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by 4bpp 12y ago
Eh, if that wasn't clear, I am not claiming that the author's statement constitutes censorship - rather, that statement, in conjunction with the other statements the author makes or very likely would agree with, constitutes an adv
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by 4bpp 12y ago
He deemed it a trivialisation of rape culture and a "misogynist action". I find it worrying how nonchalantly the range of what is considered a transgression is being expanded in feminist circles from fairly universally agreed upon
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Google Translate butchers the article badly, but https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... suggests that this is more of a personal ambition of the vice-mayor and the city council is positi
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by 4bpp 12y ago
The way people like to complain about the bloat and arbitrariness of C++, but then still quietly wind up using it, reminds me a lot of the common complaints about the arbitrary pronunciation and other quirks of the English language. There i
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by 4bpp 12y ago
> Only on HN, Reddit, and Slashdot is a recommendation of Bitlocker "inexplicably naive" because it's "closed-source". I would be interested in seeing the argument of someone who is not part of "HN, Reddit,
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by 4bpp 12y ago
This does not explain why they would do something as inexplicably naive as recommending that everyone use a closed-source solution for encrypting their data in 2014. (And conversely, if it were really a matter of them having had a change of
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by 4bpp 12y ago
> "[...] an obscure theory, like graph theory [...]", [founder] says Even nowadays, no more or less respectable university will let you graduate with a CS degree without learning at least the basic ropes of graph theory (more t
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by 4bpp 12y ago
The element that does not square with any theories that suggest benevolent intent behind the change is the recommendation that users switch to Bitlocker. Surely, a Truecrypt developer who got served a gagging order to build in a backdoor wo
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by 4bpp 12y ago
I understand that the sentence you quoted is easily construed as a cheap potshot at startups, but all I meant to say is that suddenly, there is a large number of people coding - and, more importantly, writing about coding - who did not grow
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. I understand that having to deal with this sort of situation instead of working on bringing the project closer to fruition must be very annoying from a core developer's perspective. Sorry for contribut
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification; I do realise this. The context in which the question arose was that several of the "for" arguments seem to state something to the effect of ~ being rare in code due to only occurring in type definitio
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Yeah, I've read the document, and I would hope that most other people who proceeded to debate the topic did as well. I honestly don't think that it does a commensurate job of presenting the case for it (and after reading many of t
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Orthogonally to whether this is a good or bad idea, I really wish the PR and subsequent community management had been handled more carefully for something that was pretty much bound to be a very controversial change (tellingly, /r&#x2F
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by 4bpp 12y ago
Sorry, I don't think I understand; could you explain what you mean by "exposing unshared nodes"? Also, are you saying that for every self-referential constructor of an algebraic datatype, the correct thing to do is to write a
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by 4bpp 12y ago
> legitimate use of the ~ are few and far between: typically, recursive data structure definitions Wait, don't you need it to instantiate the corresponding recursive data structures? As in, a typical cons-cell list would be created
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by 4bpp 12y ago
At least on a German keyboard, the <> required for Box<T> is a more painful combination to type, as < is the key next to the left shift key and > is the shifted version of the same. At the same time, ~ is right alt and +,
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by 4bpp 12y ago
What is the source of that statement? Because honestly, if the future of Rust is to look like this, that would be somewhat horrifying. Python is a great language for beginners and people who get into programming through nontraditional chann
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by 4bpp 13y ago
Even if there was an initial difference, it seems unlikely that sheltering him would do anything other than exacerbate his comparative inability to deal with such material. While this is obviously just anecdote and open to interpretation, I
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by 4bpp 13y ago
I don't know, a week of lost sleep seems like a pretty cheap price to pay for not growing up into the average "TV shows gory pictures of terrorists blowing up something? I now have PTSD and will vote for any measure that you say w
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by 4bpp 13y ago
Spoken up, or, much more easily and effectively, given the perpetrator nasty looks, not have invited him around the next time, gossipped about him behind his back or whatever else is part of the usual creep treatment. For all the reluctance
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by 4bpp 13y ago
Yes, the "dongles" story is not really comparable to this and I don't see any agenda I would consider desirable being served by conflating the two. While the old "would you find this okay if the genders were reversed&quo
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by 4bpp 13y ago
I don't know. Doing that would probably, consciously or not, forever put the author down in the other attendees' "difficult to deal with; better to stay clear of in the future" list. On the other hand, chances are the so
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by 4bpp 13y ago
> don't commit nearly as much crime I remember previously stumbling upon http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/c... - while I don't know to what extent the situation is simil
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by 4bpp 13y ago
Your closing question really seems like the wrong one to ask to me. The bottom line is that some people do learn to code and come here nevertheless. Why on earth do they want to, and why is it that their reasoning isn't equally appli
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by 4bpp 13y ago
The second point does mesh quite well with my observations regarding the system. If you question a fairly randomly sampled member of the populace as to why they would choose to vote for one of the established political parties rather than a
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by 4bpp 13y ago
What sort of cold war spy movie scenario are you imagining? If he wanted to give the data to the Russians or Chinese, he could just have uploaded it somewhere for them to grab. On the other hand, I would assume that he knows how to encrypt
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by 4bpp 13y ago
£10 says that opposition to the filtering will count as an extremist view.
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by 4bpp 14y ago
Thanks for your convincing illustration of the concept of prejudicial rubbish. I'm German myself. Whether or not the view I expressed is rubbish, I believe the term "prejudicial" is applied incorrectly here. My opinion of the German environ
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by 4bpp 14y ago
I'm not convinced that the device actually does what it is advertised to do. Considering that the student is associated with a "University of the Arts", the non-disclosure of the layout becomes even more suspicious, as is the implied claim
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by 4bpp 14y ago
The reason the average HN-goer never does anything of note is precisely because of being driven by this "how can I monetize this" mentality alone.

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