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Re:Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012) on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:46PM (#11603243)
I learned that YKK was a thing from Outkast
Re:Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds on Monday April 06, 2015 @11:28PM (#9331865)
Last summer, a project I was working on used hg. Missing partial staging is the only reason I haven't completely switched over from git.
Re:Did dark matter do in the dinosaurs? on Thursday February 19, 2015 @05:22PM (#9077533)
Time to break out Betteridge's law again?
Re:The vault where Harvard keeps millions of books on Sunday February 08, 2015 @08:52PM (#9019393)
Perhaps it's best described just as an infinite-sized cache. I would assume they have enough request to very rarely be idle.
Re:How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:13AM (#8927650)
That's part of the reason I never really liked Jon Stewart. He knew he was the primary, if not only, news source for a large demographic; yet, he would consistently hide behind the Comedy Central logo in the bottom corner when he was criticized.

It's like he felt he---and only he---was allowed to turn on and off his "real" journalist at whim.

Re:Memcpy vs. memmove on Monday December 01, 2014 @04:32PM (#8683970)
Yeah, looks like it's for function alignment padding. It's a pretty common thing at the end of functions to have the next function start on a specific boundary. (even if the first function doesn't fall into the other)

I haven't tested, but I'd bet good money that 12 NOPs would be faster than a jmp.

Re:C Pointers Explained, Really (2012) on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @02:50AM (#8656775)
> Lol, what the heck? Troll or astro-turfed? Where can you get a CS Master's Degree and on only four years of programming?

Introduced to computer science / programming halfway through undergrad 2 years ago. Going to finish up a masters next fall. (3 and some change years after I started)

Re:Motherfucking Website on Sunday November 24, 2013 @05:21PM (#6791414)