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by gouranga 14y ago
Sorry but you are too much of an idealist and nowhere near a realist. a) You have to work with the rest of society which doesn't have the same moral standard as you (or me). Consider the London riots. b) You would be killed without them so
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by gouranga 14y ago
That is when you are questioned, not when you are arrested. You can keep quiet as long as you want. Technically the simpler your questioning and therefore statement is, the more ambiguity is available in court which goes in your favor wheth
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by gouranga 14y ago
For reference, having been on the end of it (at Waterloo Station [1]), the police also use another tactic regularly which sucks but is easily dealt with: "I'll pepper spray you if you don't make a statement and say you were resisting arrest
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by gouranga 14y ago
> This people gained too much power. I am really frightened for our future. Agreed entirely. Unfortunately, as history likes to remind us, the only way to resolve these issues is legitimate bloody and violent rebellion. Unfortunately th
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by gouranga 14y ago
So someone in the US ICE makes a claim and that magically entitles us to kick them over the border and brush our hands. That's just fucked up. So what if he made lots of money from advertising. He took a chance. If it's illegal in the UK, t
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by gouranga 14y ago
Agreed, but this is standard tactics for the police. The police (particularly the met) are out to get an easy prosecution and fulfill their statistical requirements rather than fair and honest justice. They will pretend to be your friend an
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by gouranga 14y ago
I just stuck with winamp 2. I still have my crapfest directory of mp3s with no organisation. I right click the folder, hit play in winamp and sorted. However, I don't use any portable mp3 players any more and still use CDs when I actually w
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by gouranga 14y ago
Your code iterated more than once. Mine doesn't. Mine is O(N). This is one of the side effects of using all the functionality. On a positive note, your example is very lisp-like.
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by gouranga 14y ago
You miss one important point, which I've learned from many years of using .Net: Which dereference in your LINQ expression is causing the NullReferenceException? Try solving that problem when it goes pop in production and you have a couple o
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by gouranga 14y ago
If you're considering Action<T> and the numerous Func<T> implementations, then I disagree mostly. They decrease efferent coupling but do not decrease bugs. There is no direct correlation between readability and bugs from my
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by gouranga 14y ago
Agreed! I think Anders Hejlsberg actually said that null handling in C# was one of his regrets but I can't find a reference to it anywhere.
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by gouranga 14y ago
The problem I have with extension methods is semantics and determinism, particularly in the collections framework (if you can call it that - it's a mess). Great example: Look at System.Core's Count() inside reflector. Using pseudo code:
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by gouranga 14y ago
Also just because I have a hammer, it doesn't mean every problem is a nail.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Not necessarily. collection.Where(s => s.Property.Name == "Blah!").Single(); 4 hand grenades waiting to go off in that expression. Try and spot them. We have a 670kloc platform that doesn't have a single one in it (it's still .N
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think you nailed it there. I agree entirely. I occasionally crank up original UT and play on Facing Worlds for a bit ;-)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Depends if you like hats :) I don't :( Actually I was a little disappointed by all the upselling when they made it free to play on Steam. UT was "buy CD for 20 quid" and then waste 4 years of my life (and many vodka and dominos soaked atten
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by gouranga 14y ago
Let us not forget Unreal which was arguably better than quake at the time from a technology standpoint... However, I find that the gaming experience peaked with Unreal Tournament. Its been about appearance over substance since (apart from t
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by gouranga 14y ago
I don't think that they reduce bugs at all - that's a bit of a wired assertion to make. Its not about the programmers but the architecture. To be honest, the primary use case for lambda expressions in .net is LINQ and possibly container con
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by gouranga 14y ago
Agreed and it's an order of magnitude better than extension methods which .Net uses for the same functionality!
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think you are mistaken. For 99%+ of business level code which wires up pre-built J2EE components and builds domain models, then you simply don't need them. Even in C# for example, I've seen huge systems written in .Net 4.0 without a singl
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by gouranga 14y ago
ADA did. It didn't as of new projects around 2002 - people had moved to cheaper bundled platforms rather than the traditional compiler vendors I.e. MIPS/PPC FPGA core plus vendor C compiler. Older kit still uses it AFAIK but you won't see m
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by gouranga 14y ago
TBH I actually run a 100% not locked down default install of Windows 7 with Microsoft security essentials, IE9 and outlook. I've never once had a virus, worm or trojan. It's perfectly secure. The main issue is that most of the fuckwits out
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by gouranga 14y ago
yes and we were C2 cert in 2001. I was in charge of compliance. The PCs were locked in metal cabinets, cables shielded, all hardware ports disabled, no physical connection anywhere to the internet, vpn+checkpoint to other sites which were a
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm not joking here but windows is absolutely rock solid and is as secure as any Unix variant if you set it up correctly. If you don't, it's Swiss cheese. Windows is only insecure because they've set it up like that to aid consumers. They d
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm not that bothered :) I had an application called FuckYouDCOM that we sent to clients in the UK which fixed a load of clsid issues in windows 2000. No one seemed bothered about that either.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Chrome 19 on win7 x64. nothing else notable. +1 for API if it doesn't crash ;-)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Why? At least in the UK, their manifesto is crap. Nothing about healthcare or education.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Indeed. They even tell us which are the bad guys so we don't have to exercise our brains!
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by gouranga 14y ago
All while our unwanted persistent state of war rages and our supposedly but not appointed military counterparts fly armed drones to kill and name people under our name. Fuck this planet sucks. actually no, humans suck as a race.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Snap! Signing up... An Error Was Encountered The action you have requested is not allowed. :( Do you have a bug tracker I can report a bug about your bug tracker in? :)

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