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jhawthorn
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Comment #16268260
You would use the LDR instruction to load the word from RAM. So just one instruction, but with some slower memory access. When writing ARM assembly, the assembler (at least the one…
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Comment #7214955
I made a small rails app which presents reddit AMAs nicely http://ama.hawth.ca/1xj56q Here's the source https://github.com/jhawthorn/riama
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Comment #6810687
The f suffix has been removed in favour of the existing "foo".freeze (which is now recognized and optimized in the parser) https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-1-0-p…
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Comment #5549327
I would argue the opposite: you should always use rvm (or similar) in production. I've done this for many projects, it's great to have the same ruby version and patchset in develop…
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Comment #5498052
Not saying python 3 should have been compatible with 2. Just that this was not an apt comparison.
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Comment #5498038
I would guess error handing (freeing memory, closing fd's). A goto lets you avoid deeply nested if statements.
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Comment #5497728
Difference being that new versions of java, windows, c++ compilers work with the existing software.
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Comment #5346089
I wouldn't use god. It's had issues crashing or misbehaving in the past. I've found monit very stable if a little awkward to configure correctly. Today I would use systemd with mon…
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Comment #5310498
These are clearly slides, meant to be fullscreen on a projector. Up/Down, Left/Right, PgUp/PgDown all work, much like they would in powerpoint. I'm a little baffled by this threads…
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Comment #4895295
You will not run into this problem. Linux is almost always used for production servers and is popular for development as well.
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Comment #4374199
Similar is https://www.pwdhash.com/
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Comment #4155615
I've been using fullwidth characters. Due to their simplicity to convert to and read. This page of course has the advantage of more variety in characters. Fullwidth conversion code…
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Comment #3871563
Oh, no! Missed noticing my first link from HN for a few days. Hopefully I can clarify some of this. First, this is in no way faster than cuSPARSE or cusp. I wrote this for an origi…
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Comment #2810529
Other than recommending #map, #select, et al, the rest is poor advice. Consider the following recommendation input.inject({}) do |hash, item| hash.merge(item => process(item)) end …