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by joesb 14y ago
> Pushing the back button on an android phone, by default ALWAYS goes to the previous activity. Good if it is the only apps you are using. But what if you switch to use others app for a while and switch back to this app. Can you remembe
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by joesb 14y ago
The screen of the device is not that big that you won't know where the button is; it's either on the top or the bottom. Also, if you know where the button is but you don't know what exactly it is going to do, do you really know where the bu
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by joesb 15y ago
Less people should have access to computer, it will make those who does more competent at programming.
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by joesb 15y ago
So PHP does not have the same power as Python, just like Java . Yet I don't see people saying Java encourage writing bad code. Different language has different limitation. Just because you can not have SQLAlchemy in C, does not mean C enco
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by joesb 15y ago
Then what does it intend to be that she hopes to use such property to fight back at TWSS bot?
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by joesb 15y ago
When you created a Random instance and pass in a long value (i), it is used as a seed. And then the seed used to generated random number. Your seed value from 0-100 is only varies in the last 6 bits out of 64 bits. Which I assume probably c
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by joesb 15y ago
Niether Ruby or Python do "pass by reference". They both do "pass reference by value". Which is a big difference.
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by joesb 15y ago
How much would their service be worth to you without other user's generated content? If it's more important to you to see other people's content than you putting out your content, then you should be the one paying them to access other's c
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by joesb 15y ago
Actually, yes. To be more precise, the rise of WebM-enabled browser market share ignores its WebM altogether. People use Chrome or Firefox because it's faster than IE, it has automatic update, it supports more CSS3 features (i.e. it renders
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by joesb 15y ago
So if a price of something is higher than what you want, you have to just live with it and can't form group with your friend to only buy from places that sell product at cheaper price?
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by joesb 15y ago
And, when you boycott a company, you don't buy a product even if it pass all your functional test/criteria for consuming. But you don't buy it because the product is made by some company you happens to agree within your group/community that
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by joesb 15y ago
And how can that S-EXP control structure be usable in all other scripting language beside Lisp? If you can answer this question then you have already answered your own question. But if your answer is "I don't have to because I use Lisp and
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by joesb 15y ago
> How can sharing something be wrong? Especially when it is essentially a bunch of 0s and 1s that you could write down by hand if you had the patience to? Everything in the world is essentially just a bunch of atom, too. By this logic y
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by joesb 15y ago
> whether he still uses it or not is of very minor importance to MS next to whether or not he pays for it. What's more important than whether he pays for it is whether everybody else will still pay for it. If everyone around you use Win
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by joesb 15y ago
MMM said adding more programmer to already late project doesn't make it finished faster. It didn't say having more programmer who already understand the project will make the project finish late. If that is true then one programmer must alw
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by joesb 15y ago
Many people have lung cancer even if they don't smoke, and many also died old without lung cancer despite smoking all day.
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by joesb 15y ago
What does it look like on tablet where there's no mouse hover?
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by joesb 15y ago
Only for case of instance variable. Python still has nested function, non-instance variable, and implicit declaration. Only it is worse in Python because, lacking `var` keyword, you will shadow the variable in Python
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by joesb 15y ago
> You pay a hefty price, that no one in reality pays What is this "hefty price"? Is it price without contract? Because we don't sell mobile phone with contract in my country and people still get iPhone.
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by joesb 15y ago
If Alice wants to, she can always copy the file out of the team's dropbox folder and email it to Bob.
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by joesb 15y ago
> The only part of education where the language matters is when it comes to spelling What about differences between languages in their ability to convey ideas.
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by joesb 15y ago
It's not mutually exclusive.
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by joesb 15y ago
If you owned a company "burgerbrain inc". Is it "well within reasonable right" for any of your employee to write "burgerbrain's guide to lock picking" without asking for your permission? Do you think it is within your right to write "[compa
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by joesb 15y ago
It throws type error at run time, not compile time. To be a statically type language you would need to throw the error at compile time. How do you raise (or not raise) error of this code at compile time and still make it feel like dynamic t
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by joesb 15y ago
> Predeclared variables are just as prone to typos, which will also break your code -- and just as prone to broken scoping. By accidentally shadowing an external variable you make it unreachable for the remainder of the current function
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by joesb 15y ago
Running outside doesn't produce something of value, so I guess you are shifting your position. Running gives you better health, so if you value your health then running, even on treadmill, already gives you something of values.
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by joesb 15y ago
> "hot coffee may be hot"
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by joesb 15y ago
Do you see search result #1,000,000 on your first page? Congratulation, your internet is censored.
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by joesb 15y ago
Personally, I don't want to blur the line between paying and donating. If you want to make business out of something, price it. I'm not going to "donate" if you are not some non-profit charity organization. But I'll gladly "pay" the same am
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by joesb 16y ago
You can write CoffeeScript that uses jQuery, so that it compiles down to Javascript that uses jQuery. You can also use Javascript and jQuery directly. Or you can write CoffeeScript without using jQuery at all.

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