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by Camillo 14y ago
I don't have a reference for this, but I always got the impression that CSS was intentionally limited to help browsers implementers write efficient layout engines with as few pathological cases as possible. For instance, if you could specif
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by Camillo 14y ago
That rspec example looks like some sort of misguided language skeuomorphism. "If I name this method 'it' and this one 'should' and this one 'subject', I get something that sort of looks like English if you read it out loud while skipping th
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by Camillo 14y ago
This is not JavaScript, where a variable defined inside a function always has the entire function as its scope, and so it's confusing not to have it on top. In C++, a variable is not in scope until it's declared, so you can just declare it
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by Camillo 14y ago
Windows simply uses a decentralized approach to software discovery, based on the open web. Anybody can put their software up for download on their own website built with web standards, without having to go through any gatekeeper such as a d
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by Camillo 14y ago
It is certainly insulting and inappropriate, but I am surprised that the racist connotation has managed to endure eight years of "Bush is a chimp" jokes. (Yes, I know chimps are apes and not monkeys.)
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by Camillo 14y ago
> Shortly after Larry Page re-took the reigns as CEO of Google He re-took the what? You don't take the reigns, you don't give free reign, and you don't loosen the reigns. It's REINS.
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by Camillo 14y ago
Surely you mean "CDMA will die soon". That's the American technology behind the American idea of "this phone belongs to this carrier". The carrier decoupling that you see in Europe and elsewhere was enabled by GSM-family technologies (GSM,
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by Camillo 14y ago
As far as I recall, people didn't hate the new Pepsi logo, they just found the leaked design document ridiculous. But if you read it today... http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20090521-firefoxIco... ...yep, still ridiculous.
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by Camillo 14y ago
Surprisingly, one of the most interesting things on that page is the comment by Thomas John Mosbo explaining a subtle but profound difference between the way the One Ring is destroyed in the book and the way it is destroyed in the movie.
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by Camillo 14y ago
Very true. However, just going by the Wikipedia article on him, Midgley engaged in clearly unethical actions by helping to convince the government and the public of the safety of TEL even as he himself was suffering from the effects of lead
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by Camillo 14y ago
I wouldn't blame him, though. He might have breathed in a lot of lead as a child.
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by Camillo 14y ago
There is no reason to assume that the correct length parameters would be passed to safercopy. Indeed, there are many buffer overflows and off-by-one errors in C programs which involve buffers with explicit size values instead of null-termin
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by Camillo 14y ago
If the headline is a yes/no question, the answer is always no.
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by Camillo 14y ago
This article is a piece of shit. 1) It explains nothing about how Fusion Drive works. In fact, it muddles the waters by likening it to SSD cache technologies, while it's simply not a cache at all. 2) The sources it links are speculation pos
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by Camillo 14y ago
Interesting! I'm actually trying to eat a hypercaloric diet to increase my weight at the moment, and that's one less thing I have to worry about.
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by Camillo 14y ago
Honestly, you sound more like a "non-science" person there. Did you think many branches of science have an epistemology founded on automatic computation? Think again!
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by Camillo 14y ago
I don't think it's hard for men, frankly - I think it's a bit too easy for women. Our culture has really become too carefree about showing off sex toys - but only for women, it seems. Compare the mental image of a woman accidentally droppin
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by Camillo 14y ago
anonymous was asking about a lack of inspiration. The fact that there are so many students shows that they are definitely being inspired to enter the field.
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by Camillo 14y ago
> So in this case, some people decided they were uncomfortable with the level of inclusion. That's a fair conversation to have. Certainly. But when the conversation turns into accusations of racism and a boycott (or feared boycott?) tha
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by Camillo 14y ago
Like I said, in my university in America I see a majority of non-white students in CS. I really can't see them thinking "can I really do this? should I be doing this? why is my face different from all the other computer guys' faces?". Heck,
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by Camillo 14y ago
It's true that the speakers were not limited to being British, but it's more expensive for someone outside the country to attend (even with compensation, they'd still expend more time, undergo more stress, etc.). Also, it was a new conferen
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by Camillo 14y ago
Please see my reply to hmahncke, it should address your point.
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by Camillo 14y ago
That's a good point, but keep in mind three things: 1) It's a process. We already have non-white people in top positions (both in the industry and in academia), so there's no lack of inspiration, but it takes time for those who have inspire
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by Camillo 14y ago
Nice blaming of the victim, buddy. It seems that you are coming from a very loaded position here. It's one thing to say "you must not discriminate because of race or sex". That's racism and sexism and we all find it abhorrent (or at least,
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by Camillo 14y ago
The barrier to entry to becoming a Ruby programmer is as low as can be: all you need is a laptop and internet access. You can become a celebrity without people even knowing your name, let alone your face: why_ (or _why or whatever) was at o
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by Camillo 14y ago
That's how Apple feels about Samsung, too. Hence, it's better for them to pay $21M to the Swiss than to support the notion that such design similarities happen by coincidence.
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by Camillo 14y ago
Yes, but if you believe that Samsung's business incurred substantial damage from a perception of infringement, surely that perception would have to be "Samsung copied Apple's products", not just "Samsung infringed Apple's Community Register
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by Camillo 14y ago
I can't even tell what's going on any more. All of this notice-posting is meant to undo the "harm" Apple has caused by saying Samsung copied the iPad, right? But the court insists that it never even touched the question of whether Samsung c
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by Camillo 14y ago
You make a library for A/B testing. Why didn't you use A/B testing here?
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by Camillo 14y ago
> I am thereby having a difficult time fathoming why anyone would think that a PSD file is thereby going to be some well-organized file format that they should easily be able to parse from their own application is just naively wishful t

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