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John Doty

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    > Look, most modern software is spending 99.9% of the time waiting for user input, and 0.1% of the time actually calculating something. I'm sorry to say that this argument is not e…

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    Am i mis-reading this article? BESIDES not having any particular way to validate a token without asking the service, making the rate a hell of a lot slower than 2^64 tokens per sec…

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    From the post: > The same doesn't apply to the player sprite, as Aseprite takes minutes to compile the atlas for the nearly 1000 frames we have. Why does compiling a sprite atlas f…

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    I say- it’s like they hooked a computer to a car. At first I thought “oh man, look! They hooked a computer to a car! Think of all the cool things you can do!” A few months later I …

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    BTW that code has a security vulnerability in it: the size computation can overflow and you can end up shrinking your buffer, and you will end up smashing your heap, and then bad t…

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    If you are subscribed, the footer of the page reads as follows: You can share this article! This URL can be posted anywhere you like, including in public. Anyone clicking on it can…

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    Comment #13835097

    Don't the tuples with named values do that for you? (string first, string middle, string last) LookupName(long id)

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    I think this PYNQ is Python Productivity for ZYNC ( http://www.pynq.io/ ), not "Python Implementation of Linq" ( https://github.com/heynemann/pynq ), as suggested by the title.

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    From http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2016/07/07/brai... : The game Braid originally shipped to the world in 2008, and after some ports in 2009, I have only worked sign…

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