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by baot 7y ago
Your 3rd sentence seems unrelated to the 2nd.
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by baot 7y ago
Ah, if only the professional electrical engineers had thought of batteries. Thank goodness there are software developers to tell them what to do.
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by baot 7y ago
That sounds like a lot of loophole-ridden bureaucracy to accommodate non-residents driving up the price of housing.
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by baot 7y ago
Not if there's induced demand. Areas without zoning laws have been tried, we usually tear them down.
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by baot 7y ago
This isn't actually an attack on their political stance though, it's just attacking their personal morals. In my opinion, if you say that a company unfairly avoids costs of regulations then it makes perfect sense to use them and t
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by baot 7y ago
Perhaps Airbnb saw how Uber went almost entirely unpunished in its pivot from ride-sharing to taxi company and thought they wanted some of that.
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by baot 7y ago
Because local housing naturally has a limited supply making it a natural monopoly in addition to the fact that, since it's very difficult to live without housing, it is a one-sided market without alternatives. So, as much as you'd
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by baot 7y ago
Well advertising is over 80% of their Q32019 revenue, what else do they want it for?
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by baot 7y ago
It's hard to believe that the data in my exercise tracker has real, fundamental worth when I see so much targeted advertising that fails to leverage the data they already have. I suppose it doesn't matter to Google if someone buys
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by baot 7y ago
Furthermore, if you're forced to use it, it's because you need it to interact with others' versions of the repo, in which case branching matters.
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by baot 7y ago
You've misinterpreted you finding git to be difficult as everyone finding it difficult, leading to an argument based on git being difficult that will never be compelling to those who didn't find learning git to be difficult. I&#x2
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by baot 7y ago
>In my experience, saving a little on runtime doesn't make up for having to crack open the manual even once. Please don't ask me to give up features so you don't have to read the documentation. It is the most basic step of
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by baot 7y ago
>Software development industry could gain a lot of productivity in the form of more sane de facto version control system, with saner defaults and better discoverability. So write it. I'm sorry to be so dismissive but it seems notabl
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by baot 7y ago
man git The problem is people are unwilling to read the documentation. I have little patience for them demanding I change my workflow to accommodate their sloth. Fortunately, I don't have to worry because the overlap of &#x27
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by baot 7y ago
You can't checkout if you have tracked changes. If you mean you lose untracked changes, then a) it's unsolvable in the general case unless we all start doing out-of-source builds, so don't have to worry about build artefacts
46.
by baot 7y ago
They can't afford a few thousand for training, so spend more thousands rewriting? The original Haskell devs had to learn, too.
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by baot 7y ago
Gaming as a hobby is no more rational than fashion.
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by baot 7y ago
No, but it illustrates what I was getting at: that's dozens of operating systems.
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by baot 7y ago
Because Linux isn't a UI.
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by baot 7y ago
I've written code exactly like that and realised that it just kicks the can down the road: you're still allocating memory from a fixed block, it's just now the malloc is written by you, with more bugs, and you still need to d
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by baot 7y ago
I type with two thumbs on a phone because I type with two hands on a keyboard. In fact, one hand is tied up on a computer - on a mouse - more often than I can't use one with my phone. It's an acceptable tradeoff.
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by baot 7y ago
Ironically, the last time I needed Windows to run a game was because of Denuvo. I wouldn't have needed it if I'd pirated it.
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by baot 7y ago
There is, it's strncpy_s and it was added in C11. And I know, nobody uses C11: that's a security failure.