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by finnw 15y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of "we would be intimidated by it, so we should expect the aliens to react the same way, so don't launch it unless you want a war."
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by finnw 15y ago
> "If the Gatekeeper says "I am examining your source code", the results seen by the Gatekeeper shall again be provided by the AI party, which is assumed to be sufficiently advanced to rewrite its own source code, manipulate the appear
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by finnw 15y ago
No, just FlashBlock and a hosts file that blocks the Facebook "Like" button (but nothing else.)
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by finnw 15y ago
What would happen if The Aliens put one of those in orbit around Earth?
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by finnw 15y ago
Quite a few websites I use offer this (usually in addition to a password.) I won't use it, because it means I will be locked out if my phone or SIM breaks. This could easily be fixed by having a backup phone number to use if the first one f
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by finnw 15y ago
A company I used to work for attempted to migrate once and nearly gave up, but then realised it was feasible (and not very expensive) if we did not insist on preserving the history. So the new revisions were kept in Mercurial and the old on
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by finnw 15y ago
I guess the assumption (not actually stated in the article) is that if your company does not get big or get bought, it will have its market share stolen by one that does. (Also mentioned in one of PG's essays but I can't remember which one
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by finnw 15y ago
So you're saying the comment should be downvoted if a man wrote it, but not if a woman wrote it?
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by finnw 15y ago
"They're not going to fire you" isn't always true. I have known one person who has been fired for asking for a raise. The exec involved only needed to do this once, because it was talked about among employees for years and probably dissua
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by finnw 15y ago
There is another way to work around that. Most large UK companies pay you in lieu of unused holiday allowance when you leave. If you arrange to leave your previous company in late April/early May and have this holiday pay included in your
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by finnw 15y ago
> ::, :::, ++, :+, ++:, +: > Can any non-scala programmer guess which one is which? I have read the documentation and I still do not know which one is which. Specifically the summary documentation is the same for both ++ and ++:
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by finnw 15y ago
Looks like a missing "occurs check." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurs_check If so, it should be a relatively easy fix.
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by finnw 15y ago
> The miniature ships built by Liquid Robotics ... In case anyone wasn't aware of it, this is the company that James Gosling now works for. (I have no idea whether he is involved in this project or not.)
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by finnw 15y ago
By that rule, Greespun's Tenth Rule ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule ) implies that C has already won.
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by finnw 15y ago
I never really "learned" lisp (I read a library book about it as a teenager but I didn't have access to a computer that ran it.) But I did learn Haskell later, and I think that made me worse at the job (C++) I was doing at the time, because
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by finnw 15y ago
Now there's an argument for syntax highlighting. It also doesn't happen in languages where you must say self.x to access a property/field called x .
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by finnw 15y ago
I don't know Coffeescript - does it implicitly create a local var when there is already a global with the same name?
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by finnw 15y ago
Who is the article (at least the first half of it) aimed at? Are there any Java developers who still haven't dabbled with dynamic languages but could still be convinced to? I imagine that those who will already have done, and the rest wil
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by finnw 15y ago
This could be another little error, or it could be intentional. It's hard to tell: It is <%= Date.year %>
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by finnw 15y ago
Eminem is one of the greatest rapper Yup, I'm offended now :)
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by finnw 15y ago
Quote from one of Skud's blog posts: We deleted his comments here, of course. At first we did so quietly, not wanting to "feed the troll"
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by finnw 15y ago
They will audit the code, no matter the nationality of its author. There are plenty of US residents who would sabotage the code if they could.
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by finnw 15y ago
Entries may only be submitted by a registered participant, who must be a permanent resident or citizen of the United States Shame - I don't know why they would not want entries from people outside the US.
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by finnw 15y ago
Many of us with embarrassing photos from the 90s have already had them all transferred to CD (at the print shop, at the time they were developed.) In fact I have more photos on CD than I have in print, because being a geek I have been more
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by finnw 15y ago
But if they are developers why would they not want to modify their own C code (to add an embeddable JS interpreter?)
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by finnw 15y ago
Only slightly less random than what Java's RNG usually produces: http://www.alife.co.uk/nonrandom/
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by finnw 15y ago
No. I Just tested in FireFox (7.0.1; Private Browsing) and Chrome (14.0.835.202 m; Incognito.) Both still run the applet without prompting and allow it to read & write the muffin store.
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by finnw 15y ago
Did you know that Java has its own version of Flash's Local Shared Objects? They are also known as "muffins" and have pretty much the same abilities (including resurrecting HTTP cookies.) So far they aren't used much, but any new regulati
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by finnw 15y ago
Can be found here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby...
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by finnw 15y ago
I'm not sure the original ZX Spectrum editor qualifies as "full screen" as selecting a line and visually editing that line are separate tasks. It has more in common with RegEdit than with Notepad.

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