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811.
by pif 4y ago
Thank you for your post! Thank you especially for reminding everybody that programming is much more than web programming and information systems.
812.
by pif 4y ago
Sorry, but no. Cars are meant to move people around, not for strolling. Every road and every situation have a reasonable limit, which is often higher than what you posted.
813.
by pif 4y ago
> they break lots of otherwise-functioning code. There is no otherwise! POSIX has symbolic links: if your software does not function with symbolic links, it does not function on POSIX.
814.
by pif 4y ago
> There is no "road tax" in the UK, is it? It's a fee for polluting, not using the road. It is not what you call it, but what you spend it on.
815.
by pif 4y ago
[OT] > In Asia it is called ... So a few billions of people, speaking a multitude of languages, all use the same name for a concept? How nice!
816.
by pif 4y ago
> They don’t help with congestion, they don’t help with pollution, So what? The first and only point of a public transport system is, you know, transporting people. Limiting congestion and pollution comes very far in terms of priority, a
817.
by pif 4y ago
> I’m sure this is telling me something interesting about how my brain works See my sibling comment. Joel says you are just normal.
818.
by pif 4y ago
> I find regex easier to write than to read. There is nothing new under the sun. Joel, 22 years ago: There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code
819.
by pif 4y ago
From Part I: > "I don't need to know how it works. I just want to know which commands to run." > with Git, this does not work.* Well, so what is your post about? Make it work, then call back.
820.
by pif 4y ago
No good can result from the interaction between the most complex and powerful programming language and the corporation who created the programming language for dummies.
821.
by pif 4y ago
> fundamentally web-hostile. Sniffing the user agent is fundamentally web-hostile!
822.
by pif 4y ago
Slightly out of topic: > There have been a few initiatives in recent years to implement new a new userspace base system for Linux distributions as an alternative to the GNU coreutils and BusyBox. Have there been? And why?
823.
by pif 4y ago
> Democracy should produce an acceptable result in the end Unfortunately, that is not a given.
824.
by pif 4y ago
I'm just stating the obvious: this law has nothing to do with dictatorship.
825.
by pif 4y ago
Yeah, so what? You filmed the beginning, you filmed the police asking you to stop: which judge will ever trust them when they'll describe how you slipped on a banana peel?
826.
by pif 4y ago
From the article: > Violators could face a misdemeanor, but only after being verbally warned and continuing to record anyway. > Exceptions were made for people at the center of an interaction with police... They are working, you are n
827.
by pif 4y ago
> specifically outlawing recording That is not the point of the law. The point is to stay out of the immediate proximity to the action.
828.
by pif 4y ago
By the way, from the article: Exceptions were made for people at the center of an interaction with police, anyone standing in an enclosed structure on private property where police activity was occurring and occupants of a vehicle stopped
829.
by pif 4y ago
You forgot 4: you keep filming while they are far enough and stop when they get close to you. This way, you comply with the law, and you have enough material for court in case of misbehavior.
830.
by pif 4y ago
> A Global pandemic (Spanish Flu), revolutionary technology (Aeroplane, etc.), Killing of influential people and then war. Uhm, you are mixing facts a bit: aeroplane came before WWI; the shooting of an archduke started WWI, but the flu o
831.
by pif 4y ago
> Of course it has to be useful. No, it hasn't. "Science" means "knowledge", and the only things you can know are the things how they actually are. A PhD from CERN should not confuse science with engineering.
832.
by pif 4y ago
I have a PhD done in CERN, too, and I can state that your remark is idiotic. Money was not spent in order to confirm that the Higgs boson existed: rather, it was invested in order to improve technology to such a degree that we could have an
833.
by pif 4y ago
When the title of an article is "Something Part 2", the first thing I expect to find on the page is the link to "Something Part 1". Whoever missed this connection, I don't trust him to talk about software.
834.
by pif 4y ago
> it excludes people who would live there but the zoning doesn't allow it. Let me be cynical: so what? They'll go and live elsewhere. > it destroys the whole. There is a huge difference between slowing the growth (or even st
835.
by pif 4y ago
> the government thinks we need to build 5.7 million homes Last time I checked, Canada had plenty of space to build a few million houses. What is the problem?
836.
by pif 4y ago
People don't have the right to complain if they didn't show up to vote.
837.
by pif 4y ago
People don't have the right to complain if they didn't show up to vote.
838.
by pif 4y ago
I am not from the USA and I don't live in the USA. I've read about this issue several times, and I'm not sure whether I understand why it is an issue. > zoning is controlled almost exclusively by local city councils What&#
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by pif 4y ago
> I'd love to work with a dev who's happy to think about how to most quickly deliver value I'd love to work with a PM who has the courage to engage over a detailed specification document.
840.
by pif 4y ago
Completely out of topic: she lost me at "pronouns".

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