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by derleth 13y ago
> If embedded systems programmers wrote code the same way modern desktop applications developers did, we'd all be dead. If Boeing made passenger jets the way Boeing made fighters, we'd all be dead, too, but try telling a fighte
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by derleth 13y ago
> "anything vaguely resembling trinitarianism". So they exclude Jehovah's Witnesses, then. Not really all-inclusive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses
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by derleth 13y ago
> The number of questions on SO that can be answered by RTFM is quite remarkable. Every language needs two manuals: A reference text, to teach you what is possible, and a tutorial, to teach you what is tasteful. You should expect people
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by derleth 13y ago
> Well, if not for SO, I would have been stuck with the wrong set of keywords to search with. This is precisely the sort of bootstrap problem good tutorials are meant to help you avoid. Learning out of a book is not as satisfying as grab
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by derleth 13y ago
ibiblio has a number of old distributions, including MCC (the first distro), SLS (which was so bad it inspired both Slackware and Debian), and Yggdrasil (the first commercial distro): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic
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by derleth 13y ago
> Again, there is literally no thing on Earth that can stop you from acting with dignity. Nothing except serious illness. Involuntarily vomiting your guts out is not dignified. Being paranoid and acting on your bizarre delusions is not d
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by derleth 13y ago
> "Your character can never be essentially injured except by your own acts." If only this were true, we would not need laws against defamation.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Funnier thing is mall securities, you can't bring a small knife into mall but you can buy a chainsaw Can you fuel up (or charge up) a chainsaw in a mall? How dangerous is a chainsaw when it can't be turned on? And that's
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by derleth 13y ago
> Nobody ... except for Tom Clancy and every single person who read _Debt of Honor_, wherein a plane is used as a suicide weapon flown into the US capital building. Which is almost how Samuel Byck planned to assassinate Richard Nixon. Th
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by derleth 13y ago
> Oh you need that abandoned Chemistry application from 2006 that depends on X11? Spin up a VM. No, just load a compatibility library, possibly in the form of a wrapper program. If Wine can run Windows programs on Linux by translating Wi
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by derleth 13y ago
> They also 'standardised' threads which were hardly common usage. Didn't the POSIX standard do that, as opposed to the ANSI C standard?
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by derleth 13y ago
> They were Microsoft functions long (6 years?) before they were standardized. And most of what's in ANSI C (the first C standard, before ISO stepped in, from 1989) was in C compilers before ANSI C existed. I think void and void* we
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by derleth 13y ago
Which isn't true of everyone, or even of most people.
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by derleth 13y ago
> If it works in Africa, then, objectively, it works in sparsely populated and sparsely connected areas. If it works in a really nice hotel in Johannesburg, it's working in Africa. Your point is invalid.
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by derleth 13y ago
> American cars vs. the rest of the world, American houses vs. the rest of the world This is entirely due to how cheap land is over here, and it's not even true in a large number of places in the US. Compare New York City to the Mid
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by derleth 13y ago
What's more, Wikipedia gets better the more contentious the topic. For example, the Evolution article is well-cited, due to constant bickering, and constantly policed, because it would otherwise be taken over by religious people who
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by derleth 13y ago
> Although often hilarious, Urban Dictionary now pretty much allows people to make shit up. Which is precisely what happens when you don't demand citations to good sources. You can't really have it both ways.
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by derleth 13y ago
A child runs into the street. The only place to swerve is into a few senior citizens. The kid's dead, right? Obviously the seniors have seniority, you must Respect Your Elders, and their estates can pay for much better attorneys that a
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by derleth 13y ago
> There are also the rare individuals who have some method that has been shown to work and they follow it with great discipline. People like this can win at roulette, too. (Well, for a while.)
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm going to assume this is some form of mayonnaise until told otherwise. Indeed it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_cream
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by derleth 13y ago
Well, that's why we have Urban Dictionary. Not everything has to be in Wikipedia.
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by derleth 13y ago
> "Robot" is etymologically derived from a Slavic word for slave ("Rab" in Russian, apparently). More immediately, it's Czech for 'worker': Karel Čapek, the person who coined the word as it's now u
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by derleth 13y ago
> Shakespeare from around 1600 is rewarding but pretty much needs a translator into English to be understood by moderns. Nobody in 1600s England spoke the way Shakespeare wrote. Shakespeare was writing poetry. His plays are famous for th
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by derleth 13y ago
> Latin lives on in English Only through borrowings. English is a Germanic language.
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by derleth 13y ago
Congratulations: You've automated The Onion . (The best part of The Onion is the headlines. The articles are funny, too, but they too often just beat the headline's joke into the ground.)
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by derleth 13y ago
Find some reliable sources and fix it, if it bothers you.
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by derleth 13y ago
That's what they say they're doing. Do you trust them now? Do you trust them when the NSA comes calling? And now, the question nobody will answer: Why isn't it opt-in?
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by derleth 13y ago
> some of the low-level stuff (pointers, memory layouts, stuff...) really ought to be part of CompSci 101. This is forever a balance between the universal constants of the low-level world, and stuff which seems to be a constant but it ac
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by derleth 13y ago
As long as CM phones home, it shouldn't be in the Play Store.
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by derleth 13y ago
Then why isn't it opt-in?

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