letney
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Comment · 12 years ago
...while I thought it would be covering Facebook's Flow project posted here a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625222
Comment · 12 years ago
While the submission title matches the article, it screams linkbait to me. I clicked fully expecting to read about a new 0 day exploit...
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes, I got that too.
>89.207.135.125 - - - "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 302 483 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"
...searching for vulnerable CPanel installs.
Comment · 12 years ago
I absolutely love Envy apples!
They are very crisp and sweet without the tart flavor other crisp varieties seem to have. They also don't go brown after cutting for a very long time.
Definitely worth the slightly higher price in the supermarket. I very much miss them when they are out of season.
Comment · 12 years ago
> Is that something I should pursue?
I can only offer an emphatic YES. I think that there are enough geeks out there that would like to see this monopoly broken that I predict a Kickstarter would be a rousing success.
Comment · 12 years ago
> "you can't even represent 0.1 in IEEE floating point"
Not true, the IEEE 754-2008 standard provides a Decimal Floating Point specification in binary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point#IEEE_754...
Comment · 12 years ago
"fishes" refers to multiple species of fish, while "fish" is the correct plural form of a school of a single species.
Comment · 12 years ago
> ...and you've saved money in the process too.
This discussion hearkens back to the current investigation into John Swallow, the former Attorney General of Utah who resigned less than a year into his term and is currently the subject of multiple investigations.
Swallow 'lost' over 1,700 emails from his time in office on his home computer. The state of Utah has spent over $100,000 to recover them (some successfully), see: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57648883-78/swallow-sltrib...
Comment · 12 years ago
Foreign Function Interface
Comment · 12 years ago
I too experienced a plethora of lucid dreaming through my early twenties. Sometimes I would have a few a night for weeks. They tapered off gradually and I have maybe a few a year now (I'm 35).
Many were tied with sleep paralysis, which didn't give me the fear that most people associate with it. Sometimes I could extract my preceptual self from my body and experience walking around the room in a weird lucid dream world. All while simultaneously being aware of my pysical body lying in bed.
I would love to have those dreams again.
Comment · 12 years ago
20+ year C/C++ programmer here. I always use ++x unless the postfix version (x++) provides more succinct code.
The postfix operator can incur a temporary variable to be created by the compiler and thus make code slower.
Reference: http://www.idinews.com/peeves/prefixIncr.html
Also, item #6 from "More Effective C++": http://bin-login.name/ftp/pub/docs/programming_languages/cpp...
Comment · 12 years ago
Probably never. As any site in the top rankings is likely going to be using nginx as a reverse proxy to node.js.
Comment · 12 years ago
As a C/C++ and graphics programmer, I love NaN. It allows saving space by not having to carry an extra is_valid boolean for uninitialized values or regions of data that are masked.
For textures, they are great as they don't interpolate w/ nearby neighbors and properly discard fragments & vertices without the aforementioned cost of an extra boolean attribute.
Comment · 12 years ago
This is exactly what Servo[1] is.
[1] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027664/under-the-hood-of-mozillas...