hetman

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by hetman 15y ago
It's a nice idea but it's naive to believe everyone is going to adopt similar ideologies simply because we remove borders. Will everyone be happy to compromise? People have different ideas about how things should be run, even the assumption
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by hetman 15y ago
Because any discrepancies could flag corruption, maintaining consistency would require the corruption to be quite wide spread and far reaching into many branches of the government to be successful. Consider without this kind of system there
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by hetman 15y ago
That doesn't mean Latin is not a useful key to learning other languages for native English speakers. English lacks many of the concepts that exist in a lot of European languages; no grammatical gender, almost no noun case, verb conjugation
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by hetman 15y ago
Someone more familiar with Arabic may need to correct me, however I was under the impression that the shape of the letters is not at all affected by the letters it follows, but by their position in the word. Arabic letters look different de
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by hetman 15y ago
It's worth mentioning that Cream is completely Vim underneath, however, by default it uses the Common User Access interface for user input like most modern editors. It is also possible to enable traditional Vim input using expert mode, CUA
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by hetman 15y ago
The point parent was making is you can't slow the induction controller problem down because it would yield a completely different output due to the instability. Slowing down the sort of pen and paper calculation the court ruled on does not
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by hetman 15y ago
My tendency for perfectionism also contributes but for an entirely different reason; I often feel it's hard to motivate my self because of the increased effort yielding diminishing returns. Yet I know once I get started the perfectionist ca
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by hetman 15y ago
Except that most drivers can't afford two cars so they can get around on their non-average days. What is the percentage of people that never drive more than 40 miles/day in the US?
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by hetman 15y ago
I believe he was referring to the Windows 7 taskbar behaviour.
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by hetman 15y ago
Rack was based on WSGI, however the point is valid since Pump is using an API closer to Rack than WSGI. Indeed, the Pump website states: "No fancy start_response or environ here."
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by hetman 15y ago
Wait. So their great idea is to give credence to his claims? The guy was convinced there's an organised Marxist agenda actively working in western society to distort truth and keep its citizens in the dark. This will just vindicate his clai
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by hetman 15y ago
What's interesting to me here is the impact the right naming for a feature can have. I think "circles" as in "circles of friends" would be intuitive to most users. Probably because the concept corresponds to how people already organise thei
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by hetman 15y ago
I'd love an iPhone that can do what this phone can with swiping.
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by hetman 15y ago
I have to admit, this new Windows 8 approach has one aspect that is surprisingly reminiscent of how I saw the whole Windows CE product up to version 6. That is, trying to cram as much as possible of the Windows desktop into a form factor it
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by hetman 16y ago
I think what's more relevant is how well the standard library is designed to stay out of your way. Bloat and size are not always the same thing.
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by hetman 16y ago
It's amazing how often we take for granted that many cultural habits are nothing more than exactly that. Instead there's this tendency to assume they result from some sort of greater underlying truth. The reversal of colour gender associati
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by hetman 16y ago
I would like more details on how subtype polymorphism is equivalent to closures.
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by hetman 16y ago
Really? I've never coded in COBOL and it was pretty obvious straight away that it was an assignment.
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by hetman 16y ago
The title was obviously just an attention grabber implying a little about the content, it was the title of the original article after all. I upvoted because the article weighed in a little on the debate initiated by the other article recent
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by hetman 16y ago
What are some of your main reasons?
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by hetman 16y ago
No longer have to recompile the Ralink Wi-Fi driver on my netbook every time there's a kernel update? Yes please. On a side note, is there a good summary of new features out there that isn't terribly outdated?
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by hetman 16y ago
It should be noted that not all C compilers are fully standard compliant. Many embedded system vendor compilers for example use incorrect operator precedence. Available library can also do things in non-standard ways. This does not look lik
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by hetman 16y ago
I know it occurs in German between southern and northern accents where the r at the end of words is silenced in the north. I'm sure it occurs in other languages too. I think you're confusing vowel shifts with rhotacism. A non-rhotic speaker
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by hetman 16y ago
Funny you should say that. I saw someone post a link from an Aussie comedy show on another site. Apparently most of the Americans couldn't understand half of what he was saying, which surprised me because while distinctive, it's certainly n
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by hetman 17y ago
Indeed, this search term has been uncensored when searching google.cn from outside of China for some time. I'm surprised it took Tom's Hardware so long to get onto it.
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by hetman 17y ago
Precisely. This sounds like an argument for the superiority of static typing more than anything.
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by hetman 17y ago
In fairness, while I find it nice in most places, Python's indentation really works against it in two applications I can think of: Dirty command line scripting, and embedding in templates. You can create custom templating languages but they
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by hetman 17y ago
It's surprising how hard forms seem to be to get right. Forms in Pylons were terrible too... I've not used other declarative form systems besides this but it seems like a terrible idea in general. Do anything even slightly complicated (say
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by hetman 17y ago
Nice one, never occurred to me even though I sometimes would write my assignments this way. I guess the problem is it doesn't generalise to the case where you are comparing two variables. Fortunately not a problem with Python (the pedantism
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by hetman 17y ago
Unwillingness or inability to shift between development tools where appropriate is also something I've noticed characterises less experienced programmers (often evangelism can be driven by this). Using your example languages. I can think of

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