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oldcigarette··on Any HN readers have ideas for improving gun safety?
> No private citizen can buy a machine gun today.

You can not buy a _new_ machine gun. The ones already registered are just like any other NFA item and can be transferred to anyone willing to pay the $200 tax.

Private citizens can import/manufacture machine guns provided they are properly licensed. These can't be sold to other private citizens however.

oldcigarette··on John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style
I don't see any advantages of declaring variables up front. Not all variables should be at the function scope. Often I have a local variable that is only used inside one branch of a conditional, why should I declare that at the top? Declaring things up front also separates the type from the usage, which makes things harder to read and takes up twice as many lines in some cases.
oldcigarette··on Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
The bene gesserit seem to have have a lot of force like powers.
oldcigarette··on C/C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 7: More Conditionals
No. If it's const it is static be default. This is the kind of shit that makes the windows api the royal pain in the ass it is.
oldcigarette··on 17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle
why is everyone so excited by some asian female's fake science
oldcigarette··on Firebug is a memory hog? Prove it (Please)
It already says what the the stocking stuffer is >You and millions of others will reap the benefits. A nice stocking stuffer for sure!
oldcigarette··on [dead]
god damn bunch of faggots
oldcigarette··on Racism in Tech
What does his being white have to do with anything? I smell racismz
oldcigarette··on The State of the Art is Terrible
I don't think anybody carries a valve spring compressor in their toolbox. Plus you'd run the risk of dropping the valve unless you was really careful and good luck getting the keepers back in on the side of the road without a way to hold the valve up. Even then who has the parts with them to make this a 1/2 hour job? Cars are just as hard/easy to fix now as back then. Fuel injection is arguably easier to troubleshoot then a carb given the computers help.
oldcigarette··on Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C
gcc should do the right thing if you add a special case for zero. exponent will be negative in that case. For larger integers you might end up with some false positives with floats though for say 2^30+1.
oldcigarette··on Patriot Act extended four more years, USA in fourteen year state of emergency
it hasn't been extended yet, write your bloody representatives instead of bitching about it
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