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11y ago
Using "ab" would lead to ambiguity, since it could mean "a*b". Also, there is no reason for using two letter variables when you can use any letter from the latin or greek alphabet, with any notation like ä or â or even c
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11y ago
The existence of /sbin should be preserved for statically compiled programs, which are necessary for basic system administration and can't assume the system has all the basic libraries loaded.
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11y ago
It does take into account the sale of the house when you leave it.
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Maken
11y ago
Is "El Packete" the real name of the thing or is the journalist constantly misspelling "El Paquete" though the article?
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Maken
11y ago
It sounds like a security nightmare and I'm not sure about how efficient it can be for not user oriented tasks. But the ubiquity of the system is like what XML pretended to be but never was.
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Maken
11y ago
Both are part of the JVM, which means that part of the JVM is currently self-tuning.
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Maken
11y ago
Not exactly. Unlike gnuplot, FLTK uses single precision internally to represent the data, which limits the range of values it can plot. If you try to print anything outside that range, it'll just print a blank graph.
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11y ago
Since I see it nowhere, I assume the OpenGL plotting library still has the limited range problem.
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11y ago
Using algorithms for support decision making and and putting a bad UI barrier between the users and the managers are two different things. Anyway, public administrations should indeed make publish how their algorithms work in order to ensur
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11y ago
There is Racer https://github.com/phildawes/racer which pretty much works with any IDE.
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11y ago
By "guaranteeing stability" you mean disband the dictatorships and armer groups they established in order to stop the CPPP expansion? Now, these same leaders that militarized the world in order to stop the Soviet Union are decidin
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11y ago
If this is about controlling China, and China obviously knows it, then I don't see any reason for hiding it from the public instead of saying "this all is in order to combat China". Or maybe the means proposed are something t
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11y ago
The Russian one improved greatly the life of the Russian people. They ended living oppressed under a dictatorship, but it was miles better than starving under the Tsar's monarchy.
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11y ago
England also have a revolution few years before the French one, only that it was much less bloody and radical.
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Maken
11y ago
The drafts will be secret for everyone not involved directly in the negotiations until it'll have to be passed in the national Congresses. Which is of course how things work in a democratic society.
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Maken
11y ago
So, this is basically a online copyright office?
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Maken
12y ago
You should read the article. Your definition of plain text isn't the same as the author's.
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Maken
12y ago
The author isn't from computer science nor have a computer science background. Outside computer science most people moved from typewriters to WSIWYG editors, which is the natural transition if you are unfamiliar with how to use a compu
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12y ago
Turning arbitrary geometry into light sources is now bleeding edge technology?
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12y ago
Frameworks aren't a replacement for proper program design.
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Maken
12y ago
I'm not sure if shipping buggy code can be considered productivity.
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Maken
12y ago
Everybody knows where Lorca is, and he'll continue buried in a hole until digging up the corpses of the ones executed after the Civil War stops being a matter of pride for certain people.
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12y ago
Spanish speaker here. "ch" and "ll" being separate letters has been discussed for a long time and finally the decision was that they weren't separate letters but a combination of two [1]. Meanwhile, "ñ" st
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Maken
12y ago
Remember LaTeX? It's back... in web form!
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Maken
12y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but by checking the "redundant" atomic counter before trying to acquire the semaphore, he's saving up a system call, which would imply making (unnecessary) context changes.
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12y ago
I fail to understand why they haven't scanned all the books yet.
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Maken
12y ago
Ubuntu itself is a central part of their cloud business, so Ubuntu is indeed profitable for them. What's not profitable is their desktop and end users' market.
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12y ago
Does he deserve ridicule for creating one of the few big internet communities where free speech means something? I think he deserves some credit for enduring all these years of enduring the hate of anybody offended by something posted on 4c
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Maken
12y ago
It depends on which board you posted and the moderators' mood.
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Maken
12y ago
Rejecting this kind of bad practices isn't the same as rejecting internet.
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