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by orclev 13y ago
Depends on the intent of submitting it. If his intent was to point out a potential bug in the Linux kernel then yes, it shouldn't have been submitted. On the other hand what has resulted has been a rather interesting debate about the m
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by orclev 13y ago
As a general rule that's probably fine, but in cases where a variable is confusing either a better name or a explanatory comment is probably appropriate. Ideally you'd pick a name that fully captures the intent of the variable, bu
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by orclev 13y ago
The function declared earlier is perfectly fine, the comment is sufficient to explain what it's doing, but functions should be understandable simply by reading their source and in that respect the linked function fails. This would be r
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by orclev 13y ago
"Also, what happens if the mechanisms that contain the "Star in a Bottle" fail? Will the French Alps suddenly and catastrophically acquire a new valley?" As others have said, this is hot fusion not cold fusion, so the an
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by orclev 13y ago
I pulled my money out of MtGox about 6 months ago... unfortunately I'm still waiting for them to process the wire transfer I requested, and this makes me suspect I may never actually see that money.
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by orclev 13y ago
I vaguely remember seeing the trailers for this in the theaters and thinking at the time "oh great, another fake 'documentary', just what we need". So yeah, it does not surprise me in the least that it was most likely fa
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by orclev 13y ago
This is the first I've heard the term catfishing. Can someone provide a more concrete definition? Is it simply pretending to be someone else online?
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by orclev 13y ago
It's more like extrapolation from a known set of data points. PayPal has a certain history. You can look up what's gone down in the past, and based on that, the accusations fall right in line with the sorts of things PayPal has hi
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by orclev 13y ago
Scala tries to be Haskell but does so badly. Ceylon isn't trying to be Haskell, but the type system feels very Haskell-ish. It isn't functional, but that's fine, it's based on the JVM after all so things like tail-call
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by orclev 13y ago
I also agree with all of that. Scala is an ugly incomplete attempt at replicating Haskell on the JVM that fails at being Haskell, and also fails at being Java, it's the worst of both worlds. On a semi-related note have you taken a look
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by orclev 13y ago
Social security numbers are most emphatically not identification. The social security department tried for many years to get people to stop using your social as a form of identification, but companies (and sometimes even the government) sti
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by orclev 13y ago
So it's another bookmark synchronization tool? Looking at the page it seems like firefox isn't supported, and neither is ( shudder ) IE. Not that that last one is much of a loss, but lack of support for Firefox basically makes thi
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by orclev 13y ago
I'm going to go with B. Just because "everyone is doing it" doesn't mean they know what they're doing. Coke spends a ton of money on advertising because they want more sales and common wisdom says the way to get mor
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by orclev 13y ago
I always maximize my browser windows. There are a handful of applications that's true of, browsers, video players, IDEs, and games for the most part always get the fullscreen treatment. Chat clients, terminals, certain kinds of editors
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by orclev 13y ago
There are a few holdouts in certain areas. E.G. there's a pretty active and good Haskell community on SO currently.
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by orclev 13y ago
Some data points. Took a poll around our office (it was kind of thin because of the holiday) and of the 4 devs that responded and said they use SO, all 4 said they don't actually care about or pay attention to the points, they just use
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by orclev 13y ago
The point is to minimize attack surfaces. If you're serving static content that's one less path for an attacker to potentially exploit. With only static files exploits are limited to those contained in the web server or the OS net
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by orclev 13y ago
I've always enjoyed learning, but I despised school and most college courses. Thankfully I'm an autodidact and don't need the school system to learn or else I'm afraid I wouldn't know much of anything. The public sc
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by orclev 13y ago
Students are there because society at large has demanded that they be there. A college degree has transformed from a certificate of achievement into a proof of purchase that HR departments must validate in exchange for an offer of employmen
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by orclev 13y ago
Based on observations driving around my city for the last 10 years or so... yes. Occasionally you'll even run into people who don't bother stopping at stop signs if they're turning, and god help you if the light is out. You&#
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by orclev 13y ago
To be fair I see C and C++ used all over the place. Pretty much any game out there has at worst a 50% chance of being written in C++. C is less common, but is still used quite extensively in the open source world. Most devices with firmware
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by orclev 13y ago
The language of the Gods is clearly Lisp. Unfortunately it's such a pain to work in that most of the time the Gods just use Perl anyway. Oblig. XKCD: http://xkcd.com/224/
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by orclev 13y ago
I also have a nearly complete implementation of this in Haskell. https://github.com/orclev/CBOR The main problem it currently faces is that the encoding/decoding support for half-width floats is currently wrong, b
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by orclev 13y ago
If I write shit code (and I do, because at some point we all do) and for whatever reason I can't fix it (usually time crunch) I call it out even if it's just a comment in the code to say "this is a terrible hack, don't d
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by orclev 13y ago
Respect and criticism are not mutually exclusive things. There are people I highly respect but who I disagree with and criticize quite often. The reverse is also true, I am quite often criticized and disagreed with but it isn't a perso
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by orclev 13y ago
Near as I can tell, the only difference is that they added this concept of tracked vs. untracked files. When you do a commit, everything that's currently tracked gets included in the commit unless you specifically list a set of files t
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by orclev 13y ago
You mean like stocks, bonds, or any other commodity in existence? Yeah, the value is fairly unstable currently, largely because the current valuation is being driven almost entirely by speculation, however that is set to change. There'
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by orclev 13y ago
OK, fine, C++ is worth learning to learn what not to do, BUT, only after you've learned every other language out there. It's a waste of time to learn it before other languages because you won't have the background necessary t
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by orclev 13y ago
I wouldn't. You can't build a solid structure on a broken foundation, and C++ is most definitely broken. Instead you throw it away and start fresh. The problem with C++ is it tried to combine the power of C with more advanced feat
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by orclev 13y ago
If you need C you should write C. If you don't need C, you should write in something nice, I.E. not C++. Why sacrifice ease of use 90% of the time in order to gain access to low level features 10% of the time? Any high level language w

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