georgeorwell

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by georgeorwell 14y ago
From the Twitter post: > This is getting ridiculous: the Svbtle design is not open source, and I have never given permission for anyone to use it with Wordpress. Dude. Without trademarks, patents, or copyright, there's not much you can
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
So are you saying that "drug-addicted homeless person" is doublespeak whereas "shambling crackhead zombie" is neutral language? Because I think those are the phrases we are talking about, and I think the first is much more neutral. I am co
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
If it's not okay, why does my comment have more upvotes than downvotes? For me, this isn't a forum where degrading a whole class of society is okay. Except, from what you guys are saying, maybe it is okay because it's a visible and persona
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I must say I find your comparison unusual! Whereas the rule-based declarative programming in Prolog is basically unheard of, C set the standard for all imperative languages to follow it. On top of that, a large number of languages either
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
> This comment does not belong on HN. Just as you petitioned SF to get rid of the homeless people from your precious neighborhood, you can downvote my post, flag it, and petition PG to ban my account if you don't want me to post comment
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Yeah, you're right, if you put 10 dollars down as the annual savings, it just takes a very long time to finish.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Just don't put in zero for annual savings or the savings rate, because what I'm guessing is a divide by zero somewhere can hang your browser.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Yep, I was totally barking up the wrong tree. I just feel bad for the zombies now.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Yeah, I jumped to conclusions. Thanks for taking the high road. I don't know why I get so upset about the plight of homeless people. I think I also hate the zombie meme. And, I used to call people crackheads too, so maybe I'm just annoy
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I'm sorry, where is the deception? "Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, "servicing the target" for bom
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Compassion generally means feeling another person's pain. I don't think that you can use negative, objectifying language and feel another person's pain at the same time. For example, consider: (1) "Just outside of my expensive hotel, there
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
For the record, I don't think the situation is a good one by any means. I just don't think the people who are least empowered to do anything about it should be referred to pejoratively, and a big part of that is because it isn't going to h
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
It makes me angry when privileged people don't demonstrate compassion. I have trouble demonstrating compassion for them. You're right, I don't have fun at parties full of such people, and I've been to a few. But you're also right that I n
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Calling people crack-heads and shambling zombies is pejorative. You don't casually use words like fag, dyke, tranny, bitch, ho, nigger, Indian (for native / aboriginal), and kyke, right? If you want a name, say "drug-addicted homeless pers
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/081.htm
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I cut out the creepy parts, I agree that they were. I can't reveal my experience without breaking anonymity. If you need to know about my experience for my examples and arguments to hold water, then my points aren't very good anyway, whic
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I used the word extreme in the assembly language argument to indicate that I understood you weren't actually advocating people program in assembly. So I don't consider it a straw man. Rather, it was an example of extremely flexible contro
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Assuming a has type int: int a_val = a; if (a_val) printf ("returning b"); return a_val ? b : c; Anyway, it's not useful for complicated code that needs to do lots of stuff. It's useful for simple code that ends up being mor
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I'm not even clear that it's clear I didn't understand your point. I guess I have trouble communicating effectively. I thought your point was that flexible control flow structures like if-else allow you to change code quickly and more eas
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
All you need to do is hoist the conditionals out of the ?: if you have a bug and you want to inspect them, either with printf or a debugger. Everything else is available before the statement. Personally I don't use debuggers except to get
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
It strikes me that your argument taken to the extreme is that everybody should program in assembly language because you can do anything, anytime, anywhere. Well, at least as far as control flow structures are concerned. Certainly C is pre
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Since we're playing Space Nazi, I like this better: for (int i = 0; i < in->numVerts; i++) { dot = plane.Distance (in->verts[i]); dists[i] = dot; sides[i] = dot < -LIGHT_CLIP_EPSILON ? SIDE
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Basically it's a concise way to do a hard-coded table lookup. Tables are better for structurally regular code than if-else precisely because they restrict what that code can do.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I think you mean: $ echo "$PARENT" | sed 's_r/x_r$/_' P.S. It's a bit hard to believe I misread that... thanks.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
You mean like this? $ whoami | sed 's/hr/xx/'
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
empath? https://www.google.com/search?q=empath
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Some preemptive advice: pick a small (tiny!) project and do it with C and/or sh and other command line tools (don't forget about awk and sed). Often you can do something quickly in a shell script that would be a pain to implement in C, but
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
The traditional answer is that I would use it to promote and capture mindshare for a startup accelerator. An innovative improvement to the traditional answer is that I would pay people 1 cent for every upvote they receive. The first hypot
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
If you think TPB is good, you should see what private trackers have to offer.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
I would like to know which messages expect a reply and by when.

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