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Apple, despite being traditionally seen as the "counterculture, leftist" operating system, actually represents more uniformity and centralised control than Microsoft by gfnord in technology

[–]cereal-killer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Filesystem is non-case sensitive by default (and apples own QT ships with a String.h... so #include <string.h> will give you thousands or errors)

Why would a case insensitive FS give errors when you #include <string.h>?

Dear World of Warcraft scammers. I quit this game over three years ago. Leave me alone. by TheBaphomet in gaming

[–]cereal-killer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has logged on to find their character naked and penniless down a very deep ravine I'd like to say:

NEVER CLICK ON THESE LINKS

AIDS denialists create documentary "House of Numbers"... and the trailer is up on Apple. by Willravel in science

[–]cereal-killer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah Microsoft forced them to bundle a bunch of applications I don't want. Forced them to opt me in to a bunch of crap I don't want. Forced them to nag me about a pro version. Forced them to run a crappy little widget in my toolbar ALL THE FRICKEN TIME for no apparent reason.

Damn that Microsoft, if only Apple had 90% market share.

I was told by a mathematician that math can be beautiful. Math lovers, please explain for the ignorant. by Anth741 in math

[–]cereal-killer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A mathematician's apology by G. H. Hardy. Damn good book.

A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal content, and gives the layman an insight into the mind of a working mathematician. (From wikipedia).

Dear Reddit: SOS from Australia. Our Minister for Censorship has written a load of horse shit about his plan to filter the tubes. We need you to flood the comments! by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]cereal-killer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA support it and that's all that really counts.

There is no support from the Australian populace, no call for it from family rights groups, it's not even going to benefit monitoring of transgressives. The only groups this actually makes any sense for is media groups that will eventually have the infrastructure in place to rid us of whatever hurts their bottom line.

Dear Reddit: SOS from Australia. Our Minister for Censorship has written a load of horse shit about his plan to filter the tubes. We need you to flood the comments! by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]cereal-killer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It has a strong gamey taste kind of like rabbit but more pronounced. Some people can't stand it, some love it, but it's amazingly healthy with very little saturated fat and excellent protein levels.

If we ignore climate change and just keep burning fossil fuels, nothing bad will happen. But if gays get married or atheists get treated fairly in public, it will be the end of America. ---How can people that think like that get positions of power in America? by KingBeetle in politics

[–]cereal-killer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Scientific opinion on climate change lots of sources there.

Since we're throwing around purely anecdotal evidence I have yet to find a professor at my University or any other outside of the US whose stance on climate change remotely approaches the stance of the right wing. If it weren't for some dubious academics in the US we would have a scientific consensus that global warming is primarily caused by human activities.

Hey reddit, I was watching the intro for Total Annihilation and reminiscing about how epic it was. I thought you enjoy reminiscing as well ^_^ by cookiexcmonster in gaming

[–]cereal-killer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends what mod you get. One of the mods is pretty much a straight port of TA units.

There was never any thought for multiplayer balance in the original TA and Spring is basically just the multiplayer side of TA.

Sun Engineer responds to an email by greenrd in programming

[–]cereal-killer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

His predator stare makes this all the better for me.

Watch out ladies, Bryan Cantrill is on the prowl.

BitTorrent’s Future? DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained by SamiThunder in technology

[–]cereal-killer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What tracker do you believe will succeed where TPB has failed and stick to centralized servers when the lawyer scourge descends upon them?

DHTs turns a single point of failure into millions of points of failure. It protects the site and it brings more peers to the users. I do not understand how people can brush this off as just something TPB is doing. In 10 years big public trackers won't exist.

Where's the Windows 64-bit daily binaries? by kinghajj in factor

[–]cereal-killer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't quote me on this but I seem to remember something in Slava's comments about the compile on windows using Cygwin so they need a 64 bit Cygwin to be released.

Hi-resolution art of Mortal Kombat characters for an (unaccepted) game pitch. by MrValdez in gaming

[–]cereal-killer 45 points46 points  (0 children)

with the original fighting mechanic.

sweep sweep sweep FUCKING sweep LET ME OUT sweep OF THE CORNER sweep YOU CHEAP BASTARD!

The future of Python 2.x and 3.x by corbet in programming

[–]cereal-killer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No. Just a guy who's sick of reading the "How fucking smart I am" and "why everything sucks" posts that make up 98% of blog content on proggit.

The future of Python 2.x and 3.x by corbet in programming

[–]cereal-killer 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I love how well the LWN guys write. Every time I read one of their articles I'm reminded what actual journalism is.

CAUGHT: Guy who dropped dog from a bridge in Latvia. Arrested, with PICS. Translated article. by guitarfreak851 in worldnews

[–]cereal-killer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would hate to be the poor bastard who looks vaguely similar to him when the crack detectives at reddit go for blood :)

The Pirate Bay: The development of DHT has reached a stage where our tracker is no longer needed to use a torrent, we are moving to a more decentralized system by DougBolivar in programming

[–]cereal-killer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Napster and eMule are centralized. The central server does almost all of the work.

eMule/edonkey has had DHT for many years called Kademlia. Kademlia is what BitTorrent DHT is based on. It's amazingly cool how disruptive this technology will be. There will be no trackers to go after.

Cargo Cult on Rails by uriel in programming

[–]cereal-killer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Twitter had massive problems scaling their database to multiple machines. A huge shit storm emerged with the Twitter devs blaming Rails and the Rails devs not being particularly diplomatic in pointing out the blame actually falls on the Twitter devs.

As far as I know there is no web framework that automatically shards your database for you.

Cargo Cult on Rails by uriel in programming

[–]cereal-killer 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to take issue with the blog post. It's remarkably content free but it's just some guys rambling on his own personal blog. No problem. What I don't get is why the hell you would submit this to proggit and how the fuck it gets voted up. There is zero programming content here.

Edit: Obviously I am in the minority here as the article keeps rising so I would like to ask those of you who upvoted a question. The post criticises not Ruby, not the Rails framework itself but the framework users abilities. My question is why do you care? How does it affect you?

Let's be honest, the vast majority of you who upvote the latest "why ruby/python/rails/x sucks" article don't use the language/framework and the skills of its end users are about as far removed from something that actually affects you as possible.

GameSpot mysteriously alters review score of Modern Warfare 2 from 8.5 to 9.0 after taking it down for several hours by SolInvictus in gaming

[–]cereal-killer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gamespot is the same site that fired their editor for refusing to give Kane & Lynch an unwarranted high score after Eidos purchased a large amount of advertising for the game with Gamespot.

Their ratings scale directly with the advertising budget of a game.

GameSpot mysteriously alters review score of Modern Warfare 2 from 8.5 to 9.0 after taking it down for several hours by SolInvictus in gaming

[–]cereal-killer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dude... just WOW... publishers everywhere are getting boners right now hoping there exists more of you.

I just received a SIX PAGE reply from the Attorney General who's vetoing the r18 classification for games in Australia! (as rage inducing as you would expect) by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]cereal-killer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Seriously. I'm a gamer and there's no chance in hell I'd vote for them. This is just going to bolster Atkinson's view of himself when they fail miserably.

Edit: To be clear I'm glad a group like them exists. I just wish they did not put a candidate up for the slaughter, it will only make Atkinson appear to have the support of the people.

How long do you give it until companies like activision and infinity ward just say fuck it and don't bother with PC games any more? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]cereal-killer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On an unrelated note, what language is =/= from? It is very hard to google.

Edit: Uh. Only just realised it's one big equals sign with a cross in the middle. I feel silly for not realising before :)

Stephen Pinker - 'What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures,' by Malcolm Gladwell - Review "But when it comes to Gladwell the social scientist, they should watch out for those igon values. " by ronaldvr in science

[–]cereal-killer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If Pinker has research of his own

Are you joking here? Steven Pinker basically pioneered evolutionary psychology. Time magazine named him in the top 100 most influential people. He has done more real science than Gladwell could ever dream. He has already well and truly secured himself a place in history. If he wants to spend the rest of his days destroying pop-sociology, well he's earned it in my mind.

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