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Please don't remind me. I had to convert the expat XML parser to compile on z/OS and work in EBCDIC, and found that round tripping between ASCII and EBCDIC was sometimes impossible because of the existence of not two, but THREE li
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Although I was never a mainframe programmer per se, I did quite a bit of interfacing between mini/microcomputers and IBM mainframes, so I got to see under the hood a little. (If I write something stupid, it's either memory issues
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FWIW, there's a description of most of Erlang internal data structures here: https://edfine.io/blog/2016/06/28/erlang-data-representation...
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I like it. There are some annoyances to do with minor syntactical warts, like commas and semicolons, but all in all, I find it expressive.
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Um, shouldn't that be "misled"?
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> Whomever has the most power at the time will be able to decree some speech "fraud" and "disinformation" and punish people for speaking ideas that are too dangerous to entrust to the hoi polloi. Yes, and in a free sp
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Yes. Network Manager is horrible.
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Sure, but if the big wall is a map, and you're trying to find something on that map, all the dicks make it so much harder to find it that giving up in despair is often the reaction. It's hard to tune out a cubic mile of dicks when
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This is a good point. You know Sturgeon's Law? Something along the lines of "90% of science fiction is crap, because 90% of everything is crap?" Well, if you more or less agree with that, there is just so much more of everyth
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I definitely programmed TP 1.0 in mixed case on a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M.
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I was at first excited, then deflated, because I initially read the headline as "Optimize your Node app by deleting Node.js" (snerk).
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If your omission of what you assume is "unimportant detail" leads to your audience misunderstanding the "important" detail, you actually are failing to communicate. It may also happen that the one person who you felt
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But iced tea typically does not contain ice unless you add it. Buy a can of Lipton's Iced Tea - it's still iced tea, with no ice in it. But whatever, this is getting to angels on the head of a pin territory :) I think you are maki
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This. Thank you.
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I didn't know OS/X used the decimal prefixes, but that just means it's less true, not untrue. There are still many more systems out there that use the binary prefix. I imagine most *nix, and not sure about Windows. And RAM is
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Ah crap, yes, I did. Got to stop this middle of the night posting...
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Sorry, I disagree. Kindly enlighten me.
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Occam is the Latinized version of Ockham, as in "William of Ockham" [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham
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Ah, I didn't see your comment before I wrote mine. And I agree violently with your point of view.
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Well, no. If we're going to be pedantic, we should say MiB (mebibytes), because file sizes on disk are expressed in multiples of powers of 2, but the SI prefixes are multiples of 10. So a 1 megabyte file (as reported by the file system
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I think you have a good point. The whole reason for standards (like SI units) is so that people don't need to guess or interpret. I don't get why this was downvoted.
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Sometimes it can be useful to expand the compound noun to see if it makes sense. Apple pie: - Pie found in apple(s)? Nope. - Apple that is used to do something to pie! Hmm, no. - Pie that is modified by an apple. No... - Pie that is made wi
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Yeah, look, I'm aware of language evolution (or devolution, as it may be), and that there's no formal authority for the language. I mean, there are already at least two major dialects of English (British and American), and there&#
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Point taken, I made a mistake, but I think you're so focused on picking apart the comment that you've ignored the meat of it. That's ok, I said my piece and expected it to be downvoted - and it was.
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That's a sutra.
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Yeah. The Janus party.
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Except when the government effectively becomes, collectively, the king, and represents nothing more than their royal self-interest. Which is how I see things going in the USA, for all intents and purposes.
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Thank you, fellow detail-oriented person.
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> I'll continue to say... as I please. By that argument, we should all just be able to say and write whatever we want however we want to, even if it's technically or factually incorrect, like Humpty Dumpty or Donald Trump. Why
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Agree 100%. The fact is (well, in my experience anyway) that the people who want programs written don't really know what they want (they only think they do). The art of requirements analysis is very difficult to do well, partly because

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