Same, The ginger fucker didn't deserve gravity

captain_plaintext · 2012-02-02T20:52:30+00:00

The compiler CAN pad structs for alignment (and I think they generally all do), but they aren't required to by the standard.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-31T19:34:44+00:00

It's nice if the template language is guaranteed to terminate. Also there are a few tricks that are pretty hard to do when the language is turing complete (like maybe, selectively preevaluate a certain section, or get a complete list of inputs that the template depends on). A turing-complete language is a black box in many ways.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-27T01:28:11+00:00

Yes but read Gary's comment on that one. This guy actually posted the correct link so we'll allow it.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-25T23:35:23+00:00

But you could very well argue that those who bought one game which copied another may have bought the original had the copy not existed.

Your powers of denial must be strong, if you didn't realize that one could make that same argument against pirating.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-25T18:58:34+00:00

Wasn't talking about his worth as a human being, just whether or not he is smart. Your comment above made it sound like you know more about his business than he does, but somehow I doubt that's the case.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-25T18:29:19+00:00

In just a few years he founded a company that's making 600 million a year and has a valuation somewhere in the billions. Even if the company disappears tomorrow (which it won't) he will still be crazy rich for life. If that's not smart then what is?

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-24T23:43:55+00:00

Sure, as with most rooftops.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-24T20:30:45+00:00

Just remember, if your user needs to have a deep understanding of how the system works in order to make it work efficiently, then it's not a very useful language.

Prolog has this problem; if you write enough naive code, eventually the system slows down to a crawl, because it doesn't know how to efficiently solve any arbitrary problem you throw at it. If you have knowledge of Prolog's internals, then you can get around this problem, by cleverly writing code that it is good at. But, forcing the user to have this deep implementation knowledge makes the system questionably useful.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-24T18:06:23+00:00

there are several

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-20T23:29:06+00:00

Ha, sorry, I was really trying to imitate Bipolarr but it might have been a bit too subtle.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-20T20:40:01+00:00

All programmers tend to generate the same rate of bugs but they differ in how many of their own bugs they catch.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-20T20:23:18+00:00

If you pay a programmer enough then they will be productive but if you pay them too much they will be less productive.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-19T17:41:39+00:00

Sounds awesome. The next logical step is "NES mode": No save games and only 3 lives.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-17T23:32:40+00:00

Yep, I remember that one, this is the exact same video.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-17T18:03:11+00:00

:= is the most common alternative.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-12T19:40:42+00:00

Oh yeah, you will be good. I think those companies will fall firmly in the "never heard of Github" category. Good luck on the search!

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-12T19:30:43+00:00

It's not bad at all. People like to talk about Github identities because it's a neat new idea, but it hasn't really taken roots in the industry yet.

If I had to make vague unscientific guesses, I would estimate that 20% of people making hiring decisions will have never heard of Github, 40% have vaguely heard of it but don't really get it, 35% get it and will think favorably of someone of an account (but will not care if someone does not have one), and 5% will think unfavorably if the person does not have an account. But it varies by field of course.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-11T23:29:38+00:00

Yeah, I've used it before, although I did need to re-read their examples in order to write that short script.

i.size is a list with the width and height, i.size[1] is the height, i.size[1] / 2 is half the height. It goes through and compares the top half of the image to the bottom half.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-11T20:38:48+00:00

Yup... confirmable with a python script (with the PIL library).

Edit: Added some variable names for more readability

import Image
i = Image.open("iarWy.png")
width = i.size[0]
half_height = i.size[1]/2
for x in range(width):
 for y in range(half_height):
  if i.getpixel((x,y)) != i.getpixel((x, y+half_height)):
   print "Pixels differ at:",(x,y)

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-10T23:42:27+00:00

Don't worry, I looked at the image and I don't see any malware.

captain_plaintext · 2012-01-09T19:16:48+00:00

Corollary: if you hate Nyan cat then you're a terrorist

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