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721.
by pif 4y ago
> you can't make use of the service conditional on accepting ads Edited for you: you can't make use of the service conditional on accepting personalized ads
722.
by pif 4y ago
> like flipping burgers. Programming an information system is like flipping burgers; developing industrial software is not.
723.
by pif 4y ago
No way! Not with Microsoft, at least! As a researcher, I used to work on Linux and I never ever even imagined I could ask for administrator privileges. In the industry, it's Microsoft all around. And it shows. And R&D software mana
724.
by pif 4y ago
Sincere thanks for caring for your students! In my experience, though, the set of {software development jobs that can be performed exclusively with the notions acquired in CS} is pretty much the same as the set of {boring software develop
725.
by pif 4y ago
Trump is not the problem: he is a symptom. The millions of idiots that voted for him, twice, are the problem.
726.
by pif 4y ago
> Be familiar with the computer architectures you are working on. But keep in mind that C is not a portable assembly!
727.
by pif 4y ago
> In 2022 "C" is used as a portable assembly language. No! Only poor programmers use C while reasoning assembly, and then they complain about undefined behaviour.
728.
by pif 4y ago
Which is the only possible logical consequence of modifying something that others asked you not. const_cast is there for buggy (or legacy) libraries where const was not specified explicitly, but is implicit in the behavior.
729.
by pif 4y ago
Not at all! a is int; &a is pointer to int; x is pointer to int; *x in again int.
730.
by pif 4y ago
> tests however are particularly toxic as it makes refactoring and cleanup very difficult. Properly written tests check the interface contract, and thus are very friendly watchdog that will warn you as soon as you got out the right path.
731.
by pif 4y ago
Being shocked by testing in production is akin to being shocked by air in the atmosphere. Atmosphere is but air, and production is but testing: a (hopefully) very long test run, which will only end when the project will be dismissed.
732.
by pif 4y ago
It was up to the shareholders to give the board a clear mandate to discuss the workforce's future as well as financial issues.
733.
by pif 4y ago
He is not more cruel than the stakeholders who sold the company without ever worrying about the employees.
734.
by pif 4y ago
There's no point in keeping the same name so that a system can keep running, if the data meaning has changed. Bad programmers chose (b). Good programmers choose (a). Better programmers refuse the change request.
735.
by pif 4y ago
You, for wanting to waste everybody's time with problems that are yet to be confirmed.
736.
by pif 4y ago
Only an idiot could think he knows everything about Euler as a person, just because he heard his name in a geometry class.
737.
by pif 4y ago
Is this an example of the stereotypical American "academic" leftist idiotic fringe that takes many votes to the Tea Party?
738.
by pif 4y ago
> What appears to be called for is increased acknowledgment that the people who discovered them also, in some cases, held morally reprehensible views. And this is irrelevant at best, stupid at core and dangerous at worst. Learning stuff
739.
by pif 4y ago
Then just use abort!
740.
by pif 4y ago
Your freedom of speech does not oblige me to provide you with a microphone. You are free to post on your website and Twitter is free to manage their website.
741.
by pif 4y ago
No explosion can modify the total momentum.
742.
by pif 4y ago
> But, at all times, your requirements/specification must be accurate. > > If the requirements say "the system does X", the electrical engineers must be free to use this assumption, without talking to the software en
743.
by pif 4y ago
Your analysis is correct and wrong at the same time. You are not considering the fact that we currently are not able to observe a rock a few AC away with the precision that is necessary to assess that it is going to hit us, and that the gen
744.
by pif 4y ago
No, they can't. You need momentum, and no explosion can provide any global momentum.
745.
by pif 4y ago
The rock that hit our planet 65 million years ago had a diameter of around 10 km. What do you think we may do about that?
746.
by pif 4y ago
How many people have ever been killed by an asteroid? And how many by earthquakes? Even considering just astrophysics, we have more pressing problems.
747.
by pif 4y ago
In order to change its trajectory, you need some wisely applied momentum, not a catastrophic explosion. The most powerful explosion may at most reduce the size of the biggest chunks, but not change the vector velocity of the barycentre at a
748.
by pif 4y ago
There are so many things that may save our lives, in a huge number of theoretically possible scenarios, that we must choose our priorities.
749.
by pif 4y ago
Apart from the really tiny ones, there's nothing we can do.
750.
by pif 4y ago
Not tracked: just trackable.

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