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by philh 11y ago
That's the comment saying why not to remove the commented-out code. The commented-out code itself was presumably there in 1985.
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by philh 11y ago
I'd be somewhat surprised if the bzr->git conversion did in fact mess those up. I was following ESR's blog when he was doing the conversion. He seemed to feel very strongly that the conversion should not mess things up like tha
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by philh 11y ago
I don't think that's true. Did you try googling that? It wouldn't have taken very long. I can't find a satisfactory answer. Wikipedia doesn't say. [1] says it comes from the print industry, but I can't find any
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by philh 11y ago
It's a photo of the great wall of china, referencing the blog title "great wall of numbers". I'm not sure what it has to do with programming? By default, I think I'd expect a blog with that hero image to be a travel
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Asking good questions(rationalconspiracy.com)
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by philh 11y ago
So, um. This feels like a release announcement, but there's nothing about a release on the mailing list, rakudo.org or perl6.org. Rakudo star is still at 2015.11 in the git repo. Is it not meant to be a release announcement?
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by philh 11y ago
Unless we're talking about different things - tones carry semantic information, just not the same kind as in Chinese. They indicate things like "I'm asking a question" and "I'm being sarcastic". This does
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by philh 11y ago
I still needed the password (or so I assume). It was just a first check that was stricter than it should have been.
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by philh 11y ago
I remember finding somewhere that let me sign up with a +, but not log in with it - unless I disabled client-side validation, at which point the server was happy to let me in.
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by philh 11y ago
> "definition" and "meaning" are the same thing. Given that I've explained the distinction I'm making, this is a super unhelpful thing to say. It makes me disinclined to engage with the rest of your comment.
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by philh 11y ago
verisimilidude didn't get me, but nor did you or dragonwriter. I'm distinguishing between definition and meaning. You don't need to be able to define a word, to know roughly what it means. The words "science fiction&quot
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by philh 11y ago
(Sorry, pet peeve.) It's space opera, which is a subgenre of science fiction. Some people invent definitions of "science fiction" that exclude some works of science fiction, but that's silly. There's no definition o
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by philh 11y ago
Idle speculation: > "The key sentence here is, 'Please note that you cannot make more than 2 submissions per week.' It is our understanding that this is to say that one individual can at most upload twice per week. Otherwi
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by philh 11y ago
What does it even mean to say someone's flaws are "insignificant compared to the magnitude of his thought"? Those two things don't seem like they can be put on the same scale in order to compare them. What are you two di
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by philh 11y ago
I never said he wasn't a racist. I said he wasn't a member of the KKK. You haven't provided any evidence that he was. "Not being a member of the KKK" doesn't mean someone wasn't a racist. If he was a racis
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by philh 11y ago
> Wilson was a KKK member I don't think this is true. A brief search finds nothing that says he was, and several places that don't say he was where I'd expect them to. E.g. http://www.weatherimagery.com/blo
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by philh 11y ago
Red. I was going for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Sane#/media/File:Davis... (I got lucky. I really like how it turned out, so I'm glad it was permanent.)
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by philh 11y ago
I dyed my hair for Halloween. I specifically looked for a brand that wouldn't be permanent. When I was finished, I looked at the box again. It said "permanent" in fairly large letters in two different places, and I'd fai
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by philh 11y ago
It seems like this would let you update lots of styles simultaneously, without having to keep track of exactly which styles they are.
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by philh 11y ago
That may be, but it's not obvious from the link, and it's not clear to me that it would have been easy to discover. "Don't pay attention to things that aren't true" doesn't work as a heuristic. "Don&#
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by philh 11y ago
This particular submission is not a spammy press release. It's an actual paper published in an actual journal. Your refutation is another paper which found contradictory results - that doesn't mean this paper is bad science, even
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by philh 11y ago
"I am asking purely out of ignorance ... Correct me if I'm misunderstanding something here" How do you think 25cf should have handled this differently?
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by philh 11y ago
I'm confused by your addition of "and don't know their rights". In at-will, not knowing their rights means they get fired with no notice because that's allowed. Without at-will, not knowing their rights means they p
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by philh 11y ago
I note that if you build up four weeks of savings in at-will employment, then compared to four-weeks-notice, you have the same level of security and more time to dedicate to job hunting. (For people living paycheck to paycheck, four weeks o
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by philh 11y ago
Obviously, you just need sensors in the rear crumple zone that cause the spike to collapse.
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by philh 11y ago
I consider that I'm entitled to keep talking to you, as long as you keep talking to me. It chafes to be told otherwise. On top of that, you're asking me to do something that you could have accomplished yourself, by simply not aski
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by philh 11y ago
Of course you owe me nothing, and of course I'm not entitled to interaction from you, on any terms. I've said twice, and now I say a third time, that you can stop interacting with me any time you like. But while you choose to inte
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by philh 11y ago
HN discussion is a public forum, and you don't get to dictate who replies to you. If you don't want to talk to me, that's up to you. You can simply stop talking to me. I'll get bored and wander off and you won't see
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by philh 11y ago
I have multiple complaints! For one, you're a bully. For two, you're changing the subject when I point out your bullying. And now we can add three, you're changing the subject when I point out your changing the subject. Are y
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by philh 11y ago
The US has 4% of the world's population. If you're not in the top 25% of the US, you're not in the top 1% of the world. Europe has 10%, and Slovenia and the ex-Yugoslav countries are not known for their wealth.

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