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by piaste 10y ago
You Anglophones do have at least two diminutive suffixes: -ling and -let. They have neutral or slightly negative connotations, though.
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by piaste 10y ago
A first class plane ticket is better than an economy class one. A luxury car is better than a cheap car. Those upgrades might cost too much for their value, but they are valuable. The Juicero is roundly mocked because, despite the cost, i
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by piaste 10y ago
Don't know if they exist in the US, but I specifically look for juice bottles that say "NOT FROM CONCENTRATE". I can usually find a few even in smaller grocery stores.
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by piaste 10y ago
The big bugbear is global, mutable state. Global immutable state is not nearly as much of a big deal. Local mutable state, likewise. Once that global immutable state turns out to be less than immutable (e.g you introduce the ability t
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by piaste 10y ago
Or if you can't afford to lock the table in the process, before you run UPDATE {foo} WHERE {bar} you back up the relevant rows into a temporary table with SELECT * INTO foo_backup WHERE {bar}.
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by piaste 10y ago
Template Haskell? Control.Arrow? Idris?
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by piaste 10y ago
This is why my HATEOAS APIs always return urls in the form " https://mysite.com/{SHA256 hash}", and a façade API looks up the actual path from the cached hash. Hardcode that , bitches.
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by piaste 10y ago
That's an anecdotal photo and an off-the-cuff rationale. Here's data : https://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tec... ~50% Windows, 26% OSX, 22% Linux, for the average "developer-who-fi
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by piaste 10y ago
Did you check the discussion thread for that proposal? It was rejected by the mailing list devs: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292#issuecomment-22198...
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by piaste 10y ago
> Firing 18k people at Microsoft's scale isn't even close to burning it down and starting from scratch. Eh... According to Wikipedia, MS had 114k employees total as of mid-2016. Given that, I'd say a 18k layoff definitely
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by piaste 10y ago
The Wikia makes a valiant attempt at forging a coherent narrative, but when you actually play the games (especially back-to-back) you can't help but notice how their characterisation swings wildly between each title: - In ME1 they&#x27
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by piaste 10y ago
That is a brilliant aphorism. I shall make good use of it.
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by piaste 10y ago
> On a somewhat related note, I've been trying Swype recently. After a couple weeks, I'm still not more efficient than regular typing, but I could see how I might get there eventually. I'd be curious to know what others ha
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by piaste 10y ago
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but this would make it virtually impossible for the ad provider to reliably measure how often their ads are viewed , forcing them to consider only clicks in their business model. This may be a pro or a
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by piaste 10y ago
> Do you just lose a new contact, or corrupt an essential database? How essential are we talking about here? What I mean is, your smartphone is a device that can get lost, stolen or destroyed any day. All the data that is physically stor
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by piaste 10y ago
> no-op if already defined Why shouldn't it be a compile-time error, in the same way as your suggested `def foo;`? I can't think of a legitimate reason for wanting to write an intentional no-op (at least at the level of PHP; ob
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by piaste 10y ago
> I'm talking from my experience: We have developed a k3-k6 elearning/game platform in two months. Actually, it has 5 game types, a game creator/editor, user profiles, game boards.. it has around 20 to 30 routes (mostly di
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by piaste 10y ago
> No. There are young people in the United States who are citizens of this country by right. Children born in the US are citizens. They are not illegal immigrants. Yes, of course, but those are definitely not the people I was talking a
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by piaste 10y ago
> Because it is the only case in which "illegal" refers to a status rather than an action [..] a very un-American view of how the law works That's because the illegal action consists of being in a location where you have n
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by piaste 10y ago
You could have no fee for the first X intellectual properties you defend or the first Y DMCA requests you file every year (whichever is lower), and then introduce fees when you go past the limit. It feels odd to price a public legal request
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by piaste 10y ago
Do you believe that every illegal act is automatically indefensible?
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by piaste 10y ago
> I've worked on several projects without this and the tests done without TDD tend to be of higher quality. Do you mean "with TDD", by any chance? The rest of your post says that you observed better results when tests were
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by piaste 10y ago
> but in any case, the President cannot preemptively pardon people for future offenses for which they may or may not be convicted. Well, in Assange's case, those would be past offences for which they may or may not be convicted. A
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by piaste 10y ago
Searching for F# seems to return all .NET-using companies, even if they're explicitly listing only C# or only VB.NET in their page. Perhaps you could add a "search related tools" flag? I can imagine an experienced Java develo
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by piaste 10y ago
Which one (or more) of those three properties does the D language fail to satisfy?
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by piaste 10y ago
Funny, but unlikely. Farmers moving on to better-paying jobs is a process that takes decades, as we saw during the 19th and 20th century. It takes a sudden drop in the food supply to cause a famine.
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by piaste 10y ago
You can trust Google/MS/Yahoo!/etc. with your pizza orders and mortgage payments, while switching to self-hosted, GPG email from a RYF-certified machine for organising your secret mattress-tag-removing guerrilla.
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by piaste 10y ago
If you write in a single language that has only a few combinations, sure. But as the number of diacritics - letter combinations increase, dead keys become a more attractive solution. With just two or three Western European languages to writ
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by piaste 10y ago
Putting money in a financial investment ultimately means lending it to other people so they can make stuff, and it's perfectly logical to compare it against a production investment where you make stuff on your own. Of course, if all
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by piaste 10y ago
Are the XAML designers in [mono|sharp]develop good? This project seems obviously aimed at people who love visual designers.

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