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by chc 7y ago
How do you figure this is a business logic bug? It looks like a pretty clear-cut implementation bug to me. Rust would 100% have caught this bug, and in fact I'm pretty sure it would have caught the bug at least two different ways: 1. T
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by chc 7y ago
I don't get that pet peeve. There are aspects of converting Python 2 to Python 3 that can be hard, but print statements are really not one of them as far as I've seen. Converting print statements to print function calls can be do
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by chc 7y ago
How do either of those subreddits invade the user's privacy in the way Huffman was talking about?
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by chc 7y ago
I don't think many people knew about Oddpost, whatever it was, so it seems a bit suspect to say it influenced a lot of developers' perceptions of JavaScript.
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by chc 7y ago
> Discord is a private company. I know it has been pointed out repeatedly, but there is no slippery slope here because discord is not obligated to host any content it deems bad for its business. This isn't inhuman, nobody is entitl
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by chc 7y ago
No, that's a bogus argument. People always try to justify misbehavior by saying that acting appropriately would create precedent, and applying that precedent to a totally different situation would lead bad results. This argument is bog
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by chc 7y ago
How does this disagree with my point, which was that creating FOSS can get you in trouble with the law (particularly given all the random jurisdictions your contributors might be in), and thus "You should not use services that can rat
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by chc 7y ago
What light does that sentence put things in? It's not been 30 years since the US tried to prosecute the author of PGP for the crime of FOSS development.
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by chc 7y ago
Then Discord were not being reasonable, since (according to the story that the rest of these details are from) the channel had the blessing of the game's developer.
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by chc 7y ago
For another example, Terraform's acme_certificate resource lists 60 DNS services it works with for the DNS challenge.
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by chc 7y ago
The title kind of makes it sound like "As far as we can tell, the virus has no genes," but the actual discovery here is that the virus doesn't share any genes with any other viruses that we know of. Which is still weird, but
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by chc 7y ago
Anything you do with a closure, you can do with an object that holds the closed-over state and a function that performs the same operation on that state. For a real-world example of this in action, partial application is traditionally assoc
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by chc 7y ago
There is an argument to be made against features that are more likely to cause harm than good (i.e. "footguns"), but I don't think this example of using it poorly sheds any light on whether that's the case here. You coul
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by chc 7y ago
I actually agree that there are many parts of Rust's ecosystem that are relatively immature — I just don't see how the Actix situation reflects on that. It's not like Actix was a core part of the Rust ecosystem. It was a fram
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by chc 7y ago
Why would you want to bring up the Actix author's drama? That doesn't seem like something that should reflect on a language one way or the other.
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by chc 7y ago
The passage you quoted doesn't call for anything closely resembling YouTube's current system. All it says is that YouTube (where YouTube is standing in for any provider) has to be open to banning repeat infringers, and can't
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by chc 7y ago
No, there was no such requirement in the DMCA. Remember, we're talking about legislation that was written in the late '90s — the idea of Content ID would have been completely alien to them. YouTube has actually implemented a compl
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by chc 7y ago
They intentionally created the system that allows this sort of abuse to happen? If you don't hold Google responsible for giving a few megacorps carte blanche to remove any content on YouTube that they don't like, who would you hol
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by chc 7y ago
I used to think this way. If I just ignored toxicity and suppressed my reaction, everything would be fine. But the dose makes the poison. Over time, it wears you down. I spent years letting things roll off my back, and all it got me was a b
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by chc 7y ago
Legally speaking, yes. AFAIK the only one of those terms that carries any legal requirements is "free-range," which is defined only for poultry, and the requirement there is literally just "has had access to the outside,&quot
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by chc 7y ago
"Ethically sourced meat" is essentially a marketing gimmick. It generally doesn't denote conditions that are meaningfully different from "normal" meat.
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by chc 7y ago
To my understanding, what Facebook tried to present to online producers was that publishing native video directly on Facebook was insanely lucrative, not just that they should have a Facebook page.
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by chc 7y ago
Personally, I use type aliases in cases where I need to describe very dynamic types that make intuitive sense but are too wordy to pattern-match visually. So you might decompose that example like: FileSourceType = Union[basestring, fi
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by chc 7y ago
People are downvoting this, but it's just a matter of fact. Jack Dorsey has repeatedly said that the "newsworthiness" of Trump's tweets outweighs the ordinary standards of propriety that get applied to other people'
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by chc 7y ago
I don't think something that is the subject of an ongoing multi-billion-dollar lawsuit can rightly be called "obscure licensing minutia." It is high-profile and its actual effects have proven pretty significant.
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by chc 7y ago
I don't think there's any world where Swift is popular outside Apple's ecosystem. It's not anything wrong with the language that's the problem, it's that the primary reason you'd use Swift over similar lan
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by chc 7y ago
And by all accounts I've heard, Tesla customer service for the Model 3 is legitimately poor. The car needs much less routine maintenance, but if anything goes wrong, it seems to take anywhere from several weeks to months to get the car
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by chc 7y ago
"Catastrophic failure" is a common engineering term that essentially means "complete and irreversible failure."
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by chc 7y ago
By all the numbers I've seen, that's not really the case. For one example, according to the Congressional Research Service[1], inflation-adjusted wages for the bottom 10% of earners have been stagnant since the start of the 1980s,
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by chc 7y ago
I don't see how that's worse than breaking an entire media format, but it does sound weird.

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