Nitramp

49 ms·

421.
by Nitramp 16y ago
like, "cd $TEMP;"?
422.
by Nitramp 16y ago
> If the kids at a specific school don't seem to respond well to a text, PULL IT. That seems like a very weird understanding of education to me. The whole point of the exercise is getting children to read something they might otherwise
423.
by Nitramp 16y ago
He's only complaining about UX, but the bigger problem is that this doesn't actually make things much more secure. It is already really hard to teach casual computer users about security online. The one thing that used to work so far was "n
424.
by Nitramp 16y ago
I wonder why they don't just release their existing AWT/Swing adaptations? Either they are afraid of people using the Mac OS style on Windows, or that by open sourcing the style, they loose their copyright to it, or the code is such as mess
425.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Except that his conclusion is way off for the Marijuana part. There are lots of countries where Marijuana is legal and/or tolerated, so apparently the legal systems are a lot more flexible than the US, or Yegge's estimates for refactoring c
426.
by Nitramp 16y ago
The idea of fixing bugs before implementing new features is that the bugs in your program might interfere with new features. Or finally fixing that bug requires you to do some large scale refactoring, a completely different approach, who kn
427.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Note that there is no such thing as "the alphabetical ordering". Different languages define different collations, and some even multiple ones (e.g., German collation vs German phone book collation, or the various collation systems for Chine
428.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Not really, after $p = $z++ $p is 'z', $z is 'aa', as you'd kind-of expect. But the difference between literals and expressions/variable references of course just adds icing to the cake of bizareness.
429.
by Nitramp 16y ago
This seems a bit strange. If pilots were actually taking nearly all airline earnings, why are there airlines at all? Running an airline requires a substantial capital investment, and if the return on those investments is effectively zero (o
430.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Indeed seems strange to micro optimize all that stuff without first fixing the obvious quadratic runtime part. By the way, is there no mutable string object (à la Java's StringBuilder/Buffer) in Python?
431.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Well, you can look at the individual University's pages. Having courses in a PhD, or having something like a "PhD program" in general, is still very rare. The common model is to take a job as an assistant researcher with the chair of your P
432.
by Nitramp 16y ago
There is a difference between a glass of wine a day and getting drunk. What's interesting there is that a glass of wine a day (which might be healthy, though such claims get regularly debunked) is socially accepted. I think our societies ju
433.
by Nitramp 16y ago
I don't have proper sources, nor am I an expert on the subject. I just remember this being the result of a study I read about some years ago, and it fits my personal experience with several friends. Some Googling finds this: Pope HG, Gruber
434.
by Nitramp 16y ago
I agree, in particular with your second point. But the problem is: where do you draw the line? Is it only test anxiety, what about people struck by procrastination that don't manage to finish a thesis? Why is that not a valid medical condit
435.
by Nitramp 16y ago
While the cases you cite are probably different, not all countries require people to actually attend a University where they get their Doctorate. E.g. here in Germany, you are required to write a Doctor's thesis (that needs to be accepted b
436.
by Nitramp 16y ago
This seems fundamentally flawed: where do you draw the line between a psychological condition and personal ineptitude? "Exam anxiety" sounds a lot like "cannot focus in situations where results are expected". I would have thought that that'
437.
by Nitramp 16y ago
I'm not sure I would say Marijuana is a completely safe and harmless drug. The effects of the use are a lot less drastic than with other drugs, but regular and heavy users, in particular if they are young, are known get sluggish to the poin
438.
by Nitramp 16y ago
The trick is that through their mapping, they have an array of "attributes" for every element, with a specific offset for each attribute with a certain name. During construction, they build that array according to the names, so they do the
439.
by Nitramp 16y ago
They are missing the most important thing: AsmXml builds a specialized structure for a specific kind of XML. Regular parsers like Xerces-C build a generic, mutable DOM tree. That is obviously _way_ more work, with different lists for attrib
440.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Just the fact that XML is used opens this up to a lot of attacks. Programmers tend to use XML poorly. Depending on how they've configured the XML library, it may be possible to do something like run JavaScript within the context of the res
441.
by Nitramp 16y ago
The article is weak, there is no real reasoning to follow. This is at best a teaser at his book, for a real discussion we'd have to get and read that. But even beyond that, I heavily disagree with the whole discussion. If I haven't missed s
442.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Hardware support on Linux is a red herring. There are some few devices that don't work all that great, like some horrible sound chipsets and softmodems, plus the very latest in WiFi used to have problems (I think that's less of an issue now
443.
by Nitramp 16y ago
I think you will be, if they manage to get extension methods into this properly. Also, Google's Iterables could return a FilterableIterator or something like that, so you could at least chain after the first step.
444.
by Nitramp 16y ago
These press articles (and maybe even the underlying Economic studies) are just nonsense. E.g., Ireland used to be the magic model for all of Europe with huge GDP growth, now they are completely broke. Same for the Baltic states to a lesser
445.
by Nitramp 16y ago
If you want to reduce economic inequality instead of just improving the overall standard of living, it's not enough just to raise up the poor. What if one of your newly minted engineers gets ambitious and goes on to become another Bill Gat
446.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Correct, but he's at least a bit wrong in both directions. I was surprised to read people in Tupelo are three times wealthier than people in Hamburg; Tupelo might have a higher GDP, but certainly not three times. Maybe he was trying to be p
447.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Something that surprises me about MongoDB is that they always talk about how this is for humungous data sets. But then MongoDB does not seem to support online/hot backups without setting the whole system to read only. Incremental backups ar
448.
by Nitramp 16y ago
I think exceptions are an important language advance, but I can't dispute that they can cause a mess of problems when it comes to cross-language (or cross-thread) boundaries. Exceptions are not completely problem-free, but
449.
by Nitramp 16y ago
Be careful. "isolate" comes from Latin "insulare" (or insolare? I don't know). "isos" is Greek for equal, and "in" is a Latin prefix for not.