olavk

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by olavk 10y ago
I believe it is for interoperability with code in these languages, not just familiarity. That said, the BCL also use out parameters in a few places (the TryParse methods) which arguable set a bad precedent.
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by olavk 10y ago
Occam's Razor would only apply if the theories made the same prediction with and without the dark matter. You cannot use Occam's Razor to explain away a discrepancy between theory and observation.
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by olavk 10y ago
So how do you turn a 10x engineer into a 10x multiplier?
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by olavk 10y ago
Then I sure you are also well aware of the counterarguments against this form of theodicy.
545.
by olavk 10y ago
Happened to me many times. And every time it is a great learning experience.
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by olavk 10y ago
Animals typically don't kill and eat their own species, so in these matters humans fare a lot worse than most animals. Given that a belief in a higher authority is one of the things causing humans to kill each other, it seems this theo
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by olavk 10y ago
Then again we also do a lot of great thing and create and experience love and beauty. I have no idea how to quantify and weigh the good against the bad, so perhaps it comes down to temperament if you consider the human existence an overall
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by olavk 10y ago
Oh I totally agree about that.
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by olavk 10y ago
Just as there is lots of suffering and injustice in the world, there is also copious beauty and happiness and love. So framing God as "evil" is just as problematic as painting him as "good". Both positions forces you to
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by olavk 10y ago
Yes and that line of reasoning works as long as you don't think to deeply about the logic of it. But you cant really escape the fundamental paradox of a God which is both almighty and benevolent. All monotheistic religions have to stru
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by olavk 10y ago
Yeah you can device such a reasoning - theologians from monotheistic religions do that. I guess for some this is comforting. It is certainly a bleak world where anybody can be hit by such a tragedy without any higher reason or justice. I ju
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by olavk 10y ago
So God inflicted leprocy on humanity because otherwise we wouldn't be able to feel genuine love? And not buying this makes you "naive"?
553.
by olavk 10y ago
Bone cancer in children - if there exist an almighty sentient God, then he is erratic and malicious. The polytheistic concept of gods is actually more realistic (better explains reality) in that there are multiple gods with different agenda
554.
by olavk 10y ago
I challenge the "hilarious inaccurate" because I suspect it is due to people not knowing how a rhino actually look, combined with a prejudice towards pre-modern artistic depiction of exotic animals. If you actually compare the dra
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by olavk 10y ago
Hilarously inaccuarte? It looks pretty accurate to me, compare this photo of a live one: http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pictures/o/1195761552/Ind...
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by olavk 10y ago
Yeah but why not just use HTML tables? It simpler and easier and more correct.
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by olavk 10y ago
Other elements besides div just have a different default style. These default can be overridden in CSS. If you would like to start with a "blank slate" where all elements have the same defaults, you can use a CSS reset. There is r
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by olavk 10y ago
Simple is good, but it is not necessary simple to write simple code.
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by olavk 10y ago
Design patterns are tools. Don't use a hammer if you don't need a hammer, you will just destroy something. And vice versa: Don't eschew the use of a hammer when you actually need it, just because you once saw some guy use a h
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by olavk 10y ago
It doesn't take more bandwidth to transfer unsorted than sorted data, and the memory cost will presumably be the same for sorting on the server as on the client. Filtering should always happen in the database for the sake of bandwid
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by olavk 10y ago
Yeah, that draft was abandoned though, but some of the ideas have been incorporated in the CSS3 display model.
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by olavk 10y ago
I think many people is confused by "semantically a table" because they think of a table as a certain visual representation of data, which also how the word is often used. The semantic definition of table in HTML is a bit more subt
563.
by olavk 10y ago
Ah OK, I agree this would be useful. I think a newer CSS proposal factors the display property into separate values to declare element flow and element content flow independently.
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by olavk 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve differently from regular display:block?
565.
by olavk 10y ago
The point of a footer is that it is at the bottom of the canvas regardless of the size of other content. If it is not at the bottom of the canvas, then you get something else at the bottom - like a colored box of unknown dimensions. Which
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by olavk 10y ago
CSS only needs additional elements in case you need to apply structures which is not already present in the HTML. To layout something as a grid you need two levels of grouping: what delimits a cell and what delimits a row. Free-from dt&#x2F
567.
by olavk 10y ago
Yes, this is why "table { display:table }" is the suggested default CSS for browsers. If you don't have fancy layout you should not need to override this.
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by olavk 10y ago
MDN is nice, but the W3C standards for HTML and CSS are actually pretty easy to read.
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by olavk 10y ago
But you don't choose between HTML tables and CSS tables - they are independent concerns, HTML is semantics, CSS is presentation. HTML table elements just have display:table as the default style (in the default browser style sheet). Y
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by olavk 10y ago
It is fascinating how a perfectly sensible rule-of-thumb "you shouldn't use html tables for something which is not semantically a table" gradually morphed into various superstitions like "you shouldn't use html tabl

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