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by chc 8y ago
Bittorrent in particular has the issue that you're not just downloading content (which has some pretty reasonable moral justifications and even a weird sort of pseudo-legality in some places), you're also sharing it far and wide (
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by chc 8y ago
He explicitly said in the iPhone launch that the intended way to create apps for the iPhone was to make a website: > The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and be
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by chc 8y ago
According to GitHub's 2018 stats, the two fastest-growing programming languages last year were Kotlin and TypeScript. GitHub explicitly pointed out that "type safety" appears to be one of the biggest factors influencing langu
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by chc 8y ago
The problem with boilerplate is not the typing of it (that can be automated), but the reading of it (that can't really be automated until programmers are replaced with AI). It hides semantically useful code in mountains of noise. I agr
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by chc 8y ago
As somebody who was a Rubyist for about a decade but has worked at a Django shop for several years now, I definitely see how they're similar, but I don't think Django is clearly the better of the two. Django is simultaneously less
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by chc 8y ago
The "decentralized" nature of Git that GitHub interferes with is within an individual project. Instead of all the developers having their own copies of the repo and sharing things around between each other (i.e. the project is d
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by chc 8y ago
Do you actually doubt it? Do you think that, like, the Amazon page for a teapot is likely to contain many lies?
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by chc 8y ago
Half cream is less than single cream. AFAIK single cream has half the milkfat of whipping cream, while half-and-half/half cream has about 1/3.
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by chc 8y ago
WordPress also has multiple contributors — it's just mostly under the control of Automattic, just like React is Facebook, TypeScript is Microsoft, and Go is Google.
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by chc 8y ago
The OP specifically calls out ways that nulls cause problems in dynamic languages. In fact, they're very similar to the problems nulls cause in statically typed languages, just ignoring some of them because danger is already priced in
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by chc 8y ago
I suspect an enormous number of those are WordPress blogs and MediaWiki sites, and I don't feel like that number is very useful without breaking those out. It's a bit like saying Fortran is popular in data science because SciPy is
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by chc 8y ago
Every fork is a fork. They're just not all long-lived or significant, which seems to be the distinction you're drawing here.
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by chc 8y ago
If faces are that important to your design process, you can use video chat. There is nothing that can be communicated in the same room but not over video chat. I don't know what the problem you're encountering is — whether you&#x2
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by chc 8y ago
You want them to present a solution to a problem without implying that the problem exists? That seems like an unrealistic thing to ask for.
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by chc 8y ago
I love chocolate sorbet, but I don't want chocolate sorbet on my pants. I feel the same way about empty jokes in discussion threads. If you are contributing to the conversation, your joke will probably get upvoted for the insight it br
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by chc 8y ago
I haven't done game dev beyond hobbyist level, but 12.5% of your total budget for a frame seems pretty significant. Is that kind of percentage hit generally considered negligible?
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by chc 8y ago
But in this case, this isn't just about "what the reader wants" versus "what the author intended." It's about "what the words actually say." The poem tells us that in the moment, the narrator sees tha
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by chc 8y ago
Interesting. I would have taken this for a lazy slur, but that article does seem to be saying basically that democracy is something he wants to escape from. That's a fascinating angle here.
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by chc 8y ago
As outlined in the proposal, you wouldn't miss out on performance improvements since it would still be the same underlying compiler and the version just controls the syntax rules. (And even if that were the case, it's not a very b
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by chc 8y ago
An unmaintained package doesn't need new features from then-future versions of Go, so it's fine if you declare the current version as your max. It doesn't break in the new version, it just doesn't have access to features
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by chc 8y ago
I don't think the fact that Rust is introducing features at a brisk pace, and the fact that people start writing libraries around them before they're released, have anything to do with whether Rust's backward and forward comp
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by chc 8y ago
And yet those forests with access to natural selection are also destroyed by human agriculture.
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by chc 8y ago
I started using it a few months ago and I find it's good enough probably 90% of the time. It's often enough that it's not really a pain.
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by chc 8y ago
You seem to be thinking that nobody considered black holes as dark matter candidates, but that's not the case. The two big theories around the origin of dark matter are called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) and MACHOs (ma
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by chc 8y ago
That's true, but the article as a whole still felt weirdly credulous to me. The reminders that this is a complete flight of fancy work out to like one or two clauses in a 1400-word article that devotes a lot of room to detailing his th
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by chc 8y ago
I've seen a couple of articles about this guy recently and they both struck me as weirdly credulous given the apparently complete lack of evidence supporting his theory and the fact that approximately no other scientists seem to find i
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by chc 8y ago
Does the literature actually suggest that skipping leg day causes Alzheimer's?
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by chc 8y ago
It would be much easier for you to give an example of a major problem people have with Chrome that can't be fixed with a flags, rather than ask them to exhaustively list issues that can be fixed with flags. It's not a very reasona
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by chc 8y ago
I know this works, but whenever I hear this advice, I can't help thinking: Aren't indexes and vectors basically just a way of smuggling pointers past the borrow checker?
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by chc 8y ago
I think he somehow accidentally got spam-filtered. I vouched for him, so hopefully that's enough to stop the spam filtering.

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