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by optforfon 10y ago
This is very hearsay-ish, but I have a friend of a friend who had to work with the CryEngine (I think it was for one of those Sonic games) and it was described as so incredibly buggy and you have to debug it constantly. Maybe this is their
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by optforfon 10y ago
b/c you're kinda missing the point of the firewall First all 99% of the Chinese internet content is hosted domestically - so unless a Chinese person is fluent in english it's harder to access foreign information, and they hav
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by optforfon 10y ago
"You can just write the tests for a class or a piece of functionality at the bottom of it's source file - or even header file!" Woah.. this makes it so easy I might even use it. I'm really not a fan of TDD b/c it ex
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by optforfon 10y ago
That part didn't make sense to me. Why does it stay more radioactive for a period of time after the accident? The pieces are separated - shouldn't it return to it's previous state? .I can understand it heating up (though can&
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by optforfon 10y ago
Cool, but I'm having trouble imagining how I'd use it in my workflow.. Is there a demo or something? I've only used interpreters in MATLAB/R where you have to write one-liners to massage data into the format you need -
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by optforfon 10y ago
Last time I tried Eclipse (2-3 months ago) it wasn't usable on high DPI screens. Have they fixed tat?
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by optforfon 10y ago
Are the two are mutually exclusive? I'd argue both are true to a degree - though "conditioned response" evokes the kind of simplistic "mindless puppet" view of the Chinese perspective I'm trying to avoid. It ha
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by optforfon 10y ago
Hey, sorry, I think a lot of people got the impression I was condoning their censorship. I didn't really mean to do that. It's more that in the west we just see it as this horrible evil thing and it seems completely bizarre that a
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by optforfon 10y ago
I think you've completely missed the point. I wasn't talking about politics at all, nor was I condoning censorship and saying it's some moral good. I'm just illustrating its perceived benefits. While we as a country have
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by optforfon 10y ago
I think they'd characterize click-bait sensationalism as effectively lying and their censorship as a means to dampen it I'm not condoning their censorship. Yeah, obviously it leads to the government twisting the truth to toot it&#
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by optforfon 10y ago
EDIT: Just to clarify, there is definitely brainwashing in terms of government agendas and things of that sorta. It's terrible. I'm illustrating what is locally perceived as the positive aspect of censorship outside of politics We
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by optforfon 10y ago
Thanks! Didn't know that
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by optforfon 10y ago
Just to give you a bit of local perspective: talking to the locals here in China (and actually a Chinese Malaysian guy I met too .. so it's not just confined to the people agrarian paradise), they ofcourse know that this is happening
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by optforfon 10y ago
Doe anyone know why Google decided on a jury trial? It seems they are technically in the right, but explaining it to an educated judge in a bench trial would be a lot easier than a random sample of non-programmers.
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by optforfon 10y ago
woah.. didn't know about that. It's a monster list of exposed internal variables? Talk about inaccessible...
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by optforfon 10y ago
Anyone want to place bets on how long till Firefox copies them?
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by optforfon 10y ago
Same thing with Firefox. It's really frustrating. The options are incredibly sparse. I feel like there is a complete lack of creativity on the part of browser developers are to features that it'd be nice to have
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by optforfon 10y ago
I feel like this is a bit heretical, but I feel like fonts in practice are something that you just kinda get used to after a day of use. The only time you're really aware of them is when you look at two fonts side by side. So the trick
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by optforfon 10y ago
I honestly would have much preferred they had a keyword so that it kinda matched the rest of the language. It feels a bit tacked on and hard to parse. Something like: lambda( arguments ): capture list {...} Just seems way more clear. Looks
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by optforfon 10y ago
Yeah, but wouldn't you agree that each time the government does overstep it's authority there is a backlash and they stop? Society seems to keep the government in check. Things like the MLK scenario are a lot less likely now-a-day
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by optforfon 10y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. What I'm illustrating is that parallel construction doesn't allow the government to use it's full force to make an investigation. They can't "accidentally" search your compu
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by optforfon 10y ago
I don't use google either! But I've gotta say, every year it gets more and more frustrating as people ask me to use their google spreadsheets and chat with them on google hangouts etc. etc. Google might not have an account of mine
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by optforfon 10y ago
Google wants to manipulate you into buying things and hading them over more information. If you know even a little about marketing/sales you know how powerful these forces are especially when targeted at a whole nation. On an individua
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by optforfon 10y ago
I think in some part it's actually a part of a bigger American cultural trope. We also have this unique obsessions with zombies and pandemics etc. etc. Kinda thinking I'm special, the rest of the riff raff die and I'm left al
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by optforfon 10y ago
Typically you should pass raw pointers (constness depends on your use case...). I can't really think of a scenario where the method/function needs to be coupled with the pointer type.
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by optforfon 10y ago
finally a voice a reason! I actually think the tech world's outrage is the equivalent of survivalist doomsday paranoia. In their minds once the evil government people have our data it's just a slippery slope to fascism. (the survi
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by optforfon 10y ago
Google has vastly more information on everyone in America. Orders of magnitude. (and by extension maybe foreign intelligence agencies) The government is just playing catch-up! I rather our slightly dysfunctional government have more informa
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by optforfon 10y ago
"No business owned by a foreign entity is allowed to thrive." what....? Apple is thriving in China. Everyone and their mom has taken out loans to buy an IPhone. I'm not even exaggerating. Foreign cars outsell the locals brand
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by optforfon 10y ago
Oh that explains it... I've been drifting to lobste.rs a lot more lately anyway.. too bad I don't have an invite =(
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by optforfon 10y ago
Totally wouldn't dispute their support of Wahhabism, but can you elaborate on how Wahhabism helps them retain power? I've never really got that argument b/c it doesn't seem like there are moderate subversive elements. Th

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