Elrac

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by Elrac 11y ago
I'd like to offer a partial thumbs-down to the one non-programming book suggestion: Strunk & White's Elements of Style has been criticized as, well, not the best possible advice, by G.K. Pullum, here: http://chron
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by Elrac 12y ago
I program in FORTRAN for a living. FEAR me or pity me - as you wish! ;)
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by Elrac 12y ago
I worry about the author's qualifications if he rules out FORTRAN and Delphi for failing to be statically typed. Both languages (Delphi is Pascal with OO bolt-ons) are classic statically typed languages. There are excellent reasons for
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by Elrac 12y ago
35 years ago, when I was told my 2nd freshman course in programming would be in Pascal, I bought the _Pascal User's Manual and Report_, read through it in one sitting, managed to remember most of it (Pascal is a small language) and was
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by Elrac 12y ago
Looking at SourceWatch, The Independent Institute looks to be an industry-funded Tea Party Liberal think tank. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Institute They may be right about what they say, but I wou
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by Elrac 12y ago
He's most likely referring to the US. Depending on who does the polling and how, about half the population thinks the Theory of Evolution is a bad joke or a scientific conspiracy or something. The opposing side is known as "Creati
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by Elrac 12y ago
I haven't had a chance to watch the video, but I question the thinking in various parts of this article. The first thing that hit me was: Cell phones? Sure, they don't need a lot of juice so a tiny patch of solar could power them.
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by Elrac 12y ago
I'm happy to disclaim that I have nothing to do with the mess that is the HTML standard! But if I had to guess I would say that the ending tags in HTML add a modicum of redundancy that allows for some of the crazy/creepy/smar
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by Elrac 12y ago
I half-agree with your other respondent, olavk. If you're deeply entrenched in imperative-style coding and are just missing familiarity with - what's that other word? Prescriptive programming? - then by all means, you want to get
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by Elrac 12y ago
As someone who does not (yet) do recursion and looping-by-recursion in his sleep, I deeply appreciate Clojure's hand-holding to make TC situations completely explicit.
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by Elrac 12y ago
> Regardless, silencing or demonizing any group is wrong. I find this blanket generalization hard to accept. There's a group of parents who try to cure their children's autism by making them drink diluted chlorine bleach and gi
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by Elrac 12y ago
South Korea, as I understand it, has this principle of ensuring that the author of anything Internet can be personally identified. This kind of accountability might help even the odds between what is otherwise a named individual vs. an anon
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by Elrac 12y ago
I'm sad about this. Science needs to be more accessible to the public, not less!
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by Elrac 12y ago
I think this sentence exemplifies what's wrong with this "glitzy Web sites for Dummies" approach: > Just throw in videos, images, text, products and more and magically get a website that looks like it was poured over by a
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by Elrac 12y ago
Wonderful analogy! I liked it, anyway.
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by Elrac 12y ago
As VLM explains a bit better, I was talking about only one of the two electrodes. The other one, the anode, would of course be made from zinc (or some other metal) and end up breaking down to provide that energy. I was just explaining why t
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by Elrac 12y ago
Or the cathode is carbon. Then (IIRC) it wouldn't wear out or need replacing.
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by Elrac 12y ago
I resent the creators of this product for misrepresenting how it works. Are they marketing to the gullible? No, the water and salt do not power it - if that were the case you could revive the lamp's battery by pouring in fresh salty wa
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by Elrac 12y ago
Because every human being is a walking, convenient source of an electrolytic solution. This is something you can do if you're too, too lazy to mix and pour water and salt. The downside is that you'll probably end up with a smelly
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by Elrac 12y ago
This is a big company, publicly embarrassed by a breach in data security and worried about their stock price. Now they're in damage control mode. Call me a cynic, but my intuition says the whole page is a lie. My guess is the data was
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by Elrac 12y ago
Hi! Here's a few explaining words: The first one is missing a whole bunch of context. But here's a start: The first thing inside parentheses is the operator/function, the rest are arguments/operands. This one is best vie
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by Elrac 12y ago
A goodly chunk of the company I work at was recently sold to IBM. Not my chunk, but still - color me deeply un-reassured!
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by Elrac 12y ago
I haven't desk-checked your program for correctness but I appreciate your effort! Conclusion: If pressed for time, you may want to cut down on source bloat by programming in... COBOL!
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by Elrac 12y ago
I followed the link and saw "lodash" for the first time today. Oh, it's a library! With an API! In various formats! I always appreciate it when the top of the project page provides a one-liner explaining just what it is I&#x2
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by Elrac 12y ago
"Some of my best friends are black" is such a typical excuse from bigots that it's become a popular satirical stereotype. Are you going to be treating us to more typical bigot behavior while insisting others are the bigots? I
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by Elrac 12y ago
This bit of exaggerated pedantry has convinced me that you're not arguing in good faith.
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by Elrac 12y ago
Because of the horrible usability experience, I've felt nothing but unadulterated seething hatred for Scribd ever since the first time I was forced to use them. I hope this venture fails, catastrophically.
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by Elrac 12y ago
You, on the other hand, have made it clear who's the religious bigot. Raising objections to ideas is something you're opposed to, while hiding behind the innate sexuality of gays and lesbians and pretending, as so many religious b
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by Elrac 12y ago
Your question may be honest, but you may not be aware how strongly you loaded it with your use of the word "bigoted." In looking through definitions, I came across words like "extreme," "unwilling to change," &
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by Elrac 12y ago
Elliott certainly knows a lot about programming JavaScript, but reading his piece I have no way of knowing whether he knows a lot about programming in general, or architecture. He tells us, again and again, that it's best to avoid tryi

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