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by bmm6o 15y ago
This makes CPL seem like a pretty odd choice of language for such a widely-read magazine article. He couldn't have expected his readers to be familiar with it, especially since the language was still changing at the time. Did he think it w
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by bmm6o 15y ago
We get it, you guys have seen Office Space. It doesn't contribute positively to the discussion.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
If it encrypts the photos and messages then everyone I want to share them with also has to have this plugin installed?
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Those are covered in the anti-pattern book.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
> Let’s compare Apple’s cash hoard against countries’ cash hoards rather than their GDP. Agreed. The comparison doesn't make sense as the numbers don't have the same units. $ vs $/year.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
> The problem is, "what is page 2"? Sure, most solutions to this problem will involve compromises and won't be perfect, but just about anything would be an improvement over the current situation.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
I think "More often than not" vastly overstates it. It's much more common in baseball, with its extensive farm system, or football with the large number of position coaches, but even there it's the exception rather than the rule.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
What's the use case? Isn't this something the compiler can determine statically?
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by bmm6o 15y ago
ASP.Net also requires POST for web service calls, so this sort of include doesn't work.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Exactly. TFA: "Attacks that may have previously resulted only in local elevation of privilege may now result in remote compromise."
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by bmm6o 15y ago
What exactly is the problem? Too many throw away accounts?
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by bmm6o 15y ago
The problem with that approach is that the asker needs to post follow ups and respond in thread. I don't know how Quora handles it, but it sounds like more work than PG would like to put into any feature with such little benefit.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
> The story is definitely false because Knuth is a very polite and modest person who has never been the sort of person that says "you're full of shit" to anyone. Absolutely. It's just a special case of the (likely) fact that Knuth neve
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by bmm6o 15y ago
I discovered when I got home that the graph was blocked by my office's web filter. Definitely makes more sense with it there. Thanks for your understanding!
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by bmm6o 15y ago
As reemrevnivek explains, the answer to "25% of what?" is the issue here. An exponential decay can be described with the same words.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
"Links appear to die at a steady rate (they don't have a half life), and you can expect to lose about a quarter of them every seven years." Is this self-contradictory, or is just poor wording of his findings?
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by bmm6o 15y ago
If you have something to add to the conversation, could you please just say it?
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Very little, I think. Jupiter-mass planets weigh nothing compared to stars, and this only says they only outnumber stars 2:1.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
That's exactly what it is. It's the difference between estimating mass based on visible light and estimating mass based on gravitational effects. If both those estimates are accurate, it implies the existence of a lot of non-luminescent m
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Yes, but I think you'd agree that replacing the sentence in the story - a bit of dialog spoken to a 10 year old - with your paragraph would not be an improvement.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Ah, ok. I didn't see that you were the OP. Makes sense now.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
What does this mean? There's no useful discussion in that thread.
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by bmm6o 15y ago
Sure. Another alternative is to pull the try/catch/finally into a separate function that just returns the value. But that's not always convenient, YMMV, etc. Either way, I'd consider it just an occasional annoyance (occasional because fr
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by bmm6o 15y ago
> [...] then you have to declare the variable to store that value outside of the try {} block That's kind of the point. The variable will only be assigned a value if mightFail returns normally. The scoping rules make it impossible to
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by bmm6o 16y ago
The "x-figure" notation is essentially logarithmic with an offset: "6-figures" = 10^5. Therefore, "mid-six-figures" should be roughly 10^5.5 or $316227.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Please. It's a bug, not a feature.
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Your response in no way answers the question "If you owned MySpace what would you do with it?"
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Different people have different views of the purpose of karma, so having it not be visible will affect their voting in different ways. What you propose is one possible outcome, but another is that people stop upvoting at all. What's the p
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by bmm6o 16y ago
Your description and the one at Ars makes it sounds very cut-and-dried. What that makes me wonder is that the lawyers at Righthaven must have been aware of this flaw in their arrangement from the beginning, and they were just banking on th
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by bmm6o 16y ago
I agree. I've never felt this way, but it's obvious some people do. I made this comment[0] about a rendering issue a while back and was surprised when it got 3 upvotes. [0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852048

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