bollix

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by bollix 12y ago
Probably the second one, but they all look basically the same to me. Perhaps programmers should get better at reading code. The last one is least readable IMHO. It's like a regexp. It's the most ambiguous and has the most potentia
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by bollix 12y ago
assembly -> binary is an encoding not a syntax. That's like asking an author if he writes using the alphabet or ascii. Programming language debates are like asking Charles Dickens why he wrote in English rather than Russian. Would h
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by bollix 12y ago
Renaming 'function' to 'fn'? So much of this is down to fashion. Are programmers really bound by their typing speed? No. The only real thing that matters with a language is "can I run this on hardware X", and &
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by bollix 12y ago
There doesn't seem to be as much desire to get profitable any more. Why bother with that when you can just get acquihired by bigco.
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by bollix 12y ago
That's true, and I'd forgotten the point about salmonella. I'm sure a lot of it does have to do with conditions though. If you have to wash the eggs anyway, you can keep them in factory conditions, and wash off all the shit.
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by bollix 12y ago
See also: UK: It's illegal to sell washed eggs US: It's illegal to sell unwashed Eggs Spoiler: In the UK, we keep eggs outside the fridge, and with the natural protection on the eggs (Removed when washed), they tend to k
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by bollix 12y ago
You seem under the delusion that investment / acquisition etc happen based on merit. More often than not, it's just about who knows who, back room dealings and favours.
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by bollix 12y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's true. If you want community, don't live in a city. Live in a small town or village where everyone knows everyone else.
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by bollix 12y ago
I lived in London for a year. It was the most lonely isolated place I've lived. Also it's not really part of the UK anymore. It's a "world" city - which makes the feeling of loneliness even worse.
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by bollix 12y ago
Yeah agreed. Once a new fashion comes out, people feel the need to rewrite everything in that language/framework etc. Imagine how much more productive we could be if we stopped reimplementing the wheel every time a new fashion comes ar
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by bollix 12y ago
hardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.