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I'm not sure why this is Microsoft's fault as opposed to the developer's. Exactly the same kind of techniques have been used for years on desktop applications/games. (and, y'know, …

I made the same decision when we moved to Cambridge (UK). It's a really, really big cycling town and there's a noticable drop off in property prices once you go beyond about a half…

Given I (and most HN readers) spend a not insubstantial fraction of my waking hours in front of a text editor, I don't think I'd call them trivial - which is why editor wars won't …

"Lately"? Text editor holy-wars have been a fundamental part of geek discourse dating back to the very earliest days of the internet, and probably before. And it's probably not goi…

This story is a year old, why post it now?

Probably worth noting that this guy develops/sells a tool for finding Java memory leaks.

Black on white, because then there's less contrast between my main focus of attention (my monitor) and my environment (a fairly brightly lit office).

I honestly can't tell if this is satire.

On the other hand, everyone crucified DropBox when it turned out they had the ability to arbitrarily access user data. Turns out people don't want companies to have access to their…

That's not a real job ad, is it? Sheesh.

I thought the entire point of the Agile movement was that such a requirements spec was, in essence, impossible for precisely the reasons shown in that cartoon?

Worth noting that this is very gcc specific. Implementation details will vary across compilers, but it's not made clear.

Last I checked, though, Python wasn't a statistical programming language.

Eclipse with PyDev with a Vi emulator (can't remember which one offhand). Having been something of an Eclipse skeptic in the past (despite being a Visual Studio devotee) I have to …

Family comes first, except it's halfway down his list. Snarky, yes, but I'm a bitter ex-games industry programmer and it's easy to talk, and a fuck of a lot harder to produce a wor…

Reading the thread, it seems there's still an intention to roll the JIT into py3k at some point, but the project devs don't have the time and the community doesn't seem to have the…

In all probability, the job didn't exist, and she was just mining for information.

Just a point - having tests in your code doesn't mean you're doing TDD. Doing TDD - that is, writing tests up-front - forces you to not only consider the correctness criteria for y…

Android owners who know their phone is running Android are more tech-minded, maybe.

Hand-rolled SSE optimised version of a domain transform and coefficient re-order for a video encoder. 3x speedup over the C++ version, yay! (My development environment just looks l…

> With so many people so closely grouped together trying to read porn on trains, it's a necessity. At least, that was my experience of trains in Tokyo, anyway.

I found this article completely incomprehensible until I remembered that Monopoly is localised. Park Place? Boardwalk? You mean Park Lane and Mayfair, surely? :)

SQLite would like to disagree with this rant, I think.

From my last round of job-hunting around Cambridge (about two years ago) I'd say that was pretty typical for the posts they're looking to fill. As with all things, you have to look…

We went down to the pub this lunchtime and there were a bunch of them there (they were doing a £5-towards-your-lunch-if-you-chat-to-us thing, too). We had a bit of a chat, but none…