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wizardofoz

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    Comment #818344

    No, people should donate more to open source projects.

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    Comment #751332

    Excellent article. I like how the author's head turned to Star Wars at the face of death lol. I wonder if there's any similar kind of deviant thinking among hackers.

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    Comment #746989

    I'm getting the same message, could someone post a mirror? Or if any one still has the page open, please save it and post it elsewhere.

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    Comment #738473

    Code that test the finite switch: 3. for (int i = 0; i 4. testSwitchFinite(i); 5. } Once i > 5, testSwitchFinite will always skip to default. This function doesn't even test the sw…

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    Ask HN: How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site?

    Hi, I'm thinking of creating a personal website and putting on it source code, articles/essays, unpublished papers, etc. that I have/will writ(t)e(n). However I am concerned some o…

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    Comment #732179

    It would be awesome if you or someone could make a similar version for New York City.

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    Very interesting story.

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    Comment #719235

    What about an online meeting? On an IRC channel? Can a hacker working on a project multitask and attend the IRC meeting while simultaneously coding (perhaps he has 2 monitors, he c…

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    On Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6873628658308030363...

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    Comment #688554

    I believe work is the source of happiness. Happiness comes to you when you see the fruits of your work. I remember feeling really happy after finishing up a program that I had been…

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    Comment #685485

    Well I wrote (a command-line) program that was about 2000 lines long in C++ and during most of the development period I used g++ with the -ansi & -pedantic options. Later I was abl…

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    Comment #685470

    C++ has a high price in terms of binary incompatibility. I find this statement to be rather untrue because I think most modern compilers when forced to be ISO/ANSI compliant (i do:…