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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Aggregated communal waste and corruption makes DoD grifters look like amateurs.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
You invented Ada.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
My favorite piece of TCL/Tk code is the official gitk git UI that comes with git and works on Linux and Windows; it's the single file here: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/gitk-git/g
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
The old C way was returning an error indicator and providing the error code in the global variable errno(), which has ... issues.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
The trick is cheap food and tons of glutamate.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Relotius produced exactly the right facts; they just weren't true.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> I cannot find any compelling use case for the system "Fact checking" is probably the magic word du jour for getting grants and funding.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> we're still trying to pass off as a reasonable way of making the world a better place. Outside of the SV bubble, this is seen as the creepy grandstanding that it is.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Wait until they hear about neodymium processing for wind turbines.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> as a kid they were kinda torture I'm sure I was just as big a pest as my own kids on road trips, but I don't have any bad memories of them. Quite the opposite, actually.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
How about making Android Studio not sound like a VTOL vehicle when compiling projects that compile in 5 seconds in Gradle outside of AS?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I'd crash so hard ...
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
It's probably because Go programmers come from Java, where tooling is similarly great or better.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
ISSUE-345: ADS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE SEARCH RESULTS Fixed by making search results look like ads.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> He got the job. I hope he's now writing CRUD apps in J2EE.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
One take would be that nowadays, you're more likely to survive stuff that nature did not prepare you to survive.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Hey, it's not easy REST-ing in German: {"AnfrageArt":"Personenerkennungsschlüsselanforderungsanfrage", "ParameterListe":["HerstellerSpezifischePersonenkraftfahrzeugidentifikationsnummer":"1
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> But the companies are slowly seeing that its a problem and start building up their own dev teams with "hip" offices in Berlin and so on. Yeah, they look exactly like this: https://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com&#
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Due to the fact that Clojure has its own classloader hierarchy, quite a few libraries that require AOP like mechanisms (or even OSGi components) cannot be as easily used from Clojure.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> What about OpenGL? You cannot create a window or handle input with OpenGL.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
The madness needs to stop. I find it especially grating to have the security circus on one side and the endless stream of new side channels on the other.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Lets say you pass a double variable from some part of your code through 13 layers of APIs until it is actually looked at and acted upon. Now you realise that you not only need a double, but also a boolean. In dynamic typing, you can ma
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Most of the effort of spinning up a new language is in the backend (optimization and error checking), where lisp doesn't offer a compelling advantage SBCL literally allows writing compiler intrinsics (and I'm talking about na
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
One of the best work experiences has been working with embedded HW engineers whose skill set slightly overlapped mine (and vice versa). You learn from each other via constructive, lively discussion. No dogma involved. Reduce the slight over
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> For example, with the python SimpleHTTPServer I can simply request http://localhost/../../.ssh/id_rsa I think my localhost is different from your localhost.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
That's really great and simple. I intend to steal it, but then I'm too lazy to do anything ...
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> It was bad. > Real bad. Apparently it was not so bad that we needed a multitude of JS to JS compilation stages and instead could just, you know, execute the same JS in the browser that we actually wrote. Also, MS invented DHTML and
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Notepad++ doesn't support them (but there is a plugin for that) Do you by any chance have a link? When I looked for the same thing, I just found one GitHub issue referring to Scintilla internals.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
What about the person responsible for firing people calling herself "Head of Belonging"?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Did Boeing actively prevent Lion from buying training sessions? Or did Lion think "safety is not so important to us that we're paying the training out of our own pocket?"

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