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> It looks as though cryptkeeper makes assumptions about encfs' command-line interface that are no longer valid. This looks like a developer mistaking a command line interface for …

This is explained in the article in a bit more detail. The point is not that the type system does something with the actual value - the point is that it would be impossible to crea…

I don't see the headline as misleading at all. There are two type systems in Java: the JVM's run-time type system, and Java's compile time type system. It's the latter that has bee…

After interviewing many more and less experienced programmers (and asking most of them if they can explain a hash table - just for statistics!), I concur that most cannot. There we…

> First the law expressly forbids a patent on ideas. Only in the sense that you can't forbid anyone else /having/ an idea, just that you can forbid them doing anything with it. In …

Of course, another question is: will the AI's consider us humans to have the equivalent of their consciousness? Or will they think "These humans don't not really possess consciousn…

Any idea what the best vim plugin for rtags is? I see there are several...

True - which is why they did the cream as well. At the very least, this study tells us that the mindfulness meditation is a 'more effective' placebo than the cream. It's very hard …

Yeah, the original Eternity puzzle ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_puzzle ) was a lot better in that regard - it spiked a whole online community focused on finding cleve…

Integer overflow?

Having played on (and heard people play on) a pBone, I'd have to say that even though it's quite impressive to see what they've been able to do with just plastic, it's still quite …

That seems like a false sense of safety: when doing arithmetic, your program is most likely not going to be handling overflows correctly anyway. Also, when using unsigned ints, any…

In firefox: Preferences -> Advanced -> enable "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page". Other browsers will probably have similar options.

I think when smaller companies have patents, they tend to be closely related to their core business, and they have them precisely in order to use them 'offensively' - or, in other …

Wording is a bit sloppy: "Extending R (the inner while loop) takes at most a total of N steps, and positioning and testing each centers take a total of N steps too. Therefore, this…

> Where can i find more information regarding this. The C++ standard, of course :) But if you prefer some lighter reading, either http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/mutex/mutex/unl…

> Will Windows run on it? Well... Yeah. Windows runs on everything powered by an x86 processor. I've tried installing Windows 7 on an old Dell laptop a while ago. I got it working …

A button to execute a single instruction would also be nice.

In fact, the animation draws attention away from the text, which you are probably supposed to read (otherwise, why bother with an alert). I really don't understand this infatuation…

No, we don't want that. A while ago there was even a headline here that boils down to 'Illegality will not be punishable'. This was about people residing in the country illegally. …

Mine was 'REDO FROM START' :-)

The answer to your '(is it?)' is 'No!', english is just the language of the programming culture that we are part of. And that is the whole point of this article; there already is a…

To add some reasons why you'd want to learn CUDA first: It turns out that simple things are a lot simpler, and take a lot less code, in Cuda than OpenCL. With Cuda, your kernel and…

Perhaps your intuition changes if you think about the line (in a plane) coinciding with the x-axis. Don't you think it is reasonable to define that line as the set of points (in th…

Small fun bug: if you click twice on an item, the description at the bottom shows 'git null' :)