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I totally disagree with this. Having a try/catch around code can be a hell of a lot cleaner than trying to make all your functions return true/false on whether they succeeded or not. With the exceptions you only handle failures, usually in a single line thrown exception vs handling return...

Oh man do I wish I had a setup like that. I used to manually edit the batch files, and I had more than my fair share of fuck ups in that regard. After my second visit to the computer store to fix one of my batch boot issues (I was 10) the guy took the five minutes to show me how to make a boot...

Honestly, I would use it for training. Put the new person in the hot seat and start telling them what to do, and it would be an interesting way to force them to learn techniques from the whole team and hopefully they'd be smart enough to ask a lot of questions about what people are getting them...

I ended up canceling my pre-order for the Fury X. I game at 1600p and it performs worse than the 980Ti and I can pick one up for the same price plus the 980 Ti has 2GB more memory. I really think NVIDIA should get punished by the market for Gameworks and GSync, so I might just skip this...

It's really weird that the it performs so much better at 4k than it does at 1440p. I'm hoping there are some driver improvements in the works that are going to improve the performance, but I'm not crossing my fingers.

Yea, Wind has this whole chicken and the egg issue, where they require a huge amount of capital to compete against the big carriers and expand but it's hard to justify investing in them unless people are flocking to them. If they had lifted the foreign investment rules right as they were...

The Canadian contracts are two years now, so if you've got two years into your three year contract you're free to break it. Once I'm ready to buy a new phone I'm bailing on Rogers and heading to Wind. Rogers recently decided that my deal was "too good" and that it "expired", thus doubling my...

I pre-ordered a FuryX from NCIX.. all indications point to it being a beast. People have gotten Dirt 3 and Sniper Elite III both running on three 4K monitors (12K effective) with a single card. The memory technology is proving especially interesting, I really had my doubts that 4GB would be...

Thanks for the feedback on Evolve, sounds like a pass.

Is evolve worth buying at 50% off?

I can only really speak for C++, but a lot of the new additions being added are going to make it a really solid choice. Right now if you use unique_ptr/shared_ptr's for your memory allocation you can pretty much avoid a lot of the memory pit falls that make C++ difficult to deal with, and you...

Research Blog: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks Really cool article, basically google trained a simple neural network to identify images. But they wanted to know what the neural network was actually recognizing as the object. So they initially gave it a blank canvas and asked...

549$ for the Fury (Cut down die) 649$ for the Fury X I'm probably going to pick up the FuryX to replace my aging 7970. Mist where did you see people complaining about freesync? Most reviews I've seen have found little difference between it and the G-Sync monitors. G-Sync is always going...

They're probably playing this like Google, where the two founders ended up in lower positions after venture capital got a hold of them. Richard is by no means ready to run a business, nor does he seem to have the skills to pull it off. Having some other person come in and run it for awhile where...

We do sprints but we don't always release what we've accomplished. So while everybody is working on a sprint, they aren't always working on a piece that's going to be in the next release, or if it is part of it it'll be dead code that's not accessible via the UI if it isn't complete. We don't...

Oh god it's just a straight up string constant? Jesus..

So to be clear without the global macro the code would be "YourClass..()"? If that's the case, then the DOT makes it a lot more clear that you're calling a function. I don't do a lot of coding in Java, so I have no idea why you would have a call that looks like that in the first place.

John Oliver wanted Sepp Blatter (President of FIFA) gone, looks like he got his wish. Sepp Blatter to resign as FIFA president - Al Jazeera English

Rerolled primarily, and occasionally I read eurogamer. I trust information I get from here a lot more than I do from other sources.

That sounds toxic, as a general rule we find out the root cause of the issue and then leverage whether a quick fix is better or fixing the underlying issue. Even if we do the quick fix, we schedule an overhaul in a future build. Since migrating to our new product from old one, we've been...

hah same thing as my company. The shit that gets green lit if the person doesn't care who's doing the review can be pretty scary and we've been burned pretty badly on it. We have a coding standard document, though we tend to leave code reviews to the end of the feature before we hit QA so if...

Anyone figure out what the fuck Jared treated himself with that morning that made him so happy? I feel like the guy saying "this guy fucks" was a hint as to what he was doing, but I doubt it was any sort of straight interaction.

I can honestly see the positive side of where Valve was coming from but there was some serious oversights on their part. There should have been some sort of cross licensing system setup in place so that modders who create custom animations or items etc they have the option to license it to...

From what I've read intelligence is generally driven by how the brain is wired internally and not it's size. So the more internal connections between neurons and the better they're insulated, the higher the individuals intelligence is. They've done genetic alterations to mice to increase Myelin...

Somebody volunteered to help me out, I'm good now. Thanks everybody who offered.

It's a dessert that you need the alcohol to dissolve some kind of citrus extract in so you can mix it with water and then add it to recipe. The alcohol burns off and you're left with the citrus flavor and if you use anything but pure alcohol it'll leave a lot of residual taste of whatever you...

They won't ship to Ontario, only within Quebec :/ I've tried a bunch online liquor stores, for the most part the ones that do ship, don't ship the 95% bottles and the ones that do, only do within specific territories. It's a gift for a friend who's a chef, she keeps going on about how awesome...

I watched a VICE HBO news episode on the harvesting of Rhino horn. Apparently it's the same material nails and hair are made of, nothing else. It's possible to harvest the material from the Rhino without killing it and there are people trying to change the laws and setup Rhino farms to meet the...

He lives in Alberta and they also sell it there. So yea if Eomer is out there, offer stands for you too! They've been banning it across Canada because we hate freedom or some other nonsense about kids dying of alcohol poisoning.

I'm trying to find some 95% alcohol I can use for cooking and the Ontario liquor stores don't sell any. I'm looking for somebody to purchase a bottle ofthisand ship it to me. It's legal to possess in Ontario, they just don't sell it so there is nothing illegal about the transaction. I'll pay for...

Yup the steam store says it unlocks 7PM EST/4PM PST today.

That's the same one I had, and I can also attest to it being awesome. I used to have a portable wifi router I would hook it up to in the yard that would in bridged mode to the wifi network inside. It's definitely come a long way from rudimentary first run unit I had gotten.

For anyone who's on the fence about a big green egg but don't want to have monitor it for long smokes there are temperature control/blowers you can buy that you can set a temperature and it'll control air flow to maintain it. I forgot which one I had but it had a web interface and could be...

I'd argue that you could skip the linux class, download gentoo and use one of their early stage builds that let you build the system/kernel from scratch. I learned a boatload doing this and it'll probably take you a couple days just to get the system installed, but once you do you'll have a very...

The interview with Snowden was excellent, he grilled him specifically on the fact that he leaked these documents to the media and mistakes have been made, for which Snowden had an excellent reply. It kind of made my stomach twist a bit when he showed Snowden the video and how badly the American...

I saw this on the verge, it honestly sounds like they're going to find some place else to move to as a package. Heres hoping somebody like netflix or HBO picks them up. Hell if they delivered a couple episodes a month I'd happily pay 10$/mo for the content.

hah his expertise page lists his own custom bitcoin miner: Kriegerand Mining Hardware (Liquid Cooled A.S.I.C)

I totally agree that the show just isn't the presenters. The cinematography and music are fantastic and I think drives a lot of the atmosphere of what makes the show so awesome. They seem to have a talent to take movie music, apply it to what would otherwise be a boring scene and generate a...

heh I'm not sure the syntax would ever hold me back from using it. Honestly if used properly they basically idiot proof memory management in C++, at least in our use patterns. I can't wait till C++/17 with future/promises.. they make multi-threading so insanely simple. I used to think that C++...

When C++ 11 came out we re-factored a good chunk of our code to use either standard lib shared pointers or unique pointers. In the four or so years since we've done that I can't think of a single memory leak issue in our code base that we've had to chase down that wasn't related to a 3rd party...