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by paol 12y ago
See also: restaurant sign during the Chinese Olympic games http://craphound.com/images/translateservererror.jpg
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by paol 12y ago
Premature generalization is the root of all evil. (With apologies to Don Knuth) The original formulation may have been a real problem at the time it was made, but in our time running into ugly code due to misguided optimization seems pretty
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The Toxoplasma of Rage(slatestarcodex.com)
7 points by paol 12y ago|0 comments
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by paol 12y ago
Interesting. This just reinforces my opinion that they made a terrible decision with the original implementation of generics in Java. Basically they set themselves the constraint that generics would have to be implemented without touching t
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by paol 12y ago
More like 20 years. They were in FVWM when I made first contact with linux around 1995 or so. They were in Unix's CDE too, which I presume would have been even earlier than that.
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by paol 12y ago
You're wrong about Portugal at least. All supermarket chains I can think of keep the eggs in unrefrigerated shelves - usually near the milk "tetrapack" shelves which are also unrefrigerated.
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by paol 12y ago
Yes, this is quite a pet peeve of mine. Every other site nowadays seems to do this, even ones that I thought should know better (arstechnica is one that comes to mind)
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by paol 13y ago
The fewer platters the better for vibration and noise as well. Though I wouldn't necessary restrict myself to single-platter drives, 2 platters is generally fine.
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by paol 13y ago
Have a look in the BIOS, there should be an option to swap Fn & Ctrl.
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by paol 13y ago
Interesting! Just read up a little on that, and from here http://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4376143/2/Fundamentals-of... it appears that is only one of several options (and acknowledged as a bad choice)
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by paol 13y ago
That may be true, but this is a USB cable and (IIRC) USB is packet-based. There is no way that clock jitter can influence the final result. (edit: upvoted for the informative link, in any case)
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by paol 13y ago
> people stay irrational In this case I take comfort that the irrationality is self-punishing. If you're that dumb, you deserve to be sold a $700 usb cable.
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by paol 13y ago
Yes. If you're already using NX there's nothing to see here.
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by paol 13y ago
There's nothing general purpose about Mac OS X as far as hardware support is concerned. Just like iOS, it only has to target a very small set of hardware configurations. Edit: as pointed out elsewhere, this doesn't excuse MS from
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by paol 13y ago
Those who like this will probably like the short documentary "Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle" produced by a some NASA engineers. It uses similar footage from launchpad cams, with lots of technical commentary. http://www
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by paol 13y ago
Well there you go then: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/07/01/world/europe/A...
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by paol 14y ago
I don't believe for a second the UK is leaving the EU. It would be a huge disadvantage economically for them to do so. All that talk is just political posturing to please the idiot wing of the conservative party. (Disclaimer: I'm not from t
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by paol 14y ago
This is already true for most people in the modern world.
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by paol 14y ago
Python 2.x is still available, this just means it's not installed by default.
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by paol 14y ago
Yes, that is feasible and there are real systems that take that approach (millions of them in fact - look up the architecture of the Sony Playstation 3 console if you're curious). One problem that surfaces is that such asymmetric systems ar
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by paol 14y ago
The commission basically represents the governments of the individual member countries. Because it has the most power by far of all the european institutions, this means that the governments in turn can exercise power at the EU level in a f
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by paol 14y ago
I would love to see things move in this direction. Unfortunately we are in the minority (even among those who self-describe as pro-european).
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by paol 14y ago
Sadly the parliament is essentially a powerless organ by design. The problem is that the european commission accumulates both executive power and most of the legislative power, where the later should lie with parliament. The end result is t
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by paol 14y ago
While this is true, nvidia's closed-source drivers do have the virtue of actually working . (ok, this is slightly unfair to intel's video drivers, they work fine as long as you don't need 3D acceleration)
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by paol 14y ago
DRM is the games publishers' choice, no matter what distribution platform they use. Steam doesn't force DRM on publishers and there are plenty of games there without DRM.
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by paol 14y ago
But that's exactly one of the main points of the detractors of checked exceptions (of which I'm one): the only sane way of working with it is to subvert it. Whether you convert the throws clause to a common supertype (which very soon conver
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by paol 14y ago
Exactly. I think the 2 key failings of the checked exception idea (there are others, but not as important) are 1) Precise exception specifications leak implementation details. This will bite you badly, e.g., when you want to change the impl
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by paol 14y ago
I kind of agree that Java's approach forces people to think about error handling. But really that's it's only virtue. Once people do think about error handling in their program, the best approach almost inevitably involves subverting the
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by paol 14y ago
MUMPS has featured several times on The Daily WTF (here's one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx ). That alone should tell you something...
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by paol 14y ago
Except for me it's actually "yes" (with caveats - more details in my comments to the blog post)

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