kiruwa

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by kiruwa 10y ago
This article can be summarized as "Oh no! The 'wrong sorts of people' are winning! Lets ditch popular elections."
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by kiruwa 10y ago
A jury is a very restricted case. There is a supervising judge and two (or more) competing advocates. The process for choosing those advocates is very formalized (defendant selection and public official). Every one of these other participan
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by kiruwa 10y ago
This might be the definition of "trying too hard". I loathe Trump, but does huffpo honestly think this article is convincing to anyone who isn't already drunk on their koolaid?
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by kiruwa 10y ago
> For the basic core of a language, shortening names is good. You do have to admit the slight irony of the shortened string-handling function names in C, given this fact.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Sure, within the context of this generation of string-handling functions, the particular example of strpbrk makes sense. But there's a reason that this sort of name has been left behind in modern APIs.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
I don't think either of these are true, but now I understand where you're coming from.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
The problem with these examples of verbose functions is not that they're verbose, it's either that they encompass too much functionality or poorly describe what they do.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Eh, seems fine, just seems odd to be forced to do that for a three-argument function.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Are we anti-OOP then? And no, I don't believe you. Making your variable names more descriptive does not make your code less readable. Even when it's not strictly necessary, it's not harmful to comprehension UNLESS you refuse
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Including class variables? Their context is far larger than the immediate code you're looking at, longer/descriptive names seem basically required there, as they have essentially similar scope to functions. (Same logic applies to
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by kiruwa 10y ago
All hail strpbrk()! Do you have any defense of that? I'd be interested to read it. I think every article on coding advice I've read for the last decade favors long and descriptive function/variable names.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
It effectively limits all functions that return a value to 2 parameters. I rarely go over that, but it would seem a bit arbitrary to bump into.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
NHS and ACA really have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The NHS has serious problems related to accountability, the typical problem with huge multi-level government bureaucracies. Honestly, the NHS has similar problems to the Amer
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by kiruwa 10y ago
> Or when they oversimplify something you know a lot about. In fairness, I've literally never seen an accurate media report about one of the topics I know far more deeply than the average technically educated person (a particular NA
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by kiruwa 10y ago
80 is an _awful_ width for code in a programming paradigm encouraging long variable names. If you're comparing two values from class.accessor, you fly right past 80 characters if you have any indentation at all. Namespace hierarchies p
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by kiruwa 10y ago
> The difference between "social/political" and "economic" is superficial. If you're including all issues that have economic effects, perhaps I'd agree with you. But I'm talking about the decision-
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by kiruwa 10y ago
> I'm discussing the narrative No, you're discussing your narrative... which doesn't have much to do with the post you replied to. Greenspan is rather heavily implicated as one cause of the problems. But he's attempti
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by kiruwa 10y ago
This is rather silly. You've altered the definition of "free market" to the scope of things on the market, rather than the regulation of the market itself. Although some free marketers (and many others) argue that things like
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Uhm... no. Him being from a wealthy family is not an example of hypocrisy. Nor is his family business being fed with government contracts. You've _badly_ misunderstood the issue if you think that's hypocrisy. The question is... ha
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by kiruwa 10y ago
> You're blaming government regulations! That's absurd given many people at this point have said that 1) That's not actually what he said. He said that the regulatory apparatus is currently working to assist rent-seeking a
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Lend to 3rd world plutocrats, then hold their countries responsible for the debt when they run off with the money.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
The more severe problem is that there is a rather strong argument being made by the "Mises brand of neoliberal" that the primary cause of these problems is the lack of neoliberalism in the central-banking world. Their argument is
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Is that _really_ the best examples he can come up with? Why not military support structures or privatized municipal services? I'm not sure two examples is sufficient to hold up his claims anyways, but the ones he chose were terrible. L
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by kiruwa 10y ago
> Two British examples [of neoliberalism], suggests Will Davies – author of the Limits of Neoliberalism – would be the NHS and universities “where classrooms are being transformed into supermarkets”. Without taking a bit of Davies'
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Interesting conflation of "hate speech" with "supporting terror" in the article.
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by kiruwa 10y ago
Worth considering when reading that article... http://theweek.com/articles/449646/why-expensive-build-bridg...
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by kiruwa 12y ago
Yeah... it really shouldn't have been downvoted. Should have just been purged.