mildtrepidation

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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
In my opinion, the "explicit is better than implicit" mantra of Python (which I find very sensible) should immediately imply preference for the second, even in cases where the first is almost certainly not going to cause problems.
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Canadian Bitcoin bank collapses after hackers steal digital currency(globalnews.ca)
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Well, the existing value in Bitcoin, for one. I'm mining dogecoin largely to learn a little bit about these currencies, but if everyone did move over, by the time it reached the same value Bitcoin has it'd be regulated too. From w
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
That said, I don't understand why people keep significant balances in these places. Keep a small amount to trade with and save the rest yourself! Yeah, that's what I mean. You can certainly put money in right before you execute
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Perhaps "all" is an overstatement. An overhaul starting from zero may not be a very realistic or efficient answer, but it seems a little optimistic to suggest that there is nothing our financial systems do that couldn't be
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Which I'd imagine would be illegal for more than one reason... but then this is one of the costs of an unregulated currency (not saying that makes it good or bad, just that it's there). It's also why I don't understand m
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
As some one who's almost entirely oblivious to the trappings of cryptocurrency... is it not possible to trade on sites like this with a local wallet? Or do you have to keep a balance with them separate from your wallet? It's inval
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This would be more worrisome if they weren't so likely to report misinformation... just for fun.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Did you get these from somewhere or are they just your opinion on how this does/should happen? Pushing for the group members to be treated differently to recognize their intrinsic value / contributions to a society, industry, etc
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
If you're referring to Disqus comments, they no longer display the downvote count. Which I find pretty obnoxious, but oh well.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
We also have enough fast food workers. That doesn't mean they're doing the job because they want "a satisfying job with good benefits." That's definitely not a good assumption about any profession. If you treat teac
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I hate writing like this. Even if most people don't know the thing you're referring to, basically telling the entire browsing population of the internet "we're all stupid and here's why" immediately leaves a ba
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is not the "business that happens in a vacuum or at least on the level of normal capitalism" "business" or industry you seem to think it is. I know people who are involved in this. Just being able to bid takes decad
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
That's phenomenally backwards...
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is not a summary. It's an explanation that lacks a great deal of important context. If you're considering taking this at face value, go read the actual content of this exchange: You'll see very quickly why an apology was
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
As someone who's not interested in following every acronym and resource allocation strategy there is... is this even remotely useful? Lately I've gotten back into Java for Android, and after a very long time with Python, it's
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I think that contention is flawed in that it assumes the two methods are, must be, and should be equal in terms of email address exposure.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
tl;dr Things you should never do: rewrite the code from scratch. Sentiment like this is not valuable. The experience that it comes from is often informative, but as a conclusion, this explicitly ignores circumstances that sometimes do m
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Would be interested to see patio11's feedback on this one.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
This is a scam. He's using scammers to scam other people. Maybe that's obvious to everyone here, but I think it's worth stating explicitly that while this behavior is being enabled by the state of advertising on Facebook, it&
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I'd say using them interchangeably or incorrectly contributes to people's misunderstanding of the word hypothesis, which fuels more than a few baseless arguments against scientific theory in general.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
That's not really what I usually look at, and I believe most sites will at least tell you what you're seeing (particularly when their presentation is just a gallery of thumbnails). Anyway, given the other questions already posted
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I opened this and stared at it like an idiot for a minute. Am I behind the times to expect something on the main page of a site that says what it actually is? Clicking through the tiny About link I found at the bottom of the page, this appe
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Hypercard was my first real programming exposure. Going back and looking at my stacks (which I found many years after forgetting about them) was a humbling lesson in "holy crap, I can't believe I was that terrible at programming.&
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
"You can write sloppy code in any language" follows "LAMP is really easy to set up." Both of those things are true. But you know what? A quick search is all it takes to run quite a few configurations that don't invo
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I want to downvote this. I really do. And I think when I feel justified in doing so that things will have improved.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
It's not hard to see at least some of the angles it probably comes from. It's popular for politicians to bank on things like "everyone should learn to code" for publicity; outsourcing makes development look like a cheap
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
I don't understand the assertion that, in order to criticize, one must always solve whatever problem is in question. It's the same kind of logical strangeness as "if you can't do it, you can't criticize it." Cr
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
And the actual problem that cancer is a symptom of is that we have bodies. So we should really be working towards the Matrix, not doing dead-end research on curing or treating diseases.
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by mildtrepidation 13y ago
Not all prayers are offered to that particular god, and not all interpretations of that particular god adhere to that particular book. There's just so much assumption and ill will in this subthread. Get a grip, people.

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