fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: KeePass 2.14 released
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fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: DirectX 11 Tutorials
HRESULT D3DX11CompileFromFile(
LPCTSTR pSrcFile,
D3D10_SHADER_MACRO pDefines,
LPD3D10INCLUDE pInclude,
LPCSTR pFunctionName,
LPCSTR pProfile,
UINT Flags1,
UINT Flags2,
ID3DX11ThreadPump pPump,
ID3D10Blob ppShader,
ID3D10Blob ppErrorMsgs,
HRESULT *pHResult);
Eleven arguments, Microsoft. Please find somebody sane to write your APIs.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Zed Shaw: Why I Don't Use Tor
It's reasonable to assume that if Hitler wanted you to die, he wouldn't poison you with a sandwitch and risk being called a woman behind his back.
Anyway, motivations do not matter one bit when it comes to evaluating whom to trust with your data, if it's not safe by design then it's not safe period.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Did Pascal beat C++ at the 2010 International Olympiad in Informatics?
I was hoping to get feedback on why a contestant would be able to compete very well with Pascal over C++.
Because that's what he's been practicing with. CS courses in schools in Eastern Europe are tought in Pascal, or at least used to be.
In the end it's as interesting as the brand of chess pieces at a chess tournament. If you look at the solutions to Google Code Jam (http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/0) for example then you'll see that it's mostly disgusting code made of arrays and loops and you can do those in pretty much any language. People get good at algorithms by sitting down, learning and implementing them, not by sweating the choice of language.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Life After OOP: C++ is not just an object-oriented language
How is this free?
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a while to load)
It breaks for input as simple as "for x = 1,10 do print(x) end". It's a shame I can't use Lua for browser scripting instead of JS.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Coding Horror: Your Internet Driver's License
I have all my logins saved in Firefox and there's not one site I'm using where Firefox is able to autocomplete OpenID details, it forces me to enter my ID, leave the page, authenticate with OpenID, go back and submit. It needs to either die or get way more convenient than this.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Bizarre Google Trend Search Spike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Trends
"Originally, Google neglected updating Google Trends on a regular basis. In March 2007, internet bloggers noticed that Google had not added new data since November 2006, and Trends was updated within a week. Google did not update Trends from March until July 30, and only after it was blogged about, again.[2] Google now claims to be "updating the information provided by Google Trends daily; Hot Trends is updated hourly."
Google Insights for Search seems to be better for this sort of analysis since it offers regional filtering options and puts the searched term into context.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=xkcd%2Cpenny%20arca...
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: 1,000 Years of European History -- An Animated Map
This is amazing, I wish it were interactive, learning history was (and still is) difficult for me as a visual learner.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Ruby:
I think the speed increase comes from += creating a new string object every time, whereas << literally concatenates it.
Programming the hunches and guesses way on the HN frontpage makes me sad.
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000807
str + other_str => new_str
Concatenation Returns a new String containing other_str concatenated to str.
str << fixnum => str str.concat(fixnum) => str str << obj => str str.concat(obj) => str
Append Concatenates the given object to str. If the object is a Fixnum between 0 and 255, it is converted to a character before concatenation.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Stop looking for nontechnical founders, go get an MBA. It's easy
In case you missed the reference:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820495
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Facebook Fails at https
Hilarious outrage. I keep telling people to learn some basic networking ever since I fired up a traffic sniffer on a Lan when everybody was still using POP3. Facebook forcing https on all it's pages won't solve anything, people need to educate themselves before using one of the most complex systems humanity has built.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Is the Linux Desktop Dream Dead?
The 21st-century desktop isn't based on the fat-client desktop of the last 25-years. It exists on the Web in Web-based applications and software as a service (SaaS) and what I call "Content as a Service." If the content providers have their way, you'll view content from the Web instead of downloading it.
So I just took a break and played a round of SC2 and now I'm back to do some work in Photoshop/Excel. Just thought you'd like to know.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files
Actually, the fact that it's obviously important that the people, who administer and have access to your IT infrastructure, think what you're doing is legal and moral, is rather interesting.
Ignoring the content of these files for a while, it seems to me that nobody is too concerned with the fact that the US government managed to lose 400.000 secret documents and what implications this might have for future conflicts.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: CMU Researchers Break Speed Barrier In Solving Important Class of Linear Systems
I'm terribly sorry if this is an ignorant question but does this somehow apply to manually solving a, say, 5x5?
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files
Exactly, just give me the gist of the illegal or highly suspicious activities amongst an otherwise perfectly legal invasion.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs
Me too. I know a lot of people with degrees in Law, Linguistics, Literature (in their respective languages) and so on who moved to the US and now have regular jobs because their degrees lose any meaning when changing the country.
You go to college to have options later, not to pursue a career, you know little about at the age of 18, due to some misguided sense of loyalty to the taxpayer.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: How to write cross-platform code
Care to elaborate on why you chose C/C++ instead of Java for the backup client?
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: Online privacy: what’s at stake
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press.
Most of Europe has a socialized independent press, in Germany it's financed by a soon to be mandatory per-household charge (currently mandatory per-TV/Radio charge) and it's been mostly working out so far. Quite frankly I don't understand how you can call a company owned newspaper like the NY Times independent.
fbcocq | 15 years ago | on: The Pleasure of the Text
Sure, suprise me. I'd really like to see a video of someone typing for an hour or two on an iPad without needing a chiropractor afterwards and in the end producing more text than he'd produce on a laptop or netbook with a stock text editor. If you have trouble focusing, maybe it's because your body is in an awkward posture.
I don't own an iPad, but even thinking about the angle, that I'd have to look at it from while it rests on my lap, hurts my neck.
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I've been carrying around KeePass on an USB flashdrive for about 3 years now and haven't yet encountered a problem running it on random Windows machines. Deploying it is just a matter of copying 4 files to the target machine really.