nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
Legally I would guess the Fed could probably do something like this, at least indirectly. The restrictions on what they do are intentionally pretty limited. The problem is the political fallout. Far-right will scream about socialism, far-le
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by nknight 15y ago
But those statistics by themselves do nothing to counter one of the key points. How do you actually know they were irrelevant? How do you know the 4 potentials weren't worth submitting? Your commenting history suggests you might have a clue
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by nknight 15y ago
Paying one cent less than is due constitutes a default. This is what people don't seem to understand. The US defaulting doesn't mean all the bonds disappear. It doesn't mean nobody gets any of their money. It means the US doesn't fully meet
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by nknight 15y ago
US law in this area is largely illusory. It makes reference to "lawful orders", but provides little guidance on what would constitute an "unlawful order". Getting it wrong means prison, and getting it right can still mean prison -- the last
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by nknight 15y ago
Sigh This again? Seems like the press does this story once a month. " If you don’t have a copy of WordPerfect 2 around, you’re out of luck. " Dunno about WP2, but my copy of LibreOffice purports to open WordPerfect files of indeterminate
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by nknight 15y ago
> I continue to push my creativity and find new things to throw in to the protocol, ideas that wouldn't have to be there when the first part hits, but that its extensibility would make possible. This by itself makes me believe this is
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by nknight 15y ago
Yes, really. Did you actually add the numbers up? The non-foreign components are nearly 70%.
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by nknight 15y ago
Unusual scoping rules that are easily worked around do not make Python's closures not closures. And I'm not sure why you're bringing up lambda -- I don't know anyone who uses it much, and I consider it an obfuscation mechanism rather than a
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by nknight 15y ago
Better to shove people into well-built structures in Antarctica and use more temperate land for food and energy generation than fill up every inch of what is traditionally considered "habitable" space and promptly starve.
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by nknight 15y ago
CPython doesn't have built-in tail call optimization, but that's not a fundamental property of the language, just a limit of that particular implementation. One that can even be hacked around in Python with a decorator. A decorator, by th
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by nknight 15y ago
How are tail calls and closures in any way Scheme-specific? The "main value" cited also assumes "pure functional programming" is worthwhile. That is not an uncontroversial opinion, and does little to make the case for SICP to people not alr
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by nknight 15y ago
I think the real implication is that we would have to be a Type III to survive at that point. I suspect this is a practical impossibility. Certainly the speed of light presents significant challenges.
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by nknight 15y ago
The embedded systems I work on use shared libraries, C++, shell scripts, and even Adobe Flash. Dynamic linking has been around since the 1960s, and is the model that has been used by almost all currently active developers for their entire
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by nknight 15y ago
IE6 usage has nothing to do with technical vs non-technical anymore. Most IE6 usage in the US is due to stupid corporate policies, home users long ago moved on, and of course the current widespread mobile browsers are all way past IE6. I op
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by nknight 15y ago
The blog post talks about Facebook development. Has Facebook ever released browser share numbers? I bet their target audience is a lot less than 2% IE6.
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by nknight 15y ago
Developers need to start keeping exceedingly careful track of exactly how much time they spend fighting with IE6 so they can go to the person footing the bill and say "this is how much money you've wasted on a completely obsolete technology
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by nknight 15y ago
Based on a very brief conversation I had with a Paypal engineer a few years back, it's SOP in modern financial transaction handling to store/log details of every transaction in many places and various forms, and there's plenty of (probably
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by nknight 15y ago
Has Airbnb even claimed to have actually done anything? I've seen empty words and no action or even claim of action. Have I missed something? The full story is pretty irrelevant. What we have is clearly sufficient to know that Airbnb do
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by nknight 15y ago
I've seen far more projects pushed to a successful completion by assholes than "nice" people, so either assholes are statistically much more productive (making your "better" person basically irrelevant) or we have a vastly differing definit
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by nknight 15y ago
There are no valid reasons for this policy, and after weeks of criticism, Google ought to realize it. This would not be an "immediate fix", this would be a "month or more in coming" fix. As for "proof", either you haven't read Skud's entire
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by nknight 15y ago
1. When a project is incomplete is _exactly_ the time to raise a fuss about something being wrong. Acting like we should excuse Google because it's incomplete is completely missing the point. 2. The gag stuff sounds pretty well confirmed by
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by nknight 15y ago
An asshole who gets things done is infinitely better than a friendly person who is utterly worthless.
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by nknight 15y ago
"The company went through massive changes" might work as an _explanation_, and perhaps absolve particular individuals of responsibility, but it doesn't change the reality. Programming doesn't just wait for Sun/Oracle/Java or any other compa
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by nknight 15y ago
As a general rule, companies have never hired people who want to rock the boat. The point is that the article missed that point. Nothing is different about "today" vs. any time in the past.
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by nknight 15y ago
Doomed? Seriously, new companies that don't have something substantively different about them don't have good odds. In brick-and-motar that "something different" might just be geographic location (e.g. a car mechanic in a town that doesn't
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm at least as much within my rights to criticize sexist jackasses as they are to behave like sexist jackasses. Don't like it? Try not being a sexist jackass.
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by nknight 15y ago
I've got a better one: You write a cheque to somebody, and suddenly your bank lets them see your transaction history. There's a level of control and security one may sacrifice by doing things online, that doesn't mean the information is aut
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by nknight 15y ago
Uh, why wouldn't [[4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]] work? I know PHP has a weird history of rebelling against its C-family-syntax heritage, but requiring the syntax in your example would seem specifically calculated just to make de
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by nknight 15y ago
I dunno about the rest, but last I heard (sometime last year, I think) Canonical hadn't made it to break-even, so I'm not sure one can use it as a "working" example yet.
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by nknight 15y ago
All we have at this point is the word of someone who admits technological disinclination, says he received a poor grade, and publicly accuses Panos of racism. There's no real evidence here that any other student felt this way, nor that ther

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