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by SiVal 11y ago
noclobber is also an option setting in zsh, and I always have it set. The little extra confirmation it requires before clobbering is actually a nice confirmation that you are doing what you intended when you did intend it, and a nice resc
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by SiVal 11y ago
It's ridiculous of them to downvote you instead of providing an honest answer. This is a good question that I think a lot of Python fans might wonder about. One of the many great things about Python (and other "dynamic" langu
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by SiVal 11y ago
Python 3 and Swift have the issue of being totally tied to unicode, so if the politics and issues around Han Unification matter to you then those two are actually also not usable for you. Those issues do matter to me, yet Unicode-based
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by SiVal 11y ago
HTML is ISO 8859-1 by default, which privileges that legacy encoding within conformant browsers and web servers. That's the reason for all the "character entity" stuff. The same is not true of Java.
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by SiVal 11y ago
Yes, people have worried about this before, all the way back to the 1920s. This time, though, the skill sets of machines are getting much closer to those of humans. Instead of "this time" I prefer "over time", because
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by SiVal 11y ago
This sounds like a ridiculous idea. Java treats text as all modern systems should: as a sequence of the open-ended Universal Character Set (UCS). This proposal doesn't challenge that claim, nor could it. Java strings are sequences of U
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by SiVal 11y ago
I don't have a solution, just an observation. I think your mention of the word "overwhelming" is very important. If there is a solution, I think it will be found in non-destructive (not drugs, not sleeping all day, etc.) ch
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by SiVal 11y ago
Stack Overflow is the Soup Nazi of technical Q&A. It's where mods compete for who can be the first to find a way to prevent you from getting an answer. ("Repeat: someone asked a question about a similar topic a couple of yea
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by SiVal 11y ago
I agree with you here, that even for someone who loves programming, working as a hired coder to implement other people's plans can become very tedious if you don't care about the project personally, and few programming lovers woul
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by SiVal 11y ago
Some of us aren't just "saying" we love programming; we do. If I were a billionaire, I would no more pay someone to do my programming than pay them to take my vacations. I think your talk of "the trenches" is tellin
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by SiVal 12y ago
I've used MacBooks for years, but I still miss my Trackpoint. I cranked its speed and sensitivity up to max and trained myself to adapt to it. After that, I could do anything with just an imperceptible twitch with my fingers still on t
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by SiVal 12y ago
I can't give away too much here, but we had bought some companies and had to change our Web stack to show that we ate our own newly acquired dog food. That part was unavoidable. I just assumed we would make a gradual transition, replac
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by SiVal 12y ago
Right. I was neither being "frank" nor intentionally laughing at her plan. She was smiling, and I thought she was kidding. I was smiling, and she apparently thought I was approving. Suddenly, we both realized we were wrong. Oops.
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by SiVal 12y ago
It's funny you should say that. A few years ago, at a company whose name everyone here knows I, an old gray-hair, almost lost my full-time job for warning a VP that she was about to make a mistake I'd seen before. I honestly thoug
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by SiVal 12y ago
I certainly don't mind the idea of a universal connector that is capable of doing everything. Now give me four of them instead of just one, and we'll be all set.
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A greater incidence of high blood pressure, which salt is believed to exacerbate.
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by SiVal 12y ago
And we see its opposite. Take lots of large, complex companies that eventually came to an end an you'll see examples of everything. Some, like Lehman Bros. in 2008: Pow! Gone. Others, former giants like IBM and General Motors, for exam
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by SiVal 12y ago
I don't really understand what's going on in this client-side Web app space, and I'd love it if someone could clarify it. My probably mistaken impression is that Facebook did this with React, decided that even with this virtu
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by SiVal 12y ago
Well, sure, then Dawkins can dispose of it by rebutting the math. If he can't, then this "heckling" is an actual scientific contribution.
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by SiVal 12y ago
Pure motives? Do you imagine that all Dawkins cares about is to find the truth, regardless of what it turns out to be? The reason Dawkins is involved is because he can't stand EO Wilson casting doubt on the ideas for which Dawkins beca
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by SiVal 12y ago
The felons would be executed, while misdemeanors would often be punished by caning.
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That's because it was written by a Singaporean for Singaporeans in Singapore, and they all know well that she is referring to the national ban on selling chewing gum. It was said to be a way to keep the newly built subway system clean,
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by SiVal 12y ago
I like auto payments for regular payments such as a gym membership of $X/month and even for payments that vary somewhat but are from pretty reliable sources (monthly utilities--maybe) but NOT for credit cards. Credit cards are all sort
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by SiVal 12y ago
No, the statement isn't nonsense. If variables always had the same value and "never changed" in Haskell, they wouldn't be variables. They could be hard-coded literals. You're just mistaking a claim about variables t
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Well, except for the fact that it only impacts people who access Baidu from outside the Chinese firewall. People who access Baidu from inside China would not have their Baidu use interrupted.
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by SiVal 12y ago
Referring to the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics as a flat place in the Kansas category is a bit odd. If I assume you mean the valley floor then, yes, it's as flat as most cities, but Salt Lake City, like Provo, builds up the sides of
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by SiVal 12y ago
If you don't already "know the stupid date of some treaty" without looking it up with Google, you can't know its context with any depth, so you don't understand the issue well enough for your opinions about it to be
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by SiVal 12y ago
br is neither deprecated nor obsolete
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by SiVal 12y ago
Really? Then in what ways might the Mexican slaughter of Texans at the Alamo and US plans for retribution have helped shape the Monroe Doctrine's policy that the European countries should not interfere in the affairs of countries in th
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by SiVal 12y ago
You claim that native Bengali speakers on the UTC would have designed the character set your way, the real native speaker way, instead of the bad design produced by these "mostly white men". But the character set WAS designed by n

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