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Re:Are you paid to look busy? on Saturday May 10, 2014 @06:01PM (#7726981)
Relevant short, "el Empleo": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUuU1jwMgM
Re:Sony Digital Paper e-ink PDF tablet for notes and forms on Friday March 28, 2014 @03:59PM (#7489615)
> The hardware is lustworthy

what part? I have a 1440x1080 ereader retailing at $170.

Re:Announcing the C++ FAQ on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:14PM (#7451296)
An essential companion to the consolidated C++ FAQ is the indispensable C++ FQA.

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

Re:An Introduction to x86_64 Assembly Language on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:24PM (#7423891)
> anyone know of a mirror?

http://siyobik.info.gf/main/reference/

Re:The New Razer Blade on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @08:06PM (#7389296)
These seem to fit your description pretty well: http://www.asus.com/zenbook/ .
Re:Postfix Code Completion in IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:59AM (#7340535)
It's amazing what hoops people are keen to jump through so they don't have to program in Forth.
Re:Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript on Monday October 28, 2013 @06:32PM (#6630309)
This is not an assembler simulator (i'd enjoy having one, though), it's a 8-bit computer simulator that includes an assembler.
Re:Tell HN: Ask Golang is my vacation project on Friday May 31, 2013 @02:35PM (#5800459)
http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

(aside: how is GoF "high-level/architecture/design"? it is just a collection of tricks for overcoming language inexpressiveness)

Re:Firefox OS: System wide orientation lock in 45LOC on Friday May 31, 2013 @09:45AM (#5798525)
The one with icons you use to start programs. Probably "main menu."
Re:Firefox OS: System wide orientation lock in 45LOC on Friday May 31, 2013 @08:09AM (#5798068)
Off-topic, but I always wondered why both on iOS and Android some built-in applications (notably program selection screen) are always portrait-locked?

As a Nokia E70 (Symbian) user, this always buggers me. What if I want to search for something (and for that, use the long-edge keyboard)?

What is the rationale here?

Re:User-triggerable NULL pointer dereference on Friday May 31, 2013 @08:03AM (#5798041)
Is this a new kind of viral adverts for Coverity?
Re:Do Devs Need Custom Linux Laptops? Dell Thinks So on Saturday December 08, 2012 @11:30PM (#4893794)
Remember we are talking about "power user" hardware, or something like that. Of course I'm going to install the O/S of my choice on my work laptop.
Re:Do Devs Need Custom Linux Laptops? Dell Thinks So on Saturday December 08, 2012 @11:05PM (#4893739)
You've probably misread "going to use" as "heard of."
Re:Do Devs Need Custom Linux Laptops? Dell Thinks So on Saturday December 08, 2012 @10:59PM (#4893726)
If by "custom" you mean rebranded consumer hardware coming with some Linux distribution I'm never going to use preinstalled, the answer is likely to be "no."

Clarification added later that I never anticipated to be needed: my point here is that there are more significant departures from mainstream needed to call something a "custom Linux laptop for developers": most likely, significant hardware changes.