figglesonrails

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by figglesonrails 13y ago
All I can say is... +1 This is exactly what I was thinking, but unable to verbalize it so well.
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
This advice leads to sexual assault? Come on. Yeah, in the strictest sense, you do not have a legal right to her bubble of space and she can charge you for sexual assault for leaning in for a kiss. OR, she can be a normal, non-litigious per
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by figglesonrails 13y ago
It's fascinating to me that we have psychological effects of seeing all caps. Compare to a language like Arabic which doesn't have the concept of upper/lowercase letters. I wonder what linguistic effects they have that are sp
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
+1 for stolen debit card. Aside from fraud liability agreements, in the absence of them, it creates an upper bound on the damage that can be dealt.
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Credit cards are a short-term loan which doesn't require approval for every stupid minutiae. Ever signed a loan? Takes a bit of setup. Imagine doing that while paying for fast food. Pain in the ass. Take it for what it was meant to be: a lo
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
This is Java code. If you test for a null reference AND THEN dereference it, you get a NullPointerException. The check was supposed to be "!= null". This check is obviously erroneous, and found via SCA. I was saying "if I had a dollar for e
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
If I had a dollar for every time I saw this... if(obj == null && obj.isValid()) I'd have approximately 960 dollars per project.
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Actually, I think one of his strongest points is about making mistakes -- everyone does them and everyone makes the most amateur of them. If you haven't tried running SCA on your code, try it sometime. I've got a ridiculous ego, but when yo
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
And for those who say "bah hard to get illegal guns", replace the word "guns" with "drugs" and tell me how hard those are to get.
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
What part of "HOMICIDAL MANIAC" do you not understand? Do you think he'll only kill the family and anyone else who gets in his way ONLY if he has a gun? I don't think this is how homicidal maniacs work.
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Meh. If I can print a spatula or buy one for $1 at Wal-Mart, I could care less. Printing will work for some stuff, but consider a) materials used to print still aren't any more plentiful just because you can shape them and b) expensive, het
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Yep, and time and time again has shown people pay for sooner. I really think people who assume "scarcity" is the only factor in economic models aren't seeing the whole picture. Exclusivity of group membership (I have a t-shirt, jacket, etc.
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Since the context is "C" not "C compilers", then I'd say C could have a less dangerous switch statement by requiring break/continue to indicate this. Agreed. Why people don't document/annotate for static analysis intentional fallthroughs is
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Truthfully, C does what you tell it to do. As it turns out, most people don't want it to do what they tell it to do, they want it to do what is in their head. Those warnings are "did you really mean what you just told me to do?". For some p
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Most projects don't need C, I'll agree. But I have a hard time seeing how a language that is on a 1:1 to 1:5 statement-to-machine-instruction language will be displaced by a language that is safer while being at least as efficient and at le
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Legally, minors are considered "incompetent", the idea being that they wouldn't know if something would be harmful to them in the long run. Additionally, the level of wisdom/intelligence is just too different -- children are extremely easy
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
He's not advocating... The question (which is unethical to research) is "does voluntary pedophilia harm children?" In all honestly, the answer is "probably most of the time". Right now, we can't say with absolute certainty that the answer i
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Yes, it does, for the same reason that C++ code that is compiled with a C compiler can be called C.
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
"Though we probably learned this is not the way to use them, I have seen numerous real-world examples where this was the case." Ah, Java code at my workplace. catch(Exception e) {}
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by figglesonrails 14y ago
Exceptions indicate //exceptional conditions//, i.e. conditions other than the intended state transitions of the program. They aren't a guard against crashing, they are a mechanism for formalizing error states in the program. Memory corrupt
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
If privacy is gone, then email me my shoe size, favorite pizza, and a picture of my fish. (hint: I don't have a fish)
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
Well, if we're going to be technical, you don't alter sexuality (mindset) with surgery, you alter sexual organs. And that wasn't so much a change in sexuality as a change in ability to reproduce. :X Also, "surgery in a nature" seems like a
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
This isn't really addressing the issue of "Is this a good idea to create TCombinator?", it's just a personal statement. Agreeing or disagreeing with this still makes it OT.
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
Yeah, going to have to agree here. Right now, you seem focused on accentuating the differences between "us" and "them" in an area where it doesn't matter at all. You should be pushing towards an ideal world where things like LGBT pride para
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
I use SVN at home and in a 9-5. It's works fine. 1) Fast enough? I have tried git. It's pretty cool, but the difference between 5 seconds and 1 second is minimal at best to me. I don't think I've found myself dying for a faster SCM, though
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
This isn't surprising. If the set the AC bit on x86, then it will disallow unaligned accesses and you'll be operating in an environment more similar to RISC machines. In order to allow such a thing to succeed, GCC can't produce a 32-bit rea
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
=============== #include <stdint.h> uint32_t load_uint32_be(uint8_t* p) { return (p[0] << 24) | (p[1] << 16) | (p[2] << 8) | p[3]; } uint32_t load_uint32_le(uint8_t* p) { return (p[3] <&#6
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
The graphics API is more important for what? Gameplay? AI? Load times? Physics? Or did you mean rendering triangles, because indeed graphics APIs are very important for that. I think it is extremely naive to assume that the CPU's underlying
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
Surely, /surely/ this is the least of their concerns. Since when did we get so sloppy as to assume byte ordering in files? When was the last time your PNG loader failed on x86 because the file has big-endian fields?
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by figglesonrails 15y ago
I guess you never worked on boost.

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