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by jlg23 7y ago
The solutions to these problems in "extending and refactoring" are the same in dynamically and statically typed languages because in both you have to make sure functions/methods get the correctly typed input and return some e
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by jlg23 7y ago
> However, these don't tell us much about "truth" in the social sense. Which truth? Yours, mine, what we agree upon or what really happened? (Paraphrasing Rousseau)
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by jlg23 7y ago
40k/year (or 110/day) is nothing when you are active on mailing lists (yes, some of us still use them). Rule of thumb was "when you hit 1000/day, consider unsubscribing some..".
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by jlg23 7y ago
The comment was about caffeine content, which varies wildly depending on bean, roast, brewing method....
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by jlg23 7y ago
> Great hand eye coordination is an innate ability Do you have any source for that claim?
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by jlg23 7y ago
> France signed the Venice Convention in the 70s Not only that, according to a friend the French laws about replacements are so harsh, that he: * would have to use handmade wallpapers * was not allowed to replace a very thin outer door w
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by jlg23 7y ago
Wikipedia has a great explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block
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by jlg23 7y ago
> Has it occured to you you might simply not understand the advantages of this approach? > Putting aside how useful it is to only have one language to learn in a stack... Glad we are not talking about this - I'd have to point out
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by jlg23 7y ago
> I wonder why Andy didn't chose to write the JIT in Guile itself, with a binding to Lightening, rather than in C. Guile is designed to be embedded and have bindings written for it. OP states "eventually I should be migrating t
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by jlg23 7y ago
OP explicitly states that he cannot make that guarantee.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> The headline, "People who know how radios work can affect systems that are based on radio." is so much less scary. No, it is not. Nobody should be able to influence air traffic in that way just because she/he understands
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by jlg23 7y ago
> How does UTC jumping around affect this? If a leap second is removed it doesn't mean you've waited 0 seconds The OP did not make this claim. He said that waiting 1s does not necessarily increase the Unix time by one second -
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by jlg23 7y ago
We might have read the same articles "years ago", because I too remember to have read about that in pseudo-scientific publications (could have been about the Eliava Institute[1], that rings a bell with me). As probably did the mot
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by jlg23 7y ago
The article clearly states that his home country did care, albeit only through family connections to the top.
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by jlg23 7y ago
> The most interesting thing is that we’ve moved away from PayPal in the last two years and have only been receiving some minor payments and paying for a few online services. Albeit it would be really, really nice to do so, there is abso
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by jlg23 7y ago
That does not speak for your users... Even when one was too lazy or inept to just pick those locks, a collection of just a few different keys was usually enough to open any of the typical tubular locks. Source: Did this a lot when I was you
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by jlg23 7y ago
The author referenced[0] this paper: http://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/papers/lkh15_cgo.pdf [0] https://lritterdevlog.hashbase.io/#toc8
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by jlg23 7y ago
Ongoing work with big companies to replace existing technologies don't convince me. Though, neither does whining when the authoritative nameserver itself is returning bogus responses.
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by jlg23 8y ago
That depends on how you access them. If you only ever iterate over all files readdir(3) in a tight loop is as fast as it can get; but if you need lots of access to specific files, you will waste a lot of time reading directory entries jus
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by jlg23 8y ago
Should be motivation enough to implement fuzzy testing.
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by jlg23 8y ago
I am just trying to say that "exploiting" team sports usually has much more direct consequences than the equivalent in purely intellectual sports like IT. Thus, what's a loophole for a hacker who reads the rules, is just a ra
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by jlg23 8y ago
When people first look at ways to cheat in a team sport, I would argue that using them for target practice (in a ball sport that is) is a suitable lesson. For less evil geniuses, I bet we can rely on social moderation to find appropriate pu
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by jlg23 8y ago
In the discourse that followed WW2 we put the same burden on soldiers and we still today prosecute German soldiers who worked in concentration camps (see [1], for a book keeper sentenced to prison time in 2015; not actually involved in kill
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by jlg23 8y ago
I do the same when I have to converse in 2 or more languages daily. "On a besoin a room fuer zwei Personen por tres noches!" -- me to the housekeeper in the Dominican Republic (she did not understand it, but we had a good laugh)
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by jlg23 8y ago
But "For long commit messages, give a summary in up to 50 characters first" solves that as well. There are good reasons to use longer commit messages: * Link to issue in tracker (Projects can liver longer than the use of a single
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by jlg23 8y ago
Yes, but my clients usually don't want to add node to their infrastructure (I do CL) and, after all, the basic cleaning of SVGs is simple: Filter XML with a whitelist of namespaces.
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by jlg23 8y ago
I only checked a few raw icons and I am impressed: They are fully stripped of superfluous markup introduced by SVG editors; that was something which I had to implement over and over again for customers' build pipelines. Also, the possi
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by jlg23 8y ago
Visit arid Africa: eating an animal before it was /used properly/ (could be as simple as fertilizing the land here in southern Morocco) is considered wasteful.
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by jlg23 8y ago
> cook something else, not just rotate dish-ware. As a developer you are the chef. If all you can make is spaghetti, is it the kitchen's fault? OP makes the point explicit: the language shapes the way you approach problem solving. W
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by jlg23 8y ago
The author acknowledges that (see "Coming Clean"). The author also addresses your specific example (see "The Checkbox/Label Trick").

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