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by gosu 13y ago
OS code has to do a lot of validating input and braceful style causes functions to be visually dominated by boring validation code. It's also surprisingly nice to have a visual distinction between boring conditions like if(!found) return; a
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by gosu 13y ago
For what it's worth, your post made me realize how much of a polite hater I was being in my post above.
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by gosu 13y ago
People online have tended to be more abrasive to total programming novices than to people who have more advanced questions. I don't think it would be that bad for you. But another thing is that, for large and old communities where the devel
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by gosu 13y ago
I qualify as a Linus defender, but I disagree with your "he's the boss and it's up to his contributors to leave" idea. The whole point of these discussions is to use reason to encourage problematic people to change themselves, rather than c
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by gosu 13y ago
I agree that people should be talking more about this. As an older student who hangs out on IRC a lot, I see two phenomena: - People get initiated into programmer culture pretty young, before they learn to stop being pretentious. They reall
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by gosu 13y ago
You're right. Everything is relative and you can do whatever you want, exactly as the poster whom you've responded to but completely ignored pointed out. The point is that he's calling on people to either match his values, or else risk losi
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by gosu 13y ago
I use xmonad with a custom tiling and dzen setup that arranges my workspaces on a 3x3 grid and shows a little indicator of where I am on the grid in the way that gnome-panel used to do it (before "the accident"). All workspace navigation an
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by gosu 13y ago
> infinitely large workspace. I've never considered this. As many terminals as the eye can fit, with a living rainforest as a backdrop. If it doesn't seriously hurt the eyes to do it for programming-session durations, then I'd gladly p
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by gosu 13y ago
My wants are not being acknowledged. I want to see my wants on the list.
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by gosu 13y ago
It's reasonable not to support it, and it might not be your fault, but you should know that I can't interact with the site at all with Conkeror running on Xulrunner 19.0.2.
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by gosu 13y ago
Why does the Segway qualify as a great invention? I had always thought of it as worse in every way compared to a bicycle or scooter for able-bodied people.
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by gosu 13y ago
It doesn't matter at all, but the expression is "in the throes of death", not "in death throws".
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by gosu 13y ago
I seriously don't understand why you're supposed to feel bad about posting 4 pictures of yourself and making a joke photo. It didn't seem that wanky to me, so it's surprising that it was able to inspire this many people to forget about huma
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by gosu 13y ago
Not sure where all this hate is coming from. "meathead frat boy"?
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by gosu 13y ago
While you give good advice, I'm going to call you out on the humblebrag here. I imagine that OP might feel kind of bad to hear about the troubles of a deans list student who had trouble becoming a published technical author.
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by gosu 13y ago
I get what you're saying and why it has to be said, but I want to add that I think it's reasonable to work for reasons other than buying leisure. In particular, I believe that it's important for me to be useful to society, and I also consid
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by gosu 13y ago
To be fair, that's a Java issue and not an Ubuntu issue. It came up for me with xmonad on another distribution entirely.
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by gosu 13y ago
I interpret your sentence as follows: in the "hypothetical" case that this comes to pass, then you, as someone who had paid money, would feel ripped off. When you say "would" here, I don't think that it makes your "as someone who..." clause
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by gosu 14y ago
>if you can't handle the consequences then you're not fit for life This is pretty harsh. If you applied similar harshness to your own actions, do you think you'd approve?
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by gosu 14y ago
That's definitely good advice at the end, but I think that the professor's response is pretty disproportionate. Presumably, it was a much ruder interruption to the class to stop everything and publicly humiliate a student whom he felt disre
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by gosu 14y ago
Taking you literally, I'd say that a wall is clunkier than a headset. But being reasonable, I'd say that those approaches are pretty different and neither is obviously better. Why do you favor projections?
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by gosu 14y ago
I find this dramatic rhetoric off-putting. OP seemed honest and nuanced. There might be a valid point to be made that his feelings are toxic to society, in some subtle way, but I'll just echo the other people here in saying that he comes of
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by gosu 14y ago
I think the standard counter to this is that, if it can be reasonably assumed that you're not welcome to do it and if you're not being entrapped, then the ease with which a crime is committed should have no bearing on the severity of the cr
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by gosu 14y ago
I felt the same, until I put it in my backpack while on and the video card died. That particular model has a known defect in the soldering on the video vard (NVIDIA's fault), so be careful with how you use it. Fun fact: apparently, people h
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by gosu 14y ago
To add to the list, I recall MAX featuring a similar kind of simultaneous turn-based thing. Players could both move during the same turn, but only had so many action points per turn, so you couldn't really get too far ahead just with good m
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by gosu 14y ago
Meanwhile, network folks have been drawing clouds since 1980.
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by gosu 14y ago
I'm surprised that you powered through it. I wouldn't trust anything from a person who expresses themselves via malformed haiku.
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by gosu 14y ago
I was just trying to give interesting details, not so much to excuse or accuse. I just meant that, from the tone of discussion and my general impression of the people, that's how I assume that they wound up there. I imagine that it also has
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by gosu 14y ago
I went and read the forum in question. It's full of nontechnical people who are obviously teenagers. It reminds me a lot of video game forums I used to visit, with gaudy image signatures and all, except here the competition is to collect (a
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by gosu 14y ago
I agree. I think there's some kind of Pavlovian thing going on here because I have cyan and purple syntax highlighting for the "funnest" elements of my code.

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