Pacabel

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by Pacabel 12y ago
If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was. If somebody is disrespectful enough to engage in behavior as pathetic as that, then I want n
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That's a pretty broad and idealistic claim to be making. "Correctness" itself isn't an absolute. While something either does or does not conform to whatever has been defined as "correct", it's perfectly fi
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Putting your nonsense accusations and political correctness hypersensitivity aside, can you please provide us with a better single-word term that precisely describes something (such as an argument or a justification) that's so narrowly
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Why not?
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by Pacabel 12y ago
This site needs some kind of meta-moderation system, or some other way to moderate the moderation. What you describe seems to be happening more and more often these days, and I think it's harmful. Comments will receive many upvotes, an
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by Pacabel 12y ago
If some of the accesses were by people or systems within Mozilla, can you please address why a month went by before the problem was noticed? If there was enough need to justify putting forth the effort required to export a sanitized version
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's easy to dismiss a one-in-a-million, or even a one-in-a-trillion event, as being unimportant when it happens to somebody else, especially when that person isn't directly known. But one's thinking can change very, very qui
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by Pacabel 12y ago
When read without putting political correctness above all else, the comment from bowlofpetunias is quite civilized. I think it brings up some very good points about how non-technical people and technical people can interpret situations invo
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by Pacabel 12y ago
When I read that earlier comment, I don't see "semi-autistic semantics" being used as an insult. I think it's actually quite relevant given the context, and appropriate given the argument that was being made. Defining ch
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Who exactly are these "known contributors", and why did they have access to this data? Why did they not report the problem earlier? And if it was downloaded "mostly" by "known contributors", who was involved wi
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's a shame to see that your comment got voted down. That said, it is a good example of why the "downvote if you disagree" policy that has been encouraged here is a rather idiotic idea. Your comment is clearly not commercial
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't think it was an attempt to be rude. "Hipster" is a term commonly used to describe those who advocate so-called "Web 2.0" technologies like Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML5, NoSQL, and so on. These people ope
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Sorry, that's total nonsense. Far more of the Internet depends on C, C++, or some mix of the two. Software written in them runs the networking gear, the servers, and the clients that are critical to the Internet's existence. And k
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's too bad to see that your comment was voted down. It's a legitimate question, deserving of an answer. It isn't the late 1990s any longer. Perl and PHP aren't the only viable options available for web development. We
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Don't assume that just because an account is new that the person behind the account hasn't been reading the site for years.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The presence of some quirks isn't the issue. Of course every programming language has some. PHP and JavaScript, however, have unjustifiable quirks with some of their most basic functionality. We're talking about stuff as basic as
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Even if we disagree about the other matters being discussed earlier, I do have to agree with you about the misvoting you've been subjected to. There is no legitimate reason for your comments to have been voted down. I'm seeing thi
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Can you name some names?
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Don't worry about downvotes here. They aren't indicative of the quality or value of a comment any longer. The whole "downvote if you disagree" concept just encourages the disconnect even more. These days, it's best
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Please actually read my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8090097 Here, let me quote it for you: "With optimizations disabled, I tend to see a 30% to 40% reduction in compilation time when using LLV
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by Pacabel 12y ago
You're obviously implying that the GCC developers know of the Linux kernel mailing list archives, they could potentially read the emails, the content of the emails could potentially hurt their feelings, this could potentially be consid
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Well, the GCC developers that I know or have otherwise worked with at one time or another are mature men in their 30s or 40s, if not older at this point. Being adults and professionals, they accept that they may just accidentally make mista
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I don't think those results really support the point that you're trying to make. The top result, which is the most significant, is pretty much irrelevant, for example. It's limited to Haskell-related packages. Most Debian use
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I'm talking about development time. I can use LLVM/Clang and develop significantly faster than I ever could using GCC. I'm not seeing there waiting as long for the C++ compiler to do its work. If I need better optimization of
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I never said that GCC hasn't been widely used, nor did I suggest that it isn't widely used today, or anything like that. Of course it has had a big impact. I just see its impact as diminishing these days. An award like this would
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I've found LLVM/Clang's better performance when compiling C++ code, while still offering all of the functionality I need, to be a very significant win over GCC. With optimizations disabled, I tend to see a 30% to 40% reductio
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The timing is odd, but not because of that particular bug. I think the past several years have been a rather low point for GCC. It hasn't been as bad as the 1996-1999 period of stagnation and strife, mind you, but it hasn't been p
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The most striking thing is the number of downvoted gray comments. Probably 10% of them are like that, at the moment! It kind of gets distracting when so many are like that. With that many being grayed out, I know a lot of them aren't o
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by Pacabel 12y ago
As I've worked with more and more younger developers ("Millennials" or "hipsters" or whatever you want to call them), I've noticed that many of them consider criticism of somebody's work to be a criticism
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It really isn't that big of a deal, even though it does come off as immature. A professional would handle it like this: 1) He or she wouldn't choose to use such phrasing himself or herself, but also won't shy away from being

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