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by pmr_ 13y ago
Source: see question 8 here: http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-r... Comment: I fully agree that a change of opinion does not invalidate the old argument. I thought I made th
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I cannot judge on the quality of the course, but there are a lot of horrible C++ resources (including books) out there and over the years the community has come to a kind of consent which resources are likely produce C++ programmers which s
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by pmr_ 13y ago
The 4th edition of "The C++ Programming Language" has been updated to cover C++11. Contrary to the article I think the book is very well suited to learn C++ (although not to learn programming). It takes a bottom-up approach making
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Funnily, esr also maintains/mirrors those koans as part of the Jargon Files. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I'm curious why people still throw around this essay even though Stephenson said he changed his view on the topic. Of course the points made are still valid but they are by no means absolute truth and never were.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
It is probably too easy to confound the NASA engineering achievements with just raw intelligence. They have a huge body of standards and methodology on about every level of software engineering: time-proven coding standards, systems design
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Then you are doing it wrong. ;) But seriously: How do you do common things such as `query-replace{-regex}` or `indent-region`? Have you rebound them all?
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Given for how long we have been developing airplanes and even planes in almost the same size as the A350 the lack of a somewhat standardized development process astounds me. Did newly developed planes used to be less safe and were more prob
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by pmr_ 13y ago
This video does not seem like hate to me. The guy starts by how he tried to increase Facebook likes through legitimate Facebook endorsed advertisement and shows the data how that worked out for him. Of course, the data he uses is rather thi
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by pmr_ 13y ago
The article specifically addresses this feature, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the topic to judge the quality of the argument.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
> "What we need, Karpinski realized after struggling to build his network simulation tool, is a single language that does everything well." and later: > "Bezanson says it’s not exactly ideal for building desktop applica
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I don't even think it is acceptable to approach each of your friends and relatives and pester them with some technical issue that shouldn't exist in the first place. The proposed fix just isn't a viable solution.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
But is he going to find one that follows his "all has to be immutable" approach? I somewhat doubt it. Do you know of any existing OS that works like what the author describes?
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by pmr_ 13y ago
> don't really know how feasible this is And I suspect neither does the author. I looked at the previous project (OpenGL Renderer) which comes in at 250 lines of code and barely any functionality. The current project is has no code
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by pmr_ 13y ago
You are correct in that the license is free, but it isn't a copyleft license. This is a purely political decision: RMS wants gcc not only to be free software but he also wants it to be unusable to create non-free derivatives thus makin
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I spend some time playing with the original map and the references for data points I examined more closely always were papers published in journals. This might not be the case for all data points that have been used and I wasn't able t
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by pmr_ 13y ago
We require people with children to pay less taxes or subsidize them and provide those children with education because the value educated people provide to society is far higher than the actual cost of educating them. I would wager the same
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I think you misunderstood me or I wasn't clear. I'm not saying an individual's habits should be regulated or certain products should be banned, but that users of damaging substances should carry the cost those habits cause. T
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by pmr_ 13y ago
In http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/aenderungen-2003-o... see the second heading. I have further news articles from FAZ and Süddeutsche claiming the same. Unfortunately I cannot find an English source, I
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by pmr_ 13y ago
As a smoker I highly support fair taxes on tobacco. I would welcome the additional incentive to finally stop smoking and I believe that every individual has the right to hurt itself as long as it paying for the damage and not dropping the b
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Where I live (Europe) tax income through cigarette sales is substantive. Some countries even have refrained from further increasing taxes or lowered the planned increases on cigarettes because the last raises have caused a drop in tax incom
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Reading info is fantastic, I agree. But writing it is a traumatic experience. There are also no converters to info from many of the common markdown derivatives. You cannot even reliably generate it from in-source Emacs Lisp comments which d
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I do a lot of geometry related programming and the ability to add some graphic illustrations directly into the source code comes in handy every now and then. Also, everybody needs a small ascii graphic in the output from time to time. EDIT:
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by pmr_ 13y ago
This is what I was alluding to but just because someone is working on something in an open source project doesn't mean it is ever going to happen. Particularly something as controversial as switching to another VCS. If you don't t
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I can imagine some of the technical difficulties can be challenging to overcome. Especially how do you identify your user? Often you don't see which user is fetching a feed, but only the service through which they are fetching it. For
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I really like where Emacs is going recently. The speed with which new features move upstream has increased. There is a push by some developers for git to make contributions easier and even some progress towards modernizing or replacing good
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I have seen special ads embedded into feeds. Sure, they are not dynamic, targeted and what not, but they are hand selected, probably relevant, and under total control of the content provider.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
> unless you output the entire blog post on your RSS feed. If you do this, then that's your own fault. I understand the reasons against posting your entire blog on an RSS feed, but it hurts usability so much. If I'm opening my
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I'm not sure if you are trying to make a joke here, but I'll respond in earnest anyway. The benevolent dictator model works in open-source projects because the power of the dictator is still limited by the willingness of the gover
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by pmr_ 13y ago
How much quality loss people are willing to accept if they are not really keen on the content is astonishing. If you go to the pirate bay and look at some of the comments on the tele-synced copies, R6 with hardcoded Chinese subs and all the

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