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by jheriko 11y ago
hes not "exceptionally" funny to me, but i'd not want to say he is especially poor as a comedian... there are many out there who are much more deserving of that level of criticism, and plenty of others who i find much funnier
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by jheriko 11y ago
this is a good point. thanks for taking the time to try and educate me :)
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by jheriko 11y ago
i don't agree with that line of thinking... i'm just saying that this is what i perceive in others.
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by jheriko 11y ago
because only an english speaker partaking in casual racism would, imo, label a stereotypical arab as 'achmed'. from what i've seen its an exceptionally rare spelling of the name born of parody of the difficulties english spea
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by jheriko 11y ago
just to clear up. i am actually an arab. i think apu's name is a joke on the exceptionally long names of sri lankans... and yes, it is casually racist - or at least pokes fun at a nationality if not a race (whatever the case, its not a
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by jheriko 11y ago
...like the british english themselves. </stereotype> XD
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by jheriko 11y ago
there is a stereotype of arabs as thieves and conmen. "you thieving arab" etc. it think its there due to piracy and the barbary wars... as a guess i also think i am the only one who really took any issue, and its half-hearted at b
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by jheriko 11y ago
which? i didn't intend to make mistakes. XD
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by jheriko 11y ago
i'm not american. i'm not entirely comfortable that this bothers me given the seemingly innocent intent either... but it does. the joke is as much on it being 'honest' as it is 'achmed' from my perspective... a
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by jheriko 11y ago
I only mentioned it because I normally don't give a crap about these kinds of things. I am genuinely surprised that I am even slightly offended by this... its not a rational choice. p.s. I am doing this as I wind down after a long day
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by jheriko 11y ago
tbh, i was judging too quickly given that i don't have masses of experience with this... but i still think the intent of a stereotypical name is there. my reasoning was: 1.) never seen an arab transliterate the name this way. ahmed, ah
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by jheriko 11y ago
he means replacing comments mentioning revision numbers. no source control migration does this - it would be harmful if done unchecked (revision numbers like 1 will turn into compile errors or very confused comments in the most naive implem
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by jheriko 11y ago
i'm usually quite thick skinned about these things... and maybe I am reading too much into it, but using a stereotypically racist American/English misspelling of an arab name to convey some amount of untrustworthyness? (the same c
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by jheriko 11y ago
I refuse to lay in it! There is one type of correctness, it is called 'correctness' everything else, 'political correctness' included is a flavour of 'wrong'. Its also easy to overreact when you consider yourse
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by jheriko 11y ago
in general with code, if it needs explaining with comments then its not written cleanly. sometimes there are confusing external considerations, like mathematical algorithms or additional constraints - that is what comments are for imo, expl
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by jheriko 11y ago
i'd even go as far as to say that it is a goal for a great many people in life, and the standard position is that inheritance is a good thing, and that taxing it stinks... ...except perhaps if its very rich people you can not equate wi
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by jheriko 11y ago
Wealthy people talking about economic inequality - no matter how valid your points - is going to stir trouble. Its like men talking to women about sexism in the workplace, or able-bodied people talking about the abundance of disabled access
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by jheriko 11y ago
Actually this code /is/ horrible in many ways (single letter variable names instead of something descriptive?!?), as is 'the old style' in general - which is why those practices are uncommon or considered 'bad'
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by jheriko 11y ago
and just like life you pay for it by having to maintain and copy all of that extra genetic mass... much as the programmer pays by having more content to navigate, where most of it is not part of the program code.
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by jheriko 11y ago
> They are productive because they are scared. that and its context very heavily implies that this is the case, otherwise it explains nothing.
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by jheriko 11y ago
utorrent did this quite well actually... i'm not sure if the installer came to put users at ease, or install malware, but i do miss that quality.
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by jheriko 11y ago
thats only true in some cases. in general it is not true.
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by jheriko 11y ago
maybe a long time ago this was a sensible function to have... but i wonder why this is here at all? myself from the 1990s would wonder as well. file i/o functions in the c standard library make this a pointless exercise today... emacs.
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by jheriko 11y ago
politics is a component too... i wouldn't go looking for purely intelligent decision making from a government selected by popularity contest. the perception that school is getting easier, a criticism of the government that is political
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by jheriko 11y ago
i think you are thinking of a special case... in general this is not a problem because the working directory is specified. most users never touch a command line tool or system component where this kind of thinking is most valid because it w
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by jheriko 11y ago
yes, and even if they weren't, i'm pretty convinced that they would work faster and harder too.
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by jheriko 11y ago
thats not /need/ its /want/. i'm also not sure i believe you that self contained executables are massively easier to deploy in most cases where the end user is involved. normally they want minimal interaction - if i
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by jheriko 11y ago
that should be a compile error, surely? 'returning a reference or address of a temporary' or similar... i guess warnings as errors and having warnings to the max has spoiled me.
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by jheriko 11y ago
too much maths, not enough understanding. i worked out a lot of 3d stuff for myself early on, and the linear algebra approach is quite confusing vs. taking an intuitive approach and noticing that somethings are the same or special cases of.
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by jheriko 11y ago
if its so big that its unwieldy as a byte array in a source file, does it really need embedding in the executable? what about the case when you want n blobs of data instead of one? good to know, but edge case useful...

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