stevek

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by stevek 2y ago
Anybody know why it is a cycling (circular) motion rather than a linear stepping motion? It looks like the apparatus has a strange rolling motion which needn't be as pronounced.
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by stevek 7y ago
Yes! Get a clear picture of what you want from this. Know your own mind before you enter into serious conversations with the company. Best case, you both win.
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by stevek 7y ago
COM is not windows specific any more! Or rather there is a portable COM-like thing which looks like a good fit for cross language development https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang It's from the team who delivered cpp
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by stevek 12y ago
I also really enjoyed the course. The book behind this course is called "The Elements of Computing Systems". I've been recommending it to lots of people.
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by stevek 12y ago
Not a fix at all! It shows how to disable SSLv3 on a IE and some http servers.
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by stevek 12y ago
Yay for Nintento and boo to patent trolls. The article is rather lightweight and short. It doesn't say what the claims actually were.
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by stevek 13y ago
From the link: Europlugs are only designed for low-power (less than 2.5 A) Class II (double-insulated) devices that operate at normal room temperature and do not require a protective-earth connection.
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by stevek 13y ago
>> "The fact that it has not decomposed shows you how unhealthy it is for children." > How does that show it's unhealthy for children? I'm not saying that a burger from McDonald's isn't unhealthy, but why is this evidence of it?
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by stevek 14y ago
> There are now inductive loops as you traverse the offramp. They sense if your car is exceeding a given speed, and they trigger a red light at the end of the offramp if you are. Then, after that turns green, the system triggers another
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by stevek 14y ago
One part in the article really caught my attention: Recruiting and hiring isn’t considered a core activity I think that once your company grows beyond a certain size, it must become so. We hired a full time in-house recruiter aroun
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by stevek 15y ago
Does nobody else find the repetition objectionable? e.g. NEW = ('N', 'New'), If your values have good names, you can easily deduce "Some Constant" from SOME_CONSTANT or vice-versa. While I'm at it, having abbreviations built-in seems iffy
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by stevek 15y ago
Entertaining rants, compression (data & image) & general sweng. http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/
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by stevek 15y ago
I agree, reading assembly is a great skill to have for some domains. You'll almost never write assembly these days, except in the most niche of niches. A much more productive approach is to use intrinsics in a higher level language and exam
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by stevek 15y ago
We've done this. A modified clang-interpreter spits out some json. Python scripts consume the it and generate reflection data, script bindings etc. We're very happy with the results. It's a little bit slower than hand parsing the headers, b
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by stevek 16y ago
The single worst thing that people do wrong when writing regular expressions is to use .* x when really they should use [^x]* x (i.e. the common case of looking for some kind of terminator 'x') The worst case I ever saw had many .* running
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by stevek 16y ago
Yes, it's mostly for entertainment value. However, I didn't previously know about the commmand-t plugin. It made the read worthwhile, independent of entertainment.
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by stevek 16y ago
For most people on HN I suspect this would be more like: 1. Close your IM, email and browser
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by stevek 16y ago
What a strange infographic. Why are google & oracle on opposite sides, but nokia & quallcomm neighbors? Deliberate or accidental? It looks more "graphic" than "info".
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by stevek 16y ago
818 is certainly worth a look. Pretty amazing really.
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by stevek 16y ago
Ouch, it looks like defragging your SSDs became worthwhile again!
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by stevek 16y ago
Looks lovely. This works really well - I've been doing the same thing on paper for years. I do find however, that you need to make the recipe a few times from the long winded version which will often have tips or extra info which can't be c
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by stevek 16y ago
I spent quite a few days tinkering with putting linux onto a nas device which was a lot of hassle and didn't perform well (music streaming). In the end I just got an cheap fanless atom board and was done in a few hours. Obviously not as pow
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by stevek 16y ago
As anybody with a netbook can tell you that many videos which are extremely choppy in flash (yes, even if fully buffered) are quite playable in vlc for instance. Now given that one of the main uses for flash is streaming video, that should
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by stevek 16y ago
I've often heard of this, but only just read it for the first time. When reading this, I was struck by how much more horrifying it would be if the characters were running on the computer instead of being physically inside it. Can you imagin
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by stevek 17y ago
It always amuses me to hear talk of this wonderful universal language of mathematics. On a certain level, it's true but in each field of mathematics there are many notational differences. Not quite whole new languages but certainly heavily