bubblesocks

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by bubblesocks 10y ago
The nice thing about the new format is that you can reverse the order of the variables inside the string, which is nice when you're localizing strings into languages with a reversed sentence structures, like Japanese. I haven't d
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
Isn't ingesting user input directly considered a bad idea all around though?
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
That is a logical fallacy, coldfire. You cannot conclude that because the ozone layer was a legitimate issue that anything else is. All things must stand on their own merit. In addition, the legitimacy of of climate change wasn't his
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
I think people mistakenly felt that he was kicking their religion in the balls or something. It doesn't make any sense to me either.
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. Really? I do: https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970... > Again, I just don't recall ever hearing this.
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
You wrote, "Every single point you list either is outright false or is twisted beyond recognition from the reality of the situation," but that is simply not true. The reasons innocentoldguy listed are EXACTLY the reasons that ske
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
Why would his opinion matter? Doesn't what he has already said stand on its own merit? In my experience, the reason people usually want to know someone's personal opinion is simply to further their own fallacious, ad hominem argu
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
He clearly said, "There are claims that federal funding is biasing climate research; that the federal government isn't just funding research, but are buying science that promotes specific agendas." Being a college-trained wri
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
Best in the industry? I wouldn't go that far. Considering how slow JetBrains tends to be with fixing bugs (I logged a few against PyCharm in 2011 that still haven't been fixed, which is why I don't use it anymore), how unst
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
I've had a few companies ask me for my Github account, so they can see what code I've written. I never give it out, because I think the request is pointless to start with. A friend of mine, who works for a well-known technology g
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
Good for Uber. The public transit system where I live is a joke, and I'd love to see them undermined into non-existence. When I can pay an Uber driver $12 to get me somewhere in 15 minutes, or pay $8 for the transit authority to get
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by bubblesocks 10y ago
Your point #3 is the very definition of ageism. It assumes that since I grew up before the Internet, before cell phones, before CDs even, that I cannot understand any of this newfangled mobile and social nonsense. It also assumes that I h