Roboprog

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901.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I got to ride the company plane once at my previous job, and that's pretty much exactly what the scene was, other than having to show my work badge since the clerk of course didn't know a minion like me. That plane (a turboprop) &
902.
by Roboprog 10y ago
You're lucky you didn't get voted down -5, with the Type Police out and about. I like ES5 (would be ES6, but for IE support...) Javascript, but it is a bit light on the immutability aspect, given the environment and problem set it
903.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that if C was the first language presented to me back in college, I would have found a new major. C was more convenient than doing assembler, but not much more, compared to say Pascal. (Having learned BASIC, FORTRAN 77
904.
by Roboprog 10y ago
You know we've gone off the rails a bit when the authorities feel they have to automate 24x7 surveillance to watch for things that the neighbors otherwise don't give one rat shit about. (nobody is complaining about anything, but
905.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Exactly, they might take them all down, but more likely would ignore them when they are everywhere, since they would then signify nothing, and be costly to have removed.
906.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Sorry you got voted down. I thought it was funny, even if it is (or isn't?) complete fiction.
907.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Hmm. I wonder how dispensaries are different than any other retail / pharmacy operation? Can they treat the product like cold/allergy pills that have to be watched, or does there have to be legal information specific to each &quo
908.
by Roboprog 10y ago
So, they'll be plugging in the TVs^H^H^H Monitors for some of the more out of it customers??? (with apologies to Cheech & Chong) Green Screen of Somnolence???
909.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Right :-) I forget to add the "sarcasm" tag.
910.
by Roboprog 10y ago
So, down-voters, the War On Drugs DIDN'T get a name and kick into high gear in the 80s??? Or perhaps the WOD was a liberal plot, only pushed through past poor old Reagan due to his fear of his veto being overturned if he dared vote aga
911.
by Roboprog 10y ago
They had lots-o-help, but they are the poster children. Er, very old "children", I suppose.
912.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Nixon wouldn't even cut it as a Democrat today. Too liberal. "Start what? Environmental Protection Agency? Are you kidding..."
913.
by Roboprog 10y ago
No, you're right. Just complaining about right wing thuggery in general :-)
914.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Having been doing Java on and off since 1996, I would protest that java.io.* is a freaking zoo that I still don't have memorized. For all C's faults, I still miss the simplicity of "FILE (star)", created by either "
915.
by Roboprog 10y ago
If you are concerned about fuel consumption you are probably not sufficiently wealthy. You probably even drive a Corolla or a Civic instead of a nice Hummer :-)
916.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm guessing that the people wanting this are going to charter smaller planes, where you walk into a small airport, the clerk at the desk says "Good morning, Mr Warbucks", and you walk out the back 2 minutes later onto your c
917.
by Roboprog 10y ago
You could get into Sacramento's airport in 45 minutes in the 90s, although that would be cutting it close. And even today, you can walk out with carry-on only in about 10 minutes, with the expensive parking close to the bridgeway into
918.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I remember using (sharing!) an XT (8088? 8086???) at work in 1985. One good thing about the 386 in 1986 was that it made the price of 286 (AT/clone) systems come down. I almost never saw an XT after 1986. We started seeing quite a f
919.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I remember when I learned that command.com kept the current .bat file open when running it, rather than reading it into memory (like most other interpreters that I used or learned at school). We had a client on a Novell network with a menu
920.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Even if the *nix machine was no bigger than a PC (e.g. - Xenix on '286; BSD on a PDP-11), it could still swap out processes, vs sharing a single real memory space. But as you said, this allowed (at least the illusion, on some machines)
921.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the speaker was trying to point out a few examples which he thought the audience would sympathize were unlikely to be threats or otherwise engaged in criminal activity. Of course all of these forfeitures stink of illega
922.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Welcome to the post-Reagan era, kids. This stuff really took off during the 80s war on drugs. (which is about as successful as the war on alcohol was - for gangsters dealing) If only Thatcherism / Reaganism never happened... (and La
923.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Back at CSU in the 80s, the Lisp exposure we had was so so. We learned about pure functions and a tiny bit about higher order functions, but that's about it. Nothing much about closures explicitly. It's funny that one of the o
924.
by Roboprog 10y ago
It seems to me that yes, you need an "escape hatch" in an FP language to make your updates. It would be nice if the language required such functions, and the modules in which they reside, to be flagged. (I don't know if Hask
925.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Interesting points. As a matter of style, I still prefer using currying over "one trick pony" (single method/function) classes, though. Sometimes this means I have several "layers" of references to the original fun
926.
by Roboprog 10y ago
If only all of the things that needed doing for the common good were actually being done now, either by robots, or by a small number of people with machine assistance, this discussion might make more sense. Once the roads are fixed, and the
927.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I mostly agree. A few people would stick around to get the check and BI, but a lot of people would just say "Take this job and shove it!"
928.
by Roboprog 10y ago
As long as I'm being cranky, let's talk about Scala/Java build tools, as well. Curse the fool who invented "Ant", rather than figuring out how to parse a Makefile and provide a few rules or pre-set-variables to supp
929.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks. God, I HATE operator overloading. I didn't even realize Scala had it, until a few months ago when somebody was doing a demo that involved some SBT. It was quite frightening. (Did we learn NOTHING from the C++ debacle???)
930.
by Roboprog 10y ago
It makes sense to me. It's not insulting, it's merely stating that you should consider your situation.

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