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“Microsoft must be furious though: the ad has been printed with the panels reversed so that it looks as if using Visual Studio turns you into a boorish, smug, self obsessed cock. Too bad.”
posted 1 week ago in humor, programming58 views | 5 jaas | reply )
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“The cluster statistics were: * 910 nodes * 4 dual core Xeons @ 2.0ghz per a node * 4 SATA disks per a node * 8G RAM per a node” Reproducing the result yourself on Amazon EC2/S3 = ~ $100k
posted 2 days ago in opensource, search8 views | 5 jaas | 2 saves | reply )
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“First and foremost, tell me, right away, what this thing does, the problem it solves, and (at a high level) the approach taken to solve the problem.”
posted about 1 day ago in programming, software11 views | 2 jaas | reply )
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“Character animation in video games—whether manually key-framed or motion captured—has traditionally relied on codifying skeletons early in a game's development, and creating animations rigidly tied to these fixed skeleton morphologies. This paper introduces a novel system for animating characters wh more...
posted 2 weeks ago in games, graphics, programming, animation21 views | 6 jaas | 3 saves | reply )
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“category 5 weirdness, the equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot combined. I'm talking about comments that feel like they were teleported here from another dimension.”
posted 3 weeks ago in humor, programming59 views | 3 jaas | reply )
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“JustOneMoreBug is exactly what it sounds like: the feeling that if you can just fix this one last bug, your software will work perfectly, customers will come flocking to you, and riches will inevitably ensue.”
posted 5 days ago in business, programming9 views | 3 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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“Write a Named Point class with three members: two floating point values for the coordinates on an X-Y plane, and a name represented as a 'char *'.” -- what could go wrong?
posted 3 weeks ago in programming, software, c++, bugs17 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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“"You are not expected to understand this" was intended as a remark in the spirit of "This won't be on the exam," rather than as an impudent challenge.”
posted 1 month ago in history, humor, programming21 views | 4 jaas | reply )
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“Let's be honest: bug tracking sucks the joy out of software development. git developers just work on whatever scratches their itch at that particular moment.”
posted 1 week ago in programming22 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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“The application might show tool tips as the mouse hovers over the disabled menu item.”
posted 3 days ago in programming8 views | 4 jaas | 1 tag | reply )
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But the fix is giving segfaults :(
posted 2 weeks ago in programming, ruby, security12 views | 4 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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"You get to be yourself," said 13-year-old Adela Sanchez, taking a break from a robotics experiment using Legos. "When you're in a school with guys, you worry about what guys think."
posted 3 weeks ago in books, programming, psychology26 views | 4 jaas | reply )
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Every programmer with a few years' experience or education has heard the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil." This famous quote by Sir Tony Hoare (popularized by Donald Knuth) has become a best practice among software engineers.
posted 1 week ago in programming6 views | 3 jaas | 2 saves | reply )

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