jvanenk
Re:Trouble at the Koolaid Point
on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @01:19PM (#8428074)
You should really really REALLY read the article.
Re:Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:23PM (#7386949)
It's also doesn't work well for hyphenated words: 'step-by-step' and 'hastily-implemented' are flashed up all at once.
(Regardless of whether or not those are properly hyphenated.)
Edit: But this is still very cool.
Re:The Unpaid Bill that Launched a Thousand Starships
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:16PM (#7179974)
as meaningless as most works of science fiction.
Re:Printable True Bugs Wait Posters
on Friday January 31, 2014 @10:19AM (#7157053)
If you have clang available, the -fsanitize flag is also incredibly helpful for runtime analysis.
Re:Evil people at mozilla
on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:48PM (#7081778)
Based on the post's content, I have no idea what the complaint is. Can some one provide some more context?
Re:My Hardest Bug
on Thursday December 19, 2013 @01:29PM (#6936612)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jnCABBaeY
Overly enthusiastic video demonstrating the issue for those who are curious. :)
Re:On programming without malloc
on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @01:39PM (#6849054)
A friend of mine wrote something up on this technique a while ago: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2012/11/01/hey-c-is-a-functiona...
Re:Because it needs to be said
on Saturday October 12, 2013 @09:39AM (#6538694)
Because of the timing, it's unlikely this was done in response to this incident, but CodeMash did update its code of conduct on September 26th.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/codemash/abX4UEL4vG4/e...
Re:Humanity or gtfo
on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @03:33PM (#6517267)
Or the circle you're working in is comprised of people from varying languages, countries, and backgrounds to whom "guys" might be at best ambiguous.
Re:Coroutines in one page of C
on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:05PM (#6244544)
I'm reminded of protothreads (http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/). I used protothreads some time ago on an embedded project to implement a (very small) HTTP server in only a few KB or RAM.
Re:Don't Even Think of Using Encryption Software to Escape NSA Scrutiny
on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @08:34AM (#5938951)
What your parent comment described is steganography. It's not strictly limited to images or videos.
(1,2) (3,4) (10,7) (11,1) (12, 2)
Re:Stop Using Linked Lists
on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @12:54PM (#5752116)
Stop Using Linked-Lists (in areas where linked-lists are the wrong structure to use)
Edit: I should note this article's advice is really good advice if your focus is performance.
Re:A New Approach to Databases — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on my l...
on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:41PM (#5294017)
Haskell has marvelous concurrent constructs. It's actually one of the few places where I end up thinking "wow, I'm glad I get to use threads here" and I'm not thinking it sarcastically.
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.6.0.1/doc...
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/stm/2.4.2/doc/ht...
Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
on Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:09AM (#4848058)
Ah, I have no rights to encryption either then since ... you know ... child porn.
Or UPS for that matter.
Re:Nexus 4 oversold, Google places many on back order
on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:36PM (#4790614)
It's a full two days after the original order went through. Couldn't they know this information earlier?
Re:Hey, C Is a Functional Language Too
on Friday November 02, 2012 @09:12AM (#4732442)
> It's a cute example, but I can't see any scenario where its better or safer than heap use.
The author does explicitly point this out: "While I find this style strangely addictive, I don’t think I would advocate its general use."
Re:9/11 tragedy pager intercepts
on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:37AM (#4505317)
> it amounts to an advertisement of a free service available
No it doesn't. Especially if it's unintentional.
Re:How Stereotype Threat keeps women from working in SW — and how we c...
on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @01:14PM (#4324195)
A paraphrasing of "other people have it off worse, so stop complaining" isn't an argument.
Re:How Stereotype Threat keeps women from working in SW — and how we c...
on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:39AM (#4323480)
That's a pretty strong claim to make without citing sources.
Re:Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
on Thursday July 26, 2012 @01:55PM (#4297539)
I actually have some experience with GoogCustSvc now.
I bought a Nexus 7. It has touch-screen problems. They provided a way to contact them here (http://support.google.com/nexus/bin/request.py?contact_type=...).
I talked to the rep (after waiting about 30 minutes). They were helpful, direct, competent, and provided a way for me to contact the person I talked to via e-mail after the call was ended.
They organized a replacement device and even worked through the fact that I'd purchased the tablet from my brother-in-law.
If their future customer service offerings are the same as what I experienced last night, I have no concerns.
Re:What’s to love about C?
on Monday June 11, 2012 @09:34AM (#4094469)
> most people recognize that there is a place where C is really your only choice
But should it be?
Re:OpenShift by Red Hat
on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:47AM (#3976510)
last I checked, Heroku does have a free offering.
Re:What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?
on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @10:47AM (#3943858)
> That is the absolute major issue with doing safety-critical development right: it has a cost, that cost is very, very high, and few want to pay it.
This is absolutely true. The costs to manage complexity now seem high when software is being built. The costs of managing that complexity in the future are far higher and may have to be paid in lives.
Re:What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?
on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @10:25AM (#3943749)
My experience in aerospace has been that people still distrust optimizers. Generally, they are turned off. Same thing for things like CPU cache.
Not exactly relevant to this discussion, but good to keep in mind.
Re:What's The Best Language For Safety Critical Software?
on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @10:22AM (#3943731)
> Overall though, I think the most important thing is to have skilled developers who understand the tools, libraries and languages that they're using.
I work with C every day as an embedded developer. I've done a lot of safety critical work. By far the worst aspect of safety critical development is the complete inadequacy of many programmers who work on it.
The level of complexity that shows up in these system scares me. Even when introducing languages like Ada, people find a way to abuse them. Budgets get tight, schedules slip, and verification gets lax. These programmers are then the only people capable of dealing with the massively complex system they've built and the cycle repeats itself.
Ada's a great language, but it's not a panacea. I'm working on a language for embedded systems as well, but it's not going to ever fix the 'bad programmer' problem. The best I can hope to do is find ways to reduce the complexity of these systems through language features.
An unlimited budget is almost as bad as no budget
Re:Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay
on Friday March 09, 2012 @10:06AM (#3684305)
i buy lots of things i can just pirate.