mjw1007

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by mjw1007 9y ago
The one type of game that worries me is the realistic driver's-point-of-view car-racing game. The risk of someone training themself to drive more dangerously seems much more direct than the "priming aggressive thoughts" stuff
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I'd say that, over the last twenty years, Python's docs have gone from excellent to good to middling to excellent to good to middling (dropping as the language expanded and the generally expected standard went up, and improving wh
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Right, and (many years ago) they added automatic "failback", as well as the "failover" behaviour that systemd-resolved has. So this isn't a case of systemd-resolved deciding to arbitrarily do things in a new and bro
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by mjw1007 9y ago
It's a shame to do all that work at runtime though, when the result is just going to be that the byte number in the opaque value is increased by the byte length of the first string. I do think there's a great deal to be said for i
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think the devil is in the details of that opaque 'position' type. With integers you can do things like concatenate two strings and adjust the indexes referring to the second string by adding the length of the first one. If you i
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Basically because Microsoft picked C++ to be the main language for Windows development. Turbo Pascal was all very well but from Microsoft's point of view it was Not Invented Here.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
You're a Google lawyer, right? People are angry with Google for abusing their power as a search engine to prevent journalists publishing true negative stories about Google. I don't think people are going to be less angry after you
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Some new programmers need the advice to spend longer improving their code before sharing it; some need the opposite advice. Unfortunately, some people who dispense advice pick one of those "directions" and argue strongly for it, r
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Going to a national newspaper sounds like a good idea. But don't try the Telegraph for anything HSBC-related. https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-...
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by mjw1007 9y ago
The language developers were never really in a position to fix this problem. After all, in 2002 (the date of that Q&A), you could already deploy Perl or Python scripts by "simply uploading code to a directory", if mod_perl o
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by mjw1007 9y ago
But do they check and enforce those rules? From the article: « The paper, published in 2012, didn’t mention his sponsor. “Oh, wow. No, I didn’t. That’s really bad,” he said in an interview. “That’s purely oversight.” »
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Part of it is that; another part is that many people grow up outside London, spend a lot of their working life in London, then retire to somewhere outside London. I think trying to read anything into regional tax flows isn't very produ
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by mjw1007 9y ago
There are regulations about specific materials and installation practices, but there is no rule that if builders follow those regulations they have discharged their responsibility. They have an independent responsibilty to make sure the bui
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I agree: the article may well be right that a cold-calling style of 'networking' doesn't do much, but it doesn't seem to have anything to suggest that the good oldfashioned "having the right parents" kind is no
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Also as your code changes. It's often not that hard to hand-write a single function a bit better than the compiler. But when you want to make a small change the compiler will rethink the whole function from scratch, and if you want to
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think it's great for people on the "answering" side to indicate that they're willing to go beyond the literal question and offer more general support. But as soon the asker has turned down an offer of that sort once, I
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by mjw1007 9y ago
This post shows the likely sequence of actions that makes it happen: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33235641 It seems to have happened to rather a lot of people https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums&#x2
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Any good explanation ought to also predict the similar ratio in volunteer and hobbyist software development, including single-programmer projects. I don't think « preference on behalf of industry incumbents to avoid working with women
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Context: they're working on something aimed at children no older than 8.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Maybe a good rule of thumb is to 'police' anything that uses a shared namespace.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
There's a chicken-and-egg problem with scripting support in desktop applications: if more of the customers were comfortable writing small programs, the companies creating them would see more value in providing decent scripting interfac
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by mjw1007 9y ago
So: subtle and qualified defence under a pseudonym; stay quiet under your own name?
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I'm never entirely sure what people mean by "taking something to its logical conclusion", but if you mean something like "giving that consideration the greatest possible weight" I think where you end up is "end
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by mjw1007 9y ago
That's one thing that might happen. Another is that he might plead guilty and we'll never know whether he was guilty or innocent (but threatened with consequences he didn't feel he could risk).
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think representing each state by two separate boxes containing the same text is strange and confusing. If it didn't do that, it would be able to avoid having the 'on create' line appear to pass through the 'destroyed&#
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Having said that, if the unidentified co-conspirator is from the US and they're going to be tried together, it wouldn't be so unreasonable.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Extradition needn't have come into it. The US authorities could have sent their evidence to the UK police to deal with (assuming the UK police didn't have it to start with). If we want justice to be seen to be done, we shouldn&#x2
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by mjw1007 9y ago
For a start, the image that thibran posted could be fixed. It isn't consistent about whether the bordered rectangles represent represent onFoo() calls or the state after their calls. The page it comes from says « the colored ovals are
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I'd expect documentation-only-for-very-smart-people to be complete, correct, and rigorous, but lacking in examples, rationale, and perhaps organisation. That's not at all what I see in the documentation for Google's public li
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by mjw1007 9y ago
The relevant question isn't whether a kernel module is a derived work of the kernel (which is what Linus is discussing there). It's whether someone who distributes the kernel module and the kernel together is obliged to distribute

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