Thiez

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by Thiez 8y ago
Why?
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by Thiez 8y ago
Not a native speaker, but doesn't mediocre mean average? Surely most people are working for a mediocre salary or less?
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by Thiez 8y ago
Well, that is implementation defined, surely the only reasonable answer here is `sizeof(void * )` chars... where a `char` is probably 8 bits.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Please don't twist my words. I said "negative effects on technology venture investment", quoting the article. I do not oppose the GDPR.
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by Thiez 8y ago
I'm not really worried about the effects of Brexit on the GDPR, as someone else has said, it's likely that the UK will keep it, or something similar. But it's not yet clear what the other consequences of Brexit are going to b
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by Thiez 8y ago
I notice Brexit is mentioned only once in the paper, in a footnote mentioning that Great Britain is considered part of the EU for the purpose of their research. Another article currently on the HN frontpage discusses the effects of Brexit o
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by Thiez 8y ago
I wouldn't say it has brought zero benefits. Many websites now offer the possibility of rejecting tracking cookies, many companies have reconsidered and modified how they are treating user data, and we now have the right to request all
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by Thiez 8y ago
You are probably joking, but the GDPR (and also the 'right to be forgotten') is not and has never been about the actual memories of a natural person. You diary (if you have one) is also not included in its scope. You can remember
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by Thiez 8y ago
I wonder which part of the GDPR they are using to demand sources. I have read the thing a couple of months ago and as I recall the thing is mostly about not sharing personal information without consent, does anyone else recall parts that
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by Thiez 8y ago
But without optional parameters, what is the point of named parameters? Hopefully most functions have a limited number of parameters, with these parameters being in a somewhat logical order, and the names of the values passed to the functio
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by Thiez 8y ago
Since Rust doesn't have `null`, how do you imagine named parameters would work? Likewise, which traits would you expect an anonymous struct to implement?
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by Thiez 8y ago
Because Ireland has signed treaties that restrict its actions? If they don't like the rules they can leave the EU. Sadly for them leaving the EU would also make them less interesting as a tax haven. Choices choices. Also this is not ju
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by Thiez 8y ago
Number 1 is the official c# style though... your bodhisattva was clearly a former Java programmer. Also I can't think of a reason for not using `var` everywhere, but I suppose that was your point. Personally I try to follow the style o
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by Thiez 8y ago
That solution is not simple at all. Let's take the creation and selling of wooden chairs as an example. Let's say chopping down trees costs $100, turning wood into chairs costs $100, and selling chairs also costs $100. Let's
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by Thiez 8y ago
> How some dishonest people made bad decisions and instead of fixing them ran away. How do you propose they fix the problem? By shutting up and paying it all back, even if they have to work 7 days a week and sleep in a cardboard box for
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by Thiez 8y ago
> They get a college degree, but never learned critical thinking skills. Are you seriously suggesting that a degree in philosophy does not teach critical thinking skills? > These arent your best students, these are bottom barrel. Whil
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by Thiez 8y ago
> That's myth ( or we don't know for absolute certainty ). I think there's a rather big difference between myths and things we don't know with absolute certainty. If you're open to the possibility that something
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by Thiez 8y ago
Since we arrived on this null-character discussion by considering text manipulation in C, I suspect most comments in this thread are made in the assumption that the text must be manipulated in some way (mine are!), so treating it as a byte
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by Thiez 8y ago
The shape of the human penis is 'designed' to scoop out the sperm that competing males may have recently left, but I rarely hear arguments that monogamy is unnatural and 'going to cause problems of its own'. I don't
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by Thiez 8y ago
When you have record strings you get slicing for free though. Without the indirection of a pointer you have to copy data when you slice (or you must have a separate 'sliced string' type).
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by Thiez 8y ago
> but you can’t use the law to stop people reminding you of things you did. Why not? In public places people are generally free to go where they want, but stalking is still illegal (in most jurisdictions that I am aware of). Has outlawin
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by Thiez 8y ago
That is a fair point, I misunderstood the term to refer to any type of string where the length is stored explicitly. I'll try and refer to them by their correct name ('record strings') from now on :-)
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by Thiez 8y ago
While it sure is possible to do text manipulation in C, I don't think it should ever be the first choice, even if 'fastest' is a goal. A 0 byte is perfectly acceptable in a utf8 string (or any unicode string, really). But C h
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by Thiez 8y ago
If "bring up" means putting it online where everyone with a name and 20 seconds on google will find it, then there isn't really any point to removing something from official records. That said people wanting to be forgotten t
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by Thiez 8y ago
> Wouldn't that create a perverse incentive to get arrested for something if you want the thing to be forgotten? I doubt it - if you were never convicted, you can probably sue the ones retelling the story for defamation. > Or are
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by Thiez 8y ago
In the Netherlands it is customary (but not mandatory) for the media to include only the first letter of the last name for people who are not yet convicted. So when John Smith is in the news as the prime suspect of a murder, he will be refe
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by Thiez 8y ago
Presumably they would still be allowed to work for a company that does not compete with the one they worked at previously, so they would get those 50% on top of the salary of their new job.
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by Thiez 8y ago
It can make sense if they would like to know things such as how long the page load took. That is not something you can measure by only looking at the request logs, especially if the page uses a lot of javascript.
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by Thiez 8y ago
Life didn't start out breathing oxygen, oxygen was actually a waste product and the introduction of oxygen into the atmosphere was a disaster for a lot of the life existing at that time... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by Thiez 8y ago
In their defence, deciding you're going to require new tests for all new additions in a pretty effective way to get out of the 'there are no tests' situation. I recently heard something along the lines of "don't bot

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