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by jlg23 7y ago
I am sure that riot police that saw this was actually grateful. The MO for protesters around the world is to haul the charges back at the police - he just disabled it. In my experience, the only cops who like tear gas are those who never us
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by jlg23 7y ago
> Why would anyone want to contribute solutions that others can profit off of for free? For me: * I profited off free software that could have been sold as well but was not (25 years BSDs and Linux). * I rather see my code in use because
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by jlg23 7y ago
The use cases are basically static, final methods in OO-speak. The article simply shows a straight forward way how to implement that.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> In fact, caring for women and children in our culture was so important that we dedicated an adult male to basically every woman in the country, and her offspring. That is, at least to me, a very interesting way to describe a patriarchy
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by jlg23 7y ago
> It's futile .... But it is fun .
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by jlg23 7y ago
> And is that desirable? Why do we want users to know less about how their computer works? Because we'd complain ourselves if using a hammer required knowledge about metallurgy.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> If it's used at all these days, it's used for exception handling. And in all of the CPS code.
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by jlg23 7y ago
Or just open a ticket on the package and inform the user one "has 'technically' done all one could do given time constraints"? I get the frustration, but this looks like a case of improper idiot handling that just escala
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by jlg23 7y ago
> Nothing but touchscreens. And, according to the text and pictures in the article, lots of buttons directly on the steering wheel, one which activates their voice input.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> why would one set of charcters be less fit than another? Because one might already have phonetics associated with it. I literally have to read out messages aloud, have my wife read aloud other parts of the message so we can figure out
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by jlg23 7y ago
I cannot provide any examples for your languages of choice but mine (CL) is older and I do check out new libraries. And yes, I would be pretty irritated to find anyone in my team who thinks there is nothing else for him/her to learn,
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by jlg23 7y ago
> I'm not paid to learn new tools. I'm paid to write software. All fine, if your contract has the "I am a robot" clause or if you happen to write COBOL for a living. The rest of us will have to learn to stay up-to-dat
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by jlg23 7y ago
The comment you responded to was not about "learning in billable hours" Vs "learning in your spare time" but about the willingness to learn at all.
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by jlg23 7y ago
"mental"? In rural areas of central Europe you'll quite often find the Bible in hotel rooms for your nightly bible lecture.
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by jlg23 7y ago
Bible, Thora and Koran are all good for that purpose because even if you don't know them in your own language, you can compare the foreign language version with your native version verse by numbered verse. So are publications by intern
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by jlg23 7y ago
> In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab. Not sure where you got this from, here in Morocco, calling a Berber an Arab is a pretty sure way to piss him/her o
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by jlg23 7y ago
Milestones. As a freelancer I have insisted on payment after milestones and it never failed me. That and very strict "no pay, no work" ethics. The point is: Even when "there is no money", getting someone on board takes t
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by jlg23 7y ago
When IBM called it (IIRC) light path diagnostics we were grateful: open box, see problem. In color!
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by jlg23 7y ago
In those languages where it is not semantic, proper indentation still gives visual clues to the semantics: With proper indentation one can read programs in lots of languages even without their specific semantic markers. A simple way to see
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by jlg23 7y ago
Oh the irony of finding this link and a discussion about it on a website driven by a lisp dialect :)
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by jlg23 7y ago
> People with Asperger's or otherwise on the autism spectrum can be huge "assholes" by the definitions here. Does autism make you unemployable? Those "smart assholes" with Asperger I know can be very nice people
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by jlg23 7y ago
This is not the speedrunner community, this is everybody. Whenever this gets under my skin, I simply remember the classic: "I could place chunks of fat in a bathtub and call it art!" "Maybe, but you did not, Beuys did."
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by jlg23 7y ago
But config not being read by things not installed does not hurt either. And once I install these missing things, the config is read again. And I usually spend a lot more time with configuration than with installing...
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by jlg23 7y ago
Not really, Twitter is a platform for publishing your thoughts, Wikipedia wants to be a platform for knowledge/facts.
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by jlg23 7y ago
How much was land acquisition and noise proofing of residential buildings for those? The new airport in Berlin is not in a particularly densely populated area...
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by jlg23 7y ago
With dependent types: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type
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by jlg23 7y ago
Awesome for the company, but not so much for the customer. As a customer who values his time I have to manage one more recurring payment, I have to interact with (up)sales-people disguised as customer service and I have to keep records of c
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by jlg23 7y ago
Congratulations. A HD-failure in 1998 gave me the opportunity to try out FreeBSD before re-installing my GNU/Linux work environment on the new HD. After a week it was clear I'm not switching back and ever since I am a FreeBSD user
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by jlg23 7y ago
The article points out a correlation between "being addicted" and "being homeless" but does not provide any evidence that there also is a causation. With the same evidence one could write an article that says "inc
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by jlg23 7y ago
His attitude and that it might not be unwarranted is the main point of the article. I think the author found a nice way of saying "those who don't know (almost everybody), are insanely naive about the effectiveness of security mea

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