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by mathw 8y ago
I concur. YouTube need to have a clear policy, explain it, give people a notice period, then implement it. If they want everything to be monetised in order to fund the ongoing existence and development of YouTube that's entirely their
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by mathw 8y ago
I feel like the author needs to explain why the menu-based user interface is better. That's taken for granted, but is it actually true? And consider that the response to that is likely to be different for people who learned computing o
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by mathw 8y ago
There is if those resources are being used to do more stuff... or you put the battery in a car.
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by mathw 8y ago
Unfortunately incompetence can sometimes lead to increased profits in the short term. Why else is there so much horrendous software out there?
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by mathw 8y ago
Maybe they should have had a "quackslike" operator :)
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by mathw 8y ago
Alex French Guy Cooking (he's French, he cooks, he builds crazy contraptions to help, check out the video about the supposedly heavy duty pasta machine he bought from China to help him make ramen noodles faster) Tom Scott, I think a lo
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by mathw 8y ago
Alex French Guy Cooking is one of my favourite channels. Entertaining and informative and who else builds custom noodle-drying equipment for a series about instant ramen? The turbo-charged camping stove wok burner is a bit alarming though.
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by mathw 8y ago
It's so painful to get started that I'm not at all convinced the okay-ish language experience is worth it. I feel like Go was on the verge of something brilliant but managed to miss it by a couple of significant areas.
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by mathw 8y ago
But at least that makes it no harder to ask for a specific version of something. Go not having version locks for dependencies by default is a major failing. Fortunately it looks like that will be changing.
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by mathw 8y ago
Exactly this. Microsoft took something that worked almost all the time and turned it into a technical nightmare. I've spent hours trying to fix it for myself, both normal Skype and Skype for Business, and for my sister who has been try
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by mathw 8y ago
I wrote a program yesterday in 1.25 which did some simple file I/O right there in main, didn't need to be fancy at all... and then this morning I come online and find that we now have fs::read_to_string and main can return a Resul
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by mathw 8y ago
Just like aikido, the teaching of other arts also varies... and yet those who like to badmouth us at every opportunity will assume the worst aikido school in the world is exactly representative of all of us. And there is some utter nonsense
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by mathw 8y ago
More or less zero, yeah, because in general aikidoka don't train to fight in the UFC. This comes up again and again. Aikido's useless in MMA competitions, useless in cage fighting, useless in UFC. So what! If you want to do these
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by mathw 8y ago
I'm really happy about this announcement. As a fairly high-ranked user myself (7.8k at the moment) I try to use the tools the site lets me access to counteract some of the nonsense directed at new and enthusiastic people and the unreas
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by mathw 8y ago
Yes, it's the draft release notes.
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by mathw 8y ago
Yes we do, and that's fantastic, because that's also paying for my sister's cancer treatment, my Mum's thyroid medication, the drugs Dad had to clear up a fungal infection in his toenails, the surgery my friend had to re
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by mathw 8y ago
Photons with identical properties are indistinguishable from each other, so not really! You can get really picky about sending out only certain kinds of photon and filtering them when they come back, but you might have some of that kind of
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by mathw 8y ago
I've been playing with Flutter and it seems pretty good. Dart isn't too hard to get your head around and isn't too annoying, although I do find myself disappointed that I have to learn yet another language for it. I don'
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by mathw 8y ago
This is quite different, because Google Talk was a pure data thing, while RCS is something the carriers are going to be keen on. They're particularly keen to be able to sell RCS messaging access to businesses, lest those businesses who
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by mathw 8y ago
If I recall correctly, it was called JScript because it wasn't actually fully compatible and because it had extended stuff - there was a JScript host for Windows scripting at one point, and there was talk about using it for ASP instead
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by mathw 8y ago
And it's not going to stay that way through legal bludgeoning. Where's the technical innovation? Where's the work that's going to make working with an Oracle database package something less akin to being chased by a swar
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by mathw 8y ago
I believe trademark laws require trademark holders to actively enforce them or they run the risk of losing the trademark when it comes up in something that actually matters. Although really Oracle should have the sense to see the state of t
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by mathw 9y ago
As far as I'm aware Google have never actually said what they intend Fuchsia to be for. It may never become a product, or it might be the long-fabled-in-the-tech-press replacement/merge for ChromeOS and Android. It's entirely
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by mathw 9y ago
Both positions! Woooo! Trait methods, eh, we'll just have to live without that for now, just making it easy to return iterator chains from functions is a massive thing for me and a huge boost to the usability of the language and the pr
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by mathw 9y ago
It's in 1.26?? YES! YES! WOOOOO!!! That's basically my birthday present.
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by mathw 9y ago
Every release that doesn't have impl Trait is a bit of a disappointment, but I appreciate it has to be done right. So excited for that one single improvement, it's going to make many things so much easier. Especially working with
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by mathw 9y ago
In Britain, we ate bread. Lots of bread. Seriously loads of the stuff, along with other grains and grain products (oats, barley, porridge, beer). We also ate other root vegetables native to Eurasia such as carrots, parsnips, swedes and turn
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by mathw 9y ago
Rust doesn't have C++ constructor/destructor semantics. It doesn't require manual tracking of object ownership. You just have to say when you're passing ownership and when you aren't, and the compiler takes care of
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by mathw 9y ago
I think it's more that there's one in the standard library, so you don't actually need to write one in Rust, but if you look at how they did it you'll find that it was written in unsafe Rust because that's how you d
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by mathw 9y ago
Thing is, any of us who've been in the software industry for very long have probably seen places run like this and that it is not the best way to get quality software out of the door in a reliable fashion. And yet it still happens. (in

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