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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I'm guessing it is not compatible with calling conventions in C, but one could goto a function name.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I like this answer because it says it will require someone with specific knowledge and specific training doing a specific job anyway ... Also "anyway" a specification is always incomplete. It's part of the programmers'
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Operators of social medias are judge, jury and executioners by full right. But corporations are not democratic entities. They are subject to the democratic (or not) laws of the countries where they operate, but they also are subject to unwr
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Do you like her grandma better ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I am no economist, so I am probably wrong there: USA or China have a better GDP than France or Germany, yet the European countries have better healthcare, education systems and life expectancy. Different priorities?
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I think this is quite telling that the economic aspects almost immediately pops up. I believe that over the decades we have shifted more and more from "people first" to "economy first", to the point that sometimes it fee
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I don't think this is a good analogy. FT is like changing the reference frame. Similarly, the movement of planets are more easily described in an heliocentric model than in an Earth-centric model. You can write the transform between th
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
This, and the economic model of the web. You can't insert ads in APIs.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yep. We say "too polite to be honest" but "too friendly to be honest" works for me too.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
The original study was indeed subpar, but follow-up research research confirms the intuition that you are not the same when you know someone (something?) is watching you, as the "See Also" section demonstrates.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
When you know you are being watched, your behavior changes, for better or worse [1] [2]. But it's true it is a bit different for BigCo. Not only they watch, they also have an active role by modifying what you see - e.g. the ads and new
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I seems to me that GitHub's "social coding" is slowly turning things inside-out and upside-down. At the beginning, you have a problem and you try to solve it yourself. If you succeed in doing so, great! Job done. The project
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Long story short, tests don't prove there's no bug, they can only show there is a bug.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
A Redditer notes that a similar word is common in Spanish. For speakers of Latin-derived languages (French, Spanish, and of course Italian), English vocabulary quizzes are generally a bit more easy because English took its literary words fr
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Actually at least in France the cathedrals became taller and taller exactly for that reason.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Changing the default UI is a non-problem: new users will like it, old-timers will have an easy time reverting it, or maybe their custom config will undo it right away, depending how it is implemented. Source: I am actually a Vim user, which
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I think that it is pretty much the kind of wishful thinking they have. But then steganography. In this cat-and-mouse game, you do end up banning math [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_number
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
However Git allows to salvage the history of SVN during the migration, probably because SVN was one of the most popular CVS before itself. One would expect that if something dethrones Git, it would (have to) do the same. That said, that met
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Commit message bodies -> git-blame.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Unfortunately you kind of reinforced my point of view, because "double locked box high up on an electric pole" is not what I was talking about. This kind of approximation in the threat model is part of the problem, IMHO.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Logic programming immediately comes to mind. I've always had trouble to see the difference between imperative programming and procedural programming, and in a way OOP is procedural with lipstick (I'll wait that it is fashionable t
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
It seems to me that this point is addressed by the author: Our threat is really from folks doing large-scale automated sweeps for low-hanging fruit > The attitude described here makes sense for embedded, non-networked systems. It’s cer
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I am not sure that OOP "isn't helping". I am not exactly an OOP fanboy, but we have to admit that, both inside and outside the industry (I'm thinking open source and hobby projects), OOP has contributed something. The in
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Actually, the same short-term memory and muscle memory that allow you to have an "output buffer" when typing works with hand writing. You can finish writing a word, maybe even a sentence, while thinking about something else. If yo
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> All french citizen had a free minitel device (like a mini computer) Nitpicking: AFAIR, the Minitel was not "free" but rented - just like most ISPs in France today rent an ADSL modem-router. Also, the Minitel was not really a
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Forgive me if I sound harsh, English is not my language, but it is an uninformed point of view. 3 AI hints are unlikely to improve your experience of the game, because you probably would have FUBARed your position before. Position is precis
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Failing because of a too short timeout feels silly, but a stupidly large timeout leads to frustration and hazardous user actions like killing the app with the task manager. You don't need a timeout, you need a "cancel" button
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
https://www.twitch.tv/irdc_usa This is quite old and focused on rogue-likes, but it might meet your request. Somehow.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Technically not correct, since both the Romans and the Greeks did that [1]. Agoge is one of the too roots of the word pedagogy . [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barbarian
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> the users imagination doesn't always produce the expected output That's not a bug, it's a feature that literature uses quite a lot. > You're never going to have a text based racing game Actually thinking and typi

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