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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Circuits.io was founded in 2012 by Karel Bruneel and Benjamin Schrauwen. After struggling for years to design and teach to design electronics using existing EDA tool, they felt that electronics design needed an urgent jolt. Learning from how software is designed, they came up with the following magic recipe which is at the heart of circuits.io: (i) allow to easily build on pre-designed electronics modules, (ii) use intuitive tools that hide much of the complexity in software, and (iii) embrace the open hardware movement. Next up: easy PCB ordering right from circuits.io, no more messing with Gerber files.
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Where the hell is that vote ∞ button?!?!!!?!?!??!?
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Zac Greve wrote: Where the hell is that vote ∞ button?!?
Here. You don't see that? Huh, you may want to submit a bug report.
I want to click it, but I'm not sure if submitting a value of Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY will break Code Project. 
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This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though some technical material is included for background and flavor, it is not a technical dictionary; what we describe here is the language hackers use among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate. The ultimate expression of ruining a good joke via pedantic explanation.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: ruining a good joke via pedantic explanation.
Yep, that about sums up that web page
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The next time you shop for a vehicle, flip through a furniture catalog, or look at clothing online, the images you see may not be photography, but rather a collection of pixels assembled by an artist on a computer screen. The Matrix has you...
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When you click on the link, you don’t actually navigate to https://www.bankofamerica.com. Instead, your browser automatically enters fullscreen mode and I load a fake version of Bank of America’s website (my demo uses a screenshot, but attackers would use a working website). The fake Bank of America site is adorned with OS and browser UI that indicates you are actually on https://www.bankofamerica.com. Of course, these UI components are just screenshots too! However, they’re pretty convincing because they actually take into account the OS and browser you are using! Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission...
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Nah, your phishing attempt failed, you didn't wholly fill my screen, and I could see through your smileys! 
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Since 2005, a very small group of people with limited resources at Nokia developed a Linux based Maemo operating system and devices based on it. The team was known as OSSO (Open Source Software Operations) and according to one team member who worked there from the beginning, the goal was to produce a product that would change the world. Farewell, MeeGo. We hardly new you.
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A seeming leak of iOS/Android plans from a Microsoft office in the Czech Republic seems like confirmation. But it’s really just confusion, and not just because Steve Ballmer called it 'not accurate'. [ITworld]
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Thousands of programming languages were invented in the first 50 years of the age of computing. Many of them were similar, and many followed a traditional, evolutionary path from their predecessors. But some revolutionary languages had a slant that differentiated them from their more general-purpose brethren. LISP was for list processing. SNOBOL was for string manipulation. SIMSCRIPT was for simulation. And APL was for mathematics, with an emphasis on array processing. Plus a handy APL primer. Get coding!
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An amazing language at the time. I remember first learning about APL. At the time I was using FORTRAN. It took a long time for FORTRAN to finally get matrix capability even though it was intended for Scientific Programming. Interestingly enough it handled complex numbers, but did not evolve further in its ability to support scientific calculations. Later versions of FORTRAN added the structual style we pretty much use today, and then much improved IO. Too bad...
It was said that a programmer could create a line of code in APL that would take another programmer days to decypher. Also was helpful to have a special keyboard to work with APL due to all the special characters.
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APL was referred to as a "write-only" language, meaning you could write a program but could not read and understand it!
However, I do remember one commercial application (ERP-like, LOB) written in APL and offered on a time-sharing service. Unfortunately, I cannot recall its name.
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Had not heard that, but sounds appropriate.
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While the original Ruby script took maybe 2 hours to write, my straight port to C++ took more than 10! Most of this time was spent navigating the API of libjpeg, fumbling with pointers and buffer arithmetic, and hunting down type casting errors that subtly caused inaccurate results. However, check out the speed gains... That’s a speed up of more than 50x. And ten years worth of gray hair.
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To be fair, the guy is a Ruby programmer. It would probably take me a similar amount of pain to re-write a piece of C++ code in Ruby.
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libjpeg is a c library, not c++. The title should have been "Rewriting in C for Fun, Speed and Masochism"
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But he said he was writing in C++. Using a C library from C++ still counts as "rewriting in C++" in my world, but perhaps our views differ.
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Just read the article:
"When given the right amount of abstraction - in this case, a fast C++ library - writing the code to be adequately fast was trivial. Using old-school C-style library integration, on the other hand, ended with me wasting hours making little to no progress. "
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So? That still doesn't mean he was rewriting anything in C.
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Really? Do you understand english?
Using old-school *C-style* library integration, on the other hand, ended with me wasting hours
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Do you?
ed welch wrote: <layer>*C-style* library integration
Means exactly that. It does not necessarily imply he rewrote the whole thing in C. In fact he probably didn't, if that's what he had done he would have said "I also tried to rewrite it in C, but that turned out to be a waste of time". Or something like that. It is far more likely he actually meant what he wrote, and he used C-style library integration into C++, which is a perfectly valid thing to do.
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For a developer like me, font rendering is very important since, I always work with code, read stuff and do many things with letters most of the time. Ubuntu renders font really good and it’s ubuntu font is really cool. After installing Windows fonts, It looks really cool on the web too. For me Mac’s font rendering looks so weired mostly on the Web. I copied windows fonts to the fonts folder as I did in Ubuntu but still no luck. The A B C that I see.
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