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  1. Re:Lightweights on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    I take speaking in public... you take the rest :-D

  2. Re:My biggest fear: C on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    C is fine, just stay away from function pointers...
    And free your malloc...

  3. Re:Web Programming on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Sadly it's becoming true... sadly said programmers are not / cannot do anything about it.

  4. Re:Web Programming - CSS on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    ha ha ha!!!
    +++1

  5. Re:The C++ working commitee on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Java's spec is longer because it's just more verbose, it's one of the slowest language specs to catch up to the times...
    When is Java 8 release date?

  6. Re:Being stuck on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    ditto... I have no one to bounce ideas off except the wall

  7. Re:Compiler Bugs on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    citation needed

  8. Re:Thank god for multi process on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    +1

  9. Re:Anybody use Knoppix today? Great stuff at one t on Knoppix 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Assuming your BIOS has the option to boot from USB... yes?

  10. Re:Agree, but not completely on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    "reasonable future changes" is key based on the experience at hand.

  11. Re:Compare algebraic simplifications on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    +1

  12. Re:good developers writes good code, bad ones don' on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    So the meta data indicated to convert strings to ints otherwise they meant to be used as a code or something.
    Sounds like you got lucky, those assumptions could come back to bite you. It's best to confirm with the domain expert, never assume!

  13. Re:"rant" is a nice way of putting it on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    Fine then, replace "six" with "twelve" so you can explain simply all your nerdy theories.

  14. Re:PEP20 on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    I don't get your example, I think you omitted the complex part.
    Doing that is normal, looking at your example I will then be expecting that you will do further work with 'ar' and 'ai'.

  15. Re:coding becoming like fine wine on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    God you sound like my manager and I cringe everytime

  16. Re:Bill Atkinson -2000 lines of code on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    +1 Cool story

  17. Re:Debugging "simple code" sometimes terrible on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    So true, this is the reason why java error stack dumps are so huge

  18. Speaking of complexity on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    I was just reading this article and I stopped at this paragraph, unable to understand it:

    "Standing Accretion Shock Instability," or SASI. This term expresses the fact that the initial sphericity of the supernova shock wave is spontaneously broken, because the shock develops large-amplitude, pulsating asymmetries by the oscillatory growth of initially small, random seed perturbations."

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130627083034.htm

    No clue if that could be expressed in a more simpler form.

  19. Re:I'm not a computer scientist, and... on Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style · · Score: 1

    Part of the answer is the "magic" of matrix math. You can represent multiple linear equations in every row of a matrix and when you apply one operation (add, multiply, etc) you performed it on all your encoded equations inside the matrix.

    If you can, for example, represent your problem in a linear equation (algebra) then you can also formulate 50 similar equations. You want to "transform" all your equations by some operation (lets say divide by 20), so instead of calculating 50 times that operation for every equation you just do it once if you encode them in a matrix.

    This started in graphics when you wanted to apply the same operation to many pixels on a screen (i.e. apply a shading rule), so that's why video cards have these massive processing power on pixels.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)

  20. Re:A likely story on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 1

    Citation Needed.

  21. Re:Here's how to uninstall it.. on Microsoft Telling Users To Uninstall Bad Patch · · Score: 1

    It's all good except for Windows XP users, T_T

  22. Re:Why all the hate? on Windows Blue 9364 Screenshots Show Feature Enhancements · · Score: 1

    So sounds like we will still have to install a Start button for this up coming "Blue" version.
    I see a growing niche market for all the possible start buttons that you can install on your shiny new windows!

  23. Re:A hard time keeping on the forefront? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    Good point. I think the natural evolution will be to offload the workload that is currently on the cellphone/tablet and balance it to PCs and Servers.

    For example, how many times you are stuck with a big file on your cellphone that you wish you could store it in your PC and also share it to the "cloud".
    Why can't the cellphone, PC and cloud talk to each other so whenever there is some connectivity they can update each other?
    Eventually the information you use/consume on these three platforms will be different.

  24. Re:Why would intel want to? on Why Can't Intel Kill x86? · · Score: 1

    I would like to add that my Samnsung laser printer is built like a tank.

  25. Re:What about Save As PDF on Firefox 19 Launches With Built-In PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Oh... I hope not. I only made sure NOT to install (deselect) the associated crapware that comes in the installation file.
    I have different versions installed on different machines, what would the version with the trojan be?
    Also, I made sure I downloaded it from sourceforge.