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by jemfinch 15y ago
Basic programming like Pascal's triangle represents the easiest stuff we do on a day-to-day basis. We write code. Pascal's triangle is code. Would you rather be tested on your ability to comprehend a multi-kloc codebase and make correctn
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by jemfinch 15y ago
How?
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That's an excellent point that I wasn't even aware of. I look at unobtrusive watermarks like I look at the BSD license: you can use the image, but you're legally bound to preserve attribution, because the creator released the work for notor
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Six months passed between the announcement of the iPhone and its release. More than a year passes between each iPhone generation. 9 months, even in the mobile world, is just not "a really long time", and we're talking about a version of A
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It was being downvoted because it simply wasn't factual. Android was not closed "from 2.x to 4". Honeycomb (3.x) was first released on devices in February 2011 and its source was opened in November 2011. 9 months is not a "really long ti
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by jemfinch 15y ago
This is precisely why I agree with C++'s choice of a balanced binary tree as the default map implementation for its standard library. There's no denying that in the vast majority of cases hashing is faster, but that's an optimization, unne
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"A really long time"? Seriously--I know it's been a busy year--but the nine months (from February 2011 to November 2011) during which Android was being used in certain tablets without being open sourced hardly qualifies as "a really long
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I'm pretty technically advanced (both with computers and with photos) and I don't know how to remove watermarks. They prevent theft like the lock on my front door prevents theft: not by making it impossible, but by making it harder. They'
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by jemfinch 15y ago
How long has this existed? I don't recall seeing such an option when I deactivated my account almost a year ago, and it might be worth trying to reactivate my account just to get this data.
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> However, I think that if that 1 service makes it possible for you to backup all your information and allows you to remove all the information from their service if you want to, then it shouldn't be a problem... Something like Google's
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> They are becoming the center of the information universe to their customers. This is not a good thing. Why isn't it?
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The constitutional convention of 1787 seems to have done a pretty decent job.
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> No, when people say "duck typing" they're talking about dynamically typed languages No, they're not. Explain OCaml's object system to any Ruby or Python programmer and they'll say, "Oh, it's duck typed?" Why do you think so many pro
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by jemfinch 15y ago
When people say "duck typing" they mean structural typing almost universally. You're not going to change them to use your terminology. Also, names are just shorthand in Go; Interfaces can be declared and used at point of declaration, and
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Do you honestly believe that people understand "This object of this subclass has all the methods of its superclass as well as all the methods of its class " better than "This object has all the methods of its declared interface type"
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by jemfinch 15y ago
How can a journalist write an entire article about the stock price of company without stating its stock ticker symbol, ZNGA? It's a little ridiculous that I had to go to wikipedia to find that out.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Ah, then I misunderstood JabavuAdams's post. That's a good point.
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You mis-parsed his statement. It's ((self-driving car) owners), not (self-driving (car owners)).
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I'm interested in which particular comments you think demonstrate a lack of tact, and how you would improve them to be more tactful, if you have the time.
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The demand for inconvenient truths is always lower than the demand for reassuring lies. My tone is as polite as I could make it while making the points that I believe needed to be made.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I'm going to say it because it seems no one else is. I apologize ahead of time for my brutal honesty. You need to consider the possibility that you're not as competent as you believe yourself to be. Dunning-Kruger[0] is real, and your pos
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by jemfinch 15y ago
The two decades of experience we've had since the 90s, building things with exceptions, have fairly adequately demonstrated that they're not superior to return codes, despite their (apparent) theoretical advantages.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
One of the largest webmail providers on the Internet and you're surprised it has a page worth of email-sending computers?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
As far as I know, no one anywhere uses universal hashing. Are there some modern, serious uses of universal hashing that I'm missing?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Depending on the number of objects you're allocating, it's often better (for reduced fragmentation and smooth performance) to use an allocation strategy like GCC's std::deque: allocate fixed-size buffers, and use an exponentially growing ar
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by jemfinch 15y ago
You only end up copying O(N^2) elements if you copy elements at all. You need not copy: you just keep a vector of pointers to your fixed buffers, a la GCC's deque implementation. That vector of pointers will be copied (and thus ought to g
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Ah, no. I was actually thinking of DJB's daemontools, but had supervisord on the mind because it was mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Daemonization is really something that ought to be done outside the process being daemonized, a la supervisord or (if you prefer Python) something like my own project, finitd[0]. Unless you have something you must do as root before droppin
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by jemfinch 15y ago
It's telling that DC has the highest concentration per capita of people making more than $200,000/year.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
"perhaps you guys are arguing semantics." I think that's a given, since they're arguing about the semantics of a programming language.

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