jbenoit

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by jbenoit 2y ago
But then I'm paying hundreds or thousands of dollars of my time for maybe a few hundred dollars gain. Sure, it's more expensive for them in absolute terms, but it's more expensive for me in relative terms. Not going to get hu
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by jbenoit 2y ago
Hmmm. I can see how it would be more painful for them to fight, but most people were conned <$200, and it's rather self-sacrificing to fight for that. Plus, no-one wants a reputation as litigious, but starting a CAL is less conduciv
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by jbenoit 2y ago
They started collecting problems last fall, saying the top 550 submissions sent in by Nov 1st would get rewarded, to the tune of $500-$5000 each. Near the deadline, I counted the total number of submissions, and realized that each question
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by jbenoit 3y ago
Of course. It means people genuinely interested in your content will have it, but people looking to score cheap Internet points on you won't. ("Did you know he once called chapter 5 of Bob Smith's book 'under-researched,
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by jbenoit 3y ago
He said it was unfiltered. If I was giving out some of my unfiltered thoughts, I don't think I'd want them floating around the Internet for anyone to read at any moment.
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by jbenoit 3y ago
So do you never look at a program and try to figure out everything that it does? You always just read one function at a time?
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by jbenoit 3y ago
> You put it into a getters file and import it into the parent class. Almost every language has features for this Wait, what? So you can do this in C/C++ for sure. #include is not just for imports. But Java? C#? How!
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by jbenoit 3y ago
1. The author links to this file as an example: https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/blob/49b9cbf47c1... . How would you structure it better than it currently is without using sections? 2. So you have