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901.
by eurleif 14y ago
How is something caused by government intervention an example of the free market in action?
902.
by eurleif 14y ago
>The studio was the latest casualty of a trend that’s been plaguing the VFX industry in recent years: an outflow of work to countries with better tax incentives Seems like the failures aren't just caused by the free market.
903.
by eurleif 14y ago
Turing equivalence means that computers hundreds of years from now may be quantitatively vastly more powerful, but they still won't be capable of computing anything that today's computers can't given sufficient time. The same is not true of
904.
by eurleif 14y ago
"For legal reasons" doesn't mean "because what they're doing is legal", it means "for reasons related to the law" (i.e., what they're doing is against it). That wasn't doublespeak, it was pretty clear.
905.
by eurleif 14y ago
It was a competition to receive a spot. Coming in second would have meant losing that spot.
906.
by eurleif 14y ago
> "We knew very little about her before she checked in, so we searched for her online and discovered she had a dog named Bo," the rep says. "When she arrived, there was a little doggy gift waiting in her room, with a note card that said
907.
by eurleif 14y ago
Still better to have the unprefixed version in your code than not to, I'd say. I really doubt the spec would change so that old code was still valid, but had a different meaning; most likely, the worst that would happen is old code would be
908.
by eurleif 14y ago
>Write some nominal piece of code whose stated purpose is to prevent the thing you want to prohibit, even if it's facile and trivially bypassed, and now bypassing it is apparently back to being a federal crime again. I'm not sure what I
909.
by eurleif 14y ago
And you should add the unprefixed version of a property to your CSS even if it isn't yet supported by browsers, to future-proof your code.
910.
by eurleif 14y ago
sudo has security features. It's possible to restrict the set of commands that can be executed, for example. What would be a Unixy way to do that? How can you decouple the thing that gives you root access from the thing that restricts what
911.
by eurleif 14y ago
Is switching to an arbitrary user really "more than one thing"? Would the UNIX philosophy be to have a separate switch program for every user on the system?
912.
by eurleif 14y ago
So the "do" syntax is meant to be used for all local variables? That seems kind of weird, but I'll take your word for it.
913.
by eurleif 14y ago
Ok, you can protect yourself by doing weird defensive coding gymnastics, but you can't protect yourself by just writing good code. I'd rather use a language that doesn't make me do gymnastics.
914.
by eurleif 14y ago
And my point is that you can't watch out and protect yourself from it, because the quirk can be triggered by different code from the code you're actually writing. You can carefully write code that works just fine, and then, unbeknownst to
915.
by eurleif 14y ago
But a function in one part a file shouldn't be broken by the use of bad practices in a completely different part of the file. If I paste a function that works in the REPL into a file with other code, that function should always continue to
916.
by eurleif 14y ago
The whole point of lexical scoping is that code in an inner scope can't mess with an outer scope's variables without meaning to. CoffeeScript doesn't achieve that. The same code in an inner scope means different things depending on whether
917.
by eurleif 14y ago
CoffeeScript's scoping is broken. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/22/implicit-scoping-in-coffe...
918.
by eurleif 14y ago
HN sometimes links to reddit, too. Is there something wrong with linking to a forum post if it's a compelling forum post?
919.
by eurleif 14y ago
Whether your neighbor's tax information is also public might make a difference in how harmful it is for your tax information to be public.
920.
by eurleif 14y ago
It creates a perverse incentive to threaten businesses with less ability to defend themselves.
921.
by eurleif 14y ago
Sounds like this is a moot point, but I'm still curious: How would you legally distinguish between programmer-written assembly, and assembly disassembled from compiled machine code? Without doing that, it's pointless to require source code,
922.
by eurleif 14y ago
What if a company programs directly in assembly? Should that make them ineligible for patents? And if assembly is only allowed when it's the original language, how would you go about proving that? What about code that's been compiled, then
923.
by eurleif 14y ago
>Reforms on how damages are calculated. If you neither sell a product nor license IP to third parties, there is no way you're losing any revenue from an infringement. You should not be awarded even "reasonable royalty" damages if you wo
924.
by eurleif 14y ago
If the user is already setting a password in the app, couldn't the app just ask for the user's email address? It doesn't seem like having the email address for free really buys a malicious developer that much.
925.
by eurleif 14y ago
That's essentially what the top-voted answer does, except it accounts for gaps in the IDs.
926.
by eurleif 14y ago
Try running EXPLAIN on that query. It has to create a temporary table, add a random column for every row, and then sort on that column. Not very fast.
927.
by eurleif 14y ago
The intended victim might be being killed in order to suppress the truth about even greater crimes, in which case the lesser of two evils might be for a random person to be killed.
928.
by eurleif 14y ago
IANAL either, but perhaps the seeds being descendants of authorized seeds, rather than authorized seeds, is the problem? It would be sort of like duplicating your authorized iPad with a 3D printer.
929.
by eurleif 14y ago
I think reddit's moderation system has more to do with the relative success of its discussions than its audience. Are you implying Slashdot didn't have a high proportion of programmers?
930.
by eurleif 14y ago
You can't just declare evidence against your claim "exceptional". Reddit has a large userbase, and includes numerous communities. Nested discussion seems to work pretty well for it.

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