CodeMage

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by CodeMage 8y ago
Both checked and unchecked exceptions are typed in Java. Unchecked exceptions are not included in the method signature, but that doesn't mean that the exceptions are untyped.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I see a lot of commenters here are as perplexed as I was when I first read this post. The key thing to understand here is that post is really about an attempt to implement the "Railway Oriented Programming" paradigm [1] by Scott
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Thank you for helping me realize what's been bothering me about software for the last decade or so. I've been experiencing an increasing apathy and dissatisfaction and I kept attributing it to "age" -- 40 is not that muc
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by CodeMage 8y ago
It's clear from that same introduction paragraph that the focus of the studies is pretty narrow and excludes a whole slew of factors that would normally be considered extremely relevant.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Thank you for explaining this. I had no idea banks charged a fee to Visa and MasterCard; for some reason I thought it was the other way around.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Could you explain this a bit for those of us who don't know in depth how this works? For starters, what's a payments acquirer? Also, due to inherent ambiguity in English, I'm not sure whether your point #1 means that my bank
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by CodeMage 8y ago
If I had to pick TL;DW relevant to this topic, it's that the choice of platform is aggregate, not individual. If the vast majority of people stop communicating or interacting in one way and start doing it in another, it's not real
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> There are plenty of alternatives to social media - email, SMS, phone calls, and even decentralized options. I suggest watching Moxie Marlinspike's keynote for Defcon 18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBP
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Deniability is not the same as privacy and can't be used to replace it.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> Politics has the force of law behind it, cryptography has irrefutable mathematics. Let's see who wins. In the end, force wins. Irrefutable mathematics are just a tool. Every right we have has been won through struggle. Sometimes
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by CodeMage 8y ago
You're not confused, the article is confused. It boils down to a gripe against the suffix "-punk" and it tries to make some connection between that and the lack of originality that is to be expected when art meets mass-market
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Is it me, or is this an article with a sensationalist headline with a really inconclusive body?
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I guess I wasn't clear about my stance: I can't fault their grievances, but I can and do fault their methods. I'm pretty sure that obtaining the government permit didn't involve the constituency. There are ways of respon
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by CodeMage 8y ago
They're not going on a crusade against self-driving cars, but against the "beta testing" of self-driving cars in their neighborhood, without their approval. It says so in the article, although it's a bit buried. I can&#x
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Based on my brief stint in the game development industry, it seems that there are two major obstacles that keep artists from adopting Git. One is the tooling: most of the tools artists use have integrated support for Perforce. This problem
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> detained the bodyguard as collateral for a deal went wrong As a non-native English speaker, I'm confused whether this should have been "deal gone wrong" or "deal that went wrong", or whether it's a garde
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> I’m not judging you. Again, I might be wrong, but every time I've read or heard the word "selfish", it was always used as a judgment. > ask yourself how you can have a positive impact and make your new home a bette
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> Better access for US citizens to universities and healthcare will not be gained by importing ever cheaper highly skilled labor I believe I already stated that more immigration is not the solution, in my first comment in this thread.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Maybe it's my fault, but I haven't found "easily accessible data" on the quality of elementary and middle school education, which is something a lot of people seem to be ignoring in this discussion. Sure, people might be
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Everyone who focuses mostly on universities is forgetting that you have years of education to go through before getting to the university.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> Both of these would ensure that we can get smart and talented individuals from outside the US and would drastically improve the ability for the US to compete while continuing to provide broad-based wage increases. As an immigrant, I&
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by CodeMage 8y ago
It's just that a lot of us believe that we should educate people who think privacy has anything to do with whether you have anything to hide.
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by CodeMage 8y ago
I share your perplexion. At best, these technical solutions will just break off a smaller, "splinter" Internet, unused by the vast majority of users. The average user does not know or care about these things and this isn't li
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Of all the ways to try to motivate people to rally against this disastrous law, spinning it as "EU wants to ban memes" might have been the worst. It makes people think it's about something trivial and frivolous.
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"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the w
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by CodeMage 8y ago
> Clustering images by features seems to be pretty fundamental, and if it runs afoul of this law, then the law needs to be changed. Fundamental to what, though? This court case is not about somehow criminalizing the existence or the us
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by CodeMage 8y ago
While I agree with you, it's also noticeable that many companies do have a broken hiring process, but they don't realize it, because things aren't bad enough yet. However, whiteboarding is not the culprit. People complain whi
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by CodeMage 8y ago
Exactly. That's exactly what disappointed me about Narnia: I felt like Lewis is ramming his Christianity down my throat, whereas I never felt that way with Tolkien's work. Whenever I compare Narnia and Middle Earth and people tell
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by CodeMage 8y ago
The Newspeak, as a fictional language and thought exercise, takes a phenomenon that occurs naturally in real life and proposes a way to exploit it. The "incel" label is just a natural, real-life occurrence of the phenomenon Orwell
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by CodeMage 8y ago
That ship has sailed the moment they decided to name themselves "incel", as opposed to "involuntarily celibate". Orwell explained the effect nicely in "The Principles of Newspeak": It was perceived that in thu

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