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by bcj 13y ago
I don't have the information to be able to judge how Eich's views will affect his ability to be a CEO, but it's worth remembering that the CEOs of the companies that Mozilla competes with have been actively involved in illega
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by bcj 13y ago
> Because we have a feature that you don't have to use to use the language or libraries, Rust is dead to you? This is especially frightening as they use C++ and therefore must be using EVERY C++ feature that exists.
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by bcj 13y ago
Regulating the sale and trade of goods is a thing that governments do, as is taxing the income and assets that an individual controls.
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by bcj 13y ago
Is there a location in the docs that lists and describes the built-in macros in Rust? They don't appear to be findable using the stdlib search, and the Macros tutorial doesn't seem to talk about built-ins. Also, this post forced m
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by bcj 13y ago
if foo == bar { baz(), lorem(), ipsum() } could be: if foo == bar: baz(), lorem(), ipsum() or: if foo == bar: {baz(), lorem(), ipsum()} Admittedly, this code doesn't have a functi
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Rape question baffles computer science students (cbc.ca)
16 points by bcj 13y ago|27 comments
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by bcj 13y ago
The same thing happened to me when I broke my iPhone a few months back. I ended up speaking to 3 or 4 different representatives explaining that I had removed the phone number from all my iDevices, but couldn't turn iMessages off from t
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by bcj 13y ago
I think that would significantly increase the odds that my company moves from MATLAB (as one of the big arguments against is the lack of a good IDE), so yes, I would be incredibly interested in Julia support.
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by bcj 13y ago
There are a lot of humans that live places where we regularly see negative temperatures. Where I live the temperature range is roughly -40–85ºF. Choosing the freezing point of water isn't really mystic. It lets you know whether it will
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by bcj 13y ago
I honestly didn't realize how much time I spend on here until yesterday. It was more than a little disconcerting. I spent a lot of my time reading up on Julia, and a little time working on a website.
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by bcj 13y ago
Coalition governments are possible in Canada , and have occurred before. In the case of the last election, the votes were split such that the Conservatives won a majority of seats. It seems though that it only may be possible at election
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by bcj 13y ago
Something to keep in mind is that Canada doesn't have a two party system. In the election that the conservatives gained a Majority, they only got ~40% of the vote. The majority of voters voted for 'not the Conservatives', but
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by bcj 13y ago
What I'd really like is to make power a dead key unless function is pressed.
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by bcj 13y ago
On the grand scale yes. For those of us in Manitoba (or presumably, the far north), there's not too much solace in that fact.
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by bcj 13y ago
I prefer it as well. Being able to do things like throw print(<SOMETHING I'M TRYING TO DEBUG>) or into a lambda has been useful on multiple occasions.
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by bcj 13y ago
Our company moved from CentOS to Gentoo and we were able to drop support for 2.6. We're now (mostly) 3-compatible and are rolling out our first 3.3-based production server. We've definitely been lucky, I wish the transition had be
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by bcj 13y ago
I'm feeling optimistic about Python 3. For personal and work projects I've been writing 3-compatible code, and am hoping to have a production system using it by the end of the month. I think everyone is expecting a really long tai
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by bcj 13y ago
I could never get used to not having an address bar. I'm jealous. The good news is that if you don't like the new look of firefox, you don't need to see it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/a
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by bcj 13y ago
I also use a very minimal setup ( http://imgur.com/NoCafoH ). On OSX, Australis will actually be thinner (once they fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938985 ) because the window buttons are now
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by bcj 13y ago
Interesting in theory, though it could get annoying fast (The first thing I do is always to turn off the bell). Changing tone based on depth could be pretty interesting, as could tones representing things like unused variables. Based on you
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by bcj 13y ago
"The best way I can describe it is to compare it to reading a book. When I read a book, I don't want parts of speech highlighted in different colours. What I want to do is to read the book, to take in the information." I foun
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by bcj 13y ago
I don't think its a privacy violation, and Canonical has been open about their actions, but I think it's a crummy setup. On my mac, both spotlight and alfred (the 3rd-party application launcher I use) are capable of searching both
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by bcj 13y ago
This is what Saskatchewan did when they got rid of DST.
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by bcj 13y ago
Nitpick: Chrome and Firefox both don't use Webkit.
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by bcj 13y ago
It's hard to fault someone for going to a base domain, especially when it's content is identical to the www domain.
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by bcj 13y ago
I think this would be prohibitively expensive (every player requiring their own 3D printer is a Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicle-level device requirement), and this is a terrible use of "a modest proposal", but I love the idea and
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by bcj 13y ago
I would hazard to guess that is related to two factors: women are the largest group that are underrepresented; and it is harder to explain women's underrepresentation as a result of socio-economic factors. No matter where you live, you
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by bcj 13y ago
Trailing commas reduce cognitive load. I don't need to consider whether an element I'm adding is the last item in a set; there isn't an edge case. Also, I can more quickly scan a DIFF and see the change in a file.
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by bcj 13y ago
I've been using a developer Peek as a primary phone for the last few weeks (running a 1.1 preview). I've had problems with the UI not responding to touches (never on the keyboard, so I'm pretty sure it's a software issue
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by bcj 13y ago
I took it as a reference to Six, a Python 2/3 compatibility library.

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