kgeist

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by kgeist 6y ago
Russian criminal slang is full of Yiddish words: ksiva, frajer etc.
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by kgeist 6y ago
To me, Ruby syntax/semantics look like an incoherent mishmash of bad practices/design choices; I wonder why so many people seem to love it to the point of thinking replicating its features is somehow an advantage. I genuinely don&
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by kgeist 6y ago
If they required values to always be initialized, that would either require a concept of constructors (the whole OOP thing they tried to avoid), or require all struct fields to always be explicitly initialized at every instantation (which c
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by kgeist 6y ago
It's "author's we", or "academic we". It's pretty common. We in this sense often refers to "the reader and the author".
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by kgeist 6y ago
>All had about the same performance when scanning through my whole /usr/include file tree. That’s why I wanted to highlight that technical characteristics are often not as important as the developer experience. Strange conclusi
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by kgeist 6y ago
I don't plan to go to Paris in the near future due to lack of time but being able to view it online allows me to "wander, ponder, and appreciate" at least to some extent
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by kgeist 6y ago
I am disappointed there are no Russian hackers in this conspiracy
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by kgeist 6y ago
You only need to remember 9 permutations (which themselves constitute a pretty logical sequence), the rest is a simple combination of them
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by kgeist 6y ago
More specifically, it was founded by an Armenian in Kazakhstan, who once briefly blocked access to the site to Russian IPs because of some feud with Russians. But yeah, everything to the east of Germany is Russia, right?...
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by kgeist 6y ago
The servers are definitely not in Russia because the team had to leave Russia due to the pressure from the government which outlawed it a few years ago. IIRC it runs on AWS because I remember when Russian government started banning Telegram
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by kgeist 6y ago
In 2021, it looks like Google is more predatory than Microsoft
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by kgeist 6y ago
The site is blocked in Russia. I wonder what American secrets it holds.
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by kgeist 6y ago
Design patterns appear in languages without enough syntax sugar. But having too much syntax sugar can be a problem, too. At least, design patterns translate between languages/systems, it's a common language. Syntax sugar isn'