Merad

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721.
by Merad 10y ago
Not true. If you don't catch an exception, you're automatically saying that it's a problem you can't fix, and your program will be terminated. If you fail to check return codes, then your program tries to keep running
722.
by Merad 10y ago
I bought his book a few years back after seeing an article (quite possibly this one) about it. I haven't gotten around to reading it in depth, but several times I've spent a few hours flipping through it reading bits and pieces.
723.
by Merad 10y ago
EVs have a range problem. 250 miles is fine for day to day driving, but most Americans routinely need to travel farther than that. Travel to nearby major cities, visiting relatives, vacations, etc. The supercharger network is a long way
724.
by Merad 10y ago
As I recall, when I had my wisdom teeth out (around 1999-2000) the oral surgeon offered three options - local anesthetic only, local + some anesthetic gas (I remember he called it the "la-la land option"), or a full "you&#x27
725.
by Merad 10y ago
You don't seem to understand how Xamarin works at all. The entire point is that you have the ability to share code, but also to drop to platform specific code at any time. The absolute worst case should be that you build totally diff
726.
by Merad 10y ago
> I just can't wrap my mind around people making $150k and not being able to "raise $2000" in a month's time. A person making $150k who has no savings/retirement/etc is a someone with very serious money mana
727.
by Merad 10y ago
Annoying gifs seems to be the popular thing at the moment. I've backed several Kickstarter campaigns recently and every single one of them fills their status update posts with stupid gifs.
728.
by Merad 10y ago
> Shouldn't it have better protections against a $25 internet purchased jammer? Are such protections possible? I don't think so. GPS is a purely passive system. If someone is broadcasting a signal in your immediately area tha
729.
by Merad 10y ago
Fission and fusion are fundamentally different in the way they work. If a fission reaction goes out of control, it can continue releasing enormous amounts of energy for days or even weeks, because it's based around releasing radioact
730.
by Merad 10y ago
> the poor just make do with Dunkin Doughnuts and the like Oh brother, HN's insulation from the real world is showing... If you can afford $2 for a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee on a regular basis, you probably are't poor. Most
731.
by Merad 10y ago
Appalachia is actually a huge region that comprises probably 1/3 of the eastern seaboard, stretching from New York to Alabama: http://www.arc.gov/assets/maps/Subregions_2009_Map.gif
732.
by Merad 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how many hours of work typically goes into one of those restorations?
733.
by Merad 11y ago
Really? Based on some quick googling it looks like "middle class" usually encompasses household incomes from about $35k-100k. You think that many people essentially contribute nothing to their 401k, HSA, etc?
734.
by Merad 11y ago
> The average middle class family has saved less than $1000. What's the source for that number? Taken at face value, it sounds unbelievable.
735.
by Merad 11y ago
Eh, probably more like the top 40-50%. All the people (and yes, there are more than a few of them) who bu anything better than the cheapest POS Walmart laptop. I built a computer for my parents at the beginning of 2012 - entirely lower mi
736.
by Merad 11y ago
> What's the end game? "I owe my soul to the company store." We've been here before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zE1-48AAYc
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by Merad 11y ago
Rockets still tend to go "boom" on the launchpad or shortly after launch at an uncomfortably high rate. A rocket carrying tons of radioactive waste that exploded 30 seconds after launch would create an environmental disaster that
738.
by Merad 11y ago
> Which area has nice stores with a wide variety of organic fruits and veggies, and which area has stores where they can't afford to replace the floor tiles when they pop out? It's interesting that you bring this up. In the ca
739.
by Merad 11y ago
Personally I'm a fan of braces everywhere (though I prefer Allman style), but the one area where I've given up is precondition checks at the start of a function. Any style with braces looks like a cluttered mess compared to
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by Merad 11y ago
> And yet, if we did that to such an extent that most people couldn't work those jobs with those policies, would not society be better off as a whole? Your attitude isn't just out of touch with reality, it's somewhere betw
741.
by Merad 11y ago
I've yet to encounter a situation where saving a few bucks on an item was worth the combined cost of paying shipping at another site plus risking having to deal with their customer service. Just in the last two months my Amazon experi
742.
by Merad 11y ago
What's the potential fallout on this case? I assume Apple is appealing the ruling - what happens if the ruling is upheld and Apple refuses to comply (unlikely IMO, but what if)? Could the DOJ target individual Apple engineers and ord
743.
by Merad 11y ago
Print times vary enormously for the same object depending on the settings the operator selects. I might be able to print you something in an hour at low detail, low strength settings, but the same object could easily take 30-50 hours if yo
744.
by Merad 11y ago
Start debugger, cause 'freeze' to happen, pause debugger, look at call stack. I touch JavaScript as little as possible, but that's what I would do in any decent language.
745.
by Merad 11y ago
I'm not sure what you expect the school to do in these situations. On a school trip, the school is legally responsible for the kids. Trying to keep up with everyone - who came on the bus but is leaving early with their parents, who cam
746.
by Merad 11y ago
My CS department had quite a few bee hobbyists. A friend of mine did a MS thesis on tracking bees with computer vision... it's quite a bit more challenging than you might initially suspect. One professor was working on a capacitive s
747.
by Merad 11y ago
Not Amazon. Essentially every company. Your typical first tier support rep is paid perhaps $9-10 an hour, utterly hates their job, and has access to scary amounts of account information. It doesn't help that call center turnover rat
748.
by Merad 11y ago
We already have the NICS system, which performs an "instant" background check with a phone call that typically takes a couple of minutes. The problem is that it's not open to use by the public, and attempts to change that ha
749.
by Merad 11y ago
IME, Visual Studio crashes are almost always due to misbehaving plugins. I'm in it all day every day, and once or twice a week it will develop some quirk that requires a restart to fix, but I can't remember the last time it actua
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by Merad 11y ago
A long term World War Z or The Walking Dead scenario just can't happen without the sci-fi "undead" component. A "rage virus" producing effects like in World War Z would probably devastate society, but within a week

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