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by jmaygarden 6y ago
There’s really no need for all of the speculation in this thread. Jeff Atwood documented the StackOverflow development process as it happened on his blog. Here’s the first announcement from 2008: https://blog.codinghorror.com&#x2
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by jmaygarden 6y ago
What's the incentive to perform if you cannot be fired? A "guaranteed job" might as well be a simple unemployment check.
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by jmaygarden 6y ago
How should the United States address this issue given that it is usually in the top 5 with spending on public education per student every year?
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by jmaygarden 7y ago
The legislative branch has ceded most regulatory authority to the executive branch. Telling companies what to do is a major part of that. If the Department of Health and Human Services was given this authority, and the President is in charg
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Fair enough, but I still wouldn't disregard Sun Tzu or Donald Knuth as making arguments comprised of "insanity rooted in nostalgia." That was my primary point. In any event, Knuth specifically made statements dismissive of C+
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
“Criticizing C++ in 2018 with arguments from back in 1993 feels dishonest.“ That statement itself seems intellectually dishonest. What has changed that invalidates his arguments? After all, C++17 is still backwards compatible to the C++ of
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
If one isn’t careful, you end up with interdependency between static initializers. Since the order of static initialization is undefined, you get fun bugs like your program crashing because a minor change caused the objects to link in a dif
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Use of static in the context of that C snippet is deprecated in C++. One is supposed to use an unnamed namespace instead. namespace { int myfunc() { return 5; } int x; int y = 4;
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Here’s a few of my personal favorite insane nostalgics: * Donald Knuth: http://tex.loria.fr/litte/knuth-interview * Linus Torvalds: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus * Martin Sústri
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
This doesn’t make any sense to me. I live in Florida, and it’s hard to find a restaurant that doesn’t serve seafood. Do you ask people if they’ve recently eaten seafood? How many people have you met that mentioned recently eating a potato?
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
I don't know why you seem surprised. It's not at all unusual for a skilled tradesman to be well compensated.
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Mobile Bay is fairly shallow, especially around the I-10 Causeway just south of this location. So, that makes perfect sense. Pensacola Bay to east is a much better natural deep water port, but the Alabama River made Mobile much more attract
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Title issues can be... interesting. I've had major headaches trying to title a boat purchased in a state that doesn't have boat titles in a state that requires them for registration. Eventually, you can lay everything out before a
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Which part do you think is illegal? Reselling at a higher price like that is called arbitrage, and it is perfectly legal.
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
That is true. I didn't mean to imply that white people somehow have it worse than minorities. That is not evidently the case with general police harassment and mistreatment. However, all races should be equally concerned with police ex
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Police violence is a universal problem. A Harvard study has shown that white people in the US are statistically more likely encounter lethal force from police than people of color [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
The risk of gun violence against police is completely blown out of proportion. Of the reported police gun deaths each year, the overwhelming majority are suicides. The biggest real risk to police in the US is vehicle accidents from driving
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Shot by Cops and Forgotten(news.vice.com)
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
OK, but Atom isn't pitched as a "lightweight vi." If I want to ssh into an embedded device and view a 2MB log file, then I sure wouldn't want that to require 300MB of RAM.
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
Storing every character in a doubly linked list seems like an extremely inefficient use of memory. Depending on your architecture, that could use 24 bytes per ASCII character (if the char in the struct is padded with 64-bit pointers). I ima
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
That's way after I had to reset a terminal and log back in the first time that I tried to use vi.
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
How would you use TCP sockets to de-duplicate Kafka streams with a many-to-many communication pattern? Surely there is a valid scalability reason for why AWS IoT only provides "at least once" guarantees in their MQTT broker even w
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by jmaygarden 9y ago
If you define a class by the top 20% of income earners, then you can never have a "classless" society. You'll always have a mathematically top 20%. That's an entirely different idea than say nobles versus peasants or rac
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
My biggest takeaway from the article is that HP has a bunch of jerks building their marketing pages. I had to close the tab and navigate back to this entry from the front page just to complain about it. Edit: Thank you for changing the link
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
What do you mean? I personally know people that received sentences comparable to a rape conviction for white collar crimes.
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
5 people were granted immunity in Hillary Clinton's email scandal and nothing came of it.
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
Everyone is in legal jeopardy if they speak freely with Federal agents. It's a one-side exchange where they are allowed lie to you to extract information, but you go to prison if a statement that you make could be construed as a lie. I
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
The two Jewish tribes were expelled. http://www.pbs.org/muhammad/ma_jews.shtml
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
That's very well put. The "mid-wit egomaniac" is much more destructive than the "brilliant jerk." The jerk at least knows that rewriting working code is expensive and risky.
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by jmaygarden 10y ago
It's seems to me that you've gutted the entire argument of the GP. The ACA was the only piece of evidence presented. Everything else is unsubstantiated personal opinion. I also take issue with the lack of scope and over-generaliza

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