aninhumer

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by aninhumer 13y ago
While there are certainly advantages to storing code in an AST format, I don't think any of these are significant enough to overcome the hugely important advantage of legacy support. Maybe in the long term it will make sense to replace text
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by aninhumer 13y ago
Especially when combined with an accurate numerical reference.
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by aninhumer 13y ago
I think in the situations you describe it's much more effective to have some kind of authority in place to discipline people for this kind of behaviour rather than relying on abuse. Especially since it's usually done by trolls for whom the
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by aninhumer 13y ago
If that's true I think it is pretty specific to you, and honestly I doubt that you would actually prefer it in practice. It's easy to say you can take the abuse when it's clearly framed as an alternative to a polite comment, not so easy whe
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by aninhumer 14y ago
You're assuming that the only alternative to copyright is to have no incentive structure at all. There are other models with their own advantages and disadvantages. This is one particular weakness of copyright that an alternative system mig
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by aninhumer 14y ago
> monadic I/O is one of the silliest contortions I've seen (uniqueness types in Mercury and Clean are much easier to work with) As far as I can see they're all basically the same thing. You enforce sequence by creating a chain of notion
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by aninhumer 14y ago
>A great show. I'm not sure how well it would have lasted with the traditional US "spin out a series for as long as possible" format. I think Joss Whedon has shown himself to be capable of maintaining quality in long running shows with
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by aninhumer 14y ago
What does Dropbox do in the case of a symlink circular reference?
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by aninhumer 14y ago
> having to delete the temporary files afterwards If you select "Open with..." instead of saving it, you don't have to. Honestly though I often find myself wishing I'd saved a copy later.
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by aninhumer 14y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing the article is complaining about. You could say "that long load time is going to be bad for productivity", it's a valid criticism and deserves a response by whoever is explaining the tool. But you don't, yo
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by aninhumer 14y ago
>having people turn the mirror on themselves, first and foremost, before judging others. Indeed. In any disagreement you have, there are two people at fault, but only of those faults is in your power to fix.
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by aninhumer 14y ago
>I assume that no law will ever make firearms magically inaccessible to criminals. Sure, it is not impossible to own a gun in the UK, but the laws do make it a lot more difficult. Because there's no legal supply, they're harder to get h
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by aninhumer 14y ago
I think far more likely, they thought "Saucer? How would that even fly? But wait, what if it was spinning really fast? Hmm... let me get my slide rule...".