mjcohenw

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by mjcohenw 12y ago
I misinterpreted the title as "X Windows consortium to close."
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by mjcohenw 13y ago
How about FP64?
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by mjcohenw 13y ago
Google is behind it this year. Next year, who knows?
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
You probably could do APL Warrior in one line!
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
I love awk. I once had to search a multi-megabyte hunk of data that was made up of 25-bit data items packed into 32-bit words. Instead of doing bit packing and unpacking, I converted the words into 32 character strings of 1's and 0's. I end
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
And, of course, none of those bankers are in jail, where they should be rotting. Even if a company is "too big to fail", its executives are NOT "too important to jail"!
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
"Why have both an if-statement and a ternary operator?" Because one is for control of statement execution and one is an expression that returns a value. Two similar-in-purpose but different-in-meaning constructs. In my experience, if the ?-
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Fleb!!!
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Ha! Nobody there I ever heard of.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
I'm one of the happy subscribers. I prefer the mobile site, even on a Mac, because I find it easier to read and navigate. On my Nexus 7, I use Firefox instead of Chrome because (1) I can use stylize to make it white text on black background
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Just take a picture of the screen with another camera. Nothing can stop this.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
The physical keyboard on my Droid 2 is one of the main reasons I keep it. For one thing, it makes text selection easy - shift and arrows. I'm waiting for the Droid 5. Come on Motorola:)
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
How well does this work from a Chromebook?
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
I discovered this on my Commodore PET probably about 1980 and presented it at a users' group meeting (in the Los Angeles area). I have no way to prove this right now, but I swear that this is true.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Yes.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Every time I have used Acrobat to convert PDF to Word, the only usable parts have been the tables. The rest is generally garbage. Fortunately, the tables were the only parts I wanted! I needed to get them from the PDF into text (csv) form.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
A number of years ago the project I was working had problems in Ada because the conversion of floating point numbers from character string to internal floating point by the Ada compiler did not always produce the same values as runtime conv
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
When I was 14, I had to push the electrons around by hand. It was painful getting clobbered by those massive protons and neutrons. I eventually got around the problem by converting the particles to waves, so that they only tickled.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
I wish that were true. Once religion, especially fundamentalist religion, gets control, science is in real trouble. Read Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100".
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Also, please spellcheck!
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
When I participated in code reviews (of C code) when I worked at an aerospace company, I was the ONLY one who actually reviewed the code and I always found a few serious errors.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
I think Apple believes that their map app will eventually become as good as Google's. Also, by doing this, Apple denies Google the information about what locations Apple's users are looking for and makes this available to only Apple.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Sounds like a variation on George Carlin's line that everyone who drives slower than me is stupid and everyone who drives faster is crazy.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
I would trust them more than Tepco.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
If the micro-sd card is treated as random-access storage, how much will its performance degrade with time compared with a ssd drive?
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Another proof that we don't have a democracy, or anything near it.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
It's only fair.
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
How well does this work with LaTeX and other document formatting systems?
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
Are you sure about the Bezier curve algorithm? It has "xx *= xx;" and xx is never reset (unless I misunderstand the code).
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by mjcohenw 14y ago
The algorithm only works with points with integer coordinates, so the slope is always rational.

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