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by pushpop 7y ago
First example: why would you want to handle null and a zero length string differently in that case? That seems a little contrived to me because in both instances the user has elected not to enter that information. Re your timestamp example,
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by pushpop 7y ago
I’m sure you’d love to consider yourself infallible but human error can happen even to the best of us. However if we’re talking from idealistic perspective then you’d have your own DBAs who would create the DB and write the SQL so your deve
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by pushpop 7y ago
I agree however it is only valuable under specific circumstances while it can frequently create hidden traps. On balance it causes more problems than it solves. Which is why I suggested it should be an optional flag enabled on the backend r
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by pushpop 7y ago
In my experience most of the time a field is nullable it’s by accident. Some RDBMS and/or SQL “IDEs” default to allowing null too, which doesn’t help matters. Personally I think NULL shouldn’t be supported unless the developer categori
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by pushpop 7y ago
It’s to reduce specific types of bad bacteria that you might have contaminated yourself with when you went to the toilet. I don’t think anyone can expect that washing your hands will eliminate all bacteria- including those in the air. That
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by pushpop 7y ago
1. You make a valid point there 2. Any half decent teacher will know if that were the case because teachers (at least in the UK) have to set different levels of work for their class anyway to compensate for the natural discrepancy in childr
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by pushpop 7y ago
I know of his work. I just disagree with it. He isn’t the only teacher with 30 years of experience in public schools under his belt and plenty of other teachers have the opposite opinion of homeschooling to him. While I do think it’s good t
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by pushpop 7y ago
You can’t argue that bad teachers don’t matter in private schools because if a teacher is unable to teach the subject effectively then it doesn’t matter how well the class behave, they’re still not going to learn the subject. One of the pri
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by pushpop 7y ago
People moan about a great many things but it doesn’t mean they’re right (hence Brexit, Trump, “Christian values”, racism/homophobia/etc, those who moan about computer security from a lazy ux perspective (eg “why can’t my password
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by pushpop 7y ago
Just out of interest, which country are you based? I wonder if the reason perspective is so polarised from mine is because our education systems also vastly differ. From the perspective of the UK, most of what you said is completely untrue.
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by pushpop 7y ago
I did say in my former post that the reason for not contradicting the curriculum is because it is confusing for the child (this is something teachers up and down the country observe day to day). Sure, it’s also easier for the teacher as wel
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by pushpop 7y ago
> Does innovation in general bother you? Only when I have numerous first hand accounts of where it doesn’t work. Just as I have from my extended family, most of who are teachers and all of who state that kids who have been taught outsi
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by pushpop 7y ago
I really wish people wouldn’t trying “hacking” education. Sure the system has its faults but it’s far better than the alternatives (eg waiting until your child is 9 before teaching them to read). Ultimately it’s your own children that your
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by pushpop 7y ago
Yeah, mouse support seems a little pointless at the best of times but in vim it’s down right annoying.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Like everything, it depends on the sites in question. Disreputable adult sites aren’t going to be any better nor worse than disreputable sites of any other content. However adult sites run as a reputable business - of which there are many
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by pushpop 7y ago
TUIs aren’t getting any more or less attention than they’ve always gotten. I guess you could argue that with the recent-ish rise of new CLI-friendly languages and frameworks like Go, Rust and Node that the people are reinventing the wheel i
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by pushpop 7y ago
Only really OpenSSH from your list applies though. LibreSSL isn’t really in widespread usage outside of OpenBSD and has still been vulnerable to some of recent the OpenSSL exploits. OpenNTPD is more widely used but lots of people still go f
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by pushpop 7y ago
Which just means you then rewrite your muscle memory to hit caps lock on all your colleagues computers by accident. No thank you.
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by pushpop 7y ago
> It’s not a net savings if it’s costing vastly more money in sales I’d already addressed that when I said the kind of bugs you’re complaining about wouldn’t have an effect on sales. > Anyway, cost is really not the driver for most
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by pushpop 7y ago
The kind of bugs that hamper game sales aren’t the kind of bugs that speed runners exploit - which is what you were originally arguing about. Sure, some games are released buggy. But even there, blaming the developers just demonstrates how
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by pushpop 7y ago
In this mirror universe, do the men have goatees and compassion is seen as a weakness? If so, I have a few theories on how we can find that universe...
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by pushpop 7y ago
Even if that were true, fixing the kind of irrelevant bugs you describe would do far more damage to the games industry due to the cost of development (and I’m being generous here because I don’t even believe your claim that running sideways
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by pushpop 7y ago
Is it really incompetence if a tricky to pull of bug that doesn’t affect gameplay unless you specifically and deliberately use it to affect game play exists unpatched? It’s like blaming knife manufacturers that they’re incompetent because y
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by pushpop 7y ago
The sexism dig isn’t about refinement. It’s something that’s rife in all popular media from music videos through to movies and computer games. However that has always been the case in gaming. There’s nothing new there. Even 8bit games for
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by pushpop 7y ago
As someone who lives in an area full of narrow winding roads, let me assure you that doesn’t make a difference to speeding.
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by pushpop 7y ago
This. Absolutely this! Do I think Facebook/Google/etc are abusing my data right now ? Probably not. But do I think that large scale collection of my data could be abused in the future? Most definitely. If the Cambridge Analytic
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by pushpop 7y ago
Yet adverts on porn sites do operate as per our wish list: * adverts are vetted by a human * adverts are not allowed to inject JavaScript. There have been a few interesting blog posts from businesses outside of the adult entertainment indus
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by pushpop 7y ago
It seems to me there are two solutions to this problem: * remove the ability for 3rd parties to abuse their automatic powers (ie disable their ability to inject JavaScript) * or have a human manually vet every creative The problem here is y
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by pushpop 7y ago
The difference between ThinkPad’s (or any other respectable brand of laptop) touchpad and the MacBook touchpad is nearly equivalent. Whereas the difference between the MacBook keyboard and - honestly - most other respectable brand of laptop
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by pushpop 7y ago
Ahh yes, I’d forgotten about the variant type. I loved “Option Explicit”. To the extent that it was almost always the first line I’d write for any new project, module and class.

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