scriptedfate

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by scriptedfate 8y ago
I've been describing it as a code editor for sheet music, but I guess it's just as much a sheet music editor for coders?
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C++: How to use dtor order to detect temporaries(chuttenblog.wordpress.com)
1 points by scriptedfate 11y ago|0 comments
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
I wonder how much of the $425 is simply to dissolve the word mark so that the word 'good' can go back to being an adjective in the phrase 'good technology.'
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
The countries on the plot are exactly the 34 countries surveyed in the original paper, "Public Acceptance of Evolution" Jon Miller et al, 2006.
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
Bon Cop, Bad Cop[0] isn't TV (maybe a TV Movie, now) but its use of Quebecois was, to me (my formative years spent within 3km of the Quebec border), quite accurate. [0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479647/
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
tl;dr - if you're adding two numbers in your algorithm (like finding the midpoint in a binary search), make sure their sum can be represented in the resultant type. Basically: "watch out for overflows"
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
From "How much is time wrong around the world?"[1] see this map shaded to show the difference between standard time and solar time: http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTime.... You can see
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
unsandboxed behaviour being abused... you mean like all other apps written natively for any platform since the dawn of time? There's no vetting process for Windows utilities or bash scripts you find online. The closest you can get is t
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
[apple-]mobile-web-app-capable yes [1][2] is a non-standard meta-tag that some browsers detect in order to identify webpages who, when launched from the homescreen, want to be treated app-like. (they want you to ditch the navigation capabil
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
Dental, Pharma, and Mental Health are the obvious holes in Ontario's (and Canada's) "Universal" Health Care. Do you want to deal with a person's psych problems or pay for their psych care?
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
Poe's Law to the rescue(?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by scriptedfate 11y ago
Antennas, broadly, need to be some fraction of the wavelength of the wavelength you're trying to capture. Think resonance as to why this is the case. Since FM operates around 100 MHz, cellular around 1GHz, and Wifi from 2-5GHz, you&#x2
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by scriptedfate 12y ago
They get paid. To do business legally in a country, you need to abide by that country's rules. One of Canada's is the "Canadian Content" requirement of broadcasters that says that a certain amount of content being broadc