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by desdiv 12y ago
From the horse's mouth: Recently, people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me (this really happened!). https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
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by desdiv 12y ago
I don't think bounds checking can be done at compile time. Otherwise Java, Rust, Go et al. wouldn't need to incur the runtime overhead of the extra bookkeeping int per array.
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by desdiv 12y ago
What happens if you accidentally git clean -dfx ?
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by desdiv 12y ago
That's like asking: "Why don't orphans just buy new parents at a mom and pop store?"
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by desdiv 12y ago
int middle = (min + max) >> 1; This will work for n < MAX_INT/2. For larger n, middle must be calculated as min + ((max - min) >> 1), which is one subtraction per iteration more. Making middle an unsigned int should ma
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by desdiv 12y ago
Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates (“Microsoft”) promise not to assert any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a .NET Runtime or as
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by desdiv 12y ago
If a language makes the dot and the method invocation brackets optional, then `u + v` and `u.+(v)` would be semantically identical. The former would just syntax sugar for the latter.
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by desdiv 12y ago
indent goes well beyond indentations too, despite the name :)
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by desdiv 12y ago
Go's strong decisions around formatting (`go fmt`) are another example of planning for enterprise-size. There is no need for a style guide for go programs - it's built into the language, and with an approach that feels less pedan
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by desdiv 12y ago
I'm trying to link to arbitrary paragraphs i.e. paragraphs without DOM selectors.
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by desdiv 12y ago
>CTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" Off topic, but is there a linking service where the reader can be directed to an arbitrary location within the page? In this case we could just click on the link and it'll directly take us t
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by desdiv 12y ago
The pistons rotate. Not just the pistons, but the cylinders and the connecting rods as well. It's basically the entire engine block rotating against a stationary cylinder head. The large rotating mass problem is basically what killed o
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by desdiv 12y ago
Many people share that sentiment. Elon Musk sees an MBA as a detriment when hiring: http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201311/profiles.cfm
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by desdiv 12y ago
I couldn't find the exact page the author used, so I took a screenshot of that "ancient virus" story instead. This[1] is how it looks on a standard English Ubuntu 14.04 system (no tweaking and no extra Chinese fonts install
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by desdiv 12y ago
>Honestly, I think it's more ridiculous to look at San Francisco and claim that the problem is that we aren't building enough, when you can walk up to just about any live/work space in SOMA, and see the tenant list is most
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by desdiv 12y ago
From Wikipedia article on H-1B visa: >The American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (AC21) and the U.S. Department of Labor's PERM system for labor certification erased most of the earlier claimed arguments fo
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by desdiv 12y ago
>The UK does not tax worldwide income. UK does not tax worldwide income based on UK citizenship , but it does tax worldwide income for all UK domiciled residents , which includes all citizenship-seeking immigrants. Your trivia on the n
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by desdiv 12y ago
>The networks are not inefficient, they classify an image in 2ms and state of the art nets run real-time on your iPhone. Companies don't use "enormous numbers of servers" (I assume in training time?) to accomplish these ta
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by desdiv 12y ago
For anyone else that's confused: What they're talking about: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/theory/why-riak/ Their github: https://github.com/basho/riak CRDT = "Co
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by desdiv 12y ago
Any child born on US soil is a automatically a US citizen according to the Fourteenth Amendment. Even the children of illegal immigrants and tourists automatically gain US citizenship at birth.
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by desdiv 12y ago
The TN program is easier than that. For the EEA you have to go down to the immigration registration office and, well, register. For the TN program you simply present yourself to the immigration officer when you enter the country (this par
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by desdiv 12y ago
In USA's case: USD $1 million + tax on the worldwide income of a millionaire for 5 years + spending of a millionaire in the national economy for 5 * 182 days + tax on the worldwide income of a millionaire for as long as he remains
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by desdiv 12y ago
Yes, you can sell your investment at market value as soon as you receive your citizenship. In that sense, there is almost no cost, not even lost opportunity cost, in getting the citizenship, provided that the real estate market of your dest
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by desdiv 12y ago
>The problem I can see is that the filing date for those patents is far later than public demonstrations such as the one at D9 on or around 04/22/2012 That would indeed cause a problem in a country with an "absolute novelt
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by desdiv 12y ago
>Humans should be safe though since a common number for the high-end of human hearing is 20kHz. That doesn't mean it's safe for humans, it just means it's inaudible to humans. In many circumstances, an imperceivable th
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by desdiv 12y ago
I was as giddy as a school girl when I read the phrase "euclidean zoning", but alas, it has nothing to Euclidean geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Euclid_v._Ambler
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by desdiv 12y ago
What about this? http://www.amazonfulfillmentcareers.com/
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by desdiv 12y ago
No, tin foil hats work just fine. That study is about aluminium foil hats. Decades of government propaganda has brainwashed everyone into conjuring up images of aluminium foil hats when they hear the phrase "tin foil hat". &#x
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by desdiv 12y ago
Sorry, I'm still not following you. OpenCASCADE is the upstream; OCE is the downstream. OpenCASCADE is LGPL 2.1 and OCE is LGPL 2.1, so that means OCE can pull every single line of code from OpenCASCADE. Are you saying OCE is not pulli
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by desdiv 12y ago
>It doesn't help that OpenCASCADE (for example) does not distribute the majority of their tests, making it hard for open source contributors to refactor or delete their code. So you're saying that this[1] isn't the whole t

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