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by mathw 9y ago
Well I had only just finished my first CrashPlan backup set, so thanks a lot Code 42. The software's horrendous on Linux anyway, it just seemed like my best option. Now what? Guess I'll have to write my own. Unless someone's
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by mathw 9y ago
Except he didn't, it's in the very next sentence.
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by mathw 9y ago
If only that were true...
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by mathw 9y ago
GNOME isn't a toolkit, it's a full desktop environment. The toolkit is GTK+. And yeah it is heavier than Motif. It does a lot more with it, though. Whether you think those things are valuable or not presumably depends on what soft
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by mathw 9y ago
Doesn't matter if it was tongue in cheek, it was still said, and that's not the kind of thing CloudFlare really need associated with their name. Of course it's going to be dragged through the mud anyway now, but at least it&#
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by mathw 9y ago
If those two functions both need to own the data you're passing in, then they should take it by value, because in Rust passing by value means giving ownership of the data to the thing you're passing it to. It might give it back (a
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by mathw 9y ago
Not unless he can provide some evidence for it.
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by mathw 9y ago
That doesn't account for the cultural pressure on girls throughout childhood to be princesses, like pink things and cooking and babies and ponies, while boys are supposed to like computers and engineering and guns. We're still pre
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by mathw 9y ago
Well what do you know, I think you just proved that the ratio of qualified women in STEM professions in the Western world is due to cultural discrimination or disincentivisation instead of inherent capability!
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by mathw 9y ago
Indeed, however Google have said that their hiring practices for minority groups involve looking harder in those groups for candidates, not hiring candidates who don't meet the usual standards.
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by mathw 9y ago
I disagree. I think Rust is pretty easy once you've spent a bit of time learning about lifetimes. It should be substantially less surprising when it's got non-lexical lifetimes, though. Rust seems to me eminently suited to write h
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by mathw 9y ago
The author's "isomorphic" application is only stated as being the third section, where they're just rendering templates on the server side, and there's no client-side Rust at all.
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by mathw 9y ago
If you've removed possible bias from your hiring process, then you have to accept an imbalance is either a result of uneven retention inclusive-or something operating earlier in the process of training your candidates. The point is to
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by mathw 9y ago
Indeed but I think a lot of leftists would be very happy just to get rid of Trump. A right-wing government with a President who displays any kind of understanding of diplomacy, international politics and everyday reality would be an improve
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by mathw 9y ago
Me neither. It just seems really fragile and unwise. I've had people tell me that tests deal with all the issues I would fix with a decent type system, but this seems to involve writing tests to see if things are passing the right type
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by mathw 9y ago
Where I currently am (I'm a consultant, based mostly in various client offices), the floor has a lot of flex in it. When people walk past, I can feel it bouncing under my chair. We do have decent-sized desks, so the open plan isn'
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by mathw 9y ago
Go to a toy shop. Are there lots of things which are pink with pictures of girls on the boxes, and the boxes contain dolls, horses, cooking things, knitting, sewing and other crafts? Are there boxes with pictures of boys on containing toy g
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by mathw 9y ago
I've found it enormously useful to have languages which check on possible nulls and make sure I've attempted to handle them, rather than just merrily throwing a null reference exception when I get a surprise. It's also extrem
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by mathw 9y ago
That's where you need something like PowerShell, which pipes objects around instead of streams of bytes which are probably text. Of course, PowerShell has its own issues, but the idea of a shell with more meaning attached to things is
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by mathw 9y ago
A friend of mine used to learn new languages by implementing Tetris in them. Sad to say I'm here years later and I still haven't even implemented Tetris once in anything.
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by mathw 9y ago
Not really. Rust has an idea of "borrowing" references to things, which could be seen as increasing the reference count, but it's not a particularly good analogy because borrows actually have no effect on the original lifetim
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by mathw 9y ago
EditorConfig's not about that kind of whitespace though. That's a language-specific thing, best solved with an autoformatting tool like the utterly magnificent one that comes with Go. I don't much care for Go the language, bu
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by mathw 9y ago
When there are 22 courses, you don't want each one to be very big or you'll never get to the end of it.
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by mathw 9y ago
Are you referring to the 2->3 breakage, which was years ago and obviously breaky due to the change in major version, or is there regular breakage within the 3.x releases?
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by mathw 9y ago
You could, but why should you spend the cycles on that at runtime when you could've done it just once in the compile phase and errored out at a useful time instead of six weeks later when you hit the one branch you neglected to write u
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by mathw 9y ago
I think the reason for that enthusiasm is not so much that it's the new hotness (although it is some people's first encounter with the idea), but that it's now available in a mainstream language that their employer will actua
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by mathw 9y ago
Since C++ monomorphises every single template instantiation in a program, your debugger certainly should be able to tell you what the type parameters for that instance were!
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by mathw 9y ago
Type annotations are brilliant for documentation, and it does matter if they're checked or not, because otherwise they're just comments, and we all know comments become wrong over time. If the compiler doesn't enforce your ty
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by mathw 9y ago
Deep-fried battered pineapple rings were a staple of trips to the local chip shop when I was a child. Drizzled with syrup they make an excellent dessert when you've been running around outside all day. Not what you'd call delicate
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by mathw 9y ago
Sure it's not in critical mass or particularly radioactive, but Plutonium is toxic...

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