mfukar

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by mfukar 10y ago
That is both good and bad advice. Good because yes, programmers must quickly look at others' code and be exposed to the idioms and the anti-patterns. Bad because just by looking at something the newbies don't immediately connect i
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by mfukar 10y ago
> Sure we can. Recompile glibc, dynamic linking, pow. Oh, so I have to maintain glibc. That's the alternative, we are in complete agreement. > I wouldn't say that bug you referenced is a strike against C; it could happen in
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by mfukar 10y ago
"Do not assume" doesn't really mean or imply "do not target", so stop being defensive. It's good advice.
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by mfukar 10y ago
> More to the point, why do they need to be maintainable? When was the last time you maintained the strtof function in your C library? A few years ago. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15744 Acting li
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by mfukar 10y ago
Just so I know what bank(s) to avoid, which one is (or are) this?
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by mfukar 10y ago
I'd heard the bar for humour had been lowered, but I didn't know how low.
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by mfukar 10y ago
> It's not an illusion, 1q2w3e4r5t is indeed better than aaaaaaaaa, even if it's just the numbers interleaved with qwerty (and probably easy to brute force generate up to it). In this case, we're talking 'better'
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by mfukar 10y ago
Great, now anyone knows how to temporarily satisfy you while delivering nothing of what you actually want in the long run.
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by mfukar 10y ago
It's interesting that you use quotes that don't appear in the text, because if passing those messages was the intention of the writer they succeeded beautifully.
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by mfukar 10y ago
7-10 minutes from home. Best commute of in my entire life so far.
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by mfukar 10y ago
What does phishing have to do with receiving emails?
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by mfukar 10y ago
How about punching a policeman, instead, and cut down on the time until you are transferred to a cell?
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by mfukar 10y ago
I'm pretty sure there's a common saying about two lefts not making a right. Or two rights not making a wrong? Can't quite remember.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Apparently "innocent until proven otherwise" also doesn't resemble "How the world should be" in this comment.
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by mfukar 10y ago
There no reason to "panic" about perfectly reasonable, valid use cases. `head` and `tail` in Haskell are badly designed (to address one of your examples), which is why every SO question about them and every question on haskell-beg
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by mfukar 10y ago
As the paper [ http://shattered.io/static/shattered.pdf ] says: > This is an identical-prefix collision attack, where a given prefix P is extended with two distinct near-collision block pairs such that they collide fo
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by mfukar 10y ago
I build a bunch of home automation stuff (as a hobby) using Pis and other microcontrollers. Performance in those things translates almost directly to power savings, and is very desirable. OTOH, I've never encountered an issue like this
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by mfukar 10y ago
System calls in Linux are not faster than not doing them.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Despite what anyone will claim, good journalism still exists. I am not going to discuss obviously false generalisations.
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by mfukar 10y ago
You say "media" as if it's a singular entity. It is not. It encompasses Fox News (which I don't watch but I gather is a cesspool), The London Review of Books, Vogue, Infowars, YouTube, etc. A set of _competing_ companies
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by mfukar 10y ago
https://godbolt.org/g/lqmNLh
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by mfukar 10y ago
Compilers operate under rules. The rules in this case say the null test is redundant. You could argue the rules are "wrong", but that's a totally different topic.
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by mfukar 10y ago
None of the things you write about apply only to "smart, successful people". Your whole example hinges not on the hikers being stupid or smart or successful or failures, but unprepared and improperly guided. We could spread the bl
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by mfukar 10y ago
As well-off as people are, they tend to view problems they don't face as solved. Therefore they turn their attention to what _they_ view as a problem. In a very crude example, the Bay Area people don't care about the wars in the M
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by mfukar 10y ago
Intelligence, Nazi references, and our lack of proper definitions aside, societies were formed to cater to the lowest common denominator. That doesn't mean that the construct itself is "dumb" - whatever that may mean for a co
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by mfukar 10y ago
> Not to diagnose your friend Then please don't.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Can't tell if you're serious or just have an aptitude at this.
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by mfukar 10y ago
But how can GH establish intent? Legally it's unenforceable (good luck getting an answer from my lawyer), practically it's irrelevant (I will archive this data now, maybe in the future I will be convinced that selling them is ethi
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by mfukar 10y ago
Rust marketing.
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by mfukar 10y ago
TL;DR: if you don't debate, you lose the argument.

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