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841.
by philh 13y ago
"I am not making this up" is a succinct way to say "this was a really stupid string for the book to contain". Tptacek could have chosen to say that differently, but it does add value as written. I have no idea what ASN.1
842.
by philh 13y ago
Yes, but it's not reasonable to assume that our armchair "how I would do it" theorizing is, in fact, how they would do it. We can assume that they have come up with the idea, but maybe they discarded it for reasons that aren&
843.
by philh 13y ago
The v/ν similarity is bringing up unpleasant memories of squinting at blackboards containing both those symbols, as well as u and μ for good measure. But mostly, I think that font looks pretty nice.
844.
by philh 13y ago
My gut reaction is that I'm not sold. With HTTP requests for example, I want to say `if 'id' in params`, whereas `if hasattr(params, 'id')` feels unnatural. But I also know that I'm accessing `params['id&#
845.
by philh 13y ago
Any time you have a dict with stringy keys that you know when writing the program. HTML attribute lists, database records, http request parameters, config files.
846.
by philh 13y ago
(Two characters shorter.) At least in python, I would love to have syntax like that. (I would use :: instead of .$, but maybe :: is already used in C#.) Maybe it's just because I work with JSON a fair amount, but I frequently have an
847.
by philh 13y ago
Perhaps I misinterpreted you. When you said > It baffles me that every site on the web keeps using simple up/down systems and then complains about how hard it is to generate quality discussion when this is hardly a new problem set.
848.
by philh 13y ago
> You invest in a promise that may or may not be reality I don't think cryonics organisations promise that you will eventually be revived. They promise to try, and they probably think there's a higher chance of it happening t
849.
by philh 13y ago
Do you feel like slashdot has high quality discussions? I don't. The problem isn't new, but it also isn't solved.
850.
by philh 13y ago
Note that introverted and awkward are not the same. An awkward person is likely to come across as introverted, but not all introverts are awkward. I don't really know anything about the social skills of the people you list, but I don&#
851.
by philh 13y ago
> Multiplication is a way to do adding faster, and division is a way to do subtraction faster. Can you elaborate? If you need to do 13 + 13 + 13 + 13, you can do that as 13 x 4, which I guess is what you mean by the first part; but what
852.
by philh 13y ago
I find the comments that people can't understand this method to be kinda bizarre. I haven't heard of common core, but after a few moments of looking at this, the algorithm becomes clear: 432 is between 80 and 800, so repeatedly su
853.
by philh 13y ago
As long as we're being pedantic... It says the best (presumably "most effective") way to get the right answer is to post the wrong one. That doesn't mean that posting the wrong one will always work; it might be that if
854.
by philh 13y ago
C has enums, and it's true that they can be implicitly used as ints and sometimes that can be bad, but here they just weren't used. I'm not sure what you think C could have done differently. It's not obvious to me that t
855.
by philh 13y ago
"Over half" is dubious. The compiler could have prevented 'X' by not permitting "function == int" comparisons. That's 1/5. The only thing you might be referring to with "cleverbait syntax" i
856.
by philh 13y ago
I think that those two did things that you could not have hacked into their predecessors without esentially making a whole new editor, so you may as well go ahead and write a whole new editor. OTOH I don't know if that's the case
857.
by philh 13y ago
Superficially-impressive is better than not-impressive-at-all for keeping someone motivated. I'm getting the impression that by analogy, DotRSB lets you play music that someone else has written; but to be good at drawing, you need to b
858.
by philh 13y ago
> What might big-time convince me to try out a nootropic substance would be an objective demonstration that someone with typical abilities (say, someone who goes into online discussion with a known propensity to believe what's on Re
859.
by philh 13y ago
I'm having difficulty parsing your prediction. Are you saying that in a free market, nobody would offer insurance against the possibility of developing a rare, expensive medical problem? Or that once you've developed an expensive
860.
by philh 13y ago
> Learning new tech and (more importantly) being able to know from experience which is more fit for a specific task is part of the career field you've chosen. Yes, but that doesn't mean that any particular instance of having to
861.
by philh 13y ago
I find it a little amusing that you would talk about social and emotional intelligence, right after you directly accuse someone of having a superiority complex. No one cares what vis IQ is, but they care how good ve is at programming, and v
862.
by philh 13y ago
Oh, I didn't see that there's 'bro thanks' and 'bro ...no' for voting. I wouldn't call that too much, but YMMV. I can't see anything else.
863.
by philh 13y ago
> It also clumsily fails to understand the genre it's trying to reproduce, the Unix joke name. Those jokes are encoded laconically into the name and only the name (e.g. "less") and then have the good taste to immediately e
864.
by philh 13y ago
I don't know. But it looks like currently we do detect it before it spreads, most of the time. So I guess your question has either an answer (e.g. "other symptoms manifest sufficiently early"), or an incorrect premise (e.g. &
865.
by philh 13y ago
> It doesn't help that life or death issues for men, like testicular cancer, are almost completely ignored. This isn't a great example, because testicular cancer is rarely fatal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by philh 13y ago
I don't think anyone said LLVM is technically bad; and there's no particular reason that pleasant people with good intentions can't be bad for a community that they don't explicitly identify with.
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by philh 13y ago
> Given the fact that most of the times we get the sugar version of the story via Hollywood or books... Do we? I'd expect to get the version of the story that sells, which is likely to have added drama. Might it be that Jobs, Zucker
868.
by philh 13y ago
To be clear, I'm not suggesting it's an important question per se. _delerium presented an argument that the things people do with macros should be implemented as language facilities instead. Ve used racket contracts as an example.
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by philh 13y ago
I'm not sure how well that specific example works. Are contracts built in to the language on a fundamental level, or are they just part of the standard library? Given that they're not included in racket/base, and given how fl
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by philh 13y ago
If I say something like "I had to catch a 6am flight", that means something to you without knowing what time zone I'm in. Absolute and relative times are both useful.

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