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by etfb 15y ago
I love how every post on Stack Overflow that gets popular on Hacker News always gets closed by SO admins as "not constructive". It's like they really are annoyed when their stuff gets noticed by the world outside their walled garden. What
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by etfb 15y ago
Here's a contrived example to demonstrate the value of sigils: /* in version x of SFL (Sigil-Free Language) */ school = get_school("Saint Fred's School For Girls"); class = get_class(school, "Agricultural Studies", 12); y
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by etfb 15y ago
I'm a native speaker, and I got a server error. Does that mean I'm illiterate?
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by etfb 15y ago
Convinced of his rights, and completely oblivious to his obligations, particularly the one that involves reading the details of any contract he signs. Sounds like classic Entitlement Queen behaviour. I'd sympathise more if I weren't payin
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by etfb 15y ago
Never fear! It costs $105 in US dollars - by next week, that'll be about 15 cents anywhere else.
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by etfb 15y ago
I tried and gave up on Linux half a dozen times over the years, and would have agreed with everything this article says. Then I tried Ubuntu, and never looked back. My house has been Microsoft-free since before Vista was released. Ubuntu
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by etfb 15y ago
Can you imagine what PHP would be like if the developers insisted on pandering to the lowest common denominator like that? Oh, wait...
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by etfb 15y ago
I don't think it's possible to be too uncharitable about the developers of PHP. Courtesy demands that we give them the benefit of the doubt; but by this stage there is very little doubt left, so very little benefit as well.
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by etfb 16y ago
Their answer to the first one is wrong. Square root of a positive number gives two results, plus and minus. I haven't checked my working, but I believe the correct answers are 15, -9, 21 and -3. Rather disappointed that I caught the tric
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by etfb 16y ago
Could have been that, but I think it was just a coincidence. In CBMSCII, pronounced "ka-BOOM-ski", which was the warped and bizarre version of ASCII used on the Commodore machines, the end-of-line character was 13, aka Ctrl+M, not the C/Un
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by etfb 16y ago
Years ago, I experimented with a speech synthesiser for the Commodore 64. You used it the typical Commodore way: open a channel to the device, print command codes to the channel. Something like OPEN 3,12,1: PRINT#3, "H0E1L0O3 W0E4R1L0D0";
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by etfb 16y ago
...has 0% software compatibility, and requires a massive amount of retraining and reconfiguration... Naaah. Too easy. No comment.
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by etfb 17y ago
What instructions? I couldn't find any, and so I can't authenticate. In particular, I have no idea what the correct server would be.
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by etfb 17y ago
All of your arguments have been fully and completely refuted using real science, not anecdotes and paranoia. Check out ToddW's AntiAntiVax compilation ( http://antiantivax.flurf.net/ ) for all the facts. Please don't spread lies in futu
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by etfb 17y ago
Hey, HNers! Keep baiting him! The weather satellites show a spike in temperature over his location. At the rate he's steaming up, he'll explode into a fine red mist in a couple of hours! ("Fags"? Really? This from a grown-up? Utterly
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by etfb 17y ago
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism -- the phenomenon is real! Seriously, you need to cut out the coffee, stat.
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by etfb 17y ago
"If you're using special punctuation, there is almost always a more eloquent way of articulating your sentence/thought." Thank you. You've just fixed my writing style. I owe you a large drink. (No, seriously. I use semi-colons, colons an
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by etfb 18y ago
Half-done, at best. Just getting a title is not much use: RSS feeds are supposed to save you time, and give you all the content where you want it (ie in your reader) not just give you a bunch of links that are no different than the HN "new
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by etfb 18y ago
I had a Nokia N70 before I got my N95, and the N95 is definitely must faster (less "laggy") but still not perfect. The quality is fine, and I can't think of many features it doesn't have. If you want a good, solid, reliable phone, the N95