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Re:An intro to Zig's integer casting for C programmers on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:15AM (#27119080)
C# has GC by default, but you can do manual memory management in "unsafe" blocks
This looks extremely low, you should be able at least twice of that as a junior without much experience.
Re:.NET 5.0 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:41PM (#25049458)
Huh, that's quite a dramatic code size reduction. Which percentage of this codebase was in tests and boilerplate code for stuff like helper data classes?
Current version of Windows already have Chromium in the form of new Edge and Microsoft seems to start pushing progressive web applications. At least they made good integration with system for them.

So, perhaps, soon we will have PWAs instead of bunch of electron apps each carrying its own Chromium.

Re:Stop Teaching Code, Solicit Predictions Instead on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:46AM (#21639954)
In short: prefer induction over deduction in early stages of teaching.
Re:Hellvetica.ttf – Kern in Hell on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:56PM (#21391331)
This also need to have somehow broken hinting instructions so it would render blurry with rainbow edges on a screen.
Re:Show HN: Transform Data Without Programming on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:10AM (#21171258)
>Which distributions to support?

Target flatpak and/or snap.

Re:New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:37AM (#18582462)
So, basically a nanoscale electron tube?
>Are there already atmosphere-breathing engines that do this and what are they called?

Generally this kind of engine is called Magnetohydrodynamic drive. I'm not sure about atmospheric engines, but according to wiki[1] there are prototypes that uses water as working fluid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive

Re:The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion on Saturday June 30, 2018 @04:51PM (#17432671)
Looks similar to Ionocraft[0], but only for low density plasma instead of an air.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft

МЦСТ (MCST) was an abbreviation for "Московский центр SPARC-технологий", now it's just a meaningless letters. ARM in computer name means probably "Автоматизированное рабочее место" - "Automated workstation"
Re:Minimal Wikipedia redesign concept on Friday June 27, 2014 @12:03PM (#7954628)
So, how am I supposed to select language?
Re:UBook – Markdown for eBooks on Saturday February 08, 2014 @01:23PM (#7201998)
There already is FB2 format. Sure, its XML-based and many people may not like it, but why reinvent same thing againg?
Re:Yotaphone on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:58AM (#6846339)
Man, standing on its head is the logo of Yota[1], so it's a part of the design ;-)

[1] http://www.yota.ru

Re:Yotaphone on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:13AM (#6846189)
According to russian news site[1] it will cost 19990 rubles ($600) in Russia.

[1] http://hi-tech.mail.ru/news/misc/yotaphone-price.html

Re:Tsar Bomba: Largest weapon ever used. on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:38PM (#6580909)
And irony here is that one of the guys, who were developing this thing, was awarded Nobel Peace Prize later.
Re:Tools used by influential developers and designers on Saturday August 17, 2013 @04:21AM (#6228531)
> Almost everyone uses a Mac. Where? I, actually, don't know anybody who uses mac.
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport on Thursday August 01, 2013 @01:11PM (#6141782)
http://visualbooster.com/share/20130801230340534.png Here is graph which represents fertility rate in Russia (orange) comparative to Japan (red) and Germany (blue). It's obviously climbing up since economy stabilized. Now, would you expect huge increase after anti gay-propaganda law is established?
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport on Thursday August 01, 2013 @10:34AM (#6140551)
Being gay or not is not a choice, so how can fertility rate be linked with number of homosexuals?