Jabbles

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by Jabbles 14y ago
In order for his site to succeed it will depend on thousands of "sadists" submitting content, and thousands more viewing it (and paying? or adverts?). It will be a sad day for society - the best we can do is not give his site the Oxygen of
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by Jabbles 14y ago
That's quite a controversial statement. Using unsigned ints may just clutter code without providing any safety. The value of 4e9 is still invalid, even though it's positive. As you say, checking your inputs is important, and in this case va
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Is there any harm in lying? Given that it's confidential information that they can't really verify, and that they'll either pay you what you ask and be happy with you/fire you for not being worth it. Apart from moral concerns, what's the pr
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by Jabbles 14y ago
For comparison, top† graduate software engineers (in London) will be on ~£35k/year. †Not like "won IOI" top, but I imagine Google/Microsoft/FB etc. has a graduate starting salary around that.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Not really. This volume of air has to make contact with the bottle, whatever the collecting area's shape. Imagine loosely fitting a tube around the neck of the collecting area. All the air has to pass through that tube.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Good work. I imagine 1g/1m^3 is roughly what you'd expect - especially in a desert. If the extractor area is the size of the bottle's cap (2cm x 2cm = 4e-4m^2) then to get a litre of water (1e3 m^3 air) requires 2.5e6m of air to flow past i
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by Jabbles 14y ago
A loaded question - "excessively" implies you think it's wrong. Of course you can obscure meaning by using non-descriptive names, but I use a lot of one-letter identifiers if the context is enough to easily interpret them. For example, all
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by Jabbles 14y ago
So it's what they have in Futurama? http://goo.gl/uEmNW I'm not really sure how it "can't crash", nor how there aren't any "rails" (or things that look suspiciously like rails).
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I quoted the same paragraph, and I'd be interested to know how much people think it applies to other languages. Obviously there are languages using whole other paradigms that you would struggle immensely in, try writing Prolog like Java! Bu
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I don't really view "make" as inconsistent - the fact that builtin functions have special powers doesn't strike me as particularly unusual. If they didn't I presume they'd just be part of the standard library. Besides, it seems that the in
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Go has a way of programming. Go is totally optimized for that way of programming, in fact. Programming any way other than Go’s way, with Go, will be that recipe for frustration I bounced my skull against. Go’s way is not pretty to someone
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I wonder whether Moot's lawyer discussed this with him beforehand, or if it's just standard procedure that has attracted a lot of attention this time round. Secondly, did Moot.it's lawyer threaten to sue Moot's lawyer ? Can you do that? Ca
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by Jabbles 14y ago
So what language would you recommend writing Windows in? Firefox/Chrome? LLVM? What are your reasons for recommending said language over C++?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
An interesting read - though I wonder (like many people) how useful being able to rattle off a linked list implementation is, given that there will almost certainly be a library version available. If the few minutes that it took to read thi
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by Jabbles 14y ago
"their stock is likely to..." Why? Don't just assert that it will do something. Their P/E is 12, so why won't it grow? Why haven't traders seen this "likely" scenario and sold/shorted Apple stock?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Eugh. I don't get why anyone wants to read this mindless speculation. What else do your tea leaves tell you? "many investors were disappointed that Apple wasn’t able to blow through Wall Street’s estimates" Well, great. Maybe their goat's e
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by Jabbles 14y ago
my point though is that you can't send mail to a TLD You can: http://serverfault.com/questions/154991/why-do-some-tld-have... For instance the pope could get pope@va - if he wanted...
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by Jabbles 14y ago
As others have said, the only way to know if an email address is valid is to try and send an email. This doesn't mean that this is useless, as you may want to get users to double-check their input if it doesn't pass this. Some test cases to
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Internet Explorer will start automatically updating. http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-st...
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by Jabbles 14y ago
"If that is so relevant, we should also kill..." No, because although some people may get scammed, there is still massive overall benefit to those services.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
You're an exception. Most people are not as well-protected. Being key-logged is not as unlikely as you seem to think, even if you're protected from all known attacks, new ones could result in your password being harvested along with thousan
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by Jabbles 14y ago
"which he posts as videos online" Does anyone know of similar videos in English?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
So... who's read it? sonabinu? Have you actually used this book enough to recommend it? The fact that it's freely available online doesn't make it worth reading. If someone is actually recommending it, I'd like to know why they prefer this
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Not if by performance you mean "in comparison to everyone else". In that case education is zero-sum. If you measure to an absolute standard it may be easier, but education goals move all the time, and calibrating between them leaves these m
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Could you explain why "encrypt then MAC" is the right option please? It isn't obvious why the other two are broken. Luckily I don't work in crypto :)
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by Jabbles 14y ago
"no obvious deficiencies" I would argue there is something obviously wrong. And I blame the government for not fixing it quickly. And the people for not being loud enough.
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by Jabbles 14y ago
These read rather like a horoscope, mainly vague or tautological statements. I'd prefer a blog post of the same length that explores just one of these ideas. You could make a list of 50 short statements that contradict all of these: 1. Tak
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by Jabbles 14y ago
I'm not angry with companies that avoid tax legally. It's in their nature to maximise profits! Of course they'll do that if you give them the opportunity. I'm angry at our government for making it legal, by allowing loopholes and flawed law
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Do you have any more up-to-date data than a 2008 comparison?
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by Jabbles 14y ago
Surely the first step would have been to send a bait-ridden fingerprinted email to everyone and wait for it to be leaked? (When the article says "all", it means the small portion of Cisco underneath him.)

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