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by lars512 16y ago
Sure, it's roughly readable, but even here Perl makes several aspects of the loop implicit and buried in syntax (the line variable, stdin as source of the lines).
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Absolutely. Steam's model is great, and the ability to install a fresh new computer, whack on steam and have my whole game library available is a huge incentive for me to keep buying games this way. When I could recently install Steam on my
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In my time in Japan, I felt an overwhelming lack of diversity which really shocked me in comparison to my home country of Australia. I now realise this is because one in four permanent residents of Australia were born overseas (2006 census)
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I've helped out my mother in her business for years, on evenings and weekends. Overall, I haven't found it a good experience, mainly because of two issues. Firstly, I really don't have the time to put her affairs in order (and keep them tha
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This is only true if you think of the result narrowly as a well known final running state. In reality, what you work with is more like a wavefront which is updated as bugs are found and requirements are better understood. If you work in a t
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Not from my iPhone...
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by lars512 16y ago
You've said Windows 7 scales reasonably well, and I know from experience that Gnome does too. The real question is: why doesn't desktop OS X scale better? For the past three major releases of OS X I've been hoping for a move to resolution-i
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Reiss is saying: "some people call X the set of motivations which get called intrinsic, but actually there's no set X which is really shared between everyone". As an example, children can be motivated by curiosity or by grades and competiti
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You've missed the point of the article. The world sucking makes people change their attitudes and err on the side of believing that people who are unfortunate are in their situation due to character flaws (rather than bad luck or bad starti
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Sure, if my data is tabular I always end up with a CSV-like arrangement, usually space-separated. The original article however talks about how data always ends up hierarchical and tree-like. JSON represents tree-like data very succinctly an
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I had the opposite problem at a student intern gig. I hadn't experienced smart pointers before, and was double freeing memory accidentally. The fun part was that the unit tests for my code always worked. It was always someone else's code wh
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Languages are constantly evolving. Sharing a written script encourages different dialects to borrow words from each other in their written form. Sharing a phonetic script would instead encourage them to also borrow words in their phonetic f
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The use case for numeric local revisions is pretty clear. How many global operations do you really do? In reality, nearly all operations are local. So would you rather write r37 or 0b090d7267df? Why wouldn't you want the choice?
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Mercurial also has had rebase built-in for some time. For git users who have compared both, what features made you choose git over hg?
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Looks to me like he had two problems. The first was that git gave very poor error messages and needed a confusing series of command-line options. In mercurial, this is much better; the pull creates a new head, and tells you what to do if yo
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Whilst I'm sympathetic to discussion of the wealth divide, a balanced treatment would be nice. The article tends to blame the rich, which really amounts to a claim that anyone who's wealthy has cheated the system somehow, or that our curren
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by lars512 17y ago
Spinning up servers like this is nice, but if all you want is a vanilla install, Rackspace is definitely the way to go. Their web site is far more user friendly, and they've got a nice iPhone app you can use to spin servers up and down as y
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Part of me feels like this is a natural phenomenon since ticket prices are artificially deflated, so as to be accessible to the broadest range of fans. This creates a gap between what people are willing to pay and the price they are offered
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iTunes for Mac is only adequate for music (a.k.a. yesterday's use case), and plenty of other players work very well for music too. In comparison, most people still don't have hard disks big enough to fit their entire movie collections, whic
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by lars512 17y ago
You say reference counting is far more expensive, but that's only in CPU cycles. Compare Python (reference-counted) and Java (garbage collected), and Java's memory use is 3x greater for similar programs, at least in my experience (also in t