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by irahul 14y ago
> Clearly, Kyle had no experience with eCommerce before this project as it's evident in his writeup. However, props to him for all the hard work. I don't know if it was your intention, but you sound incredibly vain and arrogant. "Clearl
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by irahul 14y ago
> (ps i was talking about the code on the server side; not chromium) Oh I see. > on the server side, it looks like the problem could have been avoided with better types - it seem that there was a confusion between status values that
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by irahul 14y ago
> (not java bashing - don't see why this couldn't be solved in java) Chromium is c++. The code diffs in the bug report are c++. Where is Java coming into picture?
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> It's a design choice that your product... which some people (myself included) pay money for How do you pay for Chrome?
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> Gender-variant behaviour should be tolerated instead of being discouraged. I never contended that. I said the same thing when I said elsewhere that all attempts to eradicate differences are not only misguided, they are dangerous. Peop
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Among other things, that try..catch won't do anything for SIGSEGV(int * p = 0; * p = 1) and SIGFPE(1/0). You can handle the signals, or you could miss them like you did just now. That won't be a design issue but an implementation bug.
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> that it can be crashed (or self destruct bug, insert your own word here) by a remote server at any time. It isn't by design that syncing can affect the whole browser; it's a bug in the syncing code which should have been handled. Ther
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> To avoid the complexities of C++ we turned to Perl which was fast to write in but wasn’t ready to be a web server. In earlier days, people were writing perl first using CGI, and then using mod_perl. Where are you getting the idea abou
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Looking at the code changes, the headline is just fear mongering. The main change is a check for the datatype; it wasn't checking for it earlier: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/sync/engine/... It was a simple logic bug. F
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by irahul 14y ago
> Please stop. Neither I nor this forum is subject to your whims. Use the 'flag' and downvote if that's all you have to say. All you are doing is adding unnecessary clutter.
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> then perhaps I should start subscribing to the GP's paranoid fantasies of an Orwellian thought police. Apparently schools actually banning free playtime is a fantasy. Did you actually read the article and my comment before running in
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> I apologize. Wow. That's the worst non-apology I have ever seen. "I apologize your face happens to be in path of my fist". A pig with lipstick is uglier than the pig without lipstick. But I guess that's what floats your boat. > I
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by irahul 14y ago
> I never indicated we should all be the same, rather we should all be free to develop our identities without the social constructs that society puts in our way. Minimizing differences, which you have advocated again and again, imply we
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> Sadly I think you have completely missed the point here What point did I miss? From the very beginning of this thread, you are advocating minimizing differences ? And I am saying minimizing differences is bad. There are differences
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> I'm not saying there are no differences (although there are virtually no professions that need be gender specific - men and women can be equally proficient at almost everything), but that we should foster an environment where we minim
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> the plural of anecdote is data Did I say this was the norm? And didn't I specifically mention that I hope these crazies are minority and don't enjoy popular support?
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> Which was to prove to you that those damn gender equality activists have taken us too damn far. They haven't proved anything to me other than triggering me into hoping that these crazies are in minority, and don't enjoy the support of
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> Removing (or reducing) fixed gender stereotypes allows individuals to express themselves withut fear that they are different, or that some how their behavior is wrong. Removing "free playtime" because it leads to gender stereotypes(as
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by irahul 14y ago
> A few years ago, a feminist political party proposed a law requiring men to sit while urinating > In 2004, the leader of the Sweden's Left Party Feminist Council, Gudrun Schyman,proposed a "man tax"—a special tariff to be levied o
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by irahul 14y ago
Please tell me someone fat fingered(the comment above is in gray), and this relevant, non-rude comment isn't really getting downvoted.
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> The market will not get any better without the investment of employers. I won't know anything about how the market will get better, but please don't count on your employers for your personal growth. If the employer does that for you,
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At this point, you are just trying to validate your investment. I see that you somehow studied postgres for 1 year before using it. Study postgres for whole your life; I couldn't care less. 1 year is neither the desired nor the required tim
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> For whatever reason all computer science education is geared toward someone who's already had about 6 years of self-education. I think exclusion, implicit or explicit, is bad. Especially when the course doesn't demand for any prerequ
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> In fact I'd go as far as to say that (to the nearest whole percent) 10 weeks is long enough to learn any skill to a competent level. I agree with most of your post. Learning Java in 10 weeks(5 days/week with about 5 hours/day) is more
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> Most programming jobs are very involved. Most vocal positions that are promoted on the Internet aren't. There are a hell of a lot of people churning out masses of code that runs things behind the scenes without so much as a though to
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> We've had a couple of victims of these schemes apply to us and we've had to rather sadly tell them 'no way' and explain why. If you aren't accepting candidates, won't it be better to explain(if you do explain) what you needed which th
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by irahul 14y ago
> Had they offered me real treatment, I don't know what you mean by real treatment, but a doctor will offer you what he knows is best based on his education, experience, past medical history and medical tests. If that's unreal to you, w
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you're not the kind of person that can do even the most basic research of how cable companies operate "Ask HN" doesn't qualify as most basic research?
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Does it have an inline context aware repl? It saves me the trouble of putting the breakpoint, running the request again, and removing the breakpoint. > You even have a complete analysis for each request, that you can open with one click
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you believe a poster sincerely thinks white on yellow text is a crime against humanity in a world of child soldiers, oppressive regimes, systemic corruption and walled garden app ecosystems, then why would you consider their opinio

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