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by ferzul 7y ago
Windows has such a system with UWP. I think UbTouch or whatever the Ubuntu phone successor distribution is called has one too. And I imagine most systems programmers could define an api if they wanted to. I think this is definitely a case w
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by ferzul 7y ago
I'll surely read it, but based on the abstract, it's a design pattern for library writers, not a sanity pattern for library users. it won't let me know how or if the function you wrote will throw an exception, or what kind of
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by ferzul 7y ago
oh I don't think that's fair. the view that mathsy things are discovered not invented is hugely widespread amongst many people who know what they're talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about, and I think su
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by ferzul 7y ago
> whereas laziness lets you use bottom in principle, only if you can prove you don't use the result. there's nothing wrong with not calculating a value that doesn't exist.
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by ferzul 7y ago
but that is not the point of Haskell's type system, since it doesn't even begin to try to reach that goal. firstly, the most available `head` function crashes on half the constructors. more fundamentally, just try using any file o
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by ferzul 7y ago
Although the definition the other user posted was too strong, it was mitigated by the observation that Apple is barely 50%. If we compare Google's marketshare in end user email, video hosting and search, we can see Google is a lot stro
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by ferzul 7y ago
I don't know whether or when God forsook any particular mobile app, but I do know it the preposition "for" used as a verbal prefix with a negative implication, not the word and prefix "fore" meaning in front.
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by ferzul 7y ago
well, I don't see Google ads so I don't know what the content is, but no-one knows that I bought a coke after seeing an ad for a coke at the train station. but it still works. the effectiveness of advertising is an empirical quest
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by ferzul 7y ago
if youtube isn't tracking me in malicious way, why would I pay them to stop them from tracking me? but the error here is conflating a tool with a legal person. Google will track me no matter how much I pay them for any of their service
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by ferzul 7y ago
been told I should worry about it for years now, but Australia's economy hasn't broken yet (it's weak, but that just means it's doing better than comparable nations but less than what it could be if we weren't being
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by ferzul 7y ago
What are ladyfinger bananas, if not non-cavendish bananas available in supermarkets (so cultivated) in southeast Australia (so outside of southeast Asia)? Sure, they're more expensive than cavendish so i only take them when regular ban
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by ferzul 7y ago
2-3 doesn't sound like much, even in australia we have that
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by ferzul 7y ago
I haven't used a mouse in years, just Kensington trackballs and laptop trackpads. The trackballs are great; clicking is predominately with the thumb whereas pointing is with the fingers. Even when using fingers for both, it's not
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by ferzul 7y ago
when i stopped studying and started working full time, i began to get pain in my wrists. so i got an ergonomic keyboard and a large trackball. i'm fairly sure it's replacing the mouse with a trackball that makes the most differenc
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by ferzul 7y ago
How about if you're international? If there's a serious problem at work (and the bus number is one) I can't fix it because (a) it isn't legal to work while on leave (b) I'm overseas and it isn't legal to work o