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Re:.NET Framework 4.6.2 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @06:09AM (#12216874)
I don't see why people obsess about the MAXPATH as it's quite possible to get 32,768 characters, just use UNC paths with .NET which has been supported since I don't know when; you just need some DLL imports. https://ingehenriksen.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/how-to-work-w...
Re:My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college grad... on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @09:39AM (#12042964)
That's nothing, when my dad died my boss complained vigorously when I wanted to take 3 days off as my dad lived a thousand miles from my workplace. I told him that I was going even if he fired me, he did'nt but I quit a couple of months later and never looked back. (Norway)

Q: How many unit tests does your largest projects have combined

Posted by Amiga64 on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:25PM
from the self-post dept.

I was wondering just how many unit tests people have in their projects out there; how common are projects with 100k+ unit tests for example? And how long would it take to run all your tests if you decided todo so. Personally, I have worked on projects with about 1,000 unit tests, which I expect is pretty small, or?

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Re:Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords (2013) on Saturday April 23, 2016 @05:32AM (#11554843)
My problem with all biometric authentication mechanisms are "what do you do when your fingerprint/eye/face signature is stolen?" Since these are non-replacable signatures they are vulnerable as they can't be replaced.
Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @05:56PM (#9894325)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift
Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @05:46PM (#9894282)
Interesting. I don't think people realize just how slow rand() can be if it is called frequently in your c/c++ program. Marsaglia's xorshf is the fastest algorithm that I know of that also give a ok statistical quality.
Re:Singleton Pattern in Go on Sunday July 12, 2015 @03:36PM (#9874616)
Isn't Singleton's really an anti-pattern? SO discussions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137975/what-is-so-bad-abo...