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by buff-a 15y ago
I promise you that if you don't pay an equivalent amount of attention to data availability on these intel chips you wont see teraflop speed. If there's one thing that GPGPU did it was force idiots to have to thing about presenting data to t
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by buff-a 15y ago
FTA:It's not clear why people with high childhood IQs are more likely to use illegal drugs. "We suspect they may be more open to new experiences and are more sensation seeking," says White. The articles shy away from the elephant in the ro
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by buff-a 15y ago
I think the cons run the reputation system. Its just gambling anyway. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be any risk. So how can you tell the difference between a "genuine" reputation system, and one that has been gamed by con-men? I don't think
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by buff-a 15y ago
Perhaps Adobe's announcement that they are abandoning Flash in favor of HTML5 for mobile will be seen as the turning point when mobile web application development begins to be a serious contender to native. Adobe AIR works right now.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Your point is nothing but spinning a figure of speech out of context and exaggerating it ad absurdum WELCOME TO THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT
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by buff-a 15y ago
"one man's vulgarity is another's lyric" SCOTUS Justice John Marshall Harlan II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California
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by buff-a 15y ago
I'm British too. Went to Queens' college too, like Mr Fry. Don't have a problem with it and can't think of any of my friends or peers that would. Yes, there's a whole ream of uptight wankers who make it their business to be proper. There ar
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by buff-a 15y ago
If edw519 had said "swear words adds nothing" and left it that then he'd have made my fucking point for me. It was the part where he said that it made him cringe that I was responding to. Clue: that's the bit I quoted. Did me quoting that p
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by buff-a 15y ago
Of course edw519 doesn't actually cringe. If we were to observe edw519 while he read Zach's post, we wouldn't actually see him cringe. So edw519 is a liar. But of course I don't call him out for being a liar, because exaggeration is somethi
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by buff-a 15y ago
Are you equating edw519's response to the stress involved of lying to the FBI on a lie detector test? I agree, that would be a very dangerous and absurd level of stress in response to hearing the word "fuck". My point is that, unlike lying
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by buff-a 15y ago
=) If I were to say "Every time I hear the f-word I stab myself in the leg with a pocket-knife while screaming the lord's prayer at the top of my lungs", I think we'd all agree that I have a fucking problem. But as long as I'm just "cringin
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by buff-a 15y ago
"If an alien was looking down on us and inspecting our language, they would see that the worst thing we do on this planet is we torture, we kill, we abuse, we harm people… we’re cruel. And those are the things for which we should be ashamed
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by buff-a 15y ago
That's why I cringe with every f-word You have a physical reaction when you hear a sound? Have you considered therapy? Or meditation? You have an unnecessary, irrational response that is affecting your appreciation of the world. If this
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by buff-a 15y ago
This person believes that you should follow his rules. This person believes that even if you clearly don't follow his rules, he will evaluate your content based on how much your behavior would indicate that you value you them if you did fol
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by buff-a 15y ago
Swearing says more about your abilities as a speaker then it does your content... that's the problem. Oh, god, can we please stop repeating this fucking shite. If you don't care enough to flex the language at your disposal, why should I
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by buff-a 15y ago
If I have your hashes, I probably have your salts too. (Unless you use a single salt, in which case, I can easily get your salt if I've already got a username/password for your site.)
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by buff-a 15y ago
Its funny, because the only code I write that is 100% TDD is the stuff that has to be done right . "Heavy Engineering" without agile, iterative development is actually just "Heavy Wishful Thinking", or "Heavy Waterfall".
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by buff-a 15y ago
Either you have separation of data and presentation or you don't. HTML didn't. HTML5 still doesn't. It is not possible to present an arbitrary block of data in a normalized, optimal form, and have CSS render it any way you want. For that yo
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by buff-a 15y ago
Still free for programmers: http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss/msg/0793d15920fa...
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by buff-a 15y ago
It works on my machine!
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by buff-a 15y ago
It doesn't have any new abstractions except for those two really useful ones. Oh, ok, but it other than those it doesn't have any new ones. =)
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by buff-a 15y ago
It's all code plus data. I can implement any java, C#, Xtend feature in C or assembly language, but by your argument that makes C# no more expressive then C. If this is your argument, then it would appear that your argument is that the enti
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by buff-a 15y ago
And C++ classes merely compile to C methods with mangled names that also take a pointer to a C struct, the first member of which is a pointer to an array of such functions, and whose remaining members are the fields. If you (or GP) are goin
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by buff-a 15y ago
The referenced paper is way over my head, so I'll just say where I'm having difficulty and perhaps you can help me out. Java doesn't have closures. Xtend does. Closures seem to me to satisfy the paper's definition of providing greater expre
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by buff-a 15y ago
local syntax transformations This is the key concept, and I disagree with you that this is all Xtend is. Its why I think you are wrong. Specifically, the Xtend transformation is adding information to the java code it generates that it mus
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by buff-a 15y ago
the "rockstar" either looks like a god, for having foreseen some problems, or he'll be the guy who brought a tank to a knife fight. Fights over. The guy with the knife killed you while you were putting the treads on. Meanwhile, the guy wi
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by buff-a 15y ago
The fact that Xtend can be easily translated to Java source code is a big sign that it probably won't have any dramatic impact on your productivity I do not believe that there is any evidence for this statement. Translating ARM assembly l
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by buff-a 15y ago
Its not that you differ on how to reach your audience. Its that you felt you had to call someone out on their personal blog post for using the word "shit". And while not everything in your life has to do with your employer, certainly your p
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by buff-a 15y ago
If you're writing people off as "too far outside your value system to be worth bothering with" because they happen to find swearing offensive, you're missing out on knowing a lot of really awesome people No, not so far. Its pretty much a
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by buff-a 15y ago
Personally, I don't use "fuck" on my company website, but I use it merrily on facebook and my personal blog. Looks like Zach used "shit" (OMG) on his personal blog, and Scott gets his knickers in a twist. Can't help but notice that Scott wo

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