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by olavk 11y ago
Asking why it is a problem to move cites honestly sounds more like trolling than a honest question.
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by olavk 11y ago
Just like functions are just a fancy word for gotos?
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by olavk 11y ago
Dead can mean different things. Often it just means dead-end technology in the sense that MS does not intend to develop the technology further. Since MS have a strong focus on backwards compatibility, dead-end technologies often can keep ru
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by olavk 11y ago
The quote itself is somewhat vauge, but I think the movies exemplify more clearly the viewpoint. Take The Lord Of the Rings - the good and the evil is very clearly defined. Sauron and the Orcs are objectively evil, and you can kill as many
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by olavk 11y ago
I hope we can all agree that having code relying on a compiler bug or something like that (without explicitly documenting it directly in the source code) is stupid.
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by olavk 11y ago
What does this have to do with "Nazi-like"? Is "Nazi-like" just a shorthand for anything you disagree with? If by "unelected dictators" you are referring to the council, these are ministers appointed by the dem
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by olavk 11y ago
The EU is "Nazi like"? I think you will have to provide some justification for this claim.
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by olavk 11y ago
CSS does provide both - the table model from CSS2 provides parity with HTML tables, the flexbox model in CSS3 provides an easy way to center blocks and other nice flexible layout features. I do believe most complaints about CSS is really co
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by olavk 11y ago
Or maybe the ability to imagine the fate of CSS if it wasn't backwards compatible with the HTML layout model :) That said, I look forward to when CSS3 flexbox becomes widely supported. Still I'm happy that we at least don't
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by olavk 11y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges. Semantic HTML is important because it is a publicly defined semantics and various consumers and user agents are programmed against this semantics. Semantics in class-names, the choice of inline styles vs
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by olavk 11y ago
It is in principle a violation of the separation between structure and presentation, but it is not a violation of the semantics of HTML which is a bigger issue. Since div's are semantically neutral in HTML, a multitude of "present
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by olavk 11y ago
I think you have the causality backwards though. Tables were used for layout before CSS existed. When CSS was created, it was designed to mimic exactly what was possible to do in HTML, in order to ease the transition to CSS. This is why CSS
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by olavk 11y ago
I don't think anybody considers inline styles best practice. It is however a very easy way to demonstrate a specific layout fragment. Any front-end developer will understand how to extract the styles to a style-sheet. In any case, ther
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by olavk 11y ago
Lots of movies (and especially TV) are made on the cheap outside of Hollywood and around the world. There still seem to be a significant demand for Hollywood-style grand productions and movie stars.
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by olavk 11y ago
Your point about "shooting on location" versus CGI seem absurd to me. A Hollywood production is so much more that just the logistics to shoot on location. It is actors, directors, casting, production design, production managemen
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by olavk 11y ago
I don't believe linguists consider the writing system as part of the language as such. Multiple languages have shifted writing systems for convenience or political reasons without the language itself changing.
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by olavk 11y ago
I don't know what you think someone thinks is news, but the discussion about why American is considered a dialect (and not a separate language) is interesting. As a comparison, Danish and Norwegian was also considered (more or less) th
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by olavk 11y ago
What kind of logic is that? Are you saying names of countries always correspond directly to distinct languages? There are thousands of languages not corresponding to country names and vice versa.
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by olavk 11y ago
Perl is arguable much closer to the Unix philosophy than Python, for better or worse. That said, the "One obvious way" in Python is not exactly the same as "Only one true way".
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by olavk 11y ago
What if you want to handle some exceptions in code? After all, this is why we throw exceptions rather than just call exit() every time something goes wrong. Eg. if this service call time out, we retry a few times. Without typed exceptions w
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by olavk 11y ago
I struggle to understand how any of this somehow makes it true that the Java language is as complex as C++.
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by olavk 11y ago
What is 'a "packer's" mentality'? I don't think I've heard that expression before.
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by olavk 11y ago
Java the language is much simpler than C++. I sincerely don't understand how anyone could think otherwise.
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by olavk 11y ago
It is pretty important if you are actually interested in history and in the thoughts of persons of historical significance. Misattribution of quotes is a distortion of history.
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by olavk 11y ago
If you are interested in the history of ideas, it makes a big difference if a quote is by the real Da Vinci or some 20th century novelist.
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by olavk 11y ago
Bohr was Danish. I've never heard that antisemitism should have had any influence over his career choice or options. In Germany, Jewish scientist were fired, but this never happened in Denmark. Even after the German occupation of Denma
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by olavk 11y ago
The most common cause of suicide is untreated depression. People who commit suicide are desperate and not thinking clearly. If you are in a position to prevent a suicide please do. Yeah, in theory you can rationally and in a sound state of
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by olavk 11y ago
Is there even a meaningful definition of 'powerful'? I guess C# 4 is strictly more powerful than C# 2 since it only adds features, but how to compare the power of Haskell versus Rust? They are designed for different domains.
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by olavk 11y ago
The computer simulation theory is a philosophical thought experiment, where the point is that you can't really tell the difference. Creationism is different because it states a theory (the species did not originate over time from a com
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by olavk 11y ago
I understand the sentiment, but deliberate bombing a prisoners camp (which btw. also have a number of your own captured soldiers) in order to destroy the facility? In any case a camp could quickly be rebuilt somewhere else, much more comple

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