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91.
by pif 1y ago
And still there are coders who prefer non-statically typed languages, tsk tsk...
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by pif 1y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls : The Niagara River flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, forming part of the border between Ontario, Canada, to the west, and New York, United States, to the east
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by pif 1y ago
> Why would anyone willingly agree to be tracked? To avoid paying actual money, even the smallest sum of it.
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by pif 1y ago
s/Syria/Libya/
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by pif 1y ago
> eventually would reach Lake Ontario You mean Lake Erie, don't you?
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by pif 1y ago
> Yet people seem to like making useful things in it so it must have gotten something right. I'm not commenting on Rust, seriously! But I couldn't help to notice that this sentence is a non sequitur. Something right has been de
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by pif 1y ago
The hate was not against IE, but against a popular tool that fought against shared standards.
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by pif 1y ago
> "Why didn't you put that in the patch notes?" Because you wouldn't read it anyway. </OT>
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by pif 1y ago
> Since the most recent round of Crunchyroll layoffs What's the point of writing a full article when the answer is literally in the eighth word?
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by pif 1y ago
> I WANT to be able to separate allocation from initialization. Which hardly ever makes sense, and is possible with clean C++ anyway...
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by pif 1y ago
> single use plastic bags [...] still make more environmental sense As far as I understand, part of the problem was that they kept ending up in the nature rather than into an incinerator, while reusable bags usually are properly disposed
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by pif 1y ago
Bro forgot that ls has an option to obtain the same sorting as the one he doesn't like. ls has it because it solves a real user need.
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by pif 1y ago
Only lazy and lame developers can prefer dynamic type.
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by pif 1y ago
> 8080 You mean 80. Ports after 1024 were for wimps.
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by pif 1y ago
When my father left us, a cousine of mine (from my mother's sise) got confused and parked a couple blocks away. She entered the house where people were mourning, and she realised the people she didn't recognise had to be from my f
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by pif 1y ago
> 15 year old white american students Which barbarian idiot included a question about skin colour in an otherwise-respectable test?
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by pif 1y ago
> the IT software development profession largely lacks — or fails to put into place — automated, objective and repeatable metrics The author is part of the problem, if he ever let his customer hope that an "automated, objective and
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by pif 1y ago
> never seem to simply paste the link This is not possible on printed papers, and that is the medium that defined the profession of journalism. Why should they change?
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by pif 1y ago
> I guess the Latin makes it sound more serious and authoritative Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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by pif 1y ago
It doesn't need to be good because it is not meant for good developers.
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by pif 1y ago
> we have ceased to be a just society for the last 50 years How could I guess you are not black?
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by pif 1y ago
It already exists: True, False and FileNotFound. If you don't believe me, just ask Paula Bean.
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by pif 1y ago
Sure, I agree with you!
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by pif 1y ago
Solution is extremely simple: commission-based sales people can only sell what already exists. Corollary: R&D must have the right of veto on any promise to any customer.
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by pif 1y ago
Concerning professional software development: Customers buy solutions. They don't buy specifications documents, they don't buy elegant code, they don't buy automatic test coverage. All of these are useful only as long as they
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by pif 1y ago
You sound like the programmers who just shrug off with "It's just a warning!" a plethora of production bugs to come.
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by pif 1y ago
> Who hasn't heard the story of a boomer who as a 20-something bought a house ... Too bad today's 20-something people would just scoff at the house the boomer grew his family in!
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by pif 1y ago
Ehm... which previous generation was born and bred in such a rich world? And who's going to inherit the wealth previous generations have created?
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by pif 1y ago
> they're just "whining" Many of them, indeed, are just whining. And they keep whining without realizing how spoiled they are. But (at least) a few of them are having good ideas and, especially, implementing them with prof
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by pif 1y ago
It would have succeeded decades ago if the West hadn't put so much pressure on them to just swallow it.

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