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by olavk 12y ago
In much enterprise development (indeed much of development in general) development time is much more important than CPU time. Not just because of price, but also in reaction time to new and changing requirements.
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by olavk 12y ago
Yeah, and evopsych has the same problem as history, that it is not possible to change one variable and repeat the experiment. This makes it easy to make up explanation for observations, but hard to verify or falsify these explanations. It i
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by olavk 12y ago
I've never seen actual bugs due to a misunderstanding of the concept though. It seem to be mostly a terminology difference between c++ and Java cultures. It is correct to say that Java passes objects as references, but it is technicall
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by olavk 12y ago
As far as I understand, unsafePerformIO is not unsafe in relation to memory safety issues. It is just unsafe in that it circumvents the IO monad, which means order of execution is not guaranteed.
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by olavk 12y ago
> Simple ignorance won't cut it, because they all get reported on so many times that eventually ignorance would decline, but it never does. Well, new people get born all the time. And they are totally ignorant until they learn thing
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by olavk 12y ago
No, according to my definition 9th century is Viking Age. Scandinavian medieval period starts around year 1000 with christianization. Of course these labels are more or less arbitrary. In western Europe, the medieval times are sometimes cou
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by olavk 12y ago
Yeah, but the article points out what is unique about the ring: The lack of wear indicates that it had few or no intermediate owners. This indicates direct contact. The Islamic coins on the other hand, most likely went through multiple owne
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by olavk 12y ago
I wouldn't call it a sensation since it doesn't rewrite history, but the article does not call it that either. It is just an unique archaeological find, which is also something.
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by olavk 12y ago
To be fair, the article does mention textual evidence of contact. It just say the ring is a rare archaeological evidence, which is correct.
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by olavk 12y ago
Not necessarily, artifacts could have traveled through multiple transactions along a trade route without any single person traveling all the way. So the Buddha does not necessarily mean that a viking traveled to Asia or vice versa. Although
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by olavk 12y ago
Perhaps even more amazing is the small Buddha statue found in a grave in Sweden from the 8th century.
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by olavk 12y ago
Constantinople was Christian at the time though. It was the capital of the roman empire, and remained Christian until til fifteenth century. But they did fight Arabs, so there was contact that way.
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by olavk 12y ago
Actually it is the other way around in this case.
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by olavk 12y ago
In Scandinavian historiographic tradition the Middle Ages is counted from the arrival of Christianity. Being the the 8th century, the find is from the Viking Age which is earlier.
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by olavk 12y ago
Some aspects of the strip became repetitive, but visually they became stronger, especially in the sunday strips after he got free hands to break up the frames. So I suspect he realized he had reached the limits of the newspaper strip medium
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by olavk 12y ago
I have of course no idea if Watterson is capable of producing a new work of the same quality, and neither have you I presume. Some artists are one-hit wonders, but Watterson have on a daily basis produced original work of consistently hig
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by olavk 12y ago
He quit on a high note, before the strip became tired overly repetitive. This is totally consistent with his actions and the viewpoints he have expressed, where he consistently have stressed putting quality above quantity. You may have like
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by olavk 12y ago
The problem is the article contains actually useful advice for newbie/intermediate programmers, but it is framed in such a way it mostly appeals to experienced programmers with a superiority complex.
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by olavk 12y ago
I think you should teach yourself the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. It is not magic and its not even that complicated. But if you have worked in frontend development for years, with frameworks, browsers specific workarounds and so on, you t
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by olavk 12y ago
In Java you also need recursion, even if it is not ubiquitous as in functional languages. Say you want to traverse a tree structure - a directory hierarchy for example - you need recursion.
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by olavk 12y ago
That is not a "plz write code for me" question though, it is just a very simple question. If it is too simple is discussed here: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too...
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by olavk 12y ago
A question need visibility to get such a large amount of downvotes. They are controversial questions which gets a high number of both up and downvotes.
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by olavk 12y ago
It is not that difficult. I have asked many question and never had anyone close them. If you follow common sense and state the question clearly and specifically, you should be fine. I sometimes vote to close questions, but it is always due
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by olavk 12y ago
Well there are thousands upon thousands of questions on SO which are not closed, so some people apparently still manage to ask in such a way that the questions are not closed. But of course it could be totally random as you suggest. But can
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by olavk 12y ago
I'm just saying SO is not a site designed for this purpose, so he shouldn't get offended when his request for code is downvoted.
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by olavk 12y ago
To put it bluntly, it would have been much more educational for you if you had actually tried to code it yourself. If you during this had encountered a concrete problem or question which you couldn't solve on your own, you could have p
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by olavk 12y ago
Can you post a link to one of these unfairly downvoted questions? I'm curious.
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by olavk 12y ago
I see lots of complaining over SO moderation in this thread and other places, but the actual examples shown always turn out to very sensible moderation. For example your question is clearly not appropriate for SO. You are not asking a speci
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by olavk 12y ago
You can still get generic sets of bricks as you have always been able to. It has been rebranded as the "Classic" line: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/classic/products?ignorereferer=tru...
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by olavk 12y ago
I'm not suggesting no girl ever liked Lego, I thought that would go without saying. But the discrepancy was very significant. Consistently something like 80% of Lego sets were purchased for boys, if I remember correctly. Of course that

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