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by jcmhn 15y ago
Why I comment: When I'm learning a language I write comments for myself. Notes about syntax, idioms, gotchas, and whatever else. When I'm fixing a problem I leave XXX markers around to easily keep track of what I'm doing. When I'm writing m
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by jcmhn 15y ago
I don't think this is a hissy fit. Instead it is a passive aggressive move to show what full compliance would mean. "You want something stupid? Okay - here's all the stupid you can handle."
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by jcmhn 15y ago
They didn't realize that expanding the powers of the presidency and eroding the checks and balances built into the constitution would apply to the "other party" too.
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by jcmhn 15y ago
Even when pacman gets confused the steps required to fix it are very simple - because the developers don't believe in allowing magic anywhere in the system. It's as minimalist and elegant as freebsd and slackware were 15 years ago, but it's
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by jcmhn 15y ago
These studies always leave out the negative side of social sensitivity: bullying and exclusion. In a task worked on for 5 hours everyone still has on their party manners.
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by jcmhn 15y ago
I don't begrudge artists making money off their early hits for a few decades, but the professional descendants whining about lost revenue don't exactly excite my pity.
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by jcmhn 15y ago
Browser error messages and warning dialogs about POST data and mixed encrypted and un-encrypted data are worse than useless. Browsers need to be silent by default regarding things that users are not equipped to make decisions about.
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by jcmhn 16y ago
Careful buddy, you're edging into misogyny there. Next thing you know you'll be demanding proof regarding feminist statements about wages or health issues - and at that point you're practically part of the Talliban.
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by jcmhn 16y ago
Factor in the innate hilarity of anything involving the iCult with the soup nazi reference and you have what the kids call "comedy gold". There isn't any outrage here, just slightly amused contempt for the ridiculous way the retail drones h
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by jcmhn 17y ago
I checked a few that looked too good to be true and in every case the registrar was godaddy. I'm guessing that they probably block scripts that run mass queries against their system, or maybe they return results in a way that made the scrip
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by jcmhn 17y ago
If your script is a daemon, a runlevel or service script, an at or cron job, or just needs to spawn or control processes then trap will make you hate unix and your life.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Lonely deluded males spend money to impress girls paid to be there. Heartless mercenary females pretend they might be interested in the lonely deluded males if only they spent another $20. So it's an online strip club slash chuck-e-cheese.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
I switched to the cygwin urxvt a few months back and I've not seen a single "batch job" complaint on ctl-D since. (As an added bonus I get the best terminal emulation compatibility since... well, since ever)
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by jcmhn 17y ago
It appears more like a subtle joke than propaganda: a right-wing conspiracy story told in the style of left-wing sociobabble.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
But by the late 70s to early 80s (when I was of the age), this wouldn't have been tolerated. You can only be "dating" one person at a time. My time was a bit later, late 80s to early 90s - but at that time the general rule as I experience
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by jcmhn 17y ago
That said, its discussion and moderation system is still one of the best out there. The system was a decade ahead of its time, but imo the owners broke it by continually fiddling with the rules in an attempt to keep people from turning ka
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by jcmhn 17y ago
You can't get much more direct access to human motivation than with child safety issues. A reasonable argument can be made that child health and safety is pretty much the point of human civilization in the first place.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Is the fact that McCain is an empty suit and a handshake news to anyone? Or that Clinton is a moody castrating bitch? Or that Obama is kind of arrogant? Or that Palin is vapid?
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by jcmhn 17y ago
I'd like to think adults are more mature than kindergarten-level exclusion, fellow hackers most of all. People who aren't into geek things often display contempt of them, viewing rpgs and sci-fi as immature and weird. My guess is that she
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Some women believe that being polite or kind is tantamount to being a doormat. Such diseased thinking is apparently caused by a course in women's studies or speed reading self-help books.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Don’t undervalue either. As women (and compassionate people everywhere) we like to help and can get trapped in giving our time and ideas away for free because we’re afraid to ask for compensation. Your time is valuable, and needs to be pr
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by jcmhn 17y ago
> Their spinelessness and willingness to be the Bush-lite party could cost them dearly in the mid-terms and 2012. The republicans could pick up some disaffected democrats as single issue voters on hot-button topics. But the social conse
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by jcmhn 17y ago
IMO the "standard" of /etc is an explicit non-standard. It consists of free-form text and a filesystem - and all the tools that existing for dealing with those things.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
I'm not sure that the riddle questions were ever "real" interview questions. I got the "12 balls, find the fake" question at an interview once. It seemed to be more a tension killer than anything anyone in the room really cared about. The a
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Because gay culture is 10 years ahead of everyone else in using the internet to hook up. This ap is already 7 years obsolete in gay internet years.
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Now I'm just plain confused. I had finally figured out that the tooth fairy, bigfoot, jimmy carter, and women with a genuine sense of humor were all just made up by my parents. And now you tell me that at least some of them are real?
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by jcmhn 17y ago
I remember seeing that page the other day during the RWW facebook thing and being pretty sure it was going to fill up with those sorts of jokes. Real users are way funnier than troll-wannabes could ever be, because they sometimes manage to
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by jcmhn 17y ago
> Much of it is just "I haven't learned to do my job." The point of the article is that java makes his job harder. There are standard tools (syslog, truss, ldd) that he uses to troubleshoot problems under unix, and java supports zero of
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by jcmhn 17y ago
> - he equates uncaught java stacktraces with properly displayed error messages from command-line tools Maybe that isn't fair, but there's something about java that seems to make programmers think that uncaught exceptions are an accepta
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by jcmhn 17y ago
Preach it brother. Maybe java itself doesn't suck - I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt because a lot of fairly smart folks seem to like it. But a large number of real life java tools and programs suck. It's to the point where I

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