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by efaref 10y ago
I've been coding for decades and I still find them jarring. They're also a false sense of security as they won't catch: if $(value = $someOthervalue) ...
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by efaref 10y ago
Even then I would prefer an explicit comparison: if ((a = b) != NULL) ... I think Rust has a happy medium, where assignment evaluates to (), not the variable (important as this means you don't have an implicit borrow), but the
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by efaref 10y ago
The reason for Apple removing the headphone jack is finally revealed!
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by efaref 10y ago
I think most of these are just a transfer of wealth from the high-tax-paying consumer to the low-tax-paying rich industry owners. Just business as usual.
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by efaref 10y ago
> Why is that an important distinction here? Both direct subsidies and tax credits/rebates/write-offs have the same net effect on the government's coffers. It has a different effect on the entity being taxed. A tax write-
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by efaref 10y ago
That's fine until you get an asshole supervisor that micromanages your work and never uses it as technically authoritative, even though it clearly is.
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by efaref 10y ago
I can't quite put my finger exactly on what it is, but it feels like there's a difference between the kind of assistance that a senior developer asks for and the kind that a junior developer requires. I mgiht guess that a senior d
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by efaref 10y ago
> Physical violence is not a cure for any known disease. Setting bones? Fixing dislocated shoulders?
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by efaref 10y ago
I quite often use Lynx[1], which does not support JS. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
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by efaref 10y ago
It's not really hidden. I mean, it's right there on his website: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/an-americas-infrastruc... I don't know how he plans to pay for it, though. I assume Mexico will be
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by efaref 10y ago
If the DNC hadn't rigged the primary, Bernie would have beaten Trump in a landslide.
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by efaref 10y ago
Call centers aren't really offices, though. They look like this: http://www.savalinews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Call-Ce... Which look very similar to this: https://s-media-cache-ak
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by efaref 10y ago
Except the English, where our national flag has acquired connotations of racism.
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by efaref 10y ago
Hence the quote, "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
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by efaref 10y ago
Greenspun's tenth rule meets Atwood's law?
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by efaref 10y ago
In terms of net assets, no it's not. It's going from $0 to, say, -$50,000 as now you owe interest.
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by efaref 10y ago
The really poor also don't have the rope.
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by efaref 10y ago
Well, there is https://fuckadblock.sitexw.fr/ And, of course, https://github.com/Mechazawa/FuckFuckAdblock
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by efaref 10y ago
Well that's encouraging.
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by efaref 10y ago
It was certainly true when I was at university. I encountered CVS through a friend (which was sadly the best free VCS at the time), but pretty much nobody else used VCS. A few students worked out themselves that they needed something like
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by efaref 10y ago
We both experienced inflation, but sure, let's work it out: £50 when I was 14 was worth £90 in today's money. Buffett's $5k was $68k. Buffett's age-35 7M was worth 53M in today's money. So I'd need £70k in to
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by efaref 10y ago
Buffett's net worth at 14 was $5k. I just checked my old childhood savings account, and after my 14th birthday it had around £50 in it. At 34, his net worth was $7M, so relatively speaking, I only need £70k to be doing about as well a
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by efaref 10y ago
You know things are crazy when "civilization" becomes a dirty word.
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by efaref 10y ago
> How is the feeling called that you feel when you read and understand beautiful mathematical proofs? I would call that "awe".
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by efaref 10y ago
Having decent chairs, keyboards and monitors is also important for health. Yes, I could work on a kitchen chair hunched over a crappy keyboard and illegible monitor for 10 hours a day, but after not very long I'd have headaches, RSI a
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by efaref 10y ago
There are other things holding people back. I would buy one, except that I live in a rented apartment and park my car in the residential car park, which has no facilities for charging the car overnight, and no capacity for me to add one. T
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by efaref 10y ago
FizzBuzz should take 5 minutes for a senior dev (where the python example in the article is essentially the "correct" answer). If it takes a candidate an hour, something is wrong.
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by efaref 10y ago
I find that YAML (a JSON superset) for config and JSON/CBOR on the wire works quite well.
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by efaref 10y ago
The protocol is an absolute nightmare to work with, even when you're only using it for your own internal systems and so control everything that's involved. I heard that WhatsApp stopped using it long ago, and if so, that wouldn&#
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by efaref 10y ago
I vaguely recall reading about someone developing a chip that could run both ARM and x86 code. The idea being that it would run ARM code most of the time at low power, and then power up in order to run x86 code when necessary. I don'

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