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by dave2000 11y ago
"I reject that premise---it is not a win-win, because I don't believe they should be playing it" You're missing the point. Your opinion doesn't matter. They are playing it. Write a better game that's open sourc
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by dave2000 11y ago
Perhaps you should use a less ambiguous term than "clean". They're giving you a correct answer, so perhaps you should ask the correct question? "Is your code readable", perhaps? "Are you proud of your code?&qu
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by dave2000 11y ago
"One of the basic rules of thumb in typography is that, when writing a piece of text, you should choose one typeface and stick to it." How about an analogy from cooking, too? "It's easy to spot all the verbs, but why on
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by dave2000 11y ago
Well, no, substantially more people are complaining. Bands, because there's no money in it any more unless you are one of the top 10 bands. No, it wasn't always that way - many, many more bands were able to make money from music
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by dave2000 11y ago
Nobody takes blog posts seriously! They're literally 1 monkey and a keyboard. The pi is what it is, and it's extremely successful at that; literally the most popular uk based computer ever. What a single person thinks of it probab
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by dave2000 11y ago
Well also that the machine could study his style of play, whereas he was playing a stranger; one whose style changed during each game thanks to humans hand altering the logic. Not really fair. At least, different to how humans play chess.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yes, they do that to make it harder to read.
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by dave2000 11y ago
My complaint is that grey text is harder to read than black. People could have made text grey years ago if it were better; it doesn't require hardware or new protocols. It's just a trend. It'll die out, but until then - gi
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by dave2000 11y ago
> I really feel like this time, the public vaguely > understands and has more of a stake in it than before. Black people are literally shot dead, on camera, for no reason by the police and no-one gives a shit. People (mostly, but no
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by dave2000 11y ago
Sites these days love their whitespace, don't they, but now the content is fading. At this rate, in 7 years most websites will just be pointless while rectangles. Still, should save on the server costs as it'll cache well.
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by dave2000 11y ago
The FBI want a precedent of compelling unlocking. They know there's nothing on this phone.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Spoof user agent for whitelisted sites. Your move.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't care about my score. I could have guessed why though. People not reading things properly. I was taking point with the observation that the site said it was better. I pointed out that it didn't say that, just that the comp
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by dave2000 11y ago
It says very clearly a number of times that it's better in terms of compression ratio.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't see how comparing the value of a pointer, the area of memory to which it points having been previously freed, is undefined behaviour. Is there a source in the spec for this?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I have no idea;I've never used a container. Is it easier than downloading an ISO, selecting how much ram/disk/cpu to give it and installing it?
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by dave2000 11y ago
So how does anything in this article add to my knowledge of c? I've been getting along just fine with the definition of pointers as agreed and employed by compilers and developers for a long time. This article appears part wrong, part
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by dave2000 11y ago
I think you're right. I also take issue with the "pointers point at an object, one byte into it or are null" statement. A pointer is a piece of memory/register that contains an address, and an address is just a bit pat
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by dave2000 11y ago
Sure, in theory. Are there any current exploits for VirtualBox? The way I see it, they're more secure that running the same apps on bare metal. Ubuntu host running a Fedora VM; the latter (with Transmission etc) only running when I ne
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by dave2000 11y ago
> (unless the main site is secure but the downloads aren't > which is idiotic by 2016 standards anyway), the site > getting hacked, etc. It's not idiotic at all. You let anyone who wants to spread the load by providing
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by dave2000 11y ago
> Open source software is especially vulnerable to this kind > of stuff. Give it 2 or 3 years and stories will come trickling out about how most OS apps have had commits from hackers, governments etc. So far most source checking - t
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by dave2000 11y ago
All that stuff - bittorrent, soulseek, calibre etc - lives in a vm, with access to the host only via samba shares. I'll decide what you see and where you can write. Yes, it's great you download stuff. No, you can't write t
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by dave2000 11y ago
Some programming is higher skill than others. A lot of web development isn't that well paid because html hairdressing is easier than, say, working on c++ compilers, or realtime embedded physics/maths, or whatever. I think you hav
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by dave2000 11y ago
I don't see how clicking on click bait means you pay/nearly pay. You're only paying if money leaves your bank account. You're just wasting a little time (not much though; just click the back button) and feeling a littl
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by dave2000 11y ago
Micropayments have been the obvious - to me - solution for this problem since I got on the internet in 1997. Still never seen it employed anywhere. Yes, heard of flattr. Never seen a single site that uses it.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Bitcoin? Uh, no thanks. Just need a way of putting a little real money into some service, and then painlessly transferring a little of it into sites when they ask for it (and I want to pay it). "This page costs x" or "strea
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by dave2000 11y ago
NASA doesn't launch anything because there's a concern that it'll steal resources from exciting new ways of killing people.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Ah - libraries. Never used any outside of the standard ones supplied with the compiler, and I've never felt the urge to look at the source of those.
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by dave2000 11y ago
I too prefer to work in c++ (or c#). But I work in java too, such as when I'm working on android. I never fire up Android Studio and sigh about the lack of respect random internet twats would give me if only they knew what I was doin
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by dave2000 11y ago
Not to defend oracle, but if you use software legally - subject to open source or whatever licenses - then the question of whether or not you are a leech isn't relevant to anything. You'd not base any decision on it; it just doesn

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