cgrealy

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by cgrealy 6y ago
> Insofar as diversity of experience matter, coding less and on a narrower array of projects does make you inferior. That is not an absolute. Being a developer is not just about writing heaps of code. Maybe the developer who volunteers a
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Eh, there's nothing wrong with having programming be your only hobby, if that's what you enjoy. The problem is when there is an expectation that as a developer you're somehow inferior if you don't code in your free tim
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I don’t think it’s a crime to find a woman’s body sexually arousing. I just think we to chill the fuck out if we see a boob. It’s titillating... so what? Is that such a bad thing? A great example was when I watched a YouTube video on Roboco
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Yeah, it's not easy, but I'd like to start with something like: Just because something sounds right/wrong doesn't mean it is. There isn't always an easy answer. "I don't know" is preferable to "
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Well, I don't have kids, but it amuses me greatly to tell my friend's kids their parents don't know everything :)
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by cgrealy 6y ago
"patriotic education" sounds pretty close to "radical indoctrination" to me. How about we just teach kids to think for themselves? To learn to verify things they read and how to identify a good source.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The consequences frequently are an attempt to punish people and often justifiably so. If someone says something racist, homophobic or sexist, then yeah, maybe I want to punish them by not buying their product or not voting for them or wha
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Yes, because race is a protected class. Being a murderer... isn't.
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His "What if?" book reached the top of the NYT best seller list, so I'd say he has quite a large audience.
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There are so many things wrong with that article, but let's start with this one: > Yet in many other countries— perhaps still in most of them— mob justice, unethical businesses behavior without complaint, and complete disregard for
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by cgrealy 6y ago
What I want from a TV is a good screen. That's it. It's a big monitor optimised for video. The thing that really gets me is why companies bother putting speakers in high end TVs. The kind of person that is going to drop several th
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Theoretically? probably not. In reality? Absolutely. People have clearly decided, with their wallets and at the ballot box, that climate change is less important than the economy.
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Does it compile? Does it run? Yes, therefore it's valid C++. I'm not arguing it's good C++, but saying "C++'s destructor behaviour doesn't work if you don't use C++" in relation to using new and del
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That's not really fair. Thing* thing = new Thing(); thing->DoStuff(); delete thing; is perfectly valid C++ and has been since the invention of the language. It's not a good idea, but it is valid. If, OTOH, you do
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by cgrealy 6y ago
No one is claiming it's a good situation. But given the alternative was 000's of deaths, that is just the unfortunate reality. There's no good answer here, only a least bad alternative.
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Yeah, it's not. That was the whole point. We did an "early and hard" lockdown so that we could be done with it. Which we largely are. Yes, it sucks for the travel sector and it sucks for people who need to travel internationa
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by cgrealy 6y ago
No, that's a really important point. Right now, the plan is to keep the borders closed until a vaccine is ready. If that doesn't happen within a reasonable timeframe, then we definitely have to reassess our strategy. But in the me
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by cgrealy 6y ago
It seems entirely reasonable to disallow non-essential international travel during a global pandemic.
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I fail to see your point. We eliminated the virus in the country. There were no active cases of COVID, and we're on track to eliminate it again. If your house has rats and you call an exterminator, you don't say you still have rat
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That's an odd way of spelling "factually correct" https://theconversation.com/new-zealand-hits-zero-active-cor... NZ eliminated Covid in the country. There were no active cases at one point. The fact that ano
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by cgrealy 6y ago
and yet Ireland, (island nation, similiar population) is way worse off. I'd argue that it would work in any nation with an educated population where the leadership is listening to health experts and not undermining the containment effo
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I live in NZ, which has taken the opposite approach. We locked down early and hard, and there was a definite hit to the economy (although not as bad as some had feared). We eliminated Covid in the country. There was a tiny second wave which
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> And .NET 5 will seemingly be the first version to officially supersede the previously Windows-only “.Net Framework” with a modern, open-source, cross-platform version instead. You don't count .Net core?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Sorry, this is a terrible argument. No one expects customer support people to write code. Why? Because they don't have the skillset. Yet people who make this argument seem to think any moron can do support. The skillset for an engineer
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by cgrealy 6y ago
You are repeating yourself if you write class Thing; in every file that uses a Thing. And as I said, that's generally fine. The issue becomes when the declaration of Thing includes namespaces, template params, etc. Rewriting tha
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On thing about forward declarations: they violate DRY. Now, most of the time, the trade off of repeating class Thing; is more than offset by faster build times. But if class Thing; is actually namespace Bob { namespa
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> 500+ million years is a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. How so? It’s 1/8 of the lifespan of the planet and about 3.5% of the age of the universe . That is not “a blink of an eye”, that’s a pretty impressive innings by any defi
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Really? My gaming rig is over 7 years old now. While it was pretty decent for it's time, it's definitely due an upgrade. But I was still able to run D:E @ 1440p and get a respectable framerate with decent visual quality. Compared
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Your foot is approximately a foot long. My stride is approximately 1 metre. Both are valid ways of roughly gauging distance, but only one is a sane system of measurement. And by the way, all imperial units are now defined in metric, which m
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> Use exceptions for control flow. With different exceptions leading to entirely different flows. On C you can use setjmp/longjmp + globals for a similar effect. This will help the maintenance programmer develop thinking in multiple

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