless of whether or not those are properly hyphenated.) Edit: But this is still very
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Estimate This(blog.testdouble.com)
5 points by jvanenk 13y ago|0 comments
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by jvanenk 13y ago
as meaningless as most works of science fiction.
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by jvanenk 13y ago
If you have clang available, the -fsanitize flag is also incredibly helpful for runtime analysis.
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by jvanenk 13y ago
Based on the post's content, I have no idea what the complaint is. Can some one provide some more context?
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by jvanenk 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jnCABBaeY Overly enthusiastic video demonstrating the issue for those who are curious. :)
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by jvanenk 13y ago
A friend of mine wrote something up on this technique a while ago: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2012/11/01/hey-c-is-a-functiona...
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by jvanenk 13y ago
Because of the timing, it's unlikely this was done in response to this incident, but CodeMash did update its code of conduct on September 26th. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/codemash/abX4UEL4vG4&#
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by jvanenk 13y ago
Or the circle you're working in is comprised of people from varying languages, countries, and backgrounds to whom "guys" might be at best ambiguous.
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by jvanenk 13y ago
I'm reminded of protothreads ( http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/ ). I used protothreads some time ago on an embedded project to implement a (very small) HTTP server in only a few KB or RAM.
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by jvanenk 13y ago
What your parent comment described is steganography. It's not strictly limited to images or videos. (1,2) (3,4) (10,7) (11,1) (12, 2)
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by jvanenk 13y ago
Stop Using Linked-Lists (in areas where linked-lists are the wrong structure to use) Edit: I should note this article's advice is really good advice if your focus is performance.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
Haskell has marvelous concurrent constructs. It's actually one of the few places where I end up thinking "wow, I'm glad I get to use threads here" and I'm not thinking it sarcastically. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.6.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
Ah, I have no rights to encryption either then since ... you know ... child porn. Or UPS for that matter.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
It's a full two days after the original order went through. Couldn't they know this information earlier?
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by jvanenk 14y ago
> It's a cute example, but I can't see any scenario where its better or safer than heap use. The author does explicitly point this out: "While I find this style strangely addictive, I don’t think I would advocate its general use."
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by jvanenk 14y ago
> it amounts to an advertisement of a free service available No it doesn't. Especially if it's unintentional.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
A paraphrasing of "other people have it off worse, so stop complaining" isn't an argument.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
That's a pretty strong claim to make without citing sources.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
I actually have some experience with GoogCustSvc now. I bought a Nexus 7. It has touch-screen problems. They provided a way to contact them here ( http://support.google.com/nexus/bin/request.py?contact_type=... ). I talked to the rep (after
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by jvanenk 14y ago
> most people recognize that there is a place where C is really your only choice But should it be?
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by jvanenk 14y ago
last I checked, Heroku does have a free offering.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
> That is the absolute major issue with doing safety-critical development right: it has a cost, that cost is very, very high, and few want to pay it. This is absolutely true. The costs to manage complexity now seem high when software
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by jvanenk 14y ago
My experience in aerospace has been that people still distrust optimizers. Generally, they are turned off. Same thing for things like CPU cache. Not exactly relevant to this discussion, but good to keep in mind.
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by jvanenk 14y ago
> Overall though, I think the most important thing is to have skilled developers who understand the tools, libraries and languages that they're using. I work with C every day as an embedded developer. I've done a lot of safety critical
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An unlimited budget is almost as bad as no budget(spin.atomicobject.com)
2 points by jvanenk 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvanenk 15y ago
i buy lots of things i can just pirate.
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Avoid Putting Preprocessor Directives in .c Files(spin.atomicobject.com)
2 points by jvanenk 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Bother With Cucumber Testing? | Jack Kinsella - Rails Developer London(jackkinsella.ie)
3 points by jvanenk 15y ago|0 comments

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