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by deadowl 10y ago
Placing blame in a business setting is overvalued. Let's all worry about blaming someone for a problem instead of fixing it. It's so much more productive.
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by deadowl 10y ago
Sounds like it could just as well be a case of a bunch of people overvalued perceived business sensibility and ignored technical sensibility, which is incredibly common.
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by deadowl 11y ago
I'm particularly infamous among my peers for asking questions, and most of the time I'm not asking on my own behalf. Asking a question because you don't understand is what you can do for yourself. Asking a question because yo
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by deadowl 11y ago
I don't understand why they're calling him the last link to the Battle of Little Big Horn. He was born in 1913, well after the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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by deadowl 11y ago
I'm not saying their system of government is Muslim. I'm saying that 98% of their population is Muslim.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Well, Trump was my first thought seeing the headline. He wants to ban Muslims from the US. Turkey is a Muslim country.
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by deadowl 11y ago
I often end up writing an immutable wrapper for date/time in different programming languages.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Unless they're representing date/time or strings, then immutability is an excellent feature.
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by deadowl 11y ago
It's a fun problem to think about, but I'm just going to use the date library because it's really easy to screw up.
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by deadowl 11y ago
/\p{Lt}/.test(str) would be much more compact, but Unicode properties still aren't available in Javascript regular expressions. It doesn't look like they will be anytime soon. I guess they have some staging system and it
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by deadowl 11y ago
You have final-forms in Hebrew, although probably not at the same level of support for checking as you'd get with a script like Arabic.
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by deadowl 11y ago
typeof string == "string" && string.length && string[0] == string[0].toUpperCase() && string[0].toUpperCase() != string[0].toLowerCase();
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by deadowl 11y ago
The three cases you state aren't nearly as hairy as determining whether something is a positive integer. Someone might do something like ~~n to truncate a float. That works fine until you go above 32 bits. Math.trunc should be used ins
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by deadowl 11y ago
Another question is whether you'd want to include negative zero as a positive integer.
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by deadowl 11y ago
x >>> 0 changes a negative integer to an unsigned (positive) 32-bit integer. You can have integers greater than 32 bits. They're represented internally as floats. Bitwise operators make 32-bit assumptions, with the top bit as
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by deadowl 11y ago
I like to use non-breaking spaces for that kind of thing, although they still might collapse that? At least it doesn't wrap non-breaking spaces.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Three completely unrelated things I guess. 1. Expressiveness is important? Expressiveness is why I don't like Perl. 2. You can certainly implement patterns analogous to OO in functional programming with closures and first-class functio
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by deadowl 11y ago
I don't know if this is how you'd do it in markdown. My text tables are generally done this way: +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | label a | label b | label c | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ |
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by deadowl 11y ago
I think they want to be the NSA or something.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Is there any way I can guess at my password from the Gawker leak?
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by deadowl 11y ago
It's the digital age. I am recorded on video at minimum, I would expect four times a day. I'm not a criminal. I'm commuting to work. The digital age has eroded the privacy that generations before us were able to take for gran
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by deadowl 11y ago
Maybe he just wants people to feel how he felt when Hillary had her infamous "kitchen sink" strategy moment.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Any way to reconcile power-of-two memory structure and boundary checks? I can't imagine all code should be constrained to power-of-two memory, but if you throw in multi-threading somehow, I think it would start making more sense to hav
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by deadowl 11y ago
I've seen significant script delays from loading files on the server, before ever getting to the web browser. I.e. apparently the file server was on the network, but not the same machine as the web server. I was using Smarty as a templ
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by deadowl 11y ago
I'd actually be OK if map and filter were also in the functools package, but the only way to be consistent while maintaining backwards compatibility is going from the functools package to built-in.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Better handling of Unicode is inevitably how Python3 kills Python2. Also it's a good reason to have not supported Python2. Aside from Unicode, I don't like some of the other changes. The overkill on the "one obvious way"
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by deadowl 11y ago
Even updating only 100ms at a time, you could statistically infer much smaller intervals if you're able to cross-reference timestamps.
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by deadowl 11y ago
I know someone who once bought a house built by students, but I'm not sure whether they were high school students or community college students. They didn't do any excavation work though, and it ended up being moved to the final s
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by deadowl 11y ago
The financial aid process is horribly dysfunctional. Some loans, grants, etc, are based on financial need. There's expected family contribution (i.e. they assume your parents are going to cover part of your expenses). There's the
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by deadowl 11y ago
I never really thought to do anything like .classname.classname

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