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18 points by maw 18y ago|7 comments
542.
by maw 18y ago
Real programmers also don't use libraries. Hell, they don't even use subroutines unless they absolutely have to!
543.
by maw 18y ago
There are good ideas in Atlas Shrugged, but they're presented so badly as to resemble a strawman argument. My copy is 1069 pages long, but Rand says nearly everything she has to say within the first hundred. Although, to be fair, I'd read
544.
by maw 18y ago
It's pretty easy to find out by pulling down one of their srpms, or by looking at fedora cvs. Why don't you do that?
545.
by maw 18y ago
Because bad parodies are, well, bad, and Atlas Shrugged reads like nothing so much as a parody of classical liberalism written by a recent convert to communism without a shred of literary talent.
546.
by maw 18y ago
I agree that it looks like git is going to win, but for entirely different reasons: 1) The person who wrote it is famous. It wouldn't have been taken seriously had (almost) anyone else written something comparable. 2) Network effects apply
547.
by maw 18y ago
What's the advantage in git stash? I'd be more impressed by it if it stored temporary but useful files that you'd probably never commit.
548.
by maw 18y ago
Thank you. By the way, I think Mark Twain had it slightly wrong. He should have said "shameless" instead of "an idiot".
549.
by maw 18y ago
If you're going to drop anecdotes like that, please at least name the senator.
550.
by maw 18y ago
I don't think the author knows what critical thinking means. Hint: it doesn't mean pointing out the flaws in everything.
551.
by maw 18y ago
It won't depend on ownership. If the Abebooks subsidiary remains in Canada (which they say they will), using Canadian banks (which they didn't say, but it seems likely to me), you can probably expect the international transaction fees to r
552.
by maw 18y ago
The wisdom of having your daemons daemonize themselves is debatable. I think it's better, for a variety of reasons, to run them from a supervisor which can handle things like logging and signal handling.
553.
by maw 18y ago
"Under SVR4, some people recommend calling fork again at this point and having the parent terminate. The second child continues as the daemon. This guarantees that the daemon is not a session leader, which prevents it from acquiring a con
554.
by maw 18y ago
That's just argumentum ad antiquitatem.
555.
by maw 18y ago
Color preferences are a strange beast. I use green on black in emacs, and white on black in terminal windows and I'm pretty happy with things that way. But I have a terrible time reading webpages with any dark background. Wish I knew why
556.
by maw 18y ago
The thing that drives me mad is that if I want legroom, I have to pay. Yet someone who's short (feet shorter than I am) can get legroom for the same price. You should be charged for the total amount of legroom you get!
557.
by maw 18y ago
Sometimes, but be careful. If you skip the first flight intending to only take the return flight, some (all? just Mexicana?) airlines won't honor your ticket, and they won't return your money either. That's stealing.
558.
by maw 18y ago
But the events of Beowulf happened in Scandinavia. The poem itself was written in England, though. Probably. Not that I think it matters much: I suppose only those cultures that have existed entirely in isolation really have truly unique
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by maw 18y ago
Right. So, like I said, you need to control the old servers for at least a few days after the cutoff date.
560.
by maw 18y ago
A monad is a means by which people who are pedantically attached to the notion of pure functional programming can write programs that /actually do something/ while still claiming that they're functional.
561.
by maw 18y ago
If you know you need to make to your network, you can set TTLs to be lower, several days in advance. Problem solved. (It's true that some crappy DNS resolvers don't honor TTLs, so you'll need to retain control of old servers for at least s
562.
by maw 18y ago
Of that 21-23%, how many of them are poor and uneducated immigrants whose children we can expect to be better educated? That's not to say it's good for there to be people so uneducated, but it might not be as bad as a naïve reading of offic
563.
by maw 18y ago
I can read the comments on videos in Spanish, and let me tell you: they're not pretty. I expect readers of other languages would say the same.
564.
by maw 18y ago
Why does it undermine anybody's point? In an area where millions of people live, a few dozen schools is a small number, yet thousands of them may make a positive difference.
565.
by maw 18y ago
Here's another one: http://www.reason.com/news/show/117328.html It isn't news anymore, but I find it very heartening all the same.
566.
by maw 18y ago
I highly doubt that we're in an exponential technological curve. But it might be nice if we were!
567.
by maw 18y ago
It doesn't take much to get way faster than Telstra's network.
568.
by maw 18y ago
I took some notes for a hypothetical personal system, although it isn't great: * Learn what common and abbreviable (I'm not sure that this is a real word) words are, and abbreviate them. * Create a system of declensions similar to German or
569.
by maw 18y ago
Apologist usually refers to somebody who makes apologia, not apologies.
570.
by maw 18y ago
With files, you can go quite a long way with a good naming scheme. The Maildir/ protocol/format is probably the best known and most widely used example of such, but it isn't difficult to imagine something more elaborate based on the same u

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