ajanuary

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1. 811.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   I have no particular affection for semicolons. But I do rather like braces - Python is ugly without them.
2. 812.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   void doSomething(String a) { // Do something 1 } void doSomething(Integer a) { // Do something 2 } doSomething("1"); doSomething(1); That's the sort of thing they mean by types don't change
3. 813.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   I go back and forth on whether I like this. On the one hand, the clean split makes it conceptually simple what's going on. On the other hand, you can have allocated, uninitialized code, which makes me uneasy.
4. 814.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   And Dart is awesome by default because of Gilad Bracha :P
5. 815.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   I think they mean perl tried a reboot of perl, not of php.
6. 816.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   "Now, this is not because I lay down the Carrier first, my board generation algorithm assigns all of the boards at once, and just weeds out invalid ones, this is a real entropic effect."
7. 817.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   Which is an argument for mixing tabs and spaces. Which Python doesn't very well handle.
8. 818.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   I remember reading that FF now has something similar. It might be in the nightly or a plugin or something though. Unfortunately I can't find it now :( Sorry
9. 819.▲
   by ajanuary 15y ago

   The Bill Hill interview was amazing as always. The rest seemed to be a lot more filler than other episodes though.
10. 820.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    Actually I'm a little surprised there doesn't seem to be any keyboard shortcuts for invoking the preview.
11. 821.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    They did qualify that this isn't an example of the original intent of Hungarian Notation "The following tips will help you corrupt the original intent of Hungarian Notation" But it's not really that clear if you've not heard what proper Hun
12. 822.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    I don't see how it's any different to saying "Foobar.exe is not responding". It gives you some more info on what the cause of the problem is.
13. 823.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    There are many mathematical notations for the same things, usually depending on the domain or different focus. Just like with programming languages.
14. 824.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    If you go to http://ifttt.com/channels you can see them all. I agree it should be more accessible without having to log in though.
15. 825.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    I find it offensive that you on some level are equating curse words with "retarded" and "Jew".
16. 826.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    That's what they kept saying 25 years ago, yet look where we are...
17. 827.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    A lot of people seem biased against them from poor early examples. They've gotten a lot better.
18. 828.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    You'd possibly be better off using one of the plugins that adds vim style commands to visual studio.
19. 829.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    I'm sure I'm just missing something, but I'm struggling to come up with a reasonable case where you couldn't just have a and b be different types and provide an operator for typeof a - typeof b but not typeof b - typeof a (or vice-versa). O
20. 830.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    I remember hearing a story about how bits of the BCL were written in Britain and originally used "Colour", but they were made to change it to standardise upon american english across the BCL.
21. 831.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    Isn't that a little like saying touchpads will never take off because they're not good enough for precision movement? If you're doing "serious data entry" you'd get an external keyboard.
22. 832.▲
    by ajanuary 15y ago

    I've been involved in small-medium events run in the UK that used Google Checkout. I don't know the details involved though.