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tmsldd··on Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)
Using two hands you can represent up to 1024.
tmsldd··on Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
Well, in a team with a bunch of programmers each with their own preferences is kind of tedious to talk and enforce a single formatting standard... So, I just make sure a small script runs #astyle -A2SKnjfUHpk1cn -R .h .cpp before their commits .. and it made my diff look much nicer.. I don't really discuss tabs or spaces anymore..

I never thought that such styling would really matter much ... I wonder how much a developer using a beautifier earns in average..

Anyhow, statistics sometimes brings up some weird conclusions.

tmsldd··on Show HN: Keygen – A dead-simple software licensing API built for developers
I refer to this as "GCC - Google ConfliCt".
tmsldd··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
"...he passed some climbers who had spent the night on a ledge. He did his best not to wake them ..."
tmsldd··on Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
per second.. it would be a more suitable scale
tmsldd··on Qt Creator 4.3.0 released
Thanks ! I love you guys.. Qt/QtCreator make life a lot easier.
tmsldd··on Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8
Sir. Daugman has left the job incomplete.. there still space for research. "Liveness" checking is of course a challenge in such cheap and simplistic setups.. Anyhow, for operator-attended application scenarios it is still ok. On the other, I see biometrics as a convenience feature in physical or logical access control scenarios (As long as the security level is at least equal or higher than conventional methods).
tmsldd··on Apple has started production of iPhone SE in India
> it doesn't seem India offers significant incentives to setup manufacturing..

It might change once local industry warms up attracting the supply chain.. also local software companies/developers will respond to the stimulus.. India has all ingredients to create a great ecosystem.

tmsldd··on Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone
Hey, that's cool ;) IMO, this approach is the most innovative idea on how to merge mobile and desktop experiences. I expect other companies following the same approach.
tmsldd··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
In theory we are less vulnerable by disabling Windows and installing other OS... but I guess .. just in theory..
tmsldd··on Visual Studio for Mac
Unbelievable :D
tmsldd··on Visual Studio for Mac
Purists like me would do to a simple text editor (in my case Sublime) and command line tools.. Anyway.. I will give it a try... it's nice to have a competitor IDE to xCode, although they don't look like targeting the same audience.
tmsldd··on Is the C++ preprocessor still needed?
Or because it behaves just like a pidgin..
tmsldd··on Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit
We've tracked down in all sort of ways while awake ... now are we going to be tracked also while sleeping? We should try to figure out how to not be a data source without being paid for..
tmsldd··on Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S
It is a valid point of view. Although perspective and proportionality are equally valid as well.. Apple invest in anyone else but themselves.
tmsldd··on Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S
It makes me wonder.. how much Apple invest in China currently?
tmsldd··on Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S
So.. 0.3% of their cash pile?
tmsldd··on Show HN: Interface Lovers – Interviews with designers
I'm not sure what they mean by "interface"..
tmsldd··on OpenSnitch – A Linux clone of the Little Snitch application firewall
Great job! That was for sure a missing package for Linux. Side comment: the author seems to work 24/7 for his open projects(!).. im very impressed.
tmsldd··on Intel's Remote AMT Vulnerability
Yeah, that is right. A bug can only be fixed once it has been found.. the question now is whether the rate of bugs found is greater than the rate of insertion of new bugs (which I guess is proportional to the number of new lines of code). If not the future is going to be terrible.. :D
tmsldd··on Escalation of Privilege Advisory
We're waiting for the manifestation of all manufacturers and cloud service providers, which is equally important at this moment.
tmsldd··on Why Deutsche Bundesbank had to promise to leave 1200 tons of gold in New York
"Has the US stolen it? Has someone else stolen it?"... to complete your line of thought I would make one more question: Has it ever existed? The whole thing about gold lies in the impossibility of speculation. Of course, it doesn't hold if one single institution controls of all of it...
tmsldd··on Have We Forgotten about Geometry in Computer Vision?
If you can afford data and computing power, dpl is the way to go... you don't need to think much to get the thing done quickly.. but in my eyes , having a suitable mathematical description to a particular problem always give you useful insights with respect to the problem, variables and its relationships and this is actually what most of us are looking for..
tmsldd··on Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flown it at TED
If you are lucky enough...
tmsldd··on How SSH got port number 22
If a Nobel prize equivalent existed for software developers to recognize their immense contribution to the field, Tatu Ylonen would deserve it for sure. It's great to know stories like this one.
tmsldd··on Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
Just a side note, off topic: I was that king off person who had a shelf in my house with 300 printed books (and some more stored in boxes in the basement).. it was always a pain when I had to move to a new apartment! After the e-books and pdfs came by we got a lot of flexibility .. now it's easy to have 3000 volumes in the hard disk. You can literally carry a library with you.. I ended up giving away most of them, apart if some classics (e.g. The art of computer programming from Knuth, Operating Systems, from Tanenbaum, and some other classics for image processing..) The only thing I miss very much is that I loved the feeling of picking up one at random and expend a couple of hours ... I just can not have the same feeling with e-books.. :(
tmsldd··on Learning by Doing
The best way to learn is teaching ...
tmsldd··on Is software development really a dead-end job after 35-40?
The day my "job" as a programmer disappear I will take my stuff and expend my time fishing all day in Alaska... Actuality, I'm looking very much forward to that.. :)
tmsldd··on A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)
Profound and inspiring! Thanks for your input.
tmsldd··on A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (1999)
Counter Argument: Please answer the question: 1+1=? Congratulations, you are a computer.

(And that's probably a very difficult question, considering you had to acquire the concept of symbolism, numbers and relationships)

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