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by daemin 9y ago
Actually I would consider that a decent comment, since get_name() doesn't actually say what name it is getting. It could have been some other name in the system. This would depend on the context and the surrounding code though.
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by daemin 9y ago
Also true for New Zealand based on what I hear from my Kiwi co-worker.
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by daemin 9y ago
That's the same sort of thing that comes with computer games that have implemented the Risk model, ones such as the Total War series and the Paradox games like Europa Universalis. Effectively there has to be some other mechanic that ta
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by daemin 9y ago
I think you've got the links the wrong way around. But this is basic market segmentation, just based on the person buying and not on the product being sold. Hence why it seems more scummy.
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by daemin 9y ago
Cameras, licence plate readers, and Police.
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by daemin 9y ago
Closing all of the Nuclear power plants after Fukushima was a bit of a dumb reactionary move. It's shifted power generation from emission free Nuclear to dirty emission heavy coal, which emits more radioactive Uranium into the atmosphe
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by daemin 9y ago
I'd hypothesise that anyone skilled enough to be using a text browser is also skilled enough to be a "hacker" and will most likely have a computer filled with "hacking tools" and other "circumvention devices&qu
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by daemin 9y ago
But we already have that with things such as style sheets, where you can specify font styles which transform the text to all upper case, all lower case, small caps, etc. And as another comment pointed out there's even ligatures, which
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by daemin 9y ago
It would be fine if it just changed visually depending on the context, without actually changing the underlying character data.
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by daemin 9y ago
It's easier to switch to another text editor than it is a search engine.
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by daemin 9y ago
But that would also make Equifax's product not that appealing to the companies that would purchase it. So organisations would have to use one of the other agencies as well.
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by daemin 9y ago
Basically like Politicians, have to be seen doing something, even if it's completely useless or gets reversed soon after. Otherwise why have so many Administrators, or need to hire more Administrators if there is not enough to do?
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by daemin 9y ago
Could it be that the executives will get in more trouble for selling the shares - i.e. insider trading - than for managing the company with such a massive data breach?
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by daemin 9y ago
Of course that depends how much more you have to write in one language compared to another. Say you're 10x more productive but have to write 5x code, that sort of cuts down the advantage somewhat.
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by daemin 9y ago
Yes, but they'll most likely have a Police escort when they come and take your children away. If you want to escalate it further then for sure you will not be getting your children back under your care any time soon.
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by daemin 9y ago
A more sinister way of looking at this is that the government wants to raise children to be more dependent on an authority figure. So that when they grow up to become adults they will more naturally defer to authority and the state will hav
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by daemin 9y ago
Whenever I read about Sun going down, I'm always reminded by the Joel Spolsky article https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
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by daemin 9y ago
It ends up as an extra payment every 5 years or so. Given that most paid services are invoiced by calendar month, this is somewhat unusual.
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by daemin 9y ago
Yeah, direct debit is the only way I can think of this to happen where it is not a bank error (like in a previous reply). While certainly a convenience, I am still a little bit wary of allowing any company to automatically take money out of
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by daemin 9y ago
How can someone else other than the account holder transfer money out of that account? Based on my experience anyone can transfer money in to an account, but only the account holder or an authorised user can transfer it out.
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by daemin 9y ago
Santander is a Spanish banking group. Although yes, the big banks are never a single corporation or entity stretching across the globe. In each country they operate they set up a separate business, so technically you were dealing with the S
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by daemin 9y ago
Banks already do that for business accounts. Actually depending on the type of account it could be much, much more than that. For reference I used to pay close to $10 / 30 days to have a business account open in Australia. Note that I
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by daemin 9y ago
It could be the tax office, since getting money from Patreon (and also Kickstarter) counts as taxable income.
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by daemin 9y ago
So this is just about some Wordpress thing, not about Project Gutenberg - the free ebook project.
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by daemin 9y ago
Watch "Halfcoordinated" speedrun NieR: Automata at the summer GamesDoneQuick event that just happened. Because the game allowed remapping of inputs (even on the controller) it meant that he could play the console game using only o
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by daemin 9y ago
Installing big c++ libraries also takes a long time sometimes, for example when decompressing Boost onto your drive. Lots of little files that need to be written.
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by daemin 9y ago
The best example of how uncomplicated things should be is the design of an ordinary kettle. I remember an article here on HN where a guy disassembled a kettle to find out how they make it so cheaply. It was some simple bi-metal wire that wo
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by daemin 9y ago
What I'm saying is that if the video card you were using had 16 lanes available and got X performance. Then you took away half the lanes available to graphics card, so now you have 8 lanes available, but performance has only decreased
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by daemin 9y ago
It used to take many hours to install if you were installing it from a CD, DVD, or spinny HDD onto a spinny HDD. The last time I had to install it, I did it from and to an SSD, and including patches and extensions it took about half an hour
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by daemin 9y ago
I guess this is where future generations can get magic from. Someone figures out some small part of the protocol and they basically become a mage by sheer virtue of their limited understanding. I mean how many times has someone called you a

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