figglesonrails

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by figglesonrails 12y ago
Err, no. I was hoping you could clarify what is meant, like I said. I get the idea of "casual [xxxx]ism", where something is so internalized and normalized that it doesn't even register as shitty. However, I was specifically
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
I'm not trying to challenge you, just curious: what is an example of discourse that would be interpreted by someone with said privilege to be civil, yet interpreted by someone else without it to be barbaric, small-minded, offensive, et
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
I don't really understand why you are being down voted for a technical question. It seems like answering it without giving a downvote as a snarky "ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?" would be sufficient.
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
+1 for the DocumentBuilderFactory. I was trying to figure out why such an idea was implemented. I saw it sort of like having multiple implementations of DEFLATE on the same system. Seems like you really only need one... There is also a lot
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
While it is important to know low level details if you are going to understand how the high level language is built, it is not necessarily important to know how the high level language works if such details don't readily aid you in y
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
Unification of storage and computing...what does that even mean? I get that having nearly unlimited, fast, persistent storage would be awesome, but that's not a conceptual merging of storage and computing -- but I definitely agree abou
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
Can't wait to see it: You wouldn't steal a Library of Congress...
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
OK- Look at people trying to make 3D games for the web. GPU performance is a concern, but if you can't even run the physics simulation or cull your object database fast enough to push triangles to the GPU, your performance will be hurt
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
OK, it's not that HSA isn't useful, it's that coordination between the CPU and GPU is still stupidly hard and has a lot of CPU-side overhead, making it impractical for small workloads. The problem is that a large number of sm
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
That made my day brighter. Sorry you're getting so many downvotes for that. :(
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
Just no. Well-written software (i.e. clean code, clear functions) is great and a joy to work with, but is absolutely not a substitute for documentation. Public APIs are double-triple-extra not exempt by merely being well-written, especially
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
Climbing the tallest mountain in the world?
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
+1 "Things aren't fun/good/interesting if hundreds do it." Pardon me if that doesn't sound a bit like the stereotypical hipster excuse not to do something - a fetish for being original. To each their own, but m
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by figglesonrails 12y ago
[Wavefront] OBJ is dead. Long live OBJ!
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
I agree it does not if you do. It would be if Mozilla Corp (an employer) fired him or told him he must resign, hence the part "pressuring people to force him to resign". You can demand and complain all you want, but until manage
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
I wish I could give this post 10 upvotes. There is a reason that the US has employment laws [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Section 703(a)(1) & (2)] related to discrimination -- and its to stop precisely these sorts of questi
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
"What abuse?" -> Demanding that he resign and step down and/or pressuring people to force him to resign? If that comes to pass, that he is forced out of his position against his will, then that isn't free speech at wo
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
Yeah, I don't think that is how America works. You can hold any belief and support any organization in any way that is legal so long as that organization itself is not criminal or an enemy of the US. Maybe people will think you're
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
"bahahaha" in response to something that amuses me. Usually, I just have to click a stupid upvote button instead. ^-- this is generally what I avoid, plz no downvotes. :(
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
Agreed, trust and confidence //that it can be spent//. I don't think "trust and confidence" against terrible scenarios was a requirement 1,000 years ago, (FDIC formed 1933) yet people still had currency th
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
I fail to see how this is any different than people putting money into bank 1000 years ago and a bank robbery destroy their wealth. Isn't that a perfectly accurate description of what happens when an exchange gets hacked? Isn't th
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
FWIW, memcpy(&anInt, &aFloat, sizeof(int)) achieves the same thing, is not turned in a real call to memcpy(), and doesn't not break the strict aliasing rule, and does not cause incorrect code to be generated with using `gcc -fs
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
They are committed to the language because it makes them profit, yes. What did you expect from a company? A bunch of academics who are committed the language on its theoretical merits alone, even if it causes the company to hemorrhage money
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
^-- This is the most important thing said on this whole topic.
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
Yay, Islamophobia. Forced prayer should be stamped out from public schools. Period. Let's just agree on that without going to extremes like "we'll all be living under Shari'a law!!!!111" EDIT: In other words, neithe
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
+1 Popular = important in dealing with other humans, whether you like it or not. We're not going to convert the whole world to atheism tomorrow, so being able to understand why Buddhists don't drink alcohol or why Muslims say &quo
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
So what you're saying is, ultimately, the sanitary conditions of hackers left to their own devices merit the government's bulldozing of their abodes. Hrmm... :P
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
More easily said than done. :\
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
I don't know about you, but it's rather hard to ensure that your partner has the "right mix". It's hard enough to secure a mate as is! :) Instead, I suppose the suggestion would, "Well, go adopt!", which i
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
i.e. That "robustness" is why we now use VMs instead of native code everywhere.

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