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Let's hope that makes it to the standard.

Begin & end arguments are distasteful boilerplate (safe for these few times when you need a subrange or pointer pair)

TLDR; The author of malloc and std::vector never talked to each other. We fixed that!

... also most types are memmovables

That makes freedom of speech more of a religion than a philosophy.

What is that suppose to mean? NULL pointer bugs are the realm of idiots?

Is there a more troubling reference in here that I just don't get?

That makes a lot of sense. Not solving this earlier is a detriment to the customers of both companies.

They're probably just experimenting at that point.

What do you think made C such an amazing language compared to say Pascal and Fortrant?

I like C and how it handles pointers and arrays but was it really such a departure from what was available then?

Do you have to provide all that info just to get a prepaid plan?

Can a tourist get a SIM card in the US?

When taping a link, couldn't the browser start to load the page in the background even though the gesture may turn out to be a double-tap.

> if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming

Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.

Why not?

TacoCopter sparked a lot of discussion about drone delivery just a while ago. It's nice to be reminded of it, now.

It just goes to shows these ideas are "in the air" right now. In case you weren't paying attention.

Here's a reformatted copy of the article (no lightbox): http://ajasmin.net/saved_page/an-engineers-emergency-kit-bus...

I really like the concept. Time to to make my own PCB business card.

Wouldn't that rule apply to a Winamp fund as well?

Forget these OpenOffice layouts. I think LaTeX is more flexible... oh wait, never mind.

What about the web and client-side JS?

From what I understand the list of JavaScript libraries is for node.js as it doesn't even include jQuery.

I don't know much about manufacturing either. But, wouldn't Sony also make sure their units "more or less work" before they leave the factory?

I mean, the thing could be working on departure and dead on arrival.

When I read 'Terminal' on Hacker News I don't think of the airport kind...

I don't think "conventional programming languages" (and in particular Java) are well suited to the task of analyzing and querying data.

But Excel is also an odd beast. It's used for laying out reports, pivot tables, plotting graphs, working with database, calculations and VBA macros. Not all features play well together.

After they got rid of that limitation Microsoft started using unwieldy path names like "Program Files" and "My Documents".

Where does the imprecision come from exactly? Can't we derive the kilogram from the number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a litre of water at an uniform temperature?

Do these cheap Ubuntu laptops have a Windows key on the keyboard?

I've seen sound cards with all kind of glitches such as outputting one of the channels with an inverted phase. I'd be also concerned with whatever audio filters the card may have. Sound cards are just not meant to control precision equipment like that.

Including a low cost USB adapter (even an audio one) that is tested and calibrated to work with the printer could prevent a lot of headaches in setting this up.

Apple should have kept us informed from day one.

But, in their defense it may take days to ascertain what exactly happened.

Once a system is compromised it's nearly impossible to trust anything about it. Auditing the logs, and reviewing the code, crypto, and the mix of platforms they're using (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078854) in order to understand what data could be accessed and fix all vulnerabilities is not an easy task.

The PlayStation store was not down for such a long time without reason.

Is Oracle still involved in the development of OpenOffice?

I was under the impression they contributed the code to the Apache Foundation because they didn't want to develop it further.

Streaming from Dropbox would be great. It seems your have to download a file before playing it back.

Try using VueScan. It supports a bunch of older scanners.

FairPlay video was (kind of) cracked a few years ago I was in the habit of decrypting TV episodes using Requiem so I could watch them on my Linux netbook. You had to decrypt the files on a computer with iTunes installed though.

I don't know if Requiem has been keeping up with the latest iTunes releases.

What's the point of assigning an address to every node on the Internet if you can't connect to these addresses.

The advantage of IPv6 is that any computer can act as a server again. NAT makes it unnecessarily difficult to build simple peer to peer applications such as for telephony, remote access or file transfer.

Stupid question: Is it necessary to play something through a pair of noise canceling headphones if you just want to "cancel noise" with them?

What is the rest of the world doing with these old analog TV bands? Is that part of the spectrum already exploited by cell carriers?