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by pitay 9y ago
Excel endures because it's the non-programmer's REPL for data. Like a Lisp REPL, using Excel is nimble and has an instant feedback loop. Click "A-Z" to sort ascending, click "Z-A" to sort descending. Move&#x2F
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by pitay 9y ago
You didn't want this to be about our comments, yet you replied to my comment to criticize it? That's nonsense, unless you really meant to say "I didn't really want it to be about my comment." This is more misrepre
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by pitay 9y ago
Here is the as far as I can tell, anonymous post that the CEO of Make must have seen. http://archive.is/GE0he At least people can see what was written instead of relying on hearsay.
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by pitay 9y ago
This isn’t some controversial political literature, it’s a hurtful personal attack on someone who doesn’t deserve it. Yet you do not show it. As I mentioned before It seems like someone won't show what they are talking about is afr
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by pitay 9y ago
Why not link to primary evidence? How can someone make an informed decision without seeing it? It is strange logic that shining a light on something supposedly reprehensible actually helps it. This 'I won't show you the thing I
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by pitay 9y ago
Could you please give a link. I have searched for the article using 'Freelancer.com' and the earliest one is from 10 days ago titled 'Freelancer.com has ruined my life'. I also see similar articles to this from longer a
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by pitay 9y ago
I have a 4GB Android phone, an original Moto E. Simply updating the phone left it full without anything adding any applications to it. It left it unable to be updated without clearing the cache of everything on the phone every time. Lucki
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by pitay 9y ago
> I have become suspicious of which kinds of speech and which contexts people choose to become vocally defensive of. It's because that is where other people want to throw away things like 'equality under the law' and other
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by pitay 9y ago
To put it simply, I do not agree that it is an appalling comparison like you say. I think the perpetrators of 9/11 thought of themselves as Muslims, just as other Muslims thought the 9/11 perpetrators as Muslims. So yes, they i
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by pitay 9y ago
Action can and should be taken against individuals that make a credible threat. We certainly don't want to have people fearing for their life. I don't think that "openly told reporters that they want to send jews/black
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by pitay 9y ago
Whbat part of Islamists have waged terror that you did not understand. I am not advocating arresting Muslims for simply being Muslim, just as I am not advocating arresting neo nazis for being neo nazis. We don't want laws that are di
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by pitay 9y ago
Did you realise the point of my comment was not to criticize Muslims at all, just showing where the 'Just arrest them' mentality would actually lead to. There is a reason why I put both Islamist and Muslim in my comment, which wa
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by pitay 9y ago
Only if they are actually being violent, there is no reason to arrest people because they might be violent. Now let's apply your statement more broadly. Islamists successfully destroyed the World Trade Center. They have actually cau
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by pitay 9y ago
A couple of things: 1. I was watching the news and in a picture I noticed one of the counter protesters using some sort of spray can as a flamethrower. I also saw the counter protesters beating up a spokesman for the protesters before the
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by pitay 9y ago
Thanks for the information, it is very much appreciated. I was a little frustrated that comments on this thread had people saying you should learn the math and prove your programs but providing no information on how to do so. It would be
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by pitay 9y ago
I am assuming you are talking about database indexes. The documentation for the database that I have most used actually specified what the various supported types were good for. It made choosing the correct type of index much easier. The
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by pitay 9y ago
Depends on the constraints you want to prove that the program will uphold. Some constraints may be impossible to prove, especially in non-real time contexts. For example, a program must run on a platform that doesn't have everything f
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by pitay 9y ago
The need for backwards compatibility is what is keeping JavaScript still not a great language. The number of wtfs and surprising behaviour is justified by needing to conform to what the language already did, and that is not a good thing.
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by pitay 9y ago
Ah, thanks very much for your reply.
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by pitay 9y ago
What has J2EE/Java EE been replaced with?
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by pitay 9y ago
The malware protection system running uses a filesystem minifilter so may not matter what executable is running just that files are changed in the NTFS filesystem. So the grandparent post has great advice. It is definitely worth trying ev
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by pitay 9y ago
It may also be good to look at 'The market for silver bullets' (2008) [1]. This discusses security products as products where both the seller and buyer do not know enough to judge the efficacy of security products. Also where th
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by pitay 9y ago
To be fair though, a good fraction of the Minecraft modding community is rotten; especially with mod authors trying to make money from their mods by relying on a reverse engineered Minecraft. In an effort to make money, they have put clickt
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by pitay 9y ago
My apologies for this unsolicited opinion, but have you considered getting weights if you haven't got them already? If you get some weights you can do some extra exercise in your room, just learn how to use the weights safely. I beli
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by pitay 10y ago
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729770 . Go there for larger conversation.
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by pitay 10y ago
From memory you could scroll to get the results IF it detected you clicked on a google search result to get there, otherwise the answers were not displayed.
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by pitay 10y ago
I don't know of this particularly, but the following web page lists a lot of desktop emulators and development environments for the 6502: http://www.6502.org/tools/emu/ Someone else will have to provide an ac
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by pitay 10y ago
In response to your question, have another question. Does a man having a child with woman mean she won't have other children? I don't see any reason it does. Would a man having a child with 10 women cause huge social problem? I
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by pitay 10y ago
Let's not get caught up on what dead ancestors may think. The world is already overpopulated. Overpopulation causes depletion of natural resources, degradation of the environment, conflicts and wars caused by such lack of resources,
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by pitay 10y ago
The one thing that I have done is criticize in a way that makes the person look terrible if they ban you for it. I don't know how well this does for the bigger picture. Sometimes it is quite scary doing this though. My apologies for

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