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by adekok 10y ago
> Maybe someone can educate me. I've studied them for a while, but I don't get the fascination with lock- or wait-free queues. Let's say you're running a multi-threaded program. The threads (at some point) need to ta
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by adekok 10y ago
> 2. So far, no one has produced evidence that the CEO knew about this or allowed it to happen. http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference-... "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons st
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by adekok 10y ago
What do the libertarians say about this theft? While I understand the idea of the free market, I don't see how that would have protected the consumer in this case. The CEO has millions of times the power of the average consumer, and
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by adekok 10y ago
Or, flip the argument around. Most cops in the US are fighting against the use of body cams. Why? They don't want to be recorded. Most courts don't allow recording equipment in them. Why? They don't want to be recorded. M
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by adekok 10y ago
> Your idea that men and Jews are equivalently oppressed Which is not, in fact, what I said. Or what I believe. But why let facts interfere with a good flamewar? > you seem to believe it is invalid to point out that these situations
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by adekok 10y ago
> an internet campaign that has no signs of manifesting in the real world in any significant way Then you're not paying attention. See my other links. > You can believe that both are bad, while also saying that one of the two is
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by adekok 10y ago
I don't want to go down the path of who was oppressed, or how, or why. I will say that advocating for genocide is wrong. This shouldn't be rocket science. Advocating for the death or oppression of any group "just 'cause
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by adekok 10y ago
There are many people who seriously advocate for this: Links: http://www.dailywire.com/news/8386/feminist-journalist-all-m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto http://ww
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by adekok 10y ago
> You're being intellectually disingenuous to believe that #killallmen is a legitimate threat of violence towards men Many (not all) of the people who say this really do believe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by adekok 10y ago
Try telling that to a cop. "I honestly thought that the speed limit was 55. I didn't see any signs saying it was 35." The cop's answer? "Too bad. Ignorance of the law is no excuse".
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by adekok 10y ago
Here's a simple test. Take someone's rhetoric, like "killallmen". And replace the target with "Jews". If the updated statement feels racist and evil, then the original is also racist and evil. There's a
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by adekok 10y ago
For all the people downvoting, it's true: https://twitter.com/hashtag/killallmen About half of the tweets are serious "killallmen" comments. The other half are people complaining about it. And, complain
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by adekok 10y ago
OS vendors have similar issues with other open source projects. They tend to ship versions which are years out of date. I understand the desire to have stable releases. But... if you're not shipping the most recent stable version
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by adekok 10y ago
This is a religious war. :( For me, having a screen full of (mostly) blank lines containing { and } is terrible. It means that the information density of the screen is low, to the point of being useless.
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by adekok 10y ago
I think you saw "Kirk", and stopped. i.e. you missed the entire point of my comment. I wasn't claiming that Kirk was a good example of math. I used it as an example of how changing the requirements can lead to a different s
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by adekok 10y ago
The best counter-example I saw was to take a page from James T. Kirk: You change the rules of the game. The word "fair" here is typically used to in the context of there being an unambiguous "winner". i.e. someone that
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by adekok 10y ago
> I'd love to play devils advocate here and claim that ... court oversight of a spy agency is ludicrous. We could add rubber-stamp oversight: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/what-you-need-know-ab
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by adekok 10y ago
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. ... for me. Not for them, apparently. If the people enforcing the law aren't required to know or follow it, why am I required to?
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by adekok 10y ago
> I would react to stories like this with skepticism, whether told by the interviewee or interviewer, especially when accompanied with a pretentious attitude ("Get out"), Do you know how to read? Apparently not. I said expli
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by adekok 10y ago
> the purpose of "char * p;" might simply be to indicate the type of p, but not necessarily to indicate that it is uninitialized. It's C code. Your interpretation is not the one used by the compiler. The point was to ca
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by adekok 10y ago
It's testing to see if people understand C. No, it's not omitted for the sake of brevity. The point is that if you can't find bugs in trivial code, you shouldn't call yourself a C programmer.
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by adekok 10y ago
> The reasoning is: the code as written makes no sense; therefore it's incomplete. Obviously, then, it's not intended to be read literally, and is just an abbreviated portion of the real code. The first line just declares p as
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by adekok 10y ago
> I'm a senior dev with 10+ years of experience. I don't do interviews that require a coding portion. It's a little insulting to me. I've interviewed multiple people with such experience who knew next to nothing about
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by adekok 10y ago
I can't find it now, but I recall an article which simulated interstellar transit times for asteroids. The conclusion was that something like the dinosaur killer asteroid could throw rocks into orbit. After 100M years, some of those
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by adekok 10y ago
5) you start your own company for the open source project you started, and then start hiring people.
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by adekok 10y ago
Ever try upgrading the CPU on an iPhone? It's like that. These projects started out 10-15 years ago. So upgrading them mid-stream is almost impossible. They're stuck with the hardware available when they chose that part. Re-des
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by adekok 10y ago
Apple bought Siri, and then largely did nothing with it. The founders left, and started another AI startup: Viv. https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/siri-creator-shows-off-fir... That AI capability could hav
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by adekok 10y ago
Does anyone think that the law will be applied here? i.e. does breaking the law result in legal punishment? I no longer believe that "ignorance of the law is no excuse." If the judges, policemen, government agents, etc. aren&#x27
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by adekok 10y ago
> .. do we really want them issuing secret orders with no public oversight at all? do they want to issue secret orders with no public oversight at all? Yes. Yes, they do.
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by adekok 10y ago
I used to live in France, and would sometimes commute from the south to Paris for the day. Sure, there are large stretches where it is straight and smooth. But when it's bumpy, it's really bumpy. In a way that a slow train jus

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