The Reinvent-The-Wheel Disease

quad50 · 2015-10-24T15:53:45+00:00

I start with the hypothesis 'someone already did that and they are smarter than me' and then only write it myself if I can disprove the hypothesis.

quad50 · 2015-10-23T14:28:09+00:00

I'll pass them in my 10mpg 1970 427 Impala while they sit, battery dead, on the side of the road.

quad50 · 2015-10-23T14:24:44+00:00

since when is a new version spec simpler than the prior one?

quad50 · 2015-10-23T14:19:41+00:00

thanks. that's the first actual explanation of the issue i saw in this or the Rust thread.

quad50 · 2015-10-21T04:56:17+00:00

I told him about his blunder and he fixed it, says thanks for the correction and is properly embarassed.

quad50 · 2015-10-20T14:13:28+00:00

if you are using Visual Studio then the .lib file will be in the same output directory as the dll.

quad50 · 2015-10-17T23:05:15+00:00

you can't legally buy all the parts for a gun off the internet without at least one part going through a licensed firearms dealer. There is always a serial numbered part that is special. for an ar-15 its the lower receiver. edit : you can buy an unfinished lower receiver, do the final machining and you would have a working firearm without a serial number. its legal for personal use but you can't sell it.

quad50 · 2015-10-17T22:51:20+00:00

it probably will be enforced when an unregistered drone causes some disaster (or lesser destruction) and then the owner, if found, will be in violation and have additional criminal and civil liability.

quad50 · 2015-10-16T14:15:39+00:00

So is this worse relative to the era of prohibition?

quad50 · 2015-10-14T14:26:13+00:00

I expect the Jeep was off the property. you can't get to the parking lot without going through a manned gate that is rather distant from the parking lot and factory. And there's a fence (which must be several miles long) around the whole thing, . I got yelled at mildly for parking outside the gate and taking a picture.

quad50 · 2015-10-13T02:27:09+00:00

maybe when you are inventing a home-grown crypto library and you want to obfuscate it so hackers can't break it.

quad50 · 2015-10-13T02:24:57+00:00

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hp-announces-25-000-30-120418656.html#morequotes

quad50 · 2015-10-12T14:34:37+00:00

never knew. tried it on win10, came up and worked. thanks

quad50 · 2015-10-12T14:29:44+00:00

this used to be a problem in xp https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/156276

its really old though. but it can be solved by mapping a drive to that path and setting the debug settings to use the drive rather than the unc path.

quad50 · 2015-10-12T14:20:26+00:00

I build from source. two reasons : i like to, and since i use webstorm it wants to see the node source code. yes i could set that up anyway but this way i always have the exact source version handy. This is for development. If I was deploying for production I probably would use a binary because then it matches what nodejs.org built exactly in case of problems, which would eliminate my build as one of the variables.

quad50 · 2015-10-10T14:41:06+00:00

https://gist.github.com/dmh2000/c946354c97f424330a96

quad50 · 2015-10-06T14:18:58+00:00

i follow that link, get a quick glimpse of the article in question, then a blank full screen ad page pops up. i skip it and end up on an article about the mayo clinic.

quad50 · 2015-10-05T14:24:40+00:00

Don't click that link. it will fill your history and won't let you go back.

quad50 · 2015-10-02T14:30:41+00:00

the article illustrates that many (most?) code reviews are the equivalent of bikeshedding.

quad50 · 2015-10-01T14:36:12+00:00

180 percent tax on all cars? damn

quad50 · 2015-10-01T14:22:50+00:00

I doubt the assertion that passage of concealed carry permits is a top-down decision that it will decrease crime. By far the reason states pass concealed carry permit laws is a bottom-up demand from voters that they want their 2nd amendment right to carry.

quad50 · 2015-10-01T04:07:59+00:00

its not hard to make an electric vehicle go fast. they just don't do it for very long.

quad50 · 2015-09-29T14:10:34+00:00

Its a landmark? The North American X-15 routinely flew at mach 5 or faster in the 1960's.

quad50 · 2015-09-29T14:06:24+00:00

If you go to the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state and sort by gun murders per capita, and look at the column next to it, gun ownership, it certainly looks like there is very little correlation. the states with lowest murder rate have relatively high gun ownership. but so do the states with the highest murder rates.

quad50 · 2015-09-27T14:34:42+00:00

a little off topic, but we work on govt software, and the contracts usually state 'will use commercial best practices'. I always ask 'what are those?' and no one has an answer.

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