dangph

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by dangph 18y ago
I wouldn't follow their example. Netscape Communicator was a big pile of shit.
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by dangph 19y ago
I think that language is mostly used by people for forming bonds with other people. That's the purpose of most conversations. It is emotionally fulfilling. But autistic people typically respond emotionally more to things than to people. (Th
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by dangph 19y ago
"(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active." In the following passage Orwell is describing a particular type of bad writing. Notice however that every single sentence is passive. Notice especially the first sentence. It contai
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by dangph 19y ago
The system is the solution By Donald J. Boudreaux http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/colum...
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by dangph 19y ago
It has a little screen. Does she have good eyesight?
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by dangph 19y ago
Another parallel: Willful ignorance of evolutionary theory is to conservatives as willful ignorance of economics is to liberals. (Liberals in the American sense.) Pushing it a bit further, Keynesian economics corresponds to Intelligent Desi
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by dangph 19y ago
Do you dispute the figures?
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by dangph 19y ago
From the executive summary at the link I provided: "And despite all the stories about the erosion of U.S. manufacturing primacy, the United States remains the world's most prolific manufacturer--producing two and a half times more output th
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by dangph 19y ago
Huh? Manufacturing output in the US is at record high levels. http://freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-035es.html
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by dangph 19y ago
> they were slower than using a for loop. Since then I haven't used any sort of recursion in C or C++. That's premature optimization.
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by dangph 19y ago
I can see a "View other revisions" link at the bottom of the page. http://web.archive.org/web/20010517002121/http://www.wikiped...
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by dangph 19y ago
That all seemed terribly important , but I'm not sure what the message was.
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by dangph 19y ago
He really is a genius though.
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by dangph 19y ago
> I agree with your other comments. Oh, that didn't make sense. I meant to say, "I agree with the rest of your comment".
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by dangph 19y ago
> It's meant to be funny and it was funny Really? I don't believe that you said that with much conviction. I agree with your other comments. I thought the comic sucked. I rarely find Dilbertian cynicism to be funny.
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by dangph 19y ago
> The article mentions the strategy pattern which, ironically, often requires inheritance to implement. Not really. It only requires interface inheritance for statically-typed languages, which is not really inheritance, and no inheritan