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by Retra 8y ago
>giving a special meaning to existing legal identifiers in certain contexts risks breaking existing code That's just what scoped variables are. I've never seen it be a hazard other than shadowing names, and you'll have the
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by Retra 8y ago
Often that fallacy is argued on the basis of artificially reduced complexity. "Some first order actions can be justified by higher order danger" is often transliterated as "this first order action is justified by higher order
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by Retra 8y ago
A regularly repeated meme is not "a great deal of literature." To say naming things is hard is like saying that getting a golf ball into a hole is hard; It is not. Sure it is if you're using some artificial restriction that y
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by Retra 8y ago
Naming things is not hard. It's probably the easiest part of programming. @1, @2 are names, and they're no better than fst, snd.
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by Retra 8y ago
You should probably just retain those rights then and encourage people to contact you for permission to use it commercially under a more specific license. No harm in mentioning that you'll probably allow people to use your work if they
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by Retra 8y ago
It gets worse every year. Like every 8 mos they add an extra thing you have to touch/click past to actually see the map. But maybe that's just the mobile app...
427.
by Retra 8y ago
I am not 'trolling', because I am not looking for an emotional reaction. I am using sarcasm or parody in an attempt to bring attention to the absurdity of taking something as subjective as personal taste and pretending it is objec
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by Retra 8y ago
Why would anybody eat a chicken nugget when they can get a slice of that grade A free-range whole wheat grass fed organic chicken breast which provides only objectively superior flavor for every human palette? Better not put bbq sauce on it
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by Retra 8y ago
If you're paying everyone the same, you're implicitly saying you will not produce anything as valueless as pinwheel trinkets (at least not via a dedicated employee.) If your company needs pinwheel trinkets that badly, then it&#x27
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by Retra 8y ago
Does the power structure actually need to be reflected in the pay scale though?
431.
by Retra 8y ago
They are paying less in taxes. US tax rates have been dropping for almost 70 years.
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by Retra 8y ago
Likewise for The Terminator and AIs. People almost treat these movies like they're historical documentaries, just so they can toss out cheap relatable memes.
433.
by Retra 8y ago
If you can't find the solution, and you can't work in a slightly unfamiliar situation which is undoubtedly supposed to be your core competency, then I don't see why that's a job you should get. If you're bad at taki
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by Retra 8y ago
Rulez of texn: Say prolly, cuz it kina save much time lol. Ifn you needa be more clear, mebes add xtra letter to and fro.
435.
by Retra 8y ago
"As a french person" would be the typical genderless replacement, not restructuring the sentence entirely.
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by Retra 8y ago
For one thing, highly popular languages tend to have communities which are flooded by people who can't use those languages, can't describe the problems they are solving, or can't understand basic programming concepts. Like, i
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by Retra 8y ago
Well, gee. You got me. I guess all those rich people would just move to Somalia and pay no taxes, but they can't do it because they have no power. Poor them. Having to pay taxes to participate in a society that secures their massive ac
438.
by Retra 8y ago
Just because something is aspirational does not mean it is an exercise in blind faith. Plenty of aspirational things have happened in the past.
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by Retra 8y ago
"How much tax you avoid" isn't a reliable measure of political power. Firstly, if paying taxes can work in their benefit, then there's no reason they shouldn't pay them. Secondly, "I pay your wages" is a p
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by Retra 8y ago
May as well cut out all those vegetables & grains that are fertilized with animal byproducts as well.
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by Retra 8y ago
Wealth inequality is the main cause of power inequality, and is thus a major reason why something like UBI won't happen just because it benefits poor people. You can't make the world better if you are powerless, and you are powerl
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by Retra 8y ago
From what I can tell, the GNU time command has a -f "%F" flag that will provide it. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/time.1.html
443.
by Retra 8y ago
The glass isn't the thing that wears out, the PV cells are. And if you're keeping light from reaching those, then you're really defeating the purpose of the whole thing.
444.
by Retra 8y ago
You can get five with (1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 - 1/3). Note that I'm not really talking about charges directly so they don't need to be equal, but rather I'm using these numbers as a proxy for charges.
445.
by Retra 8y ago
To be fair, it is the animal kingdom. And being something as lethal as a lion probably has its advantages there.
446.
by Retra 8y ago
I've had plenty of good ideas that I haven't bothered to implement because I have no need for the solution. That doesn't mean if someone else implements the idea that I'll have hindsight bias about its value. It means it
447.
by Retra 8y ago
Basically, take the numbers 1/3, -1/3, and count how many terms you need to produce something that sums to a whole number. You can get four with (1/3 + 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3), so it's not an impossible configura
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by Retra 8y ago
No, I do not believe in the divine right of kings.
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by Retra 8y ago
"Don't encourage" doesn't mean ban.
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by Retra 8y ago
By 'people', it is pretty clear they meant employees, not the company.

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