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Timmons

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    Comment #10219900

    None taken. I feel the same way about that attitude :)

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    Comment #10219694

    As an English person I believe you are thinking of the whole of the UK as London. Lots of that sort of thing around there, not so much the rest of the place.

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    Comment #10219690

    *At the moment

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    Comment #10219688

    Population UK: 64.1 million Population US: 318.9 million So that is 1/5th the population of a near continental sized country. The UK may not be big but it is dense (Admittedly not …

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    Comment #10203057

    For regular trips that is true, and great. For more urgent trips or trips where the date may be flexible you are kind of stuck paying that huge cost most the time. I used to live i…

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    Comment #10122621

    This comment has caused me flashbacks to a terrible place I worked at that did exactly this.

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    Comment #10097747

    Not defending this case of its use, but there is a time and place for 'goto'. Not many of them and people do use them for terrible things but in the right circumstance it is the ri…

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    Comment #10059702

    There are no secure systems written in ANY language (to my knowledge). At the end of the day all computers and systems can be broken. Using C/C++ might open up that up to being mor…

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    Comment #10059463

    This is quite ignorant of why C/C++ is used. It is used for that exact memory control and access that this article demonizes so that we can have efficient and thought out systems. …

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    Comment #10052908

    Weirdly, UI interfaces are also a problem in the game world. Where we want to have a designer or artist design and implement something in a game in a fast way we often resort to us…

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    Comment #10052907

    Weirdly, UI interfaces are also a problem in the game world. Where we want to have a designer or artist design and implement something in a game in a fast way we often resort to us…

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    Comment #10033793

    There are a number of reasons this is not openly available. Just a few: - It may lock the programmer into a specific CPU - The CPU cache/pipeline is less generic than you might thi…

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    Comment #10016507

    Link seems to be dead.

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    Comment #9764118

    Thank you, I'll take a look for that scheme. I have contacted the University organisations, my application was a little late so I had missed a lot of funding opportunities that go …

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    Ask HN: Advice on academic funding

    Hi, To give this some context I will start by saying that I was a GPU programmer in the games industry and wanting to get a more academic footing I applied and managed to get onto …