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Amiga64

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About Amiga64

Old Amiga owner. Love that old machine. Developer by day.

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    Comment #12216874

    I don't see why people obsess about the MAXPATH as it's quite possible to get 32,768 characters, just use UNC paths with .NET which has been supported since I don't know when; you …

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    Comment #12042964

    That's nothing, when my dad died my boss complained vigorously when I wanted to take 3 days off as my dad lived a thousand miles from my workplace. I told him that I was going even…

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    Q: How many unit tests does your largest projects have combined

    I was wondering just how many unit tests people have in their projects out there; how common are projects with 100k+ unit tests for example? And how long would it take to run all y…

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    Comment #11554843

    My problem with all biometric authentication mechanisms are "what do you do when your fingerprint/eye/face signature is stolen?" Since these are non-replacable signatures they are …

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    Comment #9894325

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift

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    Comment #9894282

    Interesting. I don't think people realize just how slow rand() can be if it is called frequently in your c/c++ program. Marsaglia's xorshf is the fastest algorithm that I know of t…

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    Comment #9874616

    Isn't Singleton's really an anti-pattern? SO discussions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137975/what-is-so-bad-abo...